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

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
 * 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