| Iacocca, Lido Anthony "Lee" (American automobile executive) |
b.1924 |
| Iamblichus (Greek philosopher) |
c.250-c.350 |
| Iancu, Marcel (Romanian-born Israeli painter, architect) |
1895-1984 |
| Ibarbourou, Juana de (Juanita Fernandez Morales; Urug. poet) |
1895-1979 |
| Ibarruri Gomez, Dolores "La Pasionaria" (Spanish politician) |
1895-1989 |
| Ibert, Jacques-Francois-Antoine (French composer) |
1890-1962 |
| Iberville, Pierre Le Moyne (Fr.-Can. explorer; fd. Louisiana) |
1661-1706 |
| Ibn 'Abbad (Islamic theologian) |
1333-1390 |
| Ibn Abi ar-Rijal, Ahmad ibn Salih (Yemeni scholar, theologian) |
1620-1681 |
| Ibn Abi 'Asrun (aka al-Halabi; ad-Dimashqi; Islamic theologian) |
1099-1189 |
| Ibn al-Abbar (Muslim historian, theologian, humorist) |
1199-1260 |
| Ibn al-'Arabi (Abu Bakr; Islamic mystic, philosopher) |
1165-1240 |
| Ibn al-Athir (Arab historian) |
1160-1233 |
| Ibn al-Farid (Arab poet) |
1181/2-1235 |
| Ibn al-Jawzi (Islamic theologian) |
1126-1200 |
| Ibn an-Nafis (Muslim physician) |
d.1288 |
| Ibn 'Aqil (Islamic theologian) |
1040-1119 |
| Ibn Babawayh (aka as-Saduq; Islamic theologian) |
c.923-991 |
| Ibn Battutah (Arab traveler, writer) |
1304-1368/9 |
| Ibn Daud, Abraham (aka Rabad I; Spanish physician, historian) |
c.1110-c.1180 |
| Ibn Durayd (Arab philologist) |
837/8-933 |
| Ibn Ezra, Abraham ben Meir (Spanish-born Jewish scholar) |
c.1090-1164 |
| Ibn Ezra, Moses ben Jacob ha-Sallah (Jewish poet, critic) |
c.1060-c.1139 |
| Ibn Falaquera (aka Palquera; Jewish philosopher, translator) |
c.1225-c.1295 |
| Ibn Gabirol (Avicebron; Spanish-born Jewish poet, philosopher) |
c.1022-c.1070 |
| Ibn Hazm (Spanish-born Muslim scholar, writer) |
994-1064 |
| Ibn Ishaq (Muslim writer) |
c.704-767 |
| Ibn Janah (aka Rabbi Jonah; Spanish Hebrew grammarian) |
c.990-1050 |
| Ibn Jubayr (Muslim writer) |
1145-1217 |
| Ibn Kathir (Islamic theologian, historian) |
c.1300-1373 |
| Ibn Khaldun (Arab philosopher, historian, sociologist) |
1332-1406 |
| Ibn Miskawayh (Muslim scientist, philosopher, historian) |
c.930-1030 |
| Ibn Muqlah (Arab calligrapher) |
886-940 |
| Ibn Qutaybah (Arab writer) |
828-889 |
| Ibn Rushd (Averroes; Islamic philosopher) |
1126-1198 |
| Ibn Sa'ud (Muslim leader, founder of Saudi Arabia) |
c.1880-1953 |
| Ibn Shaddad (Arab writer) |
1145-1234 |
| Ibn Shem Tov, Shem Tov (Spanish Kabbalist) |
c.1380-c.1441 |
| Ibn Sina (Avicenna; Islamic scientist, philosopher) |
980-1037 |
| Ibn Taymiyah (Islamic theologian) |
1263-1328 |
| Ibn Tibbon, Judah ben Saul (Jewish physician, translator) |
1120-c.1190 |
| Ibn Tibbon, Samuel ben Judah (Jewish physician, translator) |
c.1150-c.1230 |
| Ibn Tufayl (Moorish philosopher, physician) |
d.1185/6 |
| Ibn Tumart (Berber religious leader) |
c.1080-1130 |
| Ibn Zuhr (aka Avenzoar, Abumeron; Span.-born Muslim physician) |
c.1090-1162 |
| Ibrahim al-Haqilani (Maronite Catholic scholar) |
1605-1664 |
| Ibrahim Pasha (Ottoman general, ruler of Egypt) |
1789-1848 |
| Ibsen, Henrik Johan (Norwegian poet, dramatist) |
1828-1906 |
| Ibuse Masuji (Japanese writer) |
1898-1993 |
| Ibycus (or Ibykos; Greek poet) |
6th cent. BC |
| Icaza Coronel, Jorge (Ecuadorian writer, playwright) |
1906-1978 |
| Ichijo Kaneyoshi (Japanese philosopher, official) |
1402-1481 |
| Ichikawa Danjuro I (Japanese Kabuki actor) |
1660-1704 |
| Ichikawa Danjuro II (Japanese Kabuki actor) |
1688-1758 |
| Ichikawa Danjuro VII (Japanese Kabuki actor) |
1791-1859 |
| Ichikawa Danjuro IX (Japanese Kabuki actor) |
1838-1903 |
| Ichu (Reign title Hsien-feng; Chinese emperor 1851-1861) |
1831-1861 |
| Icke, David Vaughan (English writer, orator) |
b.1952 |
| Ickes, Harold LeClair (American administrator, politician) |
1874-1952 |
| Ictinus (Greek architect; co-des. Parthenon with Callicrates) |
5th cent. BC |
| Iddings, Joseph Paxson (American geologist) |
1857-1920 |
| Idelsohn, Abraham Zevi (Kurland-born Jewish music scholar) |
1882-1938 |
| Idle, Eric (English actor, comedian) |
b.1943 |
| Idris, Yusuf (Egyptian playwright, writer) |
1927-1991 |
| Idrisi, al- (Moroccan-born Arab geographer, cartographer) |
1100-1165 |
| Iffland, August Wilhelm (German actor, director, dramatist) |
1759-1814 |
| Ignarro, Louis Joseph (American pharmacologist) |
b.1941 |
| Ignatius, Saint Theophorus (bishop of Antioch, church father) |
d.c. AD 110 |
| Ignatius of Constantinople, Saint (Byzantine prelate) |
c.799-877 |
| Ignatius of Loyola (Spanish religious; fd. Society of Jesus) |
1491-1556 |
| Ignatow, David (American poet, editor, teacher) |
1914-1997 |
| Ihara (or Ibara) Saikaku (Japanese poet, writer) |
1642-1693 |
| Ihimaera, Witi Tame (New Zealand-Maori writer, scholar) |
b.1944 |
| I-hsin (Prince Kung; Chinese statesman) |
1833-1898 |
| Iio Sogi (Japanese poet, Buddhist monk) |
1421-1502 |
| Ike Taiga (aka Ikeno Taiga; Japanese painter) |
1723-1776 |
| Ikeda, Hayato (Japanese politician; prime minister 1960-1964) |
1899-1965 |
| Iles, George (American educator, philanthropist) |
1852-1942 |
| Iliescu, Ion (Romanian politician; pres. 1989-1996, 2000-2004) |
b.1930 |
| Illich, Ivan (Viennese-born philosopher, theologian) |
1926-2002 |
| Illyes, Gyula (Hungarian poet, writer, dramatist, dissident) |
1902-1983 |
| Ilyushin, Sergey Vladimirovich (Russian aircraft designer) |
1894-1977 |
| Imam Bondjol, Tuanku (Indonesian religious leader) |
1772-1864 |
| Imamura, Shohei (Japanese film director, producer) |
1926-2006 |
| Imber, Naphtali Herz (Polish-born Hebrew scholar, poet) |
1856-1909 |
| Inbert, Barthelemy (French writer) |
1747-1790 |
| Imbrie, Andrew Walsh (American composer, teacher) |
1921-2007 |
| Imbrie, John (American paleoceanographer, academic) |
b.1925 |
| Imhotep (Imouthes; Egyptian physician, sage) |
27th cent. BC |
| Immanuel ben Solomon (Hebrew poet) |
c.1260-c.1328 |
| Immelmann, Max (German aviator, combat pilot) |
1890-1916 |
| Immermann, Karl Leberecht (German poet, dramatist, writer) |
1796-1840 |
| Imru' al-Qays (Imru' al-Qays ibn Hujr; Arab poet) |
d.c.550 |
| Ince, Thomas Harper (American film director, producer) |
1882-1924 |
| Inchbald, Elizabeth née Simpson (English actor, writer) |
1753-1821 |
| Indiana, Robert (born Robert Clark; American artist) |
b.1928 |
| Indy, Paul-Marie-Theodore-Vincent d' (French composer) |
1851-1931 |
| Infeld, Leopold (Polish physicist) |
1898-1968 |
| Ingalls, Albert G. (American amateur astronomer) |
1888-1958 |
| Ingamells, Reginald Charles "Rex" (Australian poet) |
1913-1955 |
| Inge, William Motter (American playwright) |
1913-1973 |
| Inge, William Ralph (English writer, Anglican prelate) |
1860-1954 |
| Ingegneri (or Ingegnieri), Marc'Antonio (Italian composer) |
c.1547-1592 |
| Ingelow, Jean (English writer) |
1820-1897 |
| Ingemann, Bernhard Severin (Danish poet, writer) |
1789-1862 |
| Ingenhousz, Jan (Dutch physician, plant physiologist) |
1730-1799 |
| Ingersoll, Ebon Clark (American politician, lawyer) |
1831-1879 |
| Ingersoll, Robert Green (American lawyer, orator) |
1833-1899 |
| Ingersoll, Robert Hawley (American industrialist) |
1859-1928 |
| Ingleby, Clement Mansfield (English philosopher, critic) |
1823-1886 |
| Inglis, Brian (Irish-born British journalist, writer) |
1916-1993 |
| Ingraham, Joseph Holt (American clergyman, writer) |
1809-1860 |
| Ingram, Herbert (English publisher) |
1811-1860 |
| Ingram, John Kells (Irish-born British scholar, writer) |
1823-1907 |
| Ingram, Vernon Martin (German-born American chemist) |
1924-2006 |
| Ingrassia, Francesco "Ciccio" (Italian comedian, actor) |
1923-2003 |
| Ingrassia, Giovanni Filippo (Sicilian anatomist, physician) |
c.1510-1580 |
| Ingres, Jean-Auguste-Dominique (French painter) |
1780-1867 |
| Inman, Henry (American painter) |
1801-1846 |
| Innes, Cosmo (Scottish antiquary) |
1798-1874 |
| Innes, Neil James (English writer, musician) |
b.1944 |
| Inness, George (American painter; father of George) |
1825-1894 |
| Inness, George (French-born American painter; son of George) |
1854-1926 |
| Inonu, Mustafa Ismet (Turkish soldier, politician) |
1884-1973 |
| Inoue Enryo (Japanese philosopher, educator) |
1859-1919 |
| Inoue Kaoru (born Monta Shido; Japanese politician) |
1835-1915 |
| Inoue Tetsujiro (Japanese philosopher) |
1855-1944 |
| Inoue Yasushi (Japanese writer, editor) |
1907-1991 |
| Insull, Samuel (English-born American utilities executive) |
1859-1938 |
| Inukai Tsuyoshi (Japanese journalist, politician) |
1855-1932 |
| Ionesco, Eugene (Romanian-born French Absurdist dramatist) |
1912-1994 |
| Iorga, Nicolae (Romanian historian, politician) |
1871-1940 |
| Ipatieff, Vladimir Nikolayevich (Russian-born American chemist) |
1867-1952 |
| Ippitsusai Buncho (Japanese artist) |
d.1791 |
| Ippolitov-Ivanov, Mikhail Mikhaylovich (Russian composer) |
1859-1935 |
| Ipsen, Bodil Louise Jensen (Danish actor, director) |
1889-1964 |
| Iqbal, Sir Muhammad (Indian poet, philosopher) |
1877-1938 |
| 'Iraqi (Fakhr ad-Din Ibrahim 'Iraqi Hamadani; Persian poet) |
c.1211-1289 |
| Iredell, James (English-born Am. Supreme Court justice 1790-99) |
1751-1799 |
| Ireland, David (Australian writer, playwright) |
b.1927 |
| Ireland, John (aka Johannes de Irlandia; Scottish writer) |
c.1435-c.1500 |
| Ireland, John (Irish-born American prelate) |
1838-1918 |
| Ireland, John Nicholson (English composer) |
1879-1962 |
| Ireland, William Henry (English dramatist, forger) |
1777-1835 |
| Ireton, Henry (English soldier, politician) |
1611-1651 |
| Iriarte, Tomas de (Spanish poet) |
1750-1791 |
| Irigaray, Luce (French psychoanalyst, theorist) |
b.1939 |
| Irigoyen, Hipolito (Argentinean president 1916-1922, 1928-1930) |
1852-1933 |
| Ironside, William Edmund (Scottish-born British field marshal) |
1880-1959 |
| Irving, Edward (Scottish clergyman) |
1792-1834 |
| Irving, Sir Henry (born John Henry Brodribb; English actor) |
1838-1905 |
| Irving, Henry Brodribb (English actor, theater manager) |
1870-1919 |
| Irving, John Winslow (American writer, essayist) |
b.1942 |
| Irving, Lawrence Sidney (English actor, theater manager) |
1871-1914 |
| Irving, Washington (American essayist, biographer, historian) |
1783-1859 |
| Irvis, Kirkland Leroy (Am. civil rights activist, politician) |
1919-2006 |
| Irwin, May (born Ada Campbell; Canadian-born American actor) |
1862-1938 |
| Irwin, Robert (American painter, installation artist) |
b.1928 |
| Irwin, William Mills "Bill" (American writer, actor, clown) |
b.1950 |
| Irwin, William Henry "Will" (American journalist, writer) |
1873-1948 |
| Irzykowski, Karol (Polish writer, literary critic) |
1873-1944 |
| Isaac the Great, Saint (Armenian prelate) |
c.345-439 |
| Isaac of Antioch (Isaac the Great; Syrian writer) |
d.c.460 |
| Isaac of Nineveh (Isaac the Syrian; Syrian prelate) |
d.c.700 |
| Isaac of Stella (English religious, philosopher) |
c.1100-c.1169 |
| Isaac ben Joseph of Corbeil (aka Semak; Fr. religious writer) |
d.1280 |
| Isaac ben Moses of Vienna (aka Isaac Or Zaru'a; Ger. Talmudist) |
c.1180-c.1250 |
| Isaac ben Sheshet Perfet (aka Ribash; Spanish Talmudist) |
1326-1408 |
| Isaac, Heinrich (aka Heinrich Isaak; Flemish composer) |
c.1450-1517 |
| Isaacs, Sir Isaac Alfred (Australian jurist, statesman) |
1855-1948 |
| Isaacs, Jorge (Colombian writer, poet) |
1837-1895 |
| Isaacs, Rufus Daniel (British politician) |
1860-1935 |
| Isabey, Jean-Baptiste (French miniaturist) |
1767-1855 |
| Isabey, Eugene-Louis-Gabriel (French painter; son of Jean) |
1804-1886 |
| Isaeus (Athenian orator, rhetorician) |
c.420-c.350 BC |
| Isagoras (Athenian politician) |
6th cent. BC |
| Isaiah (or Isaias; Hebrew prophet) |
8th cent. BC |
| Isherwood, Benjamin Franklin (American naval engineer) |
1822-1915 |
| Isherwood, Christopher William Bradshaw (Brit.-born Am. writer) |
1904-1986 |
| Ishida Baigan (Japanese scholar) |
1685-1744 |
| Ishida Mitsunari (Japanese warrior) |
1563-1600 |
| Ishiguro, Kazuo (Japanese-born English writer) |
b.1954 |
| Ishii Kikujiro (Japanese diplomat) |
1866-1945 |
| Ishii, Baku (Japanese choreographer, dancer) |
1886-1962 |
| Ishii, Maki (Japanese composer, conductor) |
1936-2003 |
| Ishikawa Takuboku (born Ishikawa Hajime; Japanese poet) |
1885-1912 |
| Ishmael ben Elisha (Jewish teacher of Galilee) |
2nd cent. AD |
| Isidore of Kiev (Greek prelate) |
c.1385-1463 |
| Isidore of Seville, Saint (Spanish prelate, scholar) |
c.560-636 |
| Isidorus of Miletus (Byzantine architect) |
6th cent. AD |
| Iskander, Fazil Abdulovich (Abkhazian writer, poet) |
b.1929 |
| Isla de la Torre y Rojo, Jose Francisco de (Spanish satirist) |
1703-1781 |
| Islip, Simon (English archbishop of Canterbury 1349-1366) |
d.1366 |
| Ismail Pasha (Viceroy of Egypt 1863-1879; son of Ibrahim Pasha) |
1830-1895 |
| Isocrates (Athenian orator, rhetorician) |
436-338 BC |
| Isou, Isidore (Rom.-born Fr. poet, film critic, visual artist) |
1925-2007 |
| Isouard, Nicolas (Nicolo de Malte; Maltese-born Fr. composer) |
1775-1818 |
| Israel ben Eliezer (Ukrainian-born Polish Jewish religious) |
c.1700-1760 |
| Israeli, Isaac ben Solomon (Jewish physician, philosopher) |
832/855-932/955 |
| Israels, Jozef (Dutch painter) |
1824-1911 |
| Issa, Kobayashi (Japanese poet, writer) |
1763-1827 |
| Itagaki Taisuke (Japanese politician) |
1837-1919 |
| Itard, Jean-Marc-Gaspard (French physician) |
1775-1838 |
| Itaya Hazan (Japanese potter) |
1872-1963 |
| Ito, Joichi "Joi" (Japanese activist, entrepreneur) |
b.1966 |
| Ito Hirobumi (Japanese statesman) |
1841-1909 |
| Ito Jakuchu (orig Shunkyo; Japanese painter) |
1716-1800 |
| Ito Jinsai (Japanese scholar, educator) |
1627-1705 |
| Ito Kiyoshi (Japanese mathematician, educator) |
1915-2008 |
| Iturbi, Jose (Spanish pianist, conductor) |
1895-1980 |
| Iturbide, Agustin de (Mexican soldier; emperor 1822-1823) |
1783-1824 |
| Ivanov, Lev Ivanovich (Russian dancer, choreographer) |
1834-1901 |
| Ivanov, Vsevolod Vyacheslavovich (Russian writer) |
1895-1963 |
| Ivanov, Vyacheslav Ivanovich (Russian poet, philosopher) |
1866-1949 |
| Ivanovich, Georgy (pseudonym Gaito Gazdanov; Russian writer) |
1903-1971 |
| Ivanovs, Janis (Latvian composer) |
1906-1983 |
| Ivanov-Vano, Ivan Pyetrovich (Russian animator, director) |
1900-1987 |
| Iverson, Kenneth Eugene (Canadian computer scientist; dev. APL) |
1920-2004 |
| Ives, Charles Edward (American composer) |
1874-1954 |
| Ives, Frederic Eugene (American inventor) |
1856-1937 |
| Ives, James Merritt (American lithographer w/N. Currier) |
1824-1895 |
| Ivins, Mary Tyler "Molly" (American newspaper columnist) |
1944-2007 |
| Iwakura Tomomi (orig. surname Yasuchika; Japanese politician) |
1825-1883 |
| Iwao Takamoto (Am. animator, television producer, director) |
1925-2007 |
| Iwasa Matahei (orig. surname Araki; Japanese painter) |
1578-1650 |
| Iwasaki, Yataro (Japanese financier, industrialist) |
1834-1885 |
| Iwasaki, Yanosuke (Japanese businessman; brother of Yataro) |
1851-1908 |
| Iwaszkiewicz, Jaroslaw (Polish poet, writer, essayist) |
1894-1980 |
| Iwerks, Ubbe Ert née Iwwerks "Ub" (Am. animator, cartoonist) |
1901-1971 |
| Ixtlilxochitl (Aztec leader) |
c.1500-1550 |
| Izard, Ralph (American Revolutionary leader) |
1742-1804 |
| Izumi, Kyoka (born Izumi Kyotaro; Japanese writer) |
1873-1939 |
| Izvolsky, Aleksandr Petrovich (Russian diplomat) |
1856-1919 |