Yoruba academics

Nigerian writer (born 1934)

Nigerian musician and composer (1905-1987)

Nigerian scholar and diplomat

Nigerian parasitologist

Nigerian academic

Nigerian philosopher

Nigerian classics professor

Nigerian librarian and professor (1935–2023)

Nigerian artist, sculptor and academic

Nigerian writer

First Nigerian Female Professor (born 1926)

Vice Chancellor in Nigeria Education

Nigerian musician (1935-2020)

First Female Professor of Computer Science

film actor

British-Nigerian academic

Nigerian clergyman and academic in Mathematics

Nigerian contemporary artist

Nigerian architect

Nigerian professor of anaesthesia

Nurse and midwifeץ Winner of the World Health Organisation Sasakawa Award in 1993

Nigerian painter (1946-1995)

Nigerian contemporary artist

Nigerian playwright (1938–2000)

Nigerian geographer

Nigerian academic; first female professor of physiotherapy in Africa

Nigerian professor of languages and poet

Nigerian academic

Nigerian lawyer

Nigerian linguist

Nigerian writer

composer and organist from Nigeria

Nigerian sculptor (1928–2009)

Nigerian academic and vice chancellor of state university

Nigerian Professor of Political Science

Performance storyteller, author children's book translator, lecturer, researcher

Author, professor, arts administrator, expert in Yoruba culture, education and cultural activist on the African diaspora

Nigerian poet

Nigerian academic and professor

Nigerian writer, linguist, and teacher

Nigerian scholar and Practitioner (born 1978)

Former, Vice-Chancellor at University of Lagos

African American artist (born 1967)

Presidential Penn Compact Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania

Nigerian politician and Former Governor of Ekiti State, Nigeria

Nigerian literary scholar, professor, and editor

paediatrician, activist and politician from Nigeria

Nigerian academic (1910-2014)

Nigerian playwright and actor (1939–2018)

Nigerian-American painter

Nigerian writer and historian (1930–2008)

Nigerian academic

Nigerian educator and artist

First Nigerian Female Professor of Quantity Surveying in Africa

Nigerian lawyer

Nigerian civil servant and administrator

Nigerian writer and linguist

Nigerian neurosurgeon

Nigerian actor and author (1941- )

Nigerian academic