The Most Famous
PHYSICIANS from Nigeria
This page contains a list of the greatest Nigerian Physicians. The pantheon dataset contains 502 Physicians, 1 of which were born in Nigeria. This makes Nigeria the birth place of the 59th most number of Physicians behind Latvia and Moldova.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Nigerian Physicians of all time. This list of famous Nigerian Physicians is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Bennet Omalu (1968 - )
With an HPI of 47.97, Bennet Omalu is the most famous Nigerian Physician. His biography has been translated into 17 different languages on wikipedia.
Bennet Ifeakandu Omalu (born September 30, 1968) is a Nigerian-American physician, forensic pathologist and neuropathologist who was the first to discover and publish findings on chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) in American football players while working at the Allegheny County coroner's office in Pittsburgh. He later became the chief medical examiner for San Joaquin County, California, and is a professor at the University of California, Davis, department of medical pathology and laboratory medicine. He is currently the president and medical director of Bennet Omalu Pathology.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as physicians born between 1968 and 1968. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living physicians include Bennet Omalu. As of April 2022, 1 new physicians have been added to Pantheon including Bennet Omalu.
