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Igor Leonidovich Kirillov is a prominent former news anchor for Central Television of the USSR, the main state broadcaster of the Soviet Union. He was an announcer for the 9:00pm CT USSR news program Vremya.

Igor Yurievich Savochkin is a Russian theater and film actor.

James Newell Osterberg Jr., better known as Iggy Pop, is an American musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, and actor. Designated the "Godfather of Punk", he was the vocalist and lyricist of influential proto-punk band The Stooges, who were formed in 1967 and have disbanded and reunited multiple times since.

Amethyst Amelia Kelly, known by her stage name Iggy Azalea, is an Australian rapper, songwriter and former model. At the age of 16, Azalea moved to the United States from Sydney, Australia, to pursue a career in music. Azalea earned public recognition after releasing the music videos for her songs "Pussy" and "Two Times" on YouTube, both of which gained rapid popularity. Azalea signed a recording contract with American rapper T.I.'s label Grand Hustle shortly afterward and released her debut mixtape, Ignorant Art (2011).

Igor Vasilyevich Gamula is a Ukrainian-born Russian professional football coach and a former player. He works as a scout for FC Rostov. He made his debut in the Soviet Top League in 1978 for FC Zorya Voroshylovhrad. Gamula has Ukrainian and Russian citizenship.

Igor Vladimirovich Talkov, was a Soviet Russian rock singer-songwriter and film actor. His breakthrough came in 1987 with the David Tukhmanov-composed song "Chistye prudy" which was an instant hit. Talkov's lyrics are mostly about love, but also contain social critic of the Soviet regime. He was shot dead in 1991.

Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis was a Hungarian physician and scientist, now known as an early pioneer of antiseptic procedures. Described as the "saviour of mothers", Semmelweis discovered that the incidence of puerperal fever could be drastically cut by the use of hand disinfection in obstetrical clinics. Puerperal fever was common in mid-19th-century hospitals and often fatal. Semmelweis proposed the practice of washing hands with chlorinated lime solutions in 1847 while working in Vienna General Hospital's First Obstetrical Clinic, where doctors' wards had three times the mortality of midwives' wards. He published a book of his findings in Etiology, Concept and Prophylaxis of Childbed Fever.

Iga Świątek is a Polish professional tennis player. She has a career-high Women's Tennis Association (WTA) ranking of No. 17 in the world, and is the highest-ranked teenager in women's singles. She was the champion at the 2020 French Open and is the first Polish player to win a Grand Slam singles title in history. With her French Open title, she also became the youngest singles champion at the tournament since Rafael Nadal in 2005, and the youngest women's singles champion since Monica Seles in 1992.

Igor Vladimirovich Akinfeev is a Russian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for and captains CSKA Moscow.

Igor Petrovich Petrenko is a Russian actor of cinema and theater. In 2002 President of Russia, Vladimir Putin gave him The State prize of Russia.

Igor Yakovlevich Krutoy or Ihor Yakovych Krutyi, is a Ukrainian and Russian music composer, performer, producer and musical promoter. Krutoy was awarded the Lenin Komsomol Prize in 1989. He is also "Honoured Artist of the Russian Federation", People's Artist of Russia and People's Artist of Ukraine.

Igor Yuriyevich Nikulin was a hammer thrower who represented the USSR, the Unified Team, and later Russia. He won the bronze medal at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona, Spain.

Ignazio Cassis is a Swiss physician and politician serving as a Member of the Swiss Federal Council since 2017.

Igor Yuryevich Nikolayev is a Russian composer, singer and song-writer.

Igor Fyodorovich Maslennikov is a Soviet and Russian film director.

Ignacio Anaya García was a Mexican executive chef and restaurateur, who invented the popular snack nachos.

Ignacio José de Allende y Unzaga, born Ignacio Allende y Unzaga, was a captain of the Spanish Army in Mexico who came to sympathize with the Mexican independence movement. He attended the secret meetings organized by Josefa Ortiz de Domínguez, where the possibility of an independent New Spain was discussed. He fought along with Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla in the first stage of the struggle, eventually succeeding him in leadership of the rebellion. Allende was captured by Spanish colonial authorities while he was in Coahuila and executed for treason in Chihuahua.

Igor Butman PAR is a Russian jazz saxophonist born in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1961. Butman holds dual citizenship for both the US and Russian Federation. He is considered to be a virtuoso saxophonist, and a skilled bandleader.

Igor Emilievich Vernik is a Soviet and Russian film and theater actor, producer, television and radio host.

Igor Vladimirovich Rybakov is a meta-entrepreneur who co-owns the Technonikol industrial corporation and the Prytek technology corporation. He has appeared on Forbes 2019 list of the world's wealthiest people with a net worth of $1.1 billion. He is an author, actor, showman, singer, and producer. His motto is: “What we dwell on is who we become.” Rybakov is a philanthropist that focuses on education. Forbes calls the Rybakov Prize, established by Rybakov and his wife, Ekaterina Rybakov, the “Nobel Prize in Education”. Igor and Ekaterina Rybakov's main focus and passion has been the improvement of education in Russia and around the world. To coordinate their efforts and advance in this area, they founded the non-profit Rybakov Family Foundation in 2015.

Igor Levit is a Russian-German pianist who focuses on the works of Bach, Beethoven, and Liszt. He is also a professor at the Musikhochschule Hannover.

Marcos Ignacio "Nacho" Ambríz Espinoza is a Mexican former professional footballer and current manager of Liga MX club León.

Igor Vladimirovich Sorin, was a Russian poet, musician and artist. He was part of the Russian boy band Ivanushki International, which he left in 1998, striving for a solo career. He died in September 1998 when he committed suicide by jumping out of his high-rise apartment building, dying three days later.

Igor Ivanovich Sechin is a Russian oligarch and a government official, considered a close ally and "de facto deputy" of Vladimir Putin. Sechin is often described as one of Putin's most conservative counselors and the leader of the Kremlin's Siloviki faction, a lobby gathering former security services agents. Until 21 May 2012, he served as Deputy Prime Minister of Russia in Vladimir Putin's cabinet, and he is currently the Chief Executive Officer, President and Chairman of the Management Board of Rosneft, the Russian state oil company. His nickname is Darth Vader.

Igor Yevgenyevich Livanov is a Soviet and Russian film and theater actor. Meritorious Artist of the Russian Federation (2004). Younger brother of actor Aristarkh Livanov.

José Ignacio Mariano Santiago Joaquín Francisco de la Torre y Mier was a Mexican businessman, politician and owner of an hacienda, the son-in-law of Porfirio Díaz, then president of Mexico, married to his eldest daughter, Amada Díaz. His nickname was "El Yerno de su Suegro".

Charles Ignatius Sancho was a British abolitionist, writer and composer. Born on a slave ship in the Atlantic, Sancho was sold into slavery in the Spanish colony of New Grenada. After his parents died, Sancho's owner took the two-year-old orphan to England and gifted him to three Greenwich sisters, where he remained their slave for eighteen years. Unable to bear being a servant to them, Sancho ran away to the Montagu House, whose owner had taught him how to read and encouraged Sancho's budding interest in literature. After spending some time as a servant in the household, Sancho left and started his own business as a shopkeeper, while also starting to write and publish various essays, plays and books.

Ignacio López Tarso is a Mexican actor of stage, film and television. He has acted in about 50 films and appeared in documentaries and in one short feature. In 1973 he was given the Ariel Award for Best Actor for Rosa Blanca, and the Ariel de Oro lifetime achievement award in 2007. He has also been honored multiple times at the TVyNovelas Awards.

Ignatius of Loyola, venerated as Saint Ignatius of Loyola, was a Spanish Basque Catholic priest and theologian, who together with Peter Faber and Francis Xavier founded the religious order called the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) and became its first Superior General at Paris in 1541. The Jesuit order is dedicated to teaching and missionary work. Its members are bound by a special (fourth) vow of obedience to the sovereign pontiff to be ready to fulfil special papal missions. The society played an important role during the Counter-Reformation.

Igor the Old was a Varangian ruler of Kievan Rus' from 912 to 945.