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Ignacy Mościcki

Ignacy Mościcki (1867–1946), Polish chemist, inventor of nitric acid production from air, and President of the Second Polish Republic 1926–1939; died in Swiss exile, reburied in Warsaw 1993.

Ignacy Potocki

Ignacy Potocki (1750–1809) was a Polish magnate, statesman, and educational reformer who served as Grand Marshal of Lithuania and co-authored the Constitution of 3 May 1791, Europe's first modern constitution.

Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant

The Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant (Ignalinos atominė elektrinė) was a Lithuanian nuclear power plant near Visaginas with two RBMK-1500 reactors, closed in 2004 and 2009 under EU accession commitments.

Ignas Sargiūnas

Ignas Sargiūnas, born 1999, is a Lithuanian professional basketball guard who starred for Rytas Vilnius and agreed to join Fenerbahçe; he scored 9 points in 9 seconds to beat Great Britain in November 2025.

Ignas Šeinius

Ignas Šeinius, real surname Jurkūnas, was a Lithuanian and Swedish writer and diplomat, regarded as the leading impressionist in Lithuanian prose; his novel Kuprelis appeared in 1913.

Ignatius I

Ignatius I (Greek: Ἰγνάτιος), born Nicetas (Νικήτας) around 798, was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople twice, from 847 to 858 and 867 to 877, and is venerated as a saint.

Ignatius Kutu Acheampong

Ignatius Kutu Acheampong (1931–1979), Ghanaian general who ruled as Head of State 1972–1978 via the NRC and Supreme Military Council, launched Operation Feed Yourself and UNIGOV, and was executed by the AFRC in June 1979.

Ignatius Mabasa

Ignatius Mabasa, born in 1971, is a Zimbabwean storyteller, novelist, and poet who writes in Shona; he is known for Mapenzi, an award-winning 1999 satirical novel.

Ignatius of Antioch

Ignatius of Antioch, called Theophorus, was the third bishop of Antioch, martyred by beasts in Rome around 108, and the author of seven letters written on his journey there.

Ignatius of Loyola

Ignatius of Loyola, born Iñigo López de Loyola, was a Spanish former soldier who became a priest, founded the Jesuits in 1540, and was canonized in 1622.

Ignatius Sancho

Ignatius Sancho (c. 1729 – 1780) was a Black British writer, composer, and shopkeeper, the first known person of African descent to vote in a British parliamentary election.

Ignaz Cornova

Ignaz Cornova (Ignác Cornova; 1740–1822, born and died in Prague) was a Bohemian ex-Jesuit priest, historian, and poet, a leading Enlightenment figure who served as professor of general history at the University of Prague.

Ignaz Gschwentner

Ignaz Gschwentner, Austrian speed skater (born 2002, Innsbruck), USCI club sprinter; gold in mixed team sprint at Lausanne 2020 Youth Olympics, 29th in 500 m at Milano Cortina 2026, Austrian 500 m record 35.20.

Ignaz Heinrich von Wessenberg

Ignaz Heinrich von Wessenberg (1774–1860) was a German Catholic theologian and diocesan administrator of Constance who carried out far-reaching pastoral and liturgical reforms in the spirit of the Catholic Enlightenment.

Ignaz Moscheles

Ignaz Moscheles (Isack Moscheles, 1794–1870), Bohemian pianist, composer, and teacher; friend of Beethoven and Mendelssohn, London virtuoso, and professor of piano at the Leipzig Conservatory from 1846.

Ignaz Rohr

Ignaz Rohr (1866–1944) was a German Catholic theologian, priest, and professor of New Testament exegesis who held chairs at Breslau, Strasbourg, and Tübingen and co-founded the series Biblische Zeitfragen.

Ignaz Semmelweis

Ignaz Semmelweis (Ignác Fülöp Semmelweis, 1818–1865), Hungarian obstetrician called the savior of mothers, showed childbed fever spread on doctors' hands and cut Vienna clinic mortality from 10% to 2% using 4% chlorinated lime handwashing from May 1847.

Ignazio Abate

Ignazio Abate (born 1986), Italian right back and AC Milan veteran with 306 appearances, EURO 2012 finalist with Italy, now football coach, Torino head coach from 2026.

Ignazio Cassis

Ignazio Cassis is a Swiss politician of FDP – The Liberals, a Federal Councillor since 2017 and foreign minister, and was President of Switzerland in 2022.

Ignazio La Russa

Ignazio La Russa, born in 1947 in Paternò, Sicily, is an Italian politician of Brothers of Italy who has been President of the Senate since 2022.

Ignazio Roberto Marino

Ignazio Roberto Marino is an Italian transplant surgeon and Independent politician who served as mayor of Rome and has been a member of the European Parliament since 2024.

Ignazio Silone

Ignazio Silone, pen name of Secondino Tranquilli (1900-1978), Italian novelist and politician; PCI founder 1921, Swiss exile author of Fontamara and Pane e vino; subject of the informer controversy.

Igneous rock

Igneous rock, also known as magmatic rock, is rock formed when molten magma cools and solidifies, divided into intrusive and extrusive types such as granite and basalt.

Ignicoccus

Ignicoccus: hyperthermophilic, chemolithoautotrophic crenarchaeal genus (I. islandicus, I. pacificus, I. hospitalis) with a unique two-membrane cell envelope and energized outer membrane; I. hospitalis hosts Nanoarchaeum equitans.

Ignimbrite

Ignimbrite is the rock or deposit formed by pyroclastic density currents, hot ground-hugging flows of pumice, ash, and gas from collapsed eruption columns, also called ash-flow tuff.

Ignirtoq Tholi

Ignirtoq Tholi, a 90-km-wide group of volcanic domes (tholi) on Venus at -50.98°, 222.80°, named in 2023 for an Inuit lightning goddess; formerly part of Raskova Paterae.

Ignis Therapeutics (翼思生物)

Ignis Therapeutics (翼思生物) is a Shanghai-based biopharmaceutical company founded in 2020 that in-licenses, develops, and commercializes central nervous system drugs for Greater China, launched in 2021 with $180 million in Series A funding.

IGNITE-AIS trial

IGNITE-AIS (NCT04931433) is a completed Phase 4, double-blind randomized placebo-controlled trial at University of Malaya testing intravenous lignocaine during posterior spinal fusion in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis, with 24-hour morphine consumption as the primary outcome.

Ignition (Remix)

"Ignition (Remix)" is a 2003 R. Kelly single from Chocolate Factory that reached number 1 on the UK Singles Chart for four weeks; despite its title, it was largely written before the original "Ignition."

Ignition (software)

Ignition is an industrial application platform by Inductive Automation, a California company, used to build HMI, SCADA, and MES systems, licensed per server with unlimited tags and clients.