Alvan Azinna Ikoku (An haife shi ranar 1 ga watan Agusta, shekarar 1900 – 18 ga Nuwamba, 1971) ya kasance masanin ilimin Nijeriya, ɗan ƙasa, ɗan gwagwarmaya kuma ɗan siyasa. An haife shi ne a ranar 1 ga watan Agusta, shekarar 1900, a garin Amanagwu Arochukwu, na jihar Abia ta yanzu, daga 1911 zuwa 1914, yayi karatun sa a makarantar firamare ta Gwamnati ta Arochukwu kuma daga shekarar 1915 zuwa 1920, ya halarci kwalejin Hope Waddell, Calabar inda ya kasance dalibi a ƙarƙashin. James Emmanuel Aggrey kuma abokai ne tare da Akanu Ibiam da Eyo Eyo Esua. A shekarar 1920, ya karbi aikinsa na koyarwa na farko tare da Cocin Presbyterian na Najeriya da Cocin Scotland a Itigidi sannan bayan shekaru biyu ya zama babban malamin koyarwa a Kwalejin Horar da Malamai na St. Paul, Awka, Jihar Anambra . Yayin da yake koyarwa a Awka, Ikoku ya sami digiri na Jami'ar London a Falsafa a cikin 1928, ta hanyar shirinta na waje .