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Ida Lupino

Ida Lupino (1914–1995) was a London-born actress who became a Warner Bros star, then one of the few women directing in 1950s Hollywood, running The Filmakers.

Ida M. Martinson

Ida M. Martinson is an American nurse scientist known for founding research on home care for children dying of cancer and for cross-cultural studies of family caregiving in China.

Ida M. Onorato

Ida M. Onorato is an American physician-epidemiologist at the CDC's Division of Tuberculosis Elimination in Atlanta, known for 1990s research on tuberculosis among foreign-born persons.

Ida Noddack

Ida Noddack, born Ida Eva Tacke, was a German chemist who co-discovered the element rhenium in 1925 and, in 1934, became the first to propose nuclear fission.

Ida Panahandeh

Ida Panahandeh (آیدا پناهنده) is an Iranian film director and screenwriter, born in Tehran in 1979, best known for her debut feature Nahid, which shared a prize at Cannes in 2015.

Ida Saxton McKinley

Ida Saxton McKinley (1847–1907), first lady of the United States 1897–1901, wife of 25th president William McKinley; Canton, Ohio banker's daughter, concealed epilepsy, supported suffrage, first sitting first lady to visit a foreign country.

Ida Sim

Ida Sim is an American physician and medical informatics researcher at UCSF, a co-founder of Vivli who was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2022.

Ida Spruill

Ida J. Spruill was an American nurse-scientist at the Medical University of South Carolina who led genetic and health-disparities research with the Gullah people of the Sea Islands.

Ida Straus

Rosalie Ida Straus (née Blun, 1849–1912), wife of Macy's co-owner Isidor Straus, died on the Titanic after refusing Lifeboat 8 to stay with her husband; her body was never recovered.

Ida Tarbell

Ida Minerva Tarbell (1857–1944), American investigative journalist and Lincoln biographer, wrote The History of the Standard Oil Company (1904), whose exposé of Rockefeller helped lead to the 1911 breakup of the oil trust.

Ida Zetterström

Ida Zetterström, Swedish drag racer based on the Aland Islands, 2023 FIA European Top Fuel champion; NHRA Top Fuel driver since 2024 with JCM Racing and Shawn Reed Racing, holding the European ET record of 3.773 seconds.

IDACORP

IDACORP is a Boise, Idaho-based holding company formed in 1998 whose principal subsidiary is Idaho Power, a regulated utility serving southern Idaho and eastern Oregon.

Idaddu (king of Shimashki)

Idaddu, also Idattu or Indattu, is the name of several related rulers of the Shimashki dynasty of Elam, who reigned at Susa in the late 21st and 20th centuries BC.

Idaeovirus

Idaeovirus is a genus of pollen-transmitted, bipartite ssRNA(+) plant viruses in family Mayoviridae, order Martellivirales; type species raspberry bushy dwarf virus (Idaeovirus rubi), 33 nm isometric virions, associated with crumbly fruit of raspberry.

Idaeus Fossae

Idaeus Fossae, a 235-km fossa (trough) system on Mars at about 37°N, 308°E near Tharsis, an IAU-approved classical albedo name (2006) with ancient dam-breach paleolakes and a butterfly impact crater.

Idah

Idah is a town on the eastern bank of the Niger River in Kogi State, Nigeria, and the traditional capital of the Igala Kingdom, seat of the Attah Igala.

Idaho

Idaho, northwestern US state (216,630 km2), capital Boise; over 61% federal land, Snake River Plain formed by Yellowstone hotspot, nearly one-third of US potatoes, 43rd state (1890), warming climate with declining snowpack.

Idaho Chemical Processing Plant

The Idaho Chemical Processing Plant was a Department of Energy facility at the Idaho National Laboratory that recovered uranium from spent reactor fuel from 1952 until its 1998 renaming.

Idaho Democratic Party

Idaho Democratic Party (IDP), state affiliate of the Democratic Party in Boise; organized in 44 counties and 35 legislative districts; chaired by Lauren Necochea; ran candidates in all 35 districts in 2024 and backed independent Todd Achilles in 2026.

Idaho Falls, Idaho

Idaho Falls, Idaho: largest city of eastern Idaho on the Snake River, seat of the Idaho National Laboratory; near EBR-I, first reactor to generate electricity (1951); 2025 estimate 71,785.

Idaho National Laboratory

Idaho National Laboratory, a U.S. Department of Energy laboratory established in 1949 in southeast Idaho, is the nation's lead laboratory for nuclear energy research, operating the Advanced Test Reactor.

Idaho Steelheads

Idaho Steelheads, ECHL professional hockey team in Boise, Idaho, playing at Idaho Central Arena in the Western Conference Mountain Division. Dallas Stars affiliate since 2005-06; Kelly Cup champions in 2004 and 2007, with record 58-win 2022-23 season.

Idaho Technology

Idaho Technology, Inc. was a biotechnology company founded in 1990 in Idaho Falls, Idaho, by Kirk Ririe and Carl Wittwer to commercialize rapid-cycle PCR, later renamed BioFire Diagnostics.

Idaho Transportation Department

The Idaho Transportation Department (ITD), headquartered in Boise, is the state agency responsible for Idaho's highways, bridges, aeronautics, and motor vehicle services since its creation in 1974.

Idaho Vandals football

Idaho Vandals football: University of Idaho's program since 1893, Big Sky/FCS since 2018 after leaving FBS in 2017, home in the 16,000-seat indoor Kibbie Dome, Potato Bowl winners 1998, 2009, 2016.

Idalberto Aranda

Idalberto Aranda (Idalberto Aranda Quintero, born 1975, Santiago de Cuba) is a Cuban weightlifter, two-time Olympian (1996, 2000), two-time Pan-American Games gold medalist, and 1999 77 kg clean & jerk world record holder at 205.5 kg.

Idalion

Idalion was an ancient city-kingdom of Cyprus, near modern Dali, that flourished from the 12th century BC until its conquest by Kition and dissolution by Ptolemy in 313 BC.

Idalion bilingual

The Idalion bilingual is a limestone statuette base from Idalion, Cyprus, inscribed in Phoenician and Greek, which served as the key to deciphering the Cypriot syllabary in 1871.

Idalion Temple inscriptions

The Idalion Temple inscriptions are Phoenician dedicatory texts from the royal sanctuary of Reshef-Mikal, equated with Apollo, at Idalion, Cyprus, dedicated by King Milkyaton of Kition in the early 4th century BC.

Idalmis Gato

Idalmis Gato (Idalmis Gato Moya), Cuban volleyball player born 1971 in Camagüey; won Olympic gold with Cuba at Barcelona 1992 and Atlanta 1996 (Sydney 2000 status disputed), plus 1994 world title.