List of University of Port Harcourt people



This is a list of notable alumni and faculty from the University of Port Harcourt.

Arts and entertainment

 * Andre Blaze - rapper, reality talent show host
 * Monalisa Chinda – actress
 * Diminas Dagogo – film director
 * Agbani Darego – model
 * Rita Dominic – actress
 * Linda Ejiofor – actress, model
 * Tamara Eteimo - actress, singer
 * Muma Gee – singer, actress
 * Bimbo Manuel – actor
 * Miraboi - businessman, singer
 * Clem Ohameze - actor
 * M Trill – rapper

Authors and journalists

 * Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike – author

Business and industry

 * Emmanuel Agwoje – banker, Chief Executive Officer of Equator Capital Ltd.
 * Alex Otti – former Group Managing Director of Diamond Bank
 * Tonye Princewill – Chairman of Riverdrill Group of Companies (Nigeria)

Management and marketing

 * Miraboi — businessman and singer

Diplomacy, government, law and politics

 * Rotimi Amaechi – Governor of Rivers State
 * Innocent Barikor – Member of the Rivers State House of Assembly
 * Osinakachukwu Ideozu – Estate Surveyor; Senator
 * Godknows Igali - Diplomat, Federal Permanent Secretary and Technocrat
 * Goodluck Jonathan – President of Nigeria
 * Patience Jonathan – First Lady of Nigeria
 * Olaka Nwogu – Member of the House of Representatives
 * Silva Opuala-Charles – Commissioner of Finance and Budget
 * Emmanuel Paulker – Senator for the Bayelsa Central
 * Dakuku Peterside, politician
 * Timipre Sylva – Governor of Bayelsa State

Science

 * Franklin Erepamo Osaisai – nuclear engineer, energy scientist
 * Henry A. A. Ugboma – Professor of Maternal-fetal medicine and Chief Medical Director of the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital, Rivers State.

Current and former

 * Claude Ake, political science & administration
 * I. N. C. Aniebo – novelist and short story writer
 * Ladipo Ayodeji Banjo – Emeritus professor of English language
 * Innocent Barikor – senior lecturer in political science
 * George C. Clerk, botany
 * Silvia Federici, philosopher
 * Robin W.G. Horton – English social anthropologist and philosopher
 * Gerald Moore – scholar of contemporary African anglophone and francophone poetry
 * Ogbonnaya Onu, chemical engineering
 * Ola Rotimi, theatre arts
 * Kay Williamson – linguist who specialised in the study of African languages

Vice Chancellors of the University of Port Harcourt

 * Joseph Atubokiki Ajienka
 * Nimi Briggs
 * Kelsey Harrison