Lista de Personas Famosas nacidas en Nigeria
Aisha Yesufu
Aisha Yesufu is a Nigerian socio-political activist, and co-convener of the Bring Back Our Girls Movement, an advocacy group that brings attention to the abduction of over 200 girls, from a secondary school in Chibok, Nigeria, on 14 April 2014, by the terrorist group Boko Haram.
Samuel Peter
Samuel Okon Peter es un boxeador nigeriano que fue campeón del mundo de los pesos pesados para el Consejo Mundial de Boxeo.
Omoyele Sowore
Omoyele "Yele" Sowore is a Nigerian human rights activist, pro-democracy campaigner, former presidential candidate, and founder of an online news agency Sahara Reporters.
Wizkid
Ayodeji Ibrahim Balogun, más conocido por su nombre artístico, Wizkid, Wizzy, Big Wiz, Machala o Starboy, es un cantante y compositor nigeriano.
Government Tompolo
Government Oweizide Ekpemupolo predominantly referred to by his sobriquet Tompolo is a former Nigerian militant commander of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta and the chief priest of the Egbesu deity, which is the Niger-Deltan god of war.
Folorunsho Alakija
Folorunso Alakija es una mujer de negocios nigeriana considerada una de las mujeres más ricas de África y una de las mujeres negras más ricas en el mundo. En 2014 desbancó temporalmente a Oprah Winfrey como la mujer más rica de ascendencia africana en el mundo. Es una magnate empresarial involucrada en industrias de moda, petróleo e impresión. Es la directora general de The Rose of Sharon Group que incluye The Rose of Sharon Prints & Promotions Limited y Digital Reality Prints Limited además de la vicepresidenta ejecutiva de Famfa Oil Limited. Alakija está considerada por la revista Forbes como la mujer más rica de Nigeria con un valor neto estimado de $2.1 mil millones. En 2015, fue incluida en la lista como la segunda mujer más poderosa de África después de que Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala y la 87ª mujer más poderosa en el mundo por Forbes.
Lil' O
Lil' O is an American rapper, raised in Southwest Houston, Texas. He is an original member of DJ Screw's Screwed Up Click. He was also known as O or Da Fat Rat Wit Da Cheeze. His name references his height, at 5 feet tall.
Udoka Azubuike
Udoka Timothy Azubuike es un baloncestista nigeriano que pertenece a la plantilla de los Utah Jazz de la NBA, asignado a los Salt Lake City Stars de la G League. Con 2,13 metros de estatura, juega en la posición de pívot.
Oluwale Bamgbose
Oluwale Bamgbose is a Nigerian-American mixed martial artist who most recently competed in the Middleweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship.
Baba Gana Kingibe
Baba Gana Kingibe OV GCON is a Nigerian politician and diplomat who has held several high ranking government offices, culminating in his appointment as the Secretary to the Government of the Federation from 2007 to 2008. An expedient operator, he spent over a decade in the Foreign Service cadre and has been in politics since the 1970s serving six heads of state; most recently as a member of the inner circle of President Muhammadu Buhari.