Leila Fowler

Chief Leila Euphemia Apinke Fowler, (23 March 1933 – September 2025) was a Nigerian educationalist who founded a school. She was awarded the Nigerian chieftaincy of Yeye Mofin of Lagos by Adeyinka Oyekan, that kingdom's monarch. She initially worked as a teacher and started to train as a nurse in London. She left and met her future husband, who was a consultant in Lagos. They married in 1953 and had three children.

Fowler trained to be a lawyer at the Middle Temple and studied at the University of London. She was called to the UK Bar in 1962 and the Supreme Court of Nigeria in 1963. She worked for two groups of Lagos lawyers before launching her own company, where she specialised in insurance law. The school was named after her daughter who had died.

Her husband, Vidal Fowler, died in 2015.