Category
page 2People from colonial Nigeria
Ibikunle Akitoye
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Yoruba priest and educator
Richard Akinwande Savage
Nigerian physician, journalist and politician
Norman Biggs
Welsh international rugby union player (1870-1908)
Hamman Yaji
emir of Madagali
Cornelius Taiwo
Nigerian academic (1910-2014)
Adunni Oluwole
Nigerian pre-independence politician and human rights activist
William Heneker
British Army general (1867-1939)
Kosoko
Kosoko (died 1872) was a member of the Ologun Kutere Lagos Royal Family who reigned as Oba of Lagos from 1845 to 1851. His father was Oba Osinlokun and his siblings were Idewu Ojulari (who was Oba from 1829 to 1834/35), Olufunmi, Odunsi, Ladega, Ogunbambi, Akinsanya, Ogunjobi, Akimosa, Ibiyemi, Adebajo, Matimoju, Adeniyi, Isiyemi, Igbalu, Oresanya, and Idewu-Ojulari.
Flora Azikiwe
First Lady of Nigeria (1917–1983)
Lashmer Whistler
British Army general (1898–1963)
Grace Eniola Soyinka
Nigerian activist
Obadiah Johnson
Nigerian doctor
Adekunle Fajuyi
Nigerian politician (1926–1966)
Sir Martin Lindsay, 1st Baronet
British politician (1905-1981)
Shafi Edu
business tycoon,Environmentalists, politician, conservationist (1911-2002)
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British archaeologist and museum curator (1915–1987)
Josiah Ransome-Kuti
Nigerian composer and clergyman
Nana Olomu
Nigerian chief
John Hawley Glover
captain in the British Royal Navy and colonial administrator (1829-1885)
S'Nabou
thumb|S'Nabou in Le Monde illustré, 2 July 1892
'''Alima S'Nabou''' (born c. 1880) was an African interpreter (from modern day Nigeria) who accompanied a French explorer named Lieutenant Mizon.
Hon Dr Prince Jeremiah Adamu Tanko
Nigerian physician (2016-to date)
Isa Wali
Nigerian political activist (1928- 1967)
Dauda Soroye Adegbenro
Nigerian politician
James Johnson
prominent clergyman and member of Nigeria's Legislative Council (1836–1917)
Oyekan I
oba of Lagos
Israel Olutodun Ransome-Kuti
Nigerian educationist and clergyman (1891-1955)
Victoria Davies Randle
socialite in Victorian Lagos, Nigeria
Eshugbayi Eleko
oba of Lagos
Duncan Stewart
British colonial administrator (1904–1949)
Kitoye Ajasa
Nigerian lawyer (1866-1937)
H. O. Davies
Nigerian lawyer (1905-1989)
Bandele Omoniyi
Nigerian nationalist
James Churchill Vaughan
Nigerian activist
Samuel Odulana Odungade I
40Th Olubadan of Ibadan
Ladapo Ademola
Alake of Abeokuta
Charlotte Obasa
Nigerian socialite and philanthropist
Seriki Williams Abass
19th century Nigerian slave merchant
William Allen
British Royal Navy officer (1792-1864)
Louis Odumegwu Ojukwu
Nigerian businessman
Olumuyiwa Jibowu
Nigerian judge
Samuel Manuwa
Nigerian doctor
Arthur Prest
Nigerian politician
Oguntola Sapara
Nigerian physician (1861-1935)
Adesoji Aderemi
Nigerian politician, Ooni King of Ife (1889-1980)
Babatunji Olowofoyeku
Nigerian politician
Adeyemo Alakija
Nigerian lawyer, politician and businessman (1884–1952)
Nwafor Orizu
Nigerian politician
Bode Thomas
Nigerian politician