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Ian Gillan

Ian Gillan (born 1945, Hounslow, Middlesex) is an English hard rock singer, lead vocalist of Deep Purple (1969–73, 1984–89, 1992–present), frontman of the Gillan band, singer on Black Sabbath's Born Again, and the title voice of the original Jesus Christ Superstar recording.

Ian Gilmour, Baron Gilmour of Craigmillar

Ian Gilmour, Baron Gilmour of Craigmillar (1926-2007), British Conservative politician, Spectator editor-owner, Heath's defence secretary, Thatcher's lord privy seal sacked in 1981, and leading One Nation critic of Thatcherism.

Ian Gomez

Ian Gomez (born 1964, New York City) is an American comic character actor, a Second City alumnus, known for Javier on Felicity, Larry Almada on The Drew Carey Show, Andy Torres on Cougar Town, and My Big Fat Greek Wedding.

Ian Goodfellow

Ian Goodfellow (Ian J. Goodfellow) is an American machine learning researcher who invented the generative adversarial network (GAN) in 2014 and is lead author of the MIT Press textbook Deep Learning.

Ian Gow

Ian Reginald Edward Gow (1937–1990) was a British Conservative MP for Eastbourne, Margaret Thatcher's first Parliamentary Private Secretary (1979–1983) and a housing and Treasury minister who resigned in 1985 over the Anglo-Irish Agreement; the Provisional IRA murdered him with a car bomb in 1990.

Ian Greer (obstetrician)

Sir Ian Andrew Greer (born 1958) is a Scottish obstetrician, expert on thrombosis in pregnancy, and President and Vice-Chancellor of Queen's University Belfast since 2018; knighted in 2023.

Ian H. de Boer

Ian H. de Boer, also known as Ian de Boer, is an American nephrologist at the University of Washington who researches diabetic kidney disease and co-chaired the KDIGO 2022 guideline.

Ian H. Hutchinson

Ian H. Hutchinson is a plasma physicist and Professor Emeritus at MIT who led the Alcator C-Mod tokamak for fusion research and wrote the standard textbook Principles of Plasma Diagnostics.

Ian Hacking

Ian Hacking (1936–2023) was a Canadian philosopher of science who introduced dynamic nominalism, making up people, and the looping effect, and won the Holberg and Balzan prizes.

Ian Hallard

Ian Hallard (born 1974, Birmingham) is an English actor and writer, husband of Mark Gatiss; starred in The Boys in the Band, wrote and starred in Adventurous and The Way Old Friends Do.

Ian Hamilton Finlay

Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925–2006) was a Scottish poet and artist known for concrete poetry and for Little Sparta, his garden of inscribed poems in the Pentland Hills.

Ian Happ

Ian Happ (born 1994, Pittsburgh) is a switch-hitting Cubs left fielder, 2015 first-round pick from Cincinnati, 2022 NL All-Star, three-time Gold Glove winner (2022-24), 197 career home runs, free agent after 2026.

Ian Hart

Ian Hart (born 1964, Liverpool; birth name Ian Davies) is an English character actor, three-time John Lennon portrayer (The Hours and Times, Backbeat, Snodgrass), Professor Quirrell in Harry Potter, and star of Ken Loach's Land and Freedom and The Last Kingdom.

Ian Healy

Ian Healy (born 1964, Brisbane) is an Australian former cricketer, Test wicketkeeper 1988-1999; 119 Tests, 395 dismissals (then a world record), 4,356 runs at 27.39; succeeded by Adam Gilchrist; uncle of Alyssa Healy.

Ian Hecox

Ian Andrew Hecox, American comedian who co-founded the YouTube sketch channel Smosh with Anthony Padilla in 2005; led it through Alloy, Defy, and Mythical ownership and reacquired it in 2023.

Ian Heilbron

Sir Ian Morris Heilbron (1886–1959) was a Scottish organic chemist, a world authority on squalene who helped introduce DDT, contributed to penicillin chemistry, and won the Davy and Royal Medals.

Ian Hendry

Ian Hendry (Ian Mackendrick Hendry, 1931–1984), English actor, original star of The Avengers (1961) as Dr David Keel after Police Surgeon; films include Get Carter, Repulsion, The Hill; died Christmas Eve 1984.

Ian Hickie

Ian B. Hickie is an Australian psychiatrist and University of Sydney professor known for the clinical staging model for mood disorders and youth mental health services.

Ian Hill

Ian Hill, born 1952 in West Bromwich, is the founding bassist of Judas Priest, playing on all 19 studio albums from Rocka Rolla (1974) to Invincible Shield (2024). He retired on October 9, 2026 due to arthritis, replaced by Davey Rimmer.

Ian Hislop

Ian Hislop (born 1960, Swansea) is a British satirist, editor of Private Eye since 1986 (its third editor, succeeding Richard Ingrams), and team captain on every episode of Have I Got News For You since 1990.

Ian Holloway

Ian Scott Holloway, nicknamed "Ollie", is an English football manager and former midfielder, born in 1963, who won Premier League promotion with both Blackpool and Crystal Palace.

Ian Holm

Sir Ian Holm (1931–2020), English RSC star and film character actor; Ash in Alien, Oscar-nominated in Chariots of Fire, Tony winner for The Homecoming, Bilbo Baggins in The Lord of the Rings.

Ian Holt

Ian Holt is a mitochondrial DNA researcher and Ikerbasque Research Professor in Donostia, Spain, known for identifying the first genetic cause of a mitochondrial disease.

Ian Hunter (singer)

Ian Hunter, born in 1939 in Shrewsbury, England, is a singer, songwriter, and author. He led the glam rock band Mott the Hoople from 1969 to 1974.

Ian J. Deary

Ian J. Deary, born 1954, is a Scottish differential psychologist at the University of Edinburgh who founded the Lothian Birth Cohort studies and pioneered cognitive epidemiology, linking intelligence to health.

Ian J. MacRae

Ian J. MacRae is a structural biologist and professor at Scripps Research in La Jolla, California, known for the first crystal structure of human Argonaute2.

Ian J. Russell

Ian J. Russell is a neuroscientist and Fellow of the Royal Society who studied cochlear hair cells, hearing, and noise-induced hearing loss at the Universities of Sussex and Brighton.

Ian Jack

Ian Jack was a virologist and epidemiologist at the Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, known for studies establishing how cytomegalovirus is transmitted, including the 1972 report identifying CMV in human milk.

Ian Jacobs

Ian Jacobs, also known as Ian J. Jacobs, is a British gynaecological oncologist known for the UKCTOCS trial of ovarian cancer screening in over 200,000 women.

Ian James Corlett

Ian James Corlett (born 1962, Burnaby, British Columbia) is a Canadian voice actor, creator of Being Ian and Yvon of the Yukon, and the original English voice of Goku, Mega Man, Cheetor, and Marvel Rivals' Mr. Fantastic.