List of Nigerian scientists and scholars
This is a list of Nigerian scientists and scholars. Nigeria is
a federal constitutional republic comprising 36 states and its Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. The country is located in West Africa.
A
- Iya Abubakar - mathematician
- Babatunde Kwaku Adadevoh - chemical pathologist
- Ladipo Adamolekun - public administrator
- Anthony Afolabi Adegbola - animal scientist
- Maggie Aderin-Pocock - space scientist
- Ilesanmi Adesida - physicist
- Olanike Adeyemo - veterinary medicine and preventive medicine
- Isaac Folorunso Adewole - gynaecologist
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - writer
- Adiele Afigbo - historian
- Joseph Ahaneku - chemical Pathologist
- Deborah Ajakaiye - geophysicist
- Jacob Ade Ajayi - historian
- Seth Sunday Ajayi - Wildlife Ecologist
- Oladele Ajose - public health
- Dora Akunyili - pharmacist
- Grace Alele-Williams - mathematician
- Ambrose Folorunsho Alli - pathologist
- Olajide Aluko - international relations
- Uche Veronica Amazigo - biologist and parasitologist
- El Anatsui - sculpture
- Alexander Animalu - physicist
- Anya Oko Anya - parasitologist
- Ishaya Audu - pediatrician
- Eme Awa - political scientist
- Ayodele Awojobi - mechanical engineer
B
- Olumbe Bassir - biochemistry and microbiology
D
- John Dabiri - aeronautical engineering and biophysics
- Kenneth Dike - historian
- Ikechukwu Dozie - public health scientist
E
- Michael Echeruo - literature
- Philip Emeagwali - mathematician and engineer
- Emmanuel Emovon - chemist
- Charles Esimone - pharmacist
- Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze - philosopher
- Chinwe Nwogo Ezeani - librarian
F
- Babs Fafunwa - educationist
- Toyin Falola - historian
- Adeyinka Gladys Falusi - haematologist
- Oluwole Babafemi Familoni - chemist
G
- Ibrahim Gambari - political scientist
- Adenike Grange - medicine
- Oye Gureje - psychiatry
- Albert Ilemobade - veterinarian
- Maurice Iwu - pharmacist
K
- Kalu Ndukwe Kalu - political scientist
M
- Akin Mabogunje - geographer
- Emmanuel Ndubisi Maduagwu - biochemist
- Awele Maduemezia - physicist
- Oliver Mobisson - computer scientist
- Fatima Batul Mukhtar - botanist
N
- Chinedu Ositadinma Nebo - engineer
- Eni Njoku - botanist
- Bartholomew Nnaji - mechanical and industrial engineering
- Andrew Jonathan Nok - biochemist
- Eucharia Oluchi Nwaichi - environmental biochemist
- Humphrey Nwosu - political scientist
O
- John Obafunwa - pathologist
- Oyewusi Ibidapo Obe - systems engineer
- Chike Obi - mathematician
- Abiola Odejide - linguist
- Latunde Odeku - neurosurgeon
- Josephat Obi Oguejiofor - philosopher
- Gabriel Babatunde Ogunmola - chemist
- Adetowun Ogunsheye - library scientist
- Ayo Ogunsheye - adult education
- Francisca Nneka Okeke - physicist
- Friday Okonofua - gynaecologist
- Samuel Okoye - astrophysicist
- Isidore Okpewho - novelist and critic
- Ben Okri - writer
- Ifedayo Oladapo - civil engineer
- Abel Idowu Olayinka - geophysicist
- Olufunmilayo Olopade - oncologist
- Kunle Olukotun - electrical engineering and computer scientist
- Hezekiah Ademola Oluwafemi - agricultural economist
- Sophie Oluwole - philosopher
- Bennet Omalu - forensic pathologist
- Akinyinka Omigbodun - gynaecologist
- Michael Omolewa - educationist
- Peter Onumanyi - mathematician
- Obinna Onwujekwe - health economist
- Viola Onwuliri - biochemist
- Cyril Agodi Onwumechili - nuclear physicist
- Femi Osofisan - writer
- Niyi Osundare - literature
- Benjamin Oluwakayode Osuntokun - neurologist
- Victor Adenuga Oyenuga - agriculturist
P
- Babalola Chinedum Peace - pharmacist
R
- Olikoye Ransome-Kuti - paediatrician
- Ola Rotimi - playwright
S
- Omowunmi Sadik - chemist
- Lateef Akinola Salako - pharmacologist
- Arinola Olasumbo Sanya - physiotherapy
- Winston Wole Soboyejo - mechanical and aerospace engineering
- John Olubi Sodipo - philosopher
- Olusoga Sofola - physiologist
- Zulu Sofola - playwright and dramatist
- Olaitan Soyannwo - anesthesia
- Margaret Adebisi Sowunmi - botanist and environmental archaeologist
T
- Grace Oladunni Taylor - biochemist
- Oyewale Tomori - virologist
- Tekena Tamuno - historian
U
- Fabian Udekwu - cardiac surgeon
- Ibrahim H. Umar - physicist
- Jarlath Udoudo Umoh - veterinary doctor
- Patrick Utomi - political economist