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Iah (queen)

Iah, whose name means "Moon", was an 11th Dynasty Egyptian queen of Thebes, wife of king Intef III and mother of Mentuhotep II, who reunited Egypt at the end of the First Intermediate Period.

IAI Eitan (איתן)

The IAI Eitan, also called Heron TP, is a large Israeli reconnaissance drone by Israel Aerospace Industries with over 30 hours of endurance, first flown in 2006.

IAI Harop

The IAI Harop, also marketed as Harpy 2, is an Israeli loitering munition built by Israel Aerospace Industries, derived from the Harpy and controlled by a human operator who can abort an attack.

IAI Heron

The IAI Heron (Machatz) is an Israeli medium-altitude long-endurance drone built by Israel Aerospace Industries for surveillance and reconnaissance, first flown in 1994 and operated by over 22 countries.

IAI Kfir

The IAI Kfir, also designated F-21, is an Israeli multirole fighter developed in the 1970s from the Dassault Mirage 5 airframe with an Israeli-built J79 engine.

IAI Lavi (לביא)

The IAI Lavi (לביא, "young lion") was a multirole jet fighter developed by Israel Aircraft Industries in the 1980s, canceled by Israel's cabinet in 1987.

IAI Nesher

The IAI Nesher was a fighter built in Israel in the early 1970s as a copy of the French Mirage 5, and it served in the Yom Kippur War.

IAI RoboCylinder

The IAI RoboCylinder (ロボシリンダ) is a family of programmable electric linear actuators made by Intelligent Actuator (IAI) of Japan, launched in 1999 as a replacement for pneumatic cylinders.

IAI RQ-5 Hunter

The IAI RQ-5 Hunter, also known as the MQ-5 Hunter, was a tactical unmanned aerial vehicle built by Israel Aircraft Industries with TRW for the US Army, serving from 1996 to 2015.

IAI Searcher

The IAI Searcher, in Hebrew חוגלה, is a family of tactical reconnaissance UAVs made by Israel Aerospace Industries' MALAT division, in Israeli service since 1992.

Iaiá Garcia

Iaiá Garcia is an 1878 novel by the Brazilian writer Machado de Assis, the last of his romantic-phase novels, set in Rio de Janeiro during the Paraguayan War.

Iaib

Iaib, also read Ibiaw, was a pharaoh of Egypt's Thirteenth Dynasty with the throne name Wahibre, known chiefly from the Turin King List and a scarab in Los Angeles.

Iaido (居合道)

Iaido (居合道, iai) is the Japanese art of drawing, cutting, and re-sheathing the sword in solo kata; standardized as 12 ZNKR forms, distinct from kendo and kenjutsu.

Iaijutsu (居合術)

Iaijutsu (居合術), also called battōjutsu, is the classical Japanese art of drawing the sword and cutting in one motion, founded by Hayashizaki Jinsuke Shigenobu; its modern successor is iaido under the All Japan Kendo Federation.

Iain Armitage

Iain Armitage (born 2008) is an American actor known as young Sheldon Cooper in CBS's Young Sheldon (2017–2024), formerly a child theater critic on YouTube and Ziggy in Big Little Lies.

Iain Banks

Iain Banks (Iain Menzies Banks, 1954–2013), Scottish novelist; literary fiction as Iain Banks, science fiction as Iain M. Banks; The Wasp Factory (1984) and the nine-novel Culture series; died 9 June 2013.

Iain Bonomy, Lord Bonomy

Iain Bonomy, Lord Bonomy (born 1946), Scottish judge: Senator of the College of Justice 1997-2004, ICTY judge 2004-2009, UN Mechanism judge since 2020, chaired the 2002 High Court review and the 2014 Post-Corroboration Safeguards Review.

Iain Boyd

Iain Boyd is an aerospace engineer at the University of Colorado Boulder who works on hypersonic flight and space propulsion, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2026.

Iain C. Macdougall

Iain C. Macdougall is a British nephrologist and Professor of Clinical Nephrology at King's College Hospital, London, known for renal anemia research and the 2018 PIVOTAL intravenous iron trial.

Iain Chalmers

Sir Iain Chalmers, born in 1943, is a British health services researcher who founded the Cochrane Collaboration and was knighted in 2000 for services to health care.

Iain D. Campbell

Iain D. Campbell (1941–2014) was a British biophysicist at Oxford who pioneered protein NMR spectroscopy in the UK and solved the first such protein structure there, epidermal growth factor, in 1987.

Iain D. Couzin

Iain D. Couzin is a biologist who studies how animal groups such as fish schools and locust swarms move and decide together, directing the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior in Konstanz.

Iain D. Johnston

Iain D. Johnston, born 1965, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Northern District of Illinois since 2020, appointed by President Donald Trump.

Iain Dale

Iain Dale (Iain Campbell Dale, born 1962) is a British LBC Evening Show presenter, political commentator, blogger and author who founded Biteback Publishing and Total Politics and stood for Parliament in 2005 and 2024.

Iain De Caestecker

Iain De Caestecker (born 1987) is a Scottish actor from Glasgow known for playing Leo Fitz on Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Arthur in The Winter King, and leads in The Fades and Lost River.

Iain Dowie

Iain Dowie (born 1965, Hatfield) is a football manager, Sky Sports pundit and former Northern Ireland striker with 59 caps and 12 goals; he managed Crystal Palace, Charlton, Coventry, QPR, Oldham and Hull, and coined "bouncebackability".

Iain Duncan Smith

Sir Iain Duncan Smith (George Iain Duncan Smith, born 1954, Edinburgh) is a British Conservative MP for Chingford and Woodford Green since 1992, party leader 2001–2003, and Work and Pensions Secretary 2010–2016 who drove Universal Credit.

Iain Finnie

Iain Finnie (1928–2009) was a professor of mechanical engineering at UC Berkeley, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1979 for work on erosion and brittle fracture.

Iain Glen

Iain Glen (born 1961, Edinburgh) is a Scottish stage and screen actor, RADA-trained Bancroft Gold Medal winner, known as Ser Jorah Mormont in Game of Thrones, Jack Taylor, and Dr. Isaacs in Resident Evil.

Iain Hume

Iain Hume (Iain Edward Hume, born 1983, Edinburgh) is a Canadian former forward; Tranmere Rovers' youngest-ever debutant, Leicester, Barnsley, Kerala Blasters ISL Best Player, 43 Canada caps 2003-2016.