# 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

* Akin Abayomi – pathologist
* Sulyman Age Abdulkareem – chemical engineer
* Iya Abubakar – mathematician
* Bala Achi – historian
* Babatunde Kwaku Adadevoh – chemical pathologist
* Ladipo Adamolekun – public administrator
* Olutayo Charles Adesina – historian
* Anthony Afolabi Adegbola – animal scientist
* Anthony Adegbulugbe – electrical engineer and energy management
* Maggie Aderin–Pocock – space scientist
* Ilesanmi Adesida – physicist
* Isaac Folorunso Adewole – gynaecologist
* Olanike Adeyemo – veterinary medicine and preventive medicine
* Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – writer
* Ernest Afiesimama – climate scientist and environmentalist
* Adiele Afigbo – historian
* Joseph Ahaneku – chemical pathologist
* Folahanmi Aina –political scientist
* Lenrie Olatokunbo Aina – library and information scientist
* Deborah Ajakaiye – geophysicist
* Jacob Ade Ajayi – historian
* Seth Sunday Ajayi – wildlife ecologist
* Oladele Ajose – public health
* Esther Titilayo Akinlabi – mechanical engineer
* 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
* Sarki Auwalu – chemical engineer
* Eme Awa – political scientist
* Ayodele Awojobi – mechanical engineer

## B

* Olumbe Bassir – biochemistry and microbiology
* Ekanem Ikpi Braide – parasitologist

## D

* John Dabiri – aeronautical engineering and biophysics
* Bello Bako Dambatta – chemist
* 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
* Abdullahi dan Fodio – Islamic theologian and jurist

## G

* Ibrahim Gambari – political scientist
* Adenike Grange – medicine
* Oye Gureje – psychiatry

## I

* Oni Emmanuel Idigbe – medical researcher
* Albert Ilemobade – veterinarian
* Maurice Iwu – pharmacist
* Sunday Iyahen – mathematician

## K

* Kalu Ndukwe Kalu – political scientist
* Muhammad ibn Muhammad al–Kishwani – mathematician

## L

* Abisogun Leigh – animal 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
* Hadiza Nuhu – pharmacist
* 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
* Babatunde Ogunnaike – chemical engineer
* Adetoun Ogunsheye – library scientist
* Ayo Ogunsheye – adult education
* Peter Okebukola – researcher and administrator
* Francisca Nneka Okeke – physicist
* Friday Okonofua – gynaecologist
* Samuel Okoye – astrophysicist
* Isidore Okpewho – novelist and critic
* Ben Okri – writer
* Ifedayo Oladapo – civil engineer
* Ibiyemi Olatunji–Bello – physiologist
* Abel Idowu Olayinka – geophysicist
* Olufunmilayo Olopade – oncologist
* Is-haq Oloyede – Islamic studies
* Adegoke Olubummo - mathematician
* 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
* Kalu Mosto Onuoha – geophysicist
* Obinna Onwujekwe – health economist
* Viola Onwuliri – biochemist
* Cyril Agodi Onwumechili – nuclear physicist
* Yemi Osinbajo – lawyer
* Femi Osofisan – writer
* Niyi Osundare – literature
* Benjamin Oluwakayode Osuntokun – neurologist
* Bruce Ovbiagele - neurologist, researcher, administrator, and editor
* Victor Adenuga Oyenuga – agriculturist
* Nelson Oyesiku – neurosurgeon and endocrinologist

## 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
* Umaru Shehu – physician
* Winston Wole Soboyejo – mechanical and aerospace engineering
* John Olubi Sodipo – philosopher
* Olusoga Sofola – physiologist
* Zulu Sofola – playwright and dramatist
* Olaitan Soyannwo – anesthetist
* Margaret Adebisi Sowunmi – botanist and environmental archaeologist

## T

* Tekena Tamuno – historian
* Grace Oladunni Taylor – biochemist
* Adeyinka Tella – librarian and professor
* Oyewale Tomori – virologist
* Mahmud Modibbo Tukur – historian

## U

* Fabian Udekwu – cardiac surgeon
* Chinyere Ukaga – environmental biologist and parasitologist
* Ibrahim H. Umar – physicist
* Jarlath Udoudo Umoh – veterinary doctor
* Yusuf Bala Usman – historian
* Patrick Utomi – political economist

## W

* Eka Esu Williams – immunologist