The list of Igbo people includes notable individuals who have full or significant ancestry to the Igbo people of southeastern Nigeria. As the Igbo are an ethnicity, people listed come from variety of different nations, and may have other ancestry as well as Igbo.
The Igbo people (who are sometimes referred to as the Ibo(e), Ebo(e), Eboans or Heebo) (Igbo: Ndi Igbo) are an ethnic group in West Africa. Most Igbo people live in southeastern Nigeria where they are one of the three largest and most influential groups, the two others being the Hausa and Yoruba people. Further populations live in other nations out of Africa due to migration and to the effects of the Atlantic slave trade. The Igbo peoples involvement in the Nigerian-Biafran war (6 July 1967 – 13 January 1970) is well known as they were the main group calling for secession and recognition of the Republic of Biafra out of Nigeria.
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