title: List of University of Port Harcourt people
text: # 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
  