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Igromaniya

Ігроманія (игромания): Russian word for gaming or gambling addiction, and name of a 1997–2018 Russian video game magazine, a Tomsk family entertainment park, and children's venues in Sofia and Moldova.

IGROV-1

IGROV-1 (IGROV1, CVCL_1304) is a human ovarian cancer cell line established in 1985 from a stage III ovarian adenocarcinoma; an NCI-60 member, hypermutated, endometrioid-like, widely used in drug screening.

Iguaçu National Park

Iguaçu National Park (Parque Nacional do Iguaçu), a 169,695.88 ha Brazilian national park in Paraná created in 1939, protects the Brazilian side of the Iguaçu Falls and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1986, criteria vii and x, adjacent to Argentina's Iguazú National Park.

Iguana

Iguana is a genus of large herbivorous lizards (family Iguanidae), best known via the green iguana (Iguana iguana); includes Caribbean rock iguanas, threatened by trade, hybridization, and invasive spread.

Iguanidae

Iguanidae, the true iguanas (Iguaninae), a family of large pleurodont lizards in Squamata with eight genera, about 35-44 species, from the Americas, Galápagos, Antilles, and Fiji; herbivorous, oviparous, taxonomically contested.

Iguanodon

Iguanodon, 'iguana tooth', is a large Early Cretaceous ornithopod dinosaur named by Gideon Mantell in 1825 from Sussex teeth; type species I. bernissartensis, known from complete Bernissart skeletons, thumb spikes, 10 m length.

Iguassu

Iguassu (FEOW ecoregion 346) is the freshwater ecoregion of the Iguaçu River basin above Iguaçu Falls in Brazil and Argentina, isolated 22 million years, with about 39 endemic fish species, dam fragmentation, pollution, and a last free-flowing reach in Iguaçu National Park.

Iguazu Falls

Iguazu Falls (Cataratas del Iguazú / Cataratas do Iguaçu): about 275 cascades up to 80 m high across a 2.7 km front on the Argentina–Brazil border; UNESCO World Heritage since 1984/1986 and a New 7 Wonders of Nature site (2012).

Igun Eronmwon

Igun Eronmwon is the royal brass-casting guild of the Kingdom of Benin in Benin City, Nigeria, founded around 1280 and known for the Benin Bronzes.

Iguratimod

Iguratimod (T-614, marketed as Iremod) is a small-molecule csDMARD approved in Japan and China for rheumatoid arthritis; it inhibits NF-κB and COX-2 and shows meta-analysis-supported efficacy in RA, AS, and Sjögren's syndrome.

Igus

Igus is a German manufacturer of motion plastics, founded by Günter Blase in 1964 in Cologne, known for energy chain cable carriers and self-lubricating polymer bearings.

IGZO backplane displays

IGZO backplane displays are LCD and OLED screens whose transistor backplane uses indium gallium zinc oxide, offering far higher mobility and much lower power draw than amorphous silicon.

IGZO thin-film transistor

An IGZO thin-film transistor is a transistor whose channel is amorphous indium gallium zinc oxide, first demonstrated in 2004 and now standard in LCD and OLED displays.

Ihana Dhillon

Ihana Dhillon, Indian actress and producer in Hindi and Punjabi cinema; debut Daddy Cool Munde Fool (2013), Bollywood debut Hate Story 4 (2018), also Radhe and Bhuj (2021); produced Je Paisa Bolda Hunda (2024).

Ihar Makarau

Ihar Makarau (Ігар Віктаравіч Макараў), Belarusian judoka born 1979 in Homel; Olympic gold in men's 100 kg at Athens 2004, equal fifth at +100 kg in London 2012, world bronze 2003, European champion 2010.

Ihar Zhaliasouski

Ihar Zhaliasouski (Igor Zhelezovsky, Ігар Жалязоўскі), Belarusian speed skater, 1963-2021; record six World Sprint titles, 1,000 m Olympic bronze 1988 and silver 1994, four world records.

Ihara Saikaku

Ihara Saikaku (井原西鶴, 1642–1693) was a Japanese haikai poet and novelist of Osaka who founded the ukiyo-zōshi genre of popular fiction in the Edo period.

IHasCupquake

iHasCupquake is the YouTube gaming channel of Tiffany Michelle Herrera (born 1988), also known as Tiffyquake or Cupquake. Created August 19, 2010, it is known for Minecraft Oasis, Quake N Bake, and DIY Geeky Goodies, with about 7.13 million subscribers and 3.13 billion views.

Ihashi Elimhlophe

Ihashi Elimhlophe, the stage name of Bheki Ngcobo meaning "the white horse", is a South African maskandi singer from KwaZulu-Natal who has recorded since the mid-1970s.

IHeartMedia

iHeartMedia (Nasdaq: IHRT), formerly Clear Channel Communications, is America's largest radio station owner with 860+ stations in 160 markets, the iHeartRadio streaming app, and the top podcast publisher per Podtrac. Founded 1972 in San Antonio; went through 2018 Chapter 11 and a 2025 debt restructuring.

IHeartRadio

iHeartRadio is iHeartMedia's free broadcast, podcast, and streaming radio platform, launched in 2008 by Clear Channel and relaunched in 2011, with over 188 million registered users across 500+ platforms and 2,000 devices.

IHeartRadio Music Awards

The iHeartRadio Music Awards, also called the iHeart Awards, is iHeartMedia's annual music awards show founded in 2014, honoring the most-played artists on iHeartRadio stations and the app, with fan-voted categories and Icon, Innovator, and Landmark honors.

Ihei Kimura

Ihei Kimura (木村伊兵衛, 1901–1974) was a Japanese photographer celebrated for Leica snapshots and portraits of everyday life, a central figure of postwar realism photography alongside Domon Ken.

IHF World Men's Handball Championship

IHF World Men's Handball Championship, the biennial men's indoor handball world tournament first held in 1938; record champions France with six titles, reigning champions Denmark, next edition Germany 2027.

IHG Hotels & Resorts

IHG Hotels & Resorts (InterContinental Hotels Group) is a British hotel company with 20 brands, including Holiday Inn and InterContinental, across 6,963 hotels in more than 100 countries.

IHH Healthcare

IHH Healthcare is a private hospital group dual-listed on Bursa Malaysia and the Singapore Exchange, operating more than 80 hospitals in 10 countries under brands including Acibadem, Fortis, and Gleneagles.

IHI Corporation

IHI Corporation, formerly Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries, is a Japanese heavy-industry and engineering company headquartered in Tokyo, tracing to 1853 and known for jet engines, bridges, and ammonia co-firing.

Ihm Ji-soon

Jisoon Ihm is a South Korean theoretical condensed-matter physicist, known for the 1979 momentum-space formalism for the total energy of solids and for pioneering computational materials physics.

IHOP

IHOP (International House of Pancakes), American family-dining chain founded July 7, 1958 in Toluca Lake, California by Al and Jerry Lapin; known for pancakes and all-day breakfast, 1,824 restaurants, 99% franchised, owned by Dine Brands Global.

IHOP_2002

IHOP_2002 (the International H2O Project) was a large meteorological field experiment over the Southern Great Plains of the United States in May and June 2002.