19 Notable alumni of
University of Liberia

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The University of Liberia is 2130th in the world, 50th in Africa, and 1st in Liberia by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 19 notable alumni from the University of Liberia sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.

  1. Samuel Doe

    Samuel Doe
    Born in
    Liberia Flag Liberia
    Years
    1951-1990 (aged 39)
    Occupations
    military officerpolitician
    Biography

    Samuel Kanyon Doe was a Liberian politician who served as the 21st president of Liberia from 1986 to 1990. He ruled Liberia as Chairman of the People's Redemption Council (PRC) from 1980 to 1986 and then as president from 1986 to 1990.

  2. William Richard Tolbert

    William Richard Tolbert
    Born in
    Liberia Flag Liberia
    Years
    1913-1980 (aged 67)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    William Richard Tolbert Jr. was a Liberian politician who served as the 20th president of Liberia from 1971 until his assassination in 1980.

  3. Jewel Taylor

    Jewel Taylor
    Born in
    Liberia Flag Liberia
    Years
    1963-.. (age 61)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    Jewel Cianeh Taylor is a Liberian politician who served as the 30th vice president of Liberia from 2018 to 2024. She was married to convicted warlord and former president Charles Taylor from 1997 to 2006 and was first lady of Liberia during his presidency. In 2005, Jewel Taylor was elected to the Senate of Liberia for Bong County as a member of the National Patriotic Party. She was Chair of the Senate Health and Social Welfare Committee on Gender, Women and Children.

  4. Joseph Boakai

    Joseph Boakai
    Born in
    Liberia Flag Liberia
    Years
    1944-.. (age 80)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    Joseph Nyumah Boakai is a Liberian politician who is the 26th and current president of Liberia. He previously served as the 29th vice president of Liberia from 2006 to 2018, under President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and as the minister of agriculture from 1983 to 1985. Boakai ran for president in 2017, losing the election to George Weah. He went on to defeat Weah in the 2023 election.

  5. Wilmot Collins

    Wilmot Collins
    Born in
    Liberia Flag Liberia
    Years
    1963-.. (age 61)
    Enrolled in the University of Liberia
    Graduated with Bachelor of Arts
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    Wilmot Collins is an American politician serving as the mayor of Helena, Montana. He defeated four-term incumbent mayor James E. Smith in the 2017 mayoral election on November 7, 2017, with 51% of the vote. This victory made him the first black person to be elected the mayor of any city in the history of Montana since statehood was achieved in 1889.

  6. Arthur Barclay

    Arthur Barclay
    Born in
    Barbados Flag Barbados
    Years
    1854-1938 (aged 84)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    Arthur Barclay was the 15th president of Liberia from 1904 to 1912.

  7. Nathaniel Barnes

    Nathaniel Barnes
    Born in
    Liberia Flag Liberia
    Years
    1954-.. (age 70)
    Occupations
    politiciandiplomat
    Biography

    Milton Nathaniel Barnes is a Liberian diplomat, politician and member of the Liberian Destiny Party (LDP). In early 2022, he announced his intention to run as an independent candidate in the 2023 Liberian presidential election.

  8. Joseph James Cheeseman

    Joseph James Cheeseman
    Born in
    Liberia Flag Liberia
    Years
    1843-1896 (aged 53)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    Joseph James Cheeseman was the 12th president of Liberia. Born at Edina in Grand Bassa County, he was elected three times on the True Whig ticket. Cheeseman was educated at Liberia College (now University of Liberia).

  9. Francis Korkpor

    Francis Korkpor
    Occupations
    judge
    Biography

    Francis S. Korkpor is a Liberian jurist and lawyer. He served as Chief Justice of Liberia from 2013 to 2022.

  10. Willie Barrow

    Willie Barrow
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1924-2015 (aged 91)
    Occupations
    activist
    Biography

    Willie Beatrice Barrow was an American civil rights activist and minister. Barrow was the co-founder of Operation PUSH, which was named Operation Breadbasket at the time of its creation alongside Rev. Jesse Jackson. In 1984, Barrow became the first woman executive director of a civil rights organization, serving as Push's CEO. Barrow was the godmother of President Barack Obama.

  11. Olubanke King Akerele

    Olubanke King Akerele
    Born in
    Liberia Flag Liberia
    Years
    1946-.. (age 78)
    Occupations
    diplomat
    Biography

    Olubanke King Akerele is a Liberian politician and diplomat who served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs in the cabinet of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf from October 2007 until her resignation on 3 November 2010. She is the granddaughter of Liberia's 17th president, Charles D. B. King.

  12. Edwin Snowe

    Edwin Snowe
    Years
    1970-.. (age 54)
    Occupations
    politicianspeaker
    Biography

    Edwin Melvin Snowe, Jr. is a Liberian politician, serving as a Senator of the Liberian Senate for Bomi.

  13. Sie-A-Nyene Yuoh

    Sie-A-Nyene Yuoh
    Born in
    Liberia Flag Liberia
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    Sie-A-Nyene Gyapay Yuoh is a Liberian judge and politician who currently serves as chief justice of the Supreme Court of Liberia and was nominated on August 23, 2022. She began to serve after the retirement of former chief justice Francis Korkpor on September 27, 2022.

  14. Johnnie Lewis

    Johnnie Lewis
    Born in
    Liberia Flag Liberia
    Years
    1946-2015 (aged 69)
    Occupations
    judge
    Biography

    Johnnie N. Lewis was a Liberian lawyer and politician who served as the 18th Chief Justice of Liberia from 2006 to 2012. Before his appointment to the Supreme Court, he served as a circuit judge in Liberia's judicial system.

  15. Louis Arthur Grimes

    Louis Arthur Grimes
    Years
    1883-1948 (aged 65)
    Occupations
    diplomatpoliticianjudge
    Biography

    Louis Arthur Grimes served as the 10th Chief Justice of Liberia. He was appointed Attorney General by President Charles D. B. King and served in this position from 1922 to 1932 when he was appointed Secretary of State by President Edwin Barclay. He served in this position from 1932 to 1933. Secretary Grimes was preceded by Edwin Barclay and replaced by Clarence Lorenzo Simpson.

  16. Gloria Musu-Scott

    Gloria Musu-Scott
    Born in
    Liberia Flag Liberia
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    Gloria Maya Musu-Scott is a former Liberian politician and jurist who served as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court from 1997 until 2003. She and three other family members were convicted of murder in 2023 in connection with the death of her niece.

  17. Joseph Rudolph Grimes

    Joseph Rudolph Grimes
    Born in
    Liberia Flag Liberia
    Years
    1923-2007 (aged 84)
    Occupations
    politiciandiplomat
    Biography

    Joseph Rudolph Grimes was a Liberian statesman. A trained lawyer, he served as Secretary of State from 1960 to 1972.

  18. Youngor Sevelee Telewoda

    Youngor Sevelee Telewoda
    Born in
    Liberia Flag Liberia
    Years
    1952-.. (age 72)
    Occupations
    diplomat
    Biography

    Youngor Sevelee Telewoda is the Liberian ambassador to Germany, Austria, Japan with Co-Accreditation to Indonesia, the Republic of Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines, Thailand and New Zealand from 2011 to 2017. From 2003 to 2010, Telewoda served as Liberia’s Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Belgium with concurrent accreditation to the Netherlands, Luxembourg and the European Union.

  19. Ernest Lyon

    Ernest Lyon
    Born in
    Belize Flag Belize
    Years
    1860-1930 (aged 70)
    Occupations
    diplomat
    Biography

    Ernest A. Lyon was an African-American minister, educator and diplomat.

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