All articles starting with I

Igor Chumak

Igor Chumak (Игорь Владимирович Чумак), Russian handball player born 1964 in Vladivostok; two-time Olympic champion in men's handball, gold for the Soviet Union at Seoul 1988 and for the Unified Team at Barcelona 1992.

Oct 10, 2026

Igor Dmitrievitch Ado

Igor Dmitrievitch Ado (Игорь Дмитриевич Адо) was a Soviet mathematician who spent his life in Kazan and proved Ado's theorem, that every finite-dimensional Lie algebra has a faithful finite-dimensional representation.

Igor Dobrovolsky

Igor Dobrovolsky (Игорь Добровольский) is a retired Soviet and Russian midfielder, born in 1967, who won Olympic gold in 1988 and the 1993 European Cup with Marseille.

Igor Emri

Igor Emri (born 1952) is a Slovenian engineer and retired Chair Professor of Mechanics at the University of Ljubljana, a pioneer of mechanics of time-dependent materials and the Knauss-Emri model.

Igor F. Palacios

Igor F. Palacios is a Venezuelan-born interventional cardiologist who led interventional cardiology at Massachusetts General Hospital and performed the first mitral balloon valvuloplasty in the United States.

Igor Frenkel

Igor Frenkel is a Russian-born American mathematician, the Sol Goldman Family Professor at Yale, known for the Frenkel–Kac construction and the moonshine module; he joined the National Academy of Sciences in 2018.

Igor Girkin

Igor Girkin (Igor Strelkov), born 1970, former FSB colonel, DPR defense minister and Sloviansk commander in 2014; convicted in absentia by The Hague in 2022 of murdering 298 people aboard MH17; jailed in Russia since 2023 for extremism.

Igor Gocanin

Igor Gocanin (Игор Гочанин), born 1966 in Herceg Novi, is a Serbian water polo coach and former player who won Olympic gold with Yugoslavia at Seoul 1988 and European and World Cup medals.

Oct 10, 2026

Igor Gouzenko

Igor Gouzenko was a Soviet cipher clerk in Ottawa who defected in 1945 with documents exposing a Soviet spy network, often called the start of the Cold War.

Oct 22, 2026

Igor Grabar

Igor Grabar (1871–1960) was a Russian and Soviet painter and art historian, a leading master of Russian impressionism and editor of the first multivolume History of Russian Art.

Igor Grivennikov

Igor Grivennikov (Игорь Анатольевич Гривенников), Soviet swimmer born 1952 in Moscow, Dynamo Moscow; 1972 Munich Olympic silver (4x100 free relay) and bronze (4x200), 1973 world relay silver, later a biochemist.

Igor Hinic

Igor Hinić, Croatian water polo centre forward born 1975 in Rijeka; five Olympian, Atlanta 1996 silver, London 2012 gold, 2007 world champion, 417 caps, later coach of Primorje EB.

Igor I. Sikorsky Human Powered Helicopter Competition

The Igor I. Sikorsky Human Powered Helicopter Competition, or Sikorsky Prize, was established in 1980 and required a human-powered helicopter to hover for 60 seconds above 3 meters.

Igor J. Koralnik

Igor J. Koralnik is a neurologist who is chief of Neuro-infectious Disease and Global Neurology at Northwestern University, known for discovering new JC virus brain diseases.

Sep 19, 2026

Igor Jablokov

Igor Jablokov is an American AI entrepreneur who founded Yap, a speech-recognition company Amazon acquired in 2011 whose technology fed Alexa, and later Pryon, a Raleigh enterprise AI company.

Igor Jurišica

Igor Jurišica is a Slovak-trained computational biologist and University of Toronto professor at the Krembil Research Institute who models protein-protein interaction networks and created the Integrated Interactions Database.

Igor Kirillov (Игорь Анатольевич Кириллов) (general)

Igor Kirillov (Игорь Анатольевич Кириллов), Russian lieutenant general, chief of the RKhBZ nuclear, chemical, and biological defence troops from 2017; sanctioned by the UK in 2024 and assassinated by a scooter bomb in Moscow on 17 December 2024, claimed by Ukraine's SBU.

Igor Klebanov

Igor R. Klebanov is a Soviet-born American theoretical physicist, Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics at Princeton University, known for the AdS/CFT correspondence and the 2002 higher-spin O(N) duality.

Igor Kokoškov

Igor Kokoškov (Игор Кокошков), Serbian basketball coach born 1971 in Belgrade; first non-American full-time NBA assistant (Clippers 2000), 2004 Pistons champion, EuroBasket 2017 winner with Slovenia, Phoenix Suns head coach 2018-19.

Igor Kravchuk

Igor Kravchuk (Игорь Александрович Кравчук), Russian defenseman born 1966 in Ufa; two-time Olympic ice hockey champion (1988 USSR, 1992 Unified Team), 1998 silver, 2002 bronze, and 699-game NHL veteran.

Igor Kravtsov

Igor Kravtsov (Игорь Александрович Кравцов), born 1973 in Magnitogorsk, is the Russian rower who won men's quadruple sculls gold at Athens 2004 (Russia's first Olympic rowing title) after placing eighth at Atlanta 1996.

Sep 24, 2026

Igor Kurchatov

Igor Kurchatov (Игорь Курчатов, 1903 to 1960) was a Soviet nuclear physicist who, as scientific director of the atomic project from 1943, led development of the first Soviet atomic bomb, tested in 1949.

Sep 20, 2026

Igor L. Medintz

Igor L. Medintz is a Senior Scientist for Biosensors and Biomaterials at the US Naval Research Laboratory, known for quantum dot bioconjugates and FRET biosensing.

Igor Larionov (Игорь Николаевич Ларионов)

Igor Larionov (Игорь Николаевич Ларионов), "The Professor", Russian center born 1960 in Voskresensk; KLM line star, two Olympic golds, three Stanley Cups with Detroit's Russian Five, Hall of Famer, later KHL coach.

Igor Larrosa

Igor Larrosa is a Spanish organic chemist who holds the Chair in Organic Chemistry at the University of Manchester, working on C–H activation and ruthenium and palladium catalysis.

Igor Lavrov

Igor Lavrov (Игорь Викторович Лавров), born 1973 in Stavropol, Russian handball playmaker; Olympic champion Sydney 2000, world champion 1997, European champion 1996; CSKA and German Bundesliga clubs; later Stavropol Krai sport minister and deputy. Distinct from goalkeeper Andrey Lavrov.

Igor Lubomirsky

Igor Lubomirsky is an Israeli materials chemist at the Weizmann Institute of Science known for showing in 2010 that water freezes differently on positively and negatively charged surfaces.

Igor Lukashin

Igor Lukashin (Игорь Владимирович Лукашин), Russian platform diver born 1979 in Penza; won synchronized 10 m platform gold with Dmitry Sautin at Sydney 2000 (365.04), was seventh individually, and took 1998 world and European championship medals. Not the hockey player born 1981.

Igor Malkov

Igor Malkov (Игорь Алексеевич Малков), Soviet speed skater born 1965 in Pervouralsk; 1984 Sarajevo Olympic 10,000 m gold at 19 years 9 days and 5,000 m silver; 10,000 m world record holder 1984-1986.