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Professor Chinua Achebe (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinua_Achebe) – native of Ogidi (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogidi,_Anambra_State) and best known for the classic, Things Fall Apart (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Things_Fall_Apart); first African writer whose books are standard curricula in schools and universities across the world.
Chimamanda Adichie (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimamanda_Adichie) – writer, won the Orange Prize for Fiction (2007) and a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (2008)
Dora Akunyili (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dora_Akunyili) – ex-head of NAFDAC (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAFDAC), and former (17 December 2008 – 15 December 2010) Minister of Information won international awards for cleansing Nigeria of the scourge of fake drugs (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fake_drugs)[citation needed (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)]
Emeka Anyaoku (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emeka_Anyaoku) – first black secretary-general of the Commonwealth (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_of_Nations) and recipient of South Africa's Order of the Companions of Oliver Reginald Tambo for his role in initiating talks between the apartheid state and the African National Congress (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_National_Congress)
Cardinal Francis Arinze (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Arinze) – once considered a potential Pope (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope)
Ukpabi Asika (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukpabi_Asika) – political scientist and administrator from Onitsha; East Central State administratorduring and after the Nigerian Civil War (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigerian_Civil_War)
Adaeze Atuegwu (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaeze_Atuegwu) - author and disability inclusive advocate
Nnamdi Azikiwe (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nnamdi_Azikiwe) Owelle of Onitsha (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onitsha) – first president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria
Phyno (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyno) (Chibuzo Nelson Azubuike) - popular Igbo rapper
Chinwe Chukwuogo-Roy (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinwe_Chukwuogo-Roy) MBE – London-based artist; first black artist to paint a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_II_of_the_United_Kingdom); one of the UK Women of the Year in 2002 and 2003; represented the UK at the Council of Europe (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_Europe); in 2009 she was made an MBE (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MBE_(Order_of_the_British_Empire))
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Chief Oliver De Coque (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_De_Coque) – popular Nigerian highlife musician and guitarist
Professor Kenneth Dike (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Dike) – pre-eminent scholar of African History (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_History) and native of Awka; first indigenous vice-chancellor of the University of Ibadan (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Ibadan) and founder of the National Archives
Cyprian Ekwensi (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyprian_Ekwensi) – MFR (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigerian_National_Honours), writer of international repute
Dr. Alex Ifeanyichukwu Ekwueme (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Ifeanyichukwu_Ekwueme) – from Oko town (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oko_Town); politician; architect; first executive vice-president of Nigeria, serving 1979–1983
Philip Emeagwali (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Emeagwali) – winner of the 1989 Gordon Bell Prize (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Bell_Prize) for Supercomputing
Buchi Emecheta (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buchi_Emecheta)Author and Sociologist
Bonaventure Enemali (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonaventure_Enemali) – commissioner for Youth Empowerment and Creative Economy
Professor Ben Enwonwu (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Enwonwu) – native of Onitsha; first Nigerian sculptor of international repute with artwork gracing the United Nations headquarters
Ken Erics (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Erics) – multi-award-winning Nollywood actor, producer, CEO of KEN ERICS Productions, writer and occasional musician.[citation needed (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)]
Chukwuemeka Ezeife (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chukwuemeka_Ezeife) – former Governor of Anambra State and Presidential Adviser on Political Matters to President
Flavour (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flavour_(musician)) (Chinedu Okoli) – popular singer and songwriter from Umunze
Cletus Ibeto (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cletus_Ibeto) – industrialist and businessman from Nnewi
Chukwuemeka Ike (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chukwuemeka_Ike) – writer of many books including Toads forSsupper, Bottled Leopard, and Expo 77;hails from Ndikelionwu in Anambra State; was the traditional ruler Ikelionwu XI; first registrar of the West African Examination Council (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_African_Examination_Council)
Godwin Maduka (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin_Maduka) – doctor, businessman, philanthropist, founder of Las Vegas Pain Institute and Medical Center
Chinwoke Mbadinuju (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinwoke_Mbadinuju)- Former Governor of Anambra State
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Hon. Ifeanyi Chudy Momah (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ifeanyi_Chudy_Momah)– lawyer and legislator; Honorable Member representing Ihiala in the Federal House of Representatives
Ebube Muonso (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebube_Muonso) – religious leader
Dr Chris Ngige (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Ngige)- Former Governor of Anambra State
Flora Nwapa (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flora_Nwapa)Author and pioneer Africa woman writer in Igboland
Emeka Nwokedi (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emeka_Nwokedi) – conductor and music director
Professor Humphrey Nwobu Nwosu (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humphrey_Nwosu) – professor of political science; former NEC chairma; conducted the freest, fairest and most credible election so far in Nigeria
Oseloka H. Obaze (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oseloka_H._Obaze) (born 1955) – diplomat, politician and author
Professor Chike Obi (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chike_Obi) – mathematician famous for his work on non-differential equations; won the 1985 ICTP Prize and developed a special solution for Fermat's Last Theorem;
Peter Obi (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Obi)- Former Governor of Anambra State
Lieutenant-General Chikadibia Isaac Obiakor (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chikadibia_Isaac_Obiakor) – appointed as military advisor, Assistant Secretary General Office of Military Affairs, UN Office of Peacekeeping Operations, New York; previously served as commander of the Economic Community of West African States Monitoring Group (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_Community_of_West_African_States_Monitoring_Group) (ECOMOG) Artillery Brigade in Liberia in 1996 and 1997
Emeka Offor (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emeka_Offor) – chairman of Chrome Group
Dim Emeka Ojukwu (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emeka_Ojukwu) – native of Nnewi (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nnewi), the leader of the secessionist Biafra (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biafra) Republic
Louis Odumegwu Ojukwu (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Odumegwu_Ojukwu) – native of Nnewi; first Nigerian millionaire and first president of the Nigerian Stock Exchange (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigerian_Stock_Exchange)
Dr. Senator Chuba Wilberforce Okadigbo (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuba_Okadigbo) (1941–2003) – native of Ogbunike (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogbunike); president of the Senate of Nigeria
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Professor Uche Okeke (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uche_Okeke) – native of Nimo; one of the foremost Nigerian fine artists; founder of the Uli movement
Chief P.N. Okeke-Ojiudu (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/P.N._Okeke-Ojiudu) – politician and Businessman and the first minister of agriculture in the Nigerian first republic
Pius Okigbo (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pius_Okigbo), CON (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commander_of_the_Order_of_the_Niger)– world-renowned economist; first economic advisor to the Federal government of Nigeria (1960–1962); first Nigerian Ambassador to the European Community; renowned for bringing to light over $12 billion missing in oil windfall receipts from the Central Bank of Nigeria during the first Gulf War
Amobi Okoye (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amobi_Okoye) – youngest American football player to play for the NFL (2004), currently a free agent
Professor Samuel Okoye (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Okoye) – black Africa's first PhD in Radio Astronomy; with Antony Hewish (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antony_Hewish) of the University of Cambridge (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Cambridge), discovered the radio source of Crab Nebula neutron star
Chinyere Stella Okunna (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinyere_Stella_Okunna) – first Nigerian female professor in mass communication
Azuka Okwuosa (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azuka_Okwuosa) – former Anambra State Commissioner for Works and Transport
Azikiwe Peter Onwualu (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azikiwe_Peter_Onwualu) – former director general and chief executive officer of the Raw Materials Research and Development Council
Chi Onwurah (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi_Onwurah) – British Labour Party (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)) politician, elected at the 2010 general election as the Member of Parliament (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Member_of_Parliament) for Newcastle-upon-Tyne (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newcastle-upon-Tyne) Central, becoming the first female British MP of African origin
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Allen Onyema (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Onyema) – Chairman of Air Peace (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Peace)
Oscar N. Onyema (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_N._Onyema) – OON (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigerian_National_Honours), chief executive officer of the Nigerian Stock Exchange (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigerian_Stock_Exchange) and chairman of Central Securities Clearing System
Nwafor Orizu (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nwafor_Orizu) – hails from Nnewi, Nnewi South (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nnewi_South); first Senate President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria
Osita Osadebe (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osita_Osadebe) – popular Nigerian highlife (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highlife) musician; holds the Nigerian record for the highest selling album
P-Square (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-Square) (Peter and Paul Okoye) – Nigerian music duo consisting of twin brothers from Ifitedunu
Professor Charles Chukwuma Soludo (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Chukwuma_Soludo) – famous economist who spearheaded Nigerian economic reform from 1999 to 2008; ex-head of the Central Bank of Nigeria
Blessed Cyprian Michael Iwene Tansi (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyprian_Michael_Iwene_Tansi) (born in Aguleri (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aguleri), Anambra State, 1903 – died Leicester, England, 1964) – ordained a Roman Catholic priest of the Archdiocese of Onitsha, Nigeria (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Catholic_Archdiocese_of_Onitsha); later a Cistercian monk at Mount Saint Bernard Monastery in England; Pope John Paul II beatified (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatification) him in 1998
Fabian Udekwu (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabian_Udekwu) (1928–2006) – professor of surgery and trailblazer of open heart surgery in Africa
Chief Jerome Udoji (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome_Udoji) – from Ozubulu social reformer; first African to be made a District Officer by the Colonial Administration
Chuka Umunna (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuka_Umunna) – British Labour Party (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)) Member of Parliament for Streatham constituency