• Source: 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 – Energy planning specialist known for contributions to Nigeria's energy sector
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
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
Folahanmi Aina –political scientist




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
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
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




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