Uche Francis Okpara |
1994 |
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}
Actors and actresses
Name |
Born |
Death |
Notability |
Reference |
Stella Damasus-Aboderin |
24 April 1978 |
– |
|
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Francis Agu |
18 February 1965 |
20 March 2007 |
|
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Ifeanyi Chijindu |
|
|
|
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Caroline Chikezie |
1979 |
|
|
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Chioma Chukwuka |
12 March 1980 |
– |
|
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Rita Dominic |
12 July 1975 |
– |
|
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Megalyn Echikunwoke |
28 May 1983 |
– |
|
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Pete Edochie |
|
|
|
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Chiwetel Ejiofor |
10 July 1974 |
– |
Award-winning and two-time Golden Globe Award-nominated actor |
[7] |
Osita Iheme |
|
|
|
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Chinedu Ikedieze |
|
|
|
|
Genevieve Nnaji |
3 May 1979 |
– |
Best Actress in a Leading Role, African Movie Academy Award 2005 |
|
Chike Nwoffiah |
|
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|
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Stephanie Okereke |
1982 |
– |
Best Actress – English and Best Actress of the year 2003, Reel Awards 2003 – also nominated twice for the African Movie Academy Award 2005 and 2009 for Best Actress in a Leading Role |
|
Onyeka Onwenu |
|
|
|
|
Cyril Nri |
1961 |
– |
|
[8] |
Kanayo O. Kanayo |
1 March 1962 |
– |
|
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Oby Kechere |
|
|
|
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Tonto Dike |
|
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|
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Michael Ezuruonye |
|
|
|
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Chiké Okonkwo |
18 March 1982 |
– |
|
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Antonia Okonma |
24 July 1984 |
– |
|
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Oge Okoye |
|
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Zack Orji |
|
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Phina Oruche |
31 August 1975 |
– |
|
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Nkem Owoh |
|
|
|
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Uzo Aduba |
|
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|
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Chidi Mokeme |
|
|
|
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Yul Edochie |
7 January 1982 |
– |
|
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Paul Robeson |
9 April 1898 |
23 January 1976 |
Multi-lingual American actor, athlete, Basso cantante concert singer, writer, civil rights activist, fellow traveler, Spingarn Medal winner, and Stalin Peace Prize laureate. |
[9] |
Forest Whitaker |
15 July 1961 |
– |
American actor, producer, and director who won an Academy Award for his performance as Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in the 2006 film The Last King of Scotland'. |
[10] |
Blair Underwood |
25 August 1964 |
– |
American television and film actor nominated for a 2009 Golden Globe Award for his role on In Treatment |
[11] |
Chuma Mmeka |
21 June 1975 |
– |
Poet, film actor, published writer |
Joshua Uzoigwe |
1 July 1946 |
October 2005 |
|
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Authors
Name |
Born |
Death |
Notability |
Reference |
Chris Abani |
27 December 1966 |
– |
Notable for his first novel, Masters of the Board, which was about a Neo-Nazi takeover of Nigeria. |
[12] |
Chinua Achebe |
16 November 1930 |
21 March 2013 |
Novelist, poet and critic, Achebe is best known for his award winning novel, Things Fall Apart. |
[13] |
Catherine Obianuju Acholonu |
October 1951 |
– |
|
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
15 September 1977 |
– |
Best known for Half of a Yellow Sun |
[14] |
Nnorom Azuonye |
July 1967 |
– |
|
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William Napoleon Barleycorn |
1884 |
1925 |
Spanish Guinean Primitive Methodist missionary and author of the first Bube language primer. He was a member of a prominent Fernandino family. |
[15] |
Edward Wilmot Blyden |
3 August 1832 |
7 February 1912 |
Liberian educator, clergyman and Pan-Africanist. |
[16] |
Ifeanyi Chijindu |
|
|
|
|
Michael Echeruo |
14 March 1937 |
– |
|
|
Buchi Emecheta |
21 July 1944 |
– |
|
|
E. Nolue Emenanjo |
1943 |
– |
|
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Okwui Enwezor |
1963 |
– |
|
|
Cyprian Ekwensi |
26 September 1921 |
4 November 2007 |
|
|
Olaudah Equiano |
c. 1745 |
31 March 1797 |
Also known as Gustavus Vassa, was a writer and abolitionist. |
[17] |
Paschal Eze |
|
– |
|
|
Africanus Horton |
1835 |
1883 |
Also known as James Beale, he was a writer and folklorist from Sierra Leone. |
[18] |
Chinweizu Ibekwe |
|
|
|
|
Vincent Chukwuemeka Ike |
|
|
|
|
Uzodinma Iweala |
5 November 1982 |
– |
|
|
Uche F. Okpara |
10 September |
– |
Full Name: Uche Francis Okpara, also known as the lazy son of Hercules. He is an Educator, essayist, award winning poet amongst other things. With a genius IQ of 149,he earned the title "Brainiac". His popular works include 'Hallowed Antiquity', 'Its Not Rape', and 'I Am The Change'. |
|
Uchechi Kalu |
|
|
|
|
Nnedi Okorafor |
|
|
|
|
Uche Nduka |
14 October 1963 |
– |
|
|
Nkem Nwankwo |
12 June 1936 |
12 June 2001 |
|
|
Flora Nwapa |
18 January 1931 |
1993 |
|
|
Onyeka Nwelue |
31 January 1988 |
– |
|
|
Okey Ndibe |
1960 |
– |
|
|
Onuora Nzekwu |
19 February 1928 |
– |
|
|
Ike Oguine |
|
|
|
|
Christopher Okigbo |
1932 |
1967 |
|
|
Obinna Charles Okwelume |
20 September 1981 |
|
|
|
Ifeoma Onyefulu |
|
|
|
|
Ada Udechukwu |
1960 |
– |
|
|
F. Nnabuenyi Ugonna |
12 October 1936 |
5 June 1990 |
|
|
Chuka Umunna |
October 1978 |
– |
|
|
Chika Unigwe |
1974 |
– |
|
|
Chuma Mmeka |
21 June 1975 |
– |
Also known as T-char, he is a poet, actor, published writer, award winning humanitarian well known for his poetry chapbook The Broken Home |
|
Film makers and producers
Models and beauty pageant contestants
Singers and musicians
Education
Historians
Name |
Born |
Death |
Notability |
Reference |
Adiele Afigbo |
1937, 22 November |
9 March 2009 |
Historian known for the history and historiography of Africa, more particularly Igbo history and the history of Southeastern Nigeria. |
|
Kenneth Dike |
1917 |
1983 |
|
|
Paul Robeson, Jr. |
1927, 2 November |
– |
|
[9] |
Philosophers
Heads of organizations and business executives
Economists
Journalists
Name |
Born |
Death |
Notability |
Reference |
Chinweizu |
|
|
|
|
Christina Anyanwu |
1951 |
– |
|
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Chima Simone |
28 July 1976 |
|
|
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Michael Okwu |
|
|
|
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Adaora Udoji |
1967 |
– |
|
|
Achilleus-Chud Uchegbu |
1970 |
}
Judges
Political figures
Activists
Politicians
Warriors
Science
Sports
Athletes
Basketball players
Boxers
Martial arts
Religion
Citations
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Activist- Clement Okechuchukwu Nwankwo -HAUMAN Right Activist (co-founder CLO, founder CRP and president international Transition Monitoring group Nigeria).
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