List of University of Port Harcourt people
# 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 – model
* Rita Dominic – actress
* Linda Ejiofor – actress, model
* Tamara Eteimo - actress, singer
* Muma Gee – singer, actress
* Bimbo Manuel – actor
* Miraboi - businessman, singer
* Clem Ohameze - actor
* M Trill – rapper

### 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)

### Management and marketing

* Miraboi — businessman and singer

### 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 for the Bayelsa Central
* 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

* Joseph Atubokiki Ajienka
* Nimi Briggs
* Kelsey Harrison
