The Most Famous

LAWYERS from Nigeria

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This page contains a list of the greatest Nigerian Lawyers. The pantheon dataset contains 136 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.

Top 1

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 (b. 1968)

With an HPI of 41.97, Hauwa Ibrahim is the most famous Nigerian Lawyer.  Her biography has been translated into 24 different languages on wikipedia.

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

People

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

Living Nigerian Lawyers

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