People from colonial Nigeria

Nigerian politician (1912-1966)

Nigerian educator, political campaigner, suffragist, and women's rights activist

Nigerian politician (1909-1987)

British army officer in the First and Second World Wars

Yoruba linguist and the first African Anglican bishop in Nigeria (1809-1891)

Anglo-Irish writer (1888-1957)

West African princess

Royal Flying Corps commander and first Royal Air Force Chief of the Air Staff (1873-1956)

Nigerian politician (1910–1966)

Nigerian physician (1910-1971)

Nigerian politician (1864-1946)

Nigerian theologian and priest that was officially beatified by the Catholic church.

Nigerian politician (1914-2006)

(1848-1915) Scottish Presbyterian missionary

Nigerian women's rights activist

Nigerian aristocrat

British explorer and scientist

Nigerian artist (1882-1963)

Yoruba Nigerian educationalist and first African woman to graduate from the University of Oxford

Nigerian judge (1914–1991)

Nigerian politician (1897–1990)

Nigerian activist

Nigerian activist and chief

British colonial administrator (1907–1980)

Nigerian politician (1920–1983

British diplomat (1852-1915)

Nigerian photographer

Manx administrator in Nigeria (1846–1925)

Nigerian trader

Nigerian historian

Nigerian musician

second Iyalode of Ibadan

Nigerian princess and nurse

Nigerian photographer

Nigerian actor and playwright

Nigerian writer, nurse, teacher and journalist of Fulani descent

Yoruba-Nigerian lawyer and magistrate

Nigerian politician

Nigerian politician, Adolor of Uromi (1923-2010)

Oba Ovonramwen Nogbaisi, also called Overami, was the thirty-fifth Ọba of the Kingdom of Benin reigning from , up until the British punitive expedition.

1918-1996 Nigerian lawyer and politician

oba of Lagos (1893–1964)

Nigerian politician

British/Australian geologist and naturalist (1868–1937)

Akitoye (died 2 September 1853), sometimes wrongly referred to as Akintoye, reigned twice as Oba of Lagos; first, from 1841 to 1845, and a second time, from 1851 to 1853. His father was Oba Ologun Kutere and his siblings were Obas Osinlokun and Adele.

Nigerian businessman (1821–1891)

Nigerian photographer

Nigerian politician (1915–2015)

Nigerian activist (1886 – 1958)

Oba Osinlokun or Eshinlokun (died 1829) reigned as Oba of Lagos from 1821 to 1829. His father was Oba Ologun Kutere and his siblings were Obas Adele and Akitoye, making the Ologun Kutere Obaship line the dominant one in Lagos. Among Osinlokun's children were Idewu Ojulari, Kosoko, and Opo Olu.

Dosunmu (c. 1823 – 1885), referred to in British documents as Docemo, reigned as Oba of Lagos from 1853, when he succeeded his father Oba Akitoye, until his own death in 1885. He was forced to run away to Britain under the threat of force in August 1861.

Nigerian inventor

British Army general (1865–1925)

British explorer

Nigerian politician

Nigerian politician

Oba of Lagos (1965-2003)

Nigerian-born nurse; first black Chief Nursing Officer of Nigeria

Nigerian businessman

Nigerian journalist