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Ian McKellen
Sir Ian McKellen (born 25 May 1939, Burnley) is an English actor, knighted in 1991, known for Shakespearean stage roles, Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings, Magneto in X-Men, two Oscar nominations, a Tony, six Olivier Awards, and co-founding Stonewall UK.
Ian McLagan
Ian 'Mac' McLagan (1945-2014), English rock keyboardist of the Small Faces and Faces, later a session player for the Rolling Stones, Dylan, and Springsteen; Austin-based Bump Band leader, Ivor Novello winner, 2012 Rock Hall inductee.
Ian McNeice
Ian McNeice (born 1950, Basingstoke) is an English character actor, RSC-trained, known as Baron Harkonnen in the Dune miniseries, Bert Large in Doc Martin, the Rome Newsreader, and Doctor Who's Winston Churchill.
Ian McShane
Ian McShane (born 1942, Blackburn, England) is a British actor famous for Lovejoy, Al Swearengen in HBO's Deadwood (Golden Globe winner), Mr. Wednesday in American Gods, and Winston in the John Wick films.
Ian Morison
Ian Morison (1943–2024) was a British radio astronomer at the University of Manchester's Jodrell Bank Observatory who helped develop the MERLIN array and served as the 35th Gresham Professor of Astronomy from 2007 to 2011.
Ian Mune
Sir Ian Barry Mune (born 1941) is a New Zealand actor, screenwriter, and director, OBE and 2024 KNZM, known for co-writing Sleeping Dogs and Goodbye Pork Pie and directing Came a Hot Friday and What Becomes of the Broken Hearted?.
Ian Munsick
Ian Munsick is an American country singer-songwriter from Sheridan, Wyoming, known for Western-themed country. Albums: Coyote Cry (2021), White Buffalo (2023), Eagle Feather (2025), The Mountain Goat (2026); over one billion streams.
Ian Murdock
Ian Murdock (Ian Ashley Murdock) was an American software engineer who founded the Debian Project, a non-commercial Linux distribution, in 1993 at Purdue University, leading it until 1996.
Ian Nelson (actor, born 1995)
Ian Nelson, full name Ian Michael Nelson, is an American actor born in 1995, known for The Hunger Games (2012) and his recurring role on Teen Wolf.
Ian Nepomniachtchi
Ian Nepomniachtchi ("Nepo"), Russian grandmaster born 1990 in Bryansk, two-time Candidates winner (2021, 2022) and World Championship challenger, losing to Carlsen 2021 and Ding Liren 2023; peak rating 2795.
Ian Ogilvy
Ian Ogilvy (born 1943, Woking, Surrey) is an English actor, playwright, and novelist, best known as Simon Templar in Return of the Saint (1978–1979), taking the role from Roger Moore; also author of the Measle Stubbs children's books.
Ian Ousley
Ian Ousley (born 2002, College Station, Texas) is an American actor and former Taekwondo competitor who plays Sokka in Netflix's live-action Avatar: The Last Airbender; earlier roles include 13 Reasons Why, Physical, and Big Shot, amid a 2022 heritage controversy.
Ian Paice
Ian Paice (born 1948) is the English drummer who has been Deep Purple's only drummer since 1968, known for the Fireball single-kick speed, big band swing feel, and stints with Whitesnake and Gary Moore.
Ian Paisley
Ian Paisley, Baron Bannside (1926–2014), was a Northern Irish Protestant minister who founded the Free Presbyterian Church and the DUP, and served as First Minister from 2007 to 2008.
Ian Parker (physiologist)
Ian Parker is a British-born scientist known for work on calcium signaling, especially the discovery of localized calcium release events called "puffs", and a professor emeritus at UC Irvine.
Ian Pavord
Ian Pavord is a British respiratory physician, Professor of Respiratory Medicine at Oxford, known for establishing eosinophilic airway inflammation as a treatable trait in asthma.
Ian Phillips (medical microbiologist)
Ian Phillips (born 10 April 1936) is a British medical microbiologist who studied antibiotic resistance at St Thomas' Hospital and delivered the 1997 Garrod Lecture.
Ian Poulter
Ian Poulter is an English professional golfer, born 1976, with 12 European Tour and 3 PGA Tour wins, known for his Ryder Cup match-play record and LIV Golf.
Ian Poveda
Ian Carlo Poveda-Ocampo, London-born Colombian winger (born 2000), ex-Barcelona and Manchester City academy, Leeds United, Sunderland, now Atlético Nacional; Colombia international, formerly England youth.
Ian Puleston-Davies
Ian Puleston-Davies (born 1958, Flint, Wales) is a Welsh actor, writer, and director, known as Owen Armstrong in Coronation Street (2010–2015), co-writer of Dirty Filthy Love, and director of Bolan's Shoes.
Ian R. Mackenzie
Ian R. Mackenzie is a Canadian neuropathologist, professor at the University of British Columbia, known for defining the TDP-43 protein pathology that links ALS and frontotemporal dementia.
Ian R. MacLachlan
Ian R. MacLachlan (Ian Robertson MacLachlan) is a Canadian economic geographer, born in Montréal, best known for his 2001 book Kill and Chill on Canada's beef commodity chain.
Ian R. Petersen
Ian R. Petersen (born 1956) is an Australian control engineer known for robust control theory and quantum control, a professor at the Australian National University since 2017.
Ian R. Reid
Ian R. Reid is a New Zealand endocrinologist and Distinguished Professor of Medicine at the University of Auckland, known for research on osteoporosis, vitamin D, and bisphosphonates.
Ian R. Sanders
Ian R. Sanders is a biologist and full professor at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, known for showing that mycorrhizal fungi exchange genes and shape plant biodiversity and productivity.
Ian Rankin
Ian Rankin, Scottish crime writer and creator of Edinburgh detective Inspector John Rebus (first appearing in Knots & Crosses, 1987). Sold an estimated 17 million copies, translated into 22 languages, Gold Dagger 1997 for Black and Blue, OBE, Tartan Noir progenitor.
Ian Read Gibbons
Ian Read Gibbons (1931–2018) was an English-born biologist who discovered and named dynein, the motor protein that powers cilia and flagella, and shared the 2017 Shaw Prize.
Ian Reid (computer vision researcher)
Ian Reid is an Australian computer vision and robotics researcher, professor of computer vision and department chair at MBZUAI in Abu Dhabi, known for visual SLAM including MonoSLAM.
Ian Richardson
Ian Richardson (1934–2007), Scottish classical actor and founding Royal Shakespeare Company member, best known as Francis Urquhart in the BBC's House of Cards trilogy, winning a 1991 BAFTA; also Marat/Sade, Brazil, Dark City.
Ian Robertson, Lord Robertson
Ian Robertson, Lord Robertson (1912–2005), Scottish Senator of the College of Justice 1966–87, knighted 1976, WWII Royal Scots captain, presided over the 1974 Jessie McTavish murder trial whose conviction was overturned.