List of Saro people
This is a list of notable Saro people.
A
- Sir Kitoye Ajasa, lawyer and legislator during the colonial period and first Nigerian to be knighted
B
- Richard Beale Blaize, businessman, newspaper publisher, financier, and black nationalist of Sierra Leonean and Nigerian heritage
C
- Samuel Ajayi Crowther, linguist, clergyman, and the first African Anglican bishop of West Africa
D
- Captain James Pinson Labulo Davies and his wife, Princess Sara Forbes Bonetta, were some of the most prominent Saros in Victorian Nigeria
E
- Christiana Abiodun Emanuel, co-founder of the Cherubim and Seraphim, an Aladura Christian denomination
G
- Charles Joseph George, successful Saro trader who was appointed a member of the Legislative Council of the Lagos Colony from 1886 onwards
J
- Obadiah Johnson, author and second Nigerian to qualify as a medical doctor
- James "Holy" Johnson, prominent clergyman and one of the first African members of Nigeria's Legislative Council
- Samuel Johnson, historian and Anglican priest
- Herbert Macauley, Nigerian nationalist, politician, surveyor, engineer, architect, journalist, and musician
M
- Thomas Babington Macauley, priest, educator, principal and founder of CMS Grammar School, Lagos
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- Emanuel Thomas, first West African to be granted a commission in the Royal Air Force
- Stella Thomas, first woman magistrate in Nigeria
V
- William Vivour, single most successful 19th-century planter in Africa
W
- Christopher Sapara Williams, first Nigerian lawyer, called to the English bar in November 1879
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