Fante may refer to: Fante people, an Akan people from central southern coast of West Africa Fante dialect, a Niger-Congo language Fante Confederacy, either the loose alliance of the Fante states in existence at least since the sixteenth century, or the Confederation formed in 1868 and dissolved in 1874 John Fante (1909–1983), American writer Fante (playing card), the Jack in Italian playing cards , a class of destroyers of the Italian Navy in the 1970s See also Fanti, a surname Language and nationality disambiguation pages