University of Ibadan

==Notable alumni==
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{{See also|Category:University of Ibadan alumni}}The [[university]] has educated many notable alumni, including a [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Laureate in Literature]], eminent [[mathematician]]s, [[scientist]]s, [[politician]]s, [[Lawyer|lawyers]], business icons, [[Philosophy|philosophers]], [[writer]]s, [[monarch]]s, countless technocrats, recipients of the Nigerian National Order of Merit and fellows of the various learned academies.<ref>{{Cite web |date=31 January 2021 |title=University Of Ibadan Postgraduate School Registration 2023/2024 Update - UTMEOfficial |url=https://utmeofficial.com.ng/jamb/university-of-ibadan-postgraduate-school-registration-2023-2023-update/ |access-date=2023-06-12 |language=en-US}}</ref> In September 2016, it became the first Nigerian university to make the top 1,000 in ''[[Times Higher Education]]'' rankings. Prior to that, it had always made the top 10 African Universities in [[Webometrics Ranking of World Universities|Webometrics]] Rankings.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Agarin |first=Williams E. Nwagwu and Omoverere |title=Nigerian University Websites: A Webometric Analysis |url=http://www.webology.org/2008/v5n4/a65.html |access-date=2020-05-30 |website=webology.org |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Africa {{!}} Ranking Web of Universities: Webometrics ranks 30000 institutions |url=https://www.webometrics.info/en/Ranking_africa |access-date=2020-05-30 |website=webometrics.info}}</ref> UI is currently ranked No. 1 in Nigeria and 1,196 in the world according to Webometrics.<ref>{{cite web |date=July 2021 |title=Nigeria {{!}} Ranking Web of Universities: Webometrics ranks 30000 institutions |url=https://www.webometrics.info/en/Africa/Nigeria |access-date=19 September 2021 |website=Webometrics}}</ref><gallery perrow="8" class="Center" caption="Notable UI alumni include:">
File:Chinua Achebe - vertical rectangle crop.jpg|Author and literary critic [[Chinua Achebe]] (BA, 1953)
File:Akin Mabogunje-Conférence-FIG 2017.jpg|Geographer, [[Akin Mabogunje]] (BA, 1953)
File:Wole Soyinka in 2018.jpg|Nobel laureate, [[Wole Soyinka]] (BA, 1954)
File:Pastor Kumuyi(cropped).jpg|Pastor and founder of Deeper Life Bible Church [[William Kumuyi]] (BSc 1967)
File:Tam David-West.png|Academic, [[Tam David-West]] (BSc 1958)
File:James Meredith Portrait.png|Civil rights activist [[James Meredith]]
File:Jer for FRONT COVER.jpg|British Scholar, [[Jeremy Joyner White]] (PhD 1970)
File:FemiOsofisan.jpg|Writer, theatre director, novelist, critic, [[Femi Osofisan]] (BA, 1969)
File:Babatunde Osotimehin at the London Summit on Family Planning.jpg|Physician & former Nigerian Minister of Health, [[Babatunde Osotimehin]] (MB.BS, 1972)
File:Prof. Isaac F. Adewole (cropped).jpg|Gynaecologist & Nigerian former minister of health, [[Isaac Adewole]] (MB.BS 1978)
File:Obaseki.jpg|Edo state governor, [[Godwin Obaseki]] (BA, 1979)
File:Sola David-Borha - 2020 (cropped).jpg|CEO of Standard Bank Group [[Sola David-Borha]] (BSc, 1981)
File:Ifenanyi Okowa.png|Former governor of Delta State, [[Ifeanyi Okowa]] (MB.BS, 1981)
File:Allen-Onyema-234.jpg|Founder of [[Air Peace]], [[Allen Onyema]] (LL.B. 1987)
File:Ben-ayade-1.jpg|Former governor of Cross River state, [[Ben Ayade]] (B.Sc 1988)
File:Abdullahi Umar Ganduje 2023.jpg|National chairman of the [[All Progressives Congress|APC]], Abdullahi Ganduje (PhD, 1993)
File:Ibinabo Fiberesima.png|Actress [[Ibinabo Fiberesima]] (BA, 1994)
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* [[Abdulganiyu Abdulrasaq]], lawyer, former President of the Nigerian Stock Exchange<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nigerianmuse.com/20140310181501zg/nigeria-watch/profile-abdul-ganiyu-folorunsho-abdul-razaq/|title = Profile: Abdul Ganiyu Folorunsho Abdul-Razaq|date = 10 March 2014}}</ref>
* [[Mufutau Oloyede Abdul-Rahmon]], Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies.<ref name="cv">{{cite web|title=Prof M.O. Abdul-Rahmon CV|url=http://arts.ui.edu.ng/sites/default/files/C.V%20PROF.%20OLOYEDE.pdf|accessdate=21 April 2018}}</ref>
* [[John Omoniyi Abiri]], Nigerian academic
* [[Sadique Abubakar]], former Nigeria [[Chief of the Air Staff (Nigeria)|Chief of Air Staff]]<ref>{{Cite web|title=Nigeria: Boko Haram Insurgency Substantially Degraded – CAS|url=https://allafrica.com/stories/201907230493.html|last=Badru|first=Adeola|date=2019-07-23|website=allAfrica.com|language=en|access-date=2020-05-19}}</ref>
* [[Chinua Achebe]], novelist, author of ''[[Things Fall Apart]]''<ref name=alumni1>{{cite book|author=July, Robert W|year=1987|title=An African Voice|url=https://archive.org/details/africanvoicero00july|url-access=registration|publisher=Durham (NC): Duke University Press|isbn=978-0-8223-0769-3}} p. 64.</ref>
* [[J. K. Acquaye]], Professor of Haematology, president of the [[West African College of Physicians]] (2003–2004)
* [[Dapo Lam Adesina]], Member of House of Representative for Ibadan North East/South Federal Constituency
* [[Adiele Afigbo]], historian
* [[Ayandiji Daniel Aina]], former Vice-Chancellor of [[Caleb University]]<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://calebuniversity.edu.ng/pages.php?id=62&parentid=58|title=Caleb University ::: Vice Chancellor|website=calebuniversity.edu.ng|access-date=2018-04-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180411174218/https://calebuniversity.edu.ng/pages.php?id=62&parentid=58|archive-date=2018-04-11|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[J. F. Ade Ajayi]], Nigerian historian
* [[Wahab Adekola Akande]], diplomat 
* [[Claude Ake]], Professor of Political Economy, international scholar and social crusader
* [[Stephen Adebanji Akintoye]]<ref>{{Cite web |url= http://www.africultures.com/php/index.php?nav=personne&no=22247
 |title=Africultures – Biographie de Stephen Adebanji Akintoye |work=africultures.com |access-date=21 November 2010|language=fr}}</ref>
* [[Lola Akande]], author and academic
* [[Grace Alele-Williams]]<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/AMU/amu_chma_12.html#5 |title=AMU CHMA NEWSLETTER #12 (03/27/1994) |work=math.buffalo.edu  |access-date=26 February 2011}}</ref>
* [[Elechi Amadi]]<ref name=alumni1/><ref name=alumni2>{{cite book|author=Laurence, Margaret|year=2001|title=Long Drums and Cannons: Nigerian Dramatists and Novelists, 1952-1966|url=https://archive.org/details/longdrumscannons00laur|url-access=registration|publisher=Alberta: University of Alberta Press|isbn=978-0-88864-332-2}} p. viii.</ref>
* [[Seth Amoama]], Ghanaian Chief of the Defence Staff
* [[Alexander Animalu]], Emeritus Professor, former Director National Mathematical Centre, Abuja
* [[Emeka Anyaoku]], former [[Commonwealth Secretary-General]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.imoinvestmentsummit.com/speakers/?PHPSESSID=d3eef17f2f92264d183c226115c1820b |title=Emeka Anyaoku – Imo State Investment Summit |work=imoinvestmentsummit.com |access-date=28 October 2010}}</ref>
* [[Kayode Are]], former [[National Security Adviser (Nigeria)|National Security Adviser]] and former Director General of the [[State Security Service (Nigeria)|State Security Service]]
* [[Ladipo Ayodeji Banjo]], former [[Vice-chancellor (education)|Vice-Chancellor]] of the University of Ibadan
* [[Mosun Belo-Olusoga]], financial expert
* Senator [[Robert Ajayi Boroffice]]
* [[Vivian E. Browne]], visual artist<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.thecrowsneststudio.com/artists/196-2/vivian-e-browne-cv/|title = Vivian E. Browne CV|website = The Crows Nest Studio|date = 19 August 2013|language = en-US|access-date = 5 March 2016}}</ref>
* [[J. P. Clark]]<ref name=alumni1/><ref name=alumni2/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.africansuccess.org/visuFiche.php?id=790&lang=en|title=African Success: Biography of John Pepper Clark|access-date=6 July 2010|date=4 May 2009|archive-date=8 August 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170808002924/http://www.africansuccess.org/visuFiche.php?id=790&lang=en|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[Sola David-Borha]], Chief Executive (Africa Region) of [[Standard Bank]]
* [[Segun Toyin Dawodu]], physician, attorney, academic, and entrepreneur who established the first website<ref>DAWODU.COM, http://www.dawodu.com</ref> on socio-political issues of Nigeria.
* [[Adebayo Faleti]](late), journalist, poet, actor and writer
* [[Kayode Fayemi]], former Governor of Ekiti State, former Min of Solid Minerals
* [[Chukwuemeka Ike]], writer
* [[Amadi Ikwechegh]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://amadiikwechegh.com/about.htm |title=The Life and Times of Amadi Ikwechegh |access-date=6 July 2010}}</ref>
* [[Abiola Irele]]<ref>{{cite web|date=14 February 2007|author=Wumi Raji|title=Churchill College Celebrates Abiola Irele|access-date=6 July 2010|url=http://www.nigeriansinamerica.com/articles/1424/1/Churchill-College-Celebrates-Abiola-Irele.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120914034551/http://www.nigeriansinamerica.com/articles/1424/1/Churchill-College-Celebrates-Abiola-Irele.html|archive-date=14 September 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[Funmi Iyanda]], Nigerian talk show host, broadcaster, journalist
* [[William Kumuyi]], founder and General Superintendent of [[Deeper Christian Life Ministry]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/gi_0199-5788990/Kumuyi-tomorrow-belongs-to-Africa.html|title=Kumuyi: tomorrow belongs to Africa|date=1 August 2006|publisher=[[The Gale Group]]|access-date=27 February 2011|location=Farmington Hills, Michigan, USA}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://allafrica.com/stories/200904140196.html|title=Of Private Jets and Lot's Wives|last=Fasehun|first=McNezer|date=13 April 2009|work=[[AllAfrica.com]]|publisher=[[AllAfrica Global Media]]|access-date=27 February 2011}}</ref>
* [[Yahaya Kuta]], author
* [[Eyitayo Lambo]], Nigerian former [[Federal Ministry of Health (Nigeria)|Federal Minister of Health]]
* [[Mary Lazarus]], Nigerian actress.
* [[Eddie Mbadiwe]], Member of the House of Representative
* [[James Meredith]], [[Civil Rights Movement]] figure
* [[Epaphras Denga Ndaitwah]]<ref name=Hails>{{cite news|title=NDF hails new chief|last=Ndjebela|first=Toivo|newspaper=[[New Era (Namibia)|New Era]]|date=25 January 2011|url=http://www.newera.com.na/article.php?articleid=37027|access-date=25 January 2011|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130111234516/http://www.newera.com.na/article.php?articleid=37027|archive-date=11 January 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[Aniebiet Inyang Ntui]], EU Ambassador, University Librarian of [[University of Calabar]] and Professor of Library and Information Science. 
* [[Jerome Nriagu]], Environmental chemist, academic and researcher
* [[Mark Nwagwu]], academics and poet
* [[Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani]]<ref name="Niyi Osundare at 60 Literary Fete"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cp-africa.com/2010/03/12/nwaubani-wins-commonwealth-writers-prize/|work=CP Africa|title=Nwaubani, author"I do not come to you by chance" wins Commonwealth Writers' Prize}}</ref>
* [[Christopher Okigbo]]<ref name=alumni1/><ref name=alumni2/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.christopher-okigbo.org/okigbo.asp|publisher=Christopher Okigbo Foundation|title=C. Okigbo 1932–1967|access-date=6 July 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100206112026/http://www.christopher-okigbo.org/okigbo.asp|archive-date=6 February 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[Ifeanyi Okowa]], Governor of Delta State
* [[Isidore Okpewho]]
* [[Nduka Otiono]], journalist and author
* [[Tunji Olaopa]], founder and Executive Vice-chairman, [[Ibadan School of Government and Public Policy|ISGPP]]
* [[Olufunmilayo Olopade]]<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.aacr.org/home/scientists/aacr-academy/inaugural-class/olufunmilayo-olopade.aspx |title= Olufunmilayo I. Olopade |publisher= American Association for Cancer Research |year= 2001 |website= AACR |access-date= 6 June 2013 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20130929235550/http://www.aacr.org/home/scientists/aacr-academy/inaugural-class/olufunmilayo-olopade.aspx |archive-date= 29 September 2013 |url-status= dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.mydailynewswatchng.com/2013/09/19/dr-olufunmilayo-olopade-nigerias-gift-medical-world/|title=Dr. Olufunmilayo Olopade, Nigeria's gift to the medical world|last=Adegun|first=Aanu|work=Saturday Newswatch|access-date=28 July 2013}}</ref>
* [[Sophie Oluwole]], philosopher
* [[Miriam Olusanya]], first female managing director of [[Guaranty Trust Bank|GTB]]
* [[Akinyinka Omigbodun]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://com.ui.edu.ng/prof-akinyinka-o-omigbodun|title=Aakinyinka O. Omigbodun|work=University of Ibadan|access-date=15 September 2015}}</ref>
* [[Michael Omolewa]], former [[UNESCO|President of UNESCO General Conference]] and Ambassador of Nigeria to [[UNESCO]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=15722&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html |title=Michael Abiola Omolewa to preside over General Conference|publisher= UNESCO|access-date=4 September 2012 }}</ref>
* [[Kole Omotosho]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.stellenboschwriters.com/omotoso.html|title=Kole Omotoso|access-date=6 July 2010}}</ref>
* [[Gamaliel Onosode]]<ref>{{cite web|author=David Diai|url=http://www.guardiannewsngr.com/sunday_magazine/article25//indexn3_html?pdate=200708&ptitle=Gamaliel%20Onosode:%20Ways%20Of%20Mr%20Integrity%20At%2075&cpdate=230708 <!-- archive permanently removed -->|title=Gamaliel Onosode: Ways of Mr Integrity at 75|access-date=6 July 2010|date=20 July 2008|work=[[The Guardian (Nigeria)|The Guardian]]|location=Nigeria}}</ref>
* [[Zakariyau Oseni]]
* [[Femi Osofisan]], lecturer and playwright known for ''Women of Owu''
* [[Niyi Osundare]]<ref name="Niyi Osundare at 60 Literary Fete">{{cite web|url=http://osundare60fete.blogspot.com/2007/02/announcing.html|title=Niyi Osundare at 60 Literary Fete|access-date=6 July 2010|date=4 February 2007}}</ref>
* [[Jude Rabo]], Vice-Chancellor of Federal University, Wukari
* [[Ken Saro-Wiwa]]<ref>{{cite news|url=http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/natural_resources/article6364435.ece|title=Portrait: Ken Saro-Wiwa|last=Boyle|first=Catherine|date=26 May 2009|work=[[The Times]]|publisher=[[News Corporation (1980–2013)|News Corporation]]|access-date=28 February 2011|location=Wapping, London, UK}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/story.html?id=eeade38e-6cac-43b9-bac0-6a5ca4fc7282|title=Nigerian expat sees us with fresh eyes|date=27 April 2008|work=[[Canada.com]]|publisher=[[Postmedia Network Inc.]]|access-date=28 February 2011|location=Toronto, Canada}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Ken Saro-Wiwa {{!}} Nigerian author and activist|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ken-Saro-Wiwa|website=Encyclopædia Britannica|language=en|access-date=2020-05-19}}</ref>
* [[Kashim Shettima]], [[Vice President of Nigeria|Vice President-elect of Nigeria]]
* [[Fisayo Soyombo]], investigative journalist
* [[Wole Soyinka]], winner of the 1986 [[Nobel Prize in Literature]]<ref name=alumni1/><ref name=alumni2/>
* [[Martin Ihoeghian Uhomoibhi|Martin I. Uhomoibhi]]<ref name=biog>{{cite press release|url=http://www.unhchr.ch/huricane/huricane.nsf/view01/F7CFA04CCD1554A9C125746E00560AC5?opendocument|title=Biographical Note on Martin Ihoeghian Uhomoibhi President of Human Rights Council for 2008–2009|publisher=Human Rights Council|access-date=6 July 2010|date=19 June 2008}}</ref>
* [[Farida Waziri]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.efccnigeria.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=155&Itemid=64 |title=Executive Chairman, EFCC |date=11 June 2008 |publisher=Economic and Financial Crimes Commission |access-date=25 September 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091020193803/http://www.efccnigeria.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=155&Itemid=64 |archive-date=20 October 2009 |url-status=dead  }}</ref>
* [[Folashade Yemi-Esan]], head of the civil service of the federation
* [[Ronke Giwa-Onafuwa]],  Nigerian Radio presenter and broadcaster
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