Grace Oladunni Taylor (kuma ana kiranta da suna Grace Oladunni Lucia Olaniyan-Taylor) masaniyar ilimin halittu ce, wacce ta gabata a Jami'ar Ibadan, Nigeria . Ita ce mace ta biyu da aka shigo da ita a Cibiyar Ilimin Kimiyya ta Najeriya kuma Afirka ta farko ta ba da lambar yabo ta L’Oréal-UNESCO ga mata a Kimiyya . Grace Oladunni Lucia Olaniyan an haife ta ne a Efon-Alaiye, jihar Ekiti, Nigeria, ga Elizabeth (née Olatoun) da RAW Olaniyan. Tsakanin 1952 zuwa 1956, daliba ce a makarantar Sarauniya ta Ede a cikin jihar Osun . Ta yi karatun digiri na biyu a shekarar 1957 a Kwalejin Kimiya da Kimiyya ta Nijeriya a Enugu kuma a 1959 ta koma Kwalejin Ilimin Jami’ar Ibadan (yanzu Jami’ar Ibadan). Olaniyan ya kammala tare da girmamawa a 1962 tare da digiri a cikin ilmin sunadarai. Bayan kammala karatun digiri, ta fara aiki a Cibiyar Binciken Noma na Yanki (yanzu Cibiyar Nazarin Albarkatun Noma ta Kasa ) a Mashin Shuka a Ibadan . A shekarar 1963, aka dauke ta a matsayin mataimakiyar mai bincike a Sashen Nazarin Kiba na Kwayoyi na Jami’ar Ibadan kuma ta sami digirin digirgir a fannin ilimin Pathology a shekarar 1969.