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The Most Famous

LAWYERS from Nigeria

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This page contains a list of the greatest Nigerian Lawyers. The pantheon dataset contains 68 Lawyers, 1 of which were born in Nigeria. This makes Nigeria the birth place of the 26th most number of Lawyers behind Argentina and Australia.

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The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Nigerian Lawyers of all time. This list of famous Nigerian Lawyers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

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1. Hauwa Ibrahim (1968 - )

With an HPI of 39.34, Hauwa Ibrahim is the most famous Nigerian Lawyer.  Her biography has been translated into 22 different languages on wikipedia.

Hauwa Ibrahim (born 1968) is a Nigerian human rights lawyer who won the European Parliament's Sakharov Prize in 2005.

Pantheon has 1 people classified as lawyers born between 1968 and 1968. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living lawyers include Hauwa Ibrahim.

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