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Ian Carroll (software developer)

Ian Carroll is an American software developer and independent security researcher who founded the award-flight search engine Seats.aero and disclosed vulnerabilities affecting airlines, hotel locks, and McDonald's hiring chatbot.

Ian Chappell

Ian Chappell (born 1943, Unley) is an Australian former Test cricketer who captained Australia in 30 Tests, 1971-1975, without losing a series, joined World Series Cricket, and became a long-serving commentator.

Ian Charleson

Ian Charleson (1949–1990), Scottish stage and film actor known as Eric Liddell in Chariots of Fire and Rev. Charlie Andrews in Gandhi; acclaimed 1989 National Theatre Hamlet, died of AIDS at 40, namesake of the Ian Charleson Awards.

Ian Chesterton

Ian Chesterton, Doctor Who science teacher companion played by William Russell (also William Russell Enoch), First Doctor companion from An Unearthly Child (1963) to The Chase (1965), returned via Dalek time capsule, later Cambridge professor in lore.

Ian Chiu

Ian Chiu is a Managing Director at Owl Ventures, a Silicon Valley venture firm investing only in education technology, known for backing LingoAce, MasterClass, and Interplay Learning.

Ian Clark (basketball)

Ian Clark (born 1991, Memphis) is an American guard, Belmont's all-time scoring leader (1,920 points), 2013 Summer League MVP, and 2017 NBA champion with the Golden State Warriors.

Ian Coddington

Ian Coddington is a physicist at NIST in Boulder, Colorado, known as a pioneer of dual-comb spectroscopy, whose open-path laser instruments measure methane and other trace gases for emissions monitoring.

Ian Cordova

Ian Cordova is a Mexican corridos singer and songwriter from Jiquilpan, Michoacán, born in 2000, whose 2025 single "Linda Mujer" charted on Billboard's Hot Latin Songs.

Ian Crocker

Ian Crocker (Ian Lowell Crocker, born 1982, Portland, Maine), American butterfly swimmer; three Olympic golds in the 4x100m medley relay (2000, 2004, 2008), 100m butterfly world record holder 2003-2009, Texas Longhorn, ISHOF 2017. Not the distance runner or British director of the same name.

Ian Cunningham

Ian Cunningham (Ian Yates Cunningham) is an American football executive and former Virginia offensive lineman, named general manager of the Atlanta Falcons in January 2026.

Ian Curtis

Ian Curtis, also known as Ian Kevin Curtis, was the lead vocalist and principal lyricist for the band Joy Division. He was born in 1956 and died in 1980.

Ian D. Sharp

Ian D. Sharp is a materials scientist and semiconductor physicist who held the Chair for Experimental Semiconductor Physics at the Technical University of Munich from 2017 to 2024.

Ian Dell'Antonio

Ian Dell'Antonio is an observational astronomer and Professor of Physics at Brown University who uses weak gravitational lensing to map dark matter and study galaxy clusters.

Ian Dury

Ian Dury (Ian Robins Dury, 1942–2000), English singer-songwriter of Kilburn & the High Roads and Ian Dury and the Blockheads; hits "Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick" and "Reasons to Be Cheerful, Part 3"; polio survivor, UNICEF ambassador.

Ian E. Krop

Ian E. Krop is an American medical oncologist and breast cancer drug-development researcher who joined Yale Cancer Center in 2022 after 16 years at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

Ian Eagle

Ian Eagle, American sportscaster; lead CBS/TNT NCAA men's basketball voice since 2023, CBS NFL No. 2 crew with J.J. Watt, Brooklyn Nets YES voice since 1994, and Prime Video NBA announcer; father of broadcaster Noah Eagle.

Ian F. C. McKenzie

Ian F. C. McKenzie is an Australian physician-scientist and immunologist known for identifying the Galα(1,3)Gal antigen target of pig-to-human transplant rejection and for founding the Austin Research Institute.

Ian F. Pollack

Ian F. Pollack, also known as Ian Pollack, is a pediatric neurosurgeon at the University of Pittsburgh who led the Children's Oncology Group CNS Tumor Committee from 1999 to 2009.

Ian F. Tannock

Ian F. Tannock is a medical oncologist and Emeritus Professor at Princess Margaret Cancer Centre in Toronto who led trials making docetaxel standard for prostate cancer.

Ian Ferguson

Ian Ferguson (born 1952, Taumarunui), New Zealand sprint canoeist; four Olympic golds and one silver across five Games, including three golds at Los Angeles 1984; K2 partner Paul MacDonald.

Ian Fleming

Ian Fleming (1908–1964), English journalist and wartime naval intelligence officer, created James Bond in Casino Royale (1953) and wrote twelve Bond novels and two short-story collections at Goldeneye, Jamaica, plus Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

Ian Ford (biostatistician)

Ian Ford is a biostatistician at the University of Glasgow who designed and analyzed landmark clinical trials, including the WOSCOPS statin trial and the PIVOTAL iron trial.

Ian Frazer

Ian Frazer, born in Glasgow in 1953, is a British-Australian immunologist who, with Jian Zhou, developed the virus-like particle technology behind the HPV vaccines Gardasil and Cervarix.

Ian G. Macara

Ian G. Macara is a cell biologist who has chaired Cell and Developmental Biology at Vanderbilt since 2012, known for work on Par polarity proteins, spindle orientation, and cancer.

Ian G. Macdonald

Ian G. Macdonald, also known as Ian Grant Macdonald, was a British pure mathematician, born in 1928 and died in 2023, best known for the Macdonald polynomials.

Ian G. McKeith

Ian G. McKeith, also known as Ian McKeith, is a British old-age psychiatrist and Emeritus Professor at Newcastle University who established dementia with Lewy bodies as a distinct, diagnosable dementia.

Ian G. Stiell

Ian G. Stiell is a Canadian emergency medicine physician-scientist at the University of Ottawa known for developing the Ottawa Ankle Rules and the Canadian C-Spine Rule.

Ian Gallagher

Ian Gallagher is the third Gallagher sibling in Shameless, played by Gerard Kearns in the UK series (2004-2013) and Cameron Monaghan in the US remake (2011-2021), known for the Mickey Milkovich romance and bipolar storyline.

Ian Gauld Clark

Ian Gauld Clark is a systems engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Caltech specializing in planetary entry, descent, and landing, and led the Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator project.

Ian Gibbons (biochemist)

Ian Gibbons (1946-2013), British biochemist and Theranos chief scientist from 2005, led its chemistry group, clashed over Edison accuracy, and died by suicide in 2013 before a Fuisz patent deposition.