Oludamini Ogunnaike (born 1985) is an associate professor of religious studies at the University of Virginia. He immigrated to the United States from Nigeria with his family when he was four.
He holds a Ph.D. and M.Phil. in African studies and the study of religion from Harvard University, along with an A.B. in cognitive neuroscience and African studies from Harvard College. He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and received a Rockefeller Fellowship while an undergraduate student at Harvard. He also won a Gordon W. Allport Prize for his senior thesis, "The language of prejudice: The influence of language on implicit attitudes" in 2006-2007. He continued to study language and how it can affect perception and prejudice.