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.

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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