List of Famous people named Ira

Ira Harris was an American jurist and senator from New York. He was also a friend of Abraham Lincoln.

Ira Harry Morgan was an American cinematographer. He successfully transitioned from silent movies to sound films. He filmed famed animal-trainer Frank Buck’s film Tiger Fangs (1943).

Ira Allen was one of the founders of the U.S. state of Vermont and a leader of the Green Mountain Boys during the American colonial period. He was the younger brother of Ethan Allen.

Ira Oberberg is a former German film editor. Born in Moscow, the daughter of theatrical parents, she moved to Berlin at a young age. She was the half-sister of the cinematographer Igor Oberberg.

Ira Barnes Hyde was a Representative from Missouri. He was a Republican.

Ira Nathaniel Hinckley was an early Latter Day Saint leader who supervised the construction and maintenance of Cove Fort, along with his brother Arza Hinkley, a strategically placed fortification about halfway between Salt Lake City and St. George, Utah. He was the father of author Bryant S. Hinckley and LDS apostle Alonzo A. Hinckley, the grandfather of LDS church president Gordon B. Hinckley, and an acquaintance of Joseph Smith Jr.

Ira Wallach was an American screenwriter and novelist.