List of Nigerian scientists and scholars.

Nigerian scientists and scholars
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Iya Abubakar - mathematician
Ladipo Adamolekun - public administration
Anthony Afolabi Adegbola - animal scientist
Maggie Aderin-Pocock - space scientist
Isaac Folorunso Adewole - gynaecologist
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - writer
Adiele Afigbo - historian
Deborah Ajakaiye - geophysicist
Jacob Ade Ajayi - historian
Seth Sunday Ajayi - Wildlife Ecologist
Oladele Ajose - public health
Grace Alele-Williams - mathematician
Ambrose Folorunsho Alli - pathologist
Olajide Aluko - international relations
El Anatsui - sculpture
Alexander Animalu - physicist
Anya Oko Anya - parasitologist
Ishaya Audu - pediatrician
Eme Awa - political scientist
Ayodele Awojobi - mechanical engineer
B
Olumbe Bassir - biochemistry and microbiology
D
John Dabiri - aeronautical engineering and biophysics
E
Michael Echeruo - literature
Philip Emeagwali - mathematician and engineer
Emmanuel Emovon - chemist
F
Babs Fafunwa - educationist
Funmilayo Adesanya-Davies - educationist, poet and Linguist
Toyin Falola - historian
Adeyinka Gladys Falusi - haematologist
Oluwole Babafemi Familoni - chemist
G
Ibrahim Gambari - political scientist
I
Albert Ilemobade - veterinarian
M
Akin Mabogunje - geographer
Emmanuel Ndubisi Maduagwu - biochemist
Awele Maduemezia - physicist
Oliver Mobisson - computer scientist
N
Eni Njoku - botanist
Bartholomew Nnaji - mechanical and industrial engineering
Andrew Jonathan Nok - biochemist
Eucharia Oluchi Nwaichi - environmental biochemist
Ejikeme Patrick Nwosu - scientist
Humphrey Nwosu - political scientist
O
John Obafunwa - pathologist
Oyewusi Ibidapo Obe - systems engineer
Chike Obi - mathematician
Gabriel Babatunde Ogunmola - chemist
Ayo Ogunsheye - adult education
Francisca Nneka Okeke - physicist
Friday Okonofua - gynaecologist
Samuel Okoye - astrophysicist
Ben Okri - writer
Ifedayo Oladapo - civil engineer
Abel Idowu Olayinka - geophysicist
Olufunmilayo Olopade - oncologist
Kunle Olukotun - electrical engineering and computer science
Hezekiah Ademola Oluwafemi - agricultural economist
Bennet Omalu - forenic pathologist
Akinyinka Omigbodun - gynaecologist
Michael Omolewa - educationist
Peter Onumanyi - mathematician
Celestine Onwuliri - parasitologist
Viola Onwuliri - biochemist
Cyril Agodi Onwumechili - nuclear physicist
Niyi Osundare - literature
Benjamin Oluwakayode Osuntokun - neurologist
Victor Adenuga Oyenuga - agriculture
P
Babalola Chinedum Peace - pharmacist
S
Omowunmi Sadik - chemist
Lateef Akinola Salako - pharmacologist
Winston Wole Soboyejo - mechanical and aerospace engineering
Olusoga Sofola - physiologist
T
Grace Oladunni Taylor - biochemist
Oyewale Tomori - virologist
U
Fabian Udekwu - cardiac surgeon
Ibrahim H. Umar - physicist
Jarlath Udoudo Umoh - veterinary medicine