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IGN

IGN, whose name once stood for Imagine Games Network, is a U.S.-based video game and entertainment website founded in 1996 and owned by Ziff Davis since 2013.

Ignác Batthyány

Ignác Batthyány (Hungarian: Batthyány Ignác, 1741–1798) was a Hungarian count and Roman Catholic bishop of Transylvania from 1780, best known as founder of the Batthyaneum library and observatory in Gyulafehérvár.

Ignác Martinovics

Ignác Martinovics (Martinovics Ignác, 1755–1795) was a Hungarian philosopher, former Franciscan friar, and police informant who led the Hungarian Jacobin movement of 1794–1795 and was beheaded in Buda.

Ignace Bourget

Ignace Bourget was the second Roman Catholic bishop of Montreal from 1840 to 1876, who led the ultramontanes, built the diocese's schools and hospitals, and fought the Institut Canadien.

Ignace Vergote

Ignace Vergote is a Belgian gynecologic oncologist at KU Leuven who led the EORTC 55971 ovarian cancer trial and the innovaTV 301 trial of tisotumab vedotin in cervical cancer.

Ignacia Allamand

María Ignacia Allamand Lyon, Chilean actress born 1981 in Santiago, daughter of politician Andrés Allamand. Known for Vivir con 10, the Qué pena trilogy, The Green Inferno, Knock Knock, and her acting career in Mexico City since 2017.

Ignacio Agramonte

Ignacio Agramonte (1841–1873) was a Cuban lawyer and major general who led the Camagüey insurgents in the Ten Years' War and coauthored the 1869 Guáimaro constitution.

Ignacio Aldecoa

Ignacio Aldecoa Isasi (1925–1969) was a Spanish writer of the postwar generación del 50, best known for his short stories and novels of social realism.

Ignacio Allende

Ignacio Allende, born in 1769 in San Miguel el Grande, New Spain, was co-leader and military commander of the 1810 Hidalgo uprising, executed in 1811.

Ignacio Bernal

Ignacio Bernal (1910–1992) was a Mexican archaeologist and student of Alfonso Caso who excavated much of Monte Albán, led the Teotihuacan project, directed the Museo Nacional de Antropología and INAH, and wrote on Olmec culture.

Ignacio Blanco Oil and Gas Field

Ignacio Blanco is a large natural gas field in the northern San Juan Basin, Colorado, where 1951 Fruitland coal-bed methane production was the basin's first.

Ignacio Coronel Villarreal

Ignacio "Nacho" Coronel Villarreal (1954–2010), Sinaloa Cartel leader and "King of Crystal" meth trafficker, killed by the Mexican army in Zapopan, Jalisco on 29 July 2010; his death spurred CJNG's rise.

Ignácio de Loyola Brandão

Ignácio de Loyola Brandão, born in 1936, is a Brazilian novelist and journalist known for the dystopian Zero and his resistance to censorship under the military dictatorship.

Ignacio de Veintemilla

Ignacio de Veintemilla, also spelled Veintimilla, was an Ecuadorian military officer and politician who ruled Ecuador from 1876, first as president, then as dictator, until his overthrow by the Restauración coalition in 1883.

Ignacio Diaz-Silverio

Ignacio Diaz-Silverio is an American actor from Tampa, Florida, known for starring as Rafa in Primo (2023) and for roles in A Good Person, Departing Seniors, Nimrods, and Zero Day.

Ignacio E. Grossmann

Ignacio E. Grossmann is a chemical engineer, the R. R. Dean University Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, known for mixed-integer optimization of chemical processes and energy systems.

Ignacio Manuel Altamirano

Ignacio Manuel Altamirano (1834–1893) was a Mexican writer, journalist, teacher, and liberal politician who defined the program of national literature in Mexico after the French Intervention and taught the writers who came of age after 1867.

Ignacio Melero

Ignacio Melero is a Spanish cancer immunologist, Professor of Immunology at the Universidad de Navarra, known for his research on the co-stimulatory molecule 4-1BB (CD137).

Ignacio Ortiz

Ignacio Horacio "Nano" Ortiz, Argentine field hockey midfielder (born 1987, Olivos), Banco Provincia club; won 2016 Rio Olympic gold with Los Leones, scoring in the 4-2 final win over Belgium, and played at Tokyo 2020.

Ignacio Ramírez

Ignacio Ramírez, known by the pseudonym El Nigromante, was a Mexican liberal writer, journalist, and politician who helped draft the Reform Laws separating church and state.

Ignacio Rodríguez Galván

Ignacio Rodríguez Galván was a Mexican poet, playwright, and editor widely regarded as Mexico's first Romantic writer; he died of yellow fever in Havana in 1842, aged 26.

Ignacio Rodríguez-Iturbe

Ignacio Rodríguez-Iturbe (1942–2022) was a Venezuelan-born hydrologist who founded ecohydrology, the study of hydrologic controls on the biota, and won the 2002 Stockholm Water Prize.

Ignacio Serricchio

Ignacio Serricchio (Ignacio Ariel Serricchio), Argentine-born actor born 1982 in Buenos Aires, known for Diego Alcazar on General Hospital, Alex Chavez on The Young and the Restless, Don West in Lost in Space, El Recluso, and mental health advocacy.

Ignacio Tinoco, Jr.

Ignacio Tinoco, Jr. (1930–2016) was an American chemist and biophysicist at the University of California, Berkeley, described as a founding father of molecular biophysics for pioneering RNA structure methods.

Ignacio Zaragoza

Ignacio Zaragoza was a Mexican general and Secretary of War under President Benito Juárez who defeated French forces at the Battle of Puebla in 1862.

Ignacy Daszyński

Ignacy Daszyński (1866–1936) was a Polish socialist politician who led the PPSD, served in the Austrian parliament, became prime minister of the first independent Polish government in Lublin in 1918, and later Marshal of the Sejm.

Ignacy Hryniewiecki

Ignacy Hryniewiecki (Grinevitsky, 1855/1856–1881), Polish-born Narodnaya Volya revolutionary who assassinated Tsar Alexander II with a bomb on 13 March 1881 in St. Petersburg, dying of his own blast; cited as possibly the first suicide bombing.

Ignacy Jan Paderewski

Ignacy Jan Paderewski (1860-1941), Polish virtuoso pianist, composer of Manru and the Polonia symphony, and statesman; Prime Minister of Poland 1919 and signatory of the Treaty of Versailles.

Ignacy Krasicki

Ignacy Krasicki (Ignatius Krasicki) was a Polish Enlightenment writer and Catholic prelate, Prince-Bishop of Warmia from 1766 to 1795 and Archbishop of Gniezno until his death in 1801.

Ignacy Liss

Ignacy Liss, full name Ignacy Jan Liss, is a Polish film, television, and theater actor, born in 1998, known for leading roles in Znachor (2023) and the series Proud (2026).