List of University of Port Harcourt people

This is a list of notable alumni and faculty from the University of Port Harcourt.

Alumni

Arts and entertainment

• Andre Blaze - rapper, reality talent show host
• Monalisa Chinda – actress
• Diminas Dagogo – film director
• Agbani Darego – Miss World 2001, model
• Nwajagu Samuel – Mister International 2024, model
• Rita Dominic – actress
• Linda Ejiofor – actress, model
• Tamara Eteimo - actress, singer
• Muma Gee – singer, actress
• Bimbo Manuel – actor
• Clem Ohameze - actor
• M Trill – rapper
• Francis Duru - actor

Authors and journalists

• Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike – author

Business and industry

• Emmanuel Agwoje – banker, Chief Executive Officer of Equator Capital Ltd.
• Alex Otti – former Group Managing Director of Diamond Bank
• Tonye Princewill – Chairman of Riverdrill Group of Companies (Nigeria)

Diplomacy, government, law and politics

• Rotimi Amaechi – Governor of Rivers State
• Innocent Barikor – Member of the Rivers State House of Assembly
• Osinakachukwu Ideozu – Estate Surveyor; Senator
• Godknows Igali - Diplomat, Federal Permanent Secretary and Technocrat
• Goodluck Jonathan – President of Nigeria
• Patience Jonathan – First Lady of Nigeria
• Olaka Nwogu – Member of the House of Representatives
• Silva Opuala-Charles – Commissioner of Finance and Budget
• Emmanuel Paulker – Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria
• Dakuku Peterside, politician
• Timipre Sylva – Governor of Bayelsa State

Science

• Franklin Erepamo Osaisai – nuclear engineer, energy scientist
• Henry A. A. Ugboma – Professor of Maternal-fetal medicine and Chief Medical Director of the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital, Rivers State.

Faculty

Current and former

• Claude Ake, political science & administration
• I. N. C. Aniebo – novelist and short story writer
• Ladipo Ayodeji Banjo – Emeritus professor of English language
• Innocent Barikor – senior lecturer in political science
• George C. Clerk, botany
• Silvia Federici, philosopher
• Robin W.G. Horton – English social anthropologist and philosopher
• Gerald Moore – scholar of contemporary African anglophone and francophone poetry
• Ogbonnaya Onu, chemical engineering
• Ola Rotimi, theatre arts
• Kay Williamson – linguist who specialised in the study of African languages

Vice Chancellors of the University of Port Harcourt

• Owunari Georgewill <small>(present)</small>
• Joseph Atubokiki Ajienka
• Nimi Briggs
• Kelsey Harrison

See also

• List of people from Rivers State

References

External links

• University of Port Harcourt