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Ikkyū
Ikkyū Sōjun (一休宗純, 1394–1481) was a Rinzai Zen monk, poet, and calligrapher whose "Crazy Cloud" persona and critique of corrupt Zen temples made him a famous figure in Japan.
Iko Iko
"Iko Iko" (also "Jock-a-Mo", "Jockamo") is a New Orleans Mardi Gras Indian chant song recorded by Sugar Boy Crawford in 1953 and made a US #20 hit by the Dixie Cups in 1965, with disputed etymology and famous covers by Dr. John and the Belle Stars.
Iko Uwais
Iko Uwais (Uwais Qorny, born 1983, Jakarta) is an Indonesian actor, pencak silat martial artist, and fight choreographer, star of The Raid films, Hollywood titles like Mile 22 and Expend4bles, and founder of Uwais Pictures.
Ikoku keigo banyaku
Ikoku keigo banyaku (異国警固番役) was a Kamakura-period guard duty of coastal defense in northern Kyushu, imposed on the shogunate's gokenin vassals against Mongol invasion, exempting them from Kyoto and Kamakura ōbanyaku.
Ikoma Sanjo Amusement Park
Ikoma Sanjo Amusement Park (生駒山上遊園地, also Sky Land Ikoma) is a free-admission amusement park at 642 m on Mount Ikoma, Nara, opened 1929 by Kintetsu's predecessor, home to Japan's oldest large-scale ride, the Flying Tower.
IKon
iKON (아이콘), South Korean boy group debuted 2015 under YG Entertainment via survival shows WIN and MIX & MATCH; six members JAY, BOBBY, SONG, JU-NE, DK, CHAN since B.I's 2019 exit; famed for "Love Scenario" (2018); moved from YG to 143 Entertainment in January 2023.
IKONOS
IKONOS was a commercial Earth-observation satellite, launched in September 1999 after the first spacecraft was lost, that delivered the world's first commercial one-meter satellite imagery until 2015.
Ikot Ekpene
Ikot Ekpene is a town and local government area in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria, inhabited mainly by the Annang people and known as "The Raffia City" for its raffia weaving.
Ikram Aliskerov (Икрам Алискеров)
Ikram Aliskerov (Икрам Алискеров), born 1992 in Makhachkala, Dagestan, is a Russian UFC middleweight and four-time combat sambo world champion; 18-2 pro, known for kimura submissions, losses only to Chimaev and Whittaker.
Ikramullah Khan Niazi
Ikramullah Khan Niazi, also known as Ikramullah Niazi, was a Pakistani civil engineer from Mianwali best known as the father of cricketer and Prime Minister Imran Khan, and founder of the Pakistan Educational Society.
Ikrima ibn Abi Jahl
Ikrima ibn Abi Jahl (عكرمة بن أبي جهل) was a Meccan commander who fought against Muhammad, converted after the conquest of Mecca, and died in the Muslim conquest of Syria.
Iksan
Iksan (익산시, 益山市), also historically Iri, is a city in northwestern Jeollabuk-do, South Korea, a former Baekje secondary capital whose Wanggung-ri and Mireuksa Temple sites form part of the UNESCO Baekje Historic Areas inscribed in 2015.
Ikshvaku (इक्ष्वाकु)
Ikshvaku (इक्ष्वाकु) is a legendary king of Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain tradition, son of Vaivasvata Manu and first king of the solar dynasty of Ayodhya from which Rama descends.
Iktomi
Iktomi, also spelled Unktomi, is the spider trickster spirit of the Lakota, Dakota, and Nakota peoples, a sly, clownish teacher whose fourteen tales were first published in Zitkala-Ša's 1901 Old Indian Legends.
Iku-Shamagan
Iku-Shamagan, also read Ikun-Shamagan, was an early Early Dynastic king of Mari on the middle Euphrates, known from royal inscriptions and a 92 cm statuette in the Damascus Museum.
Ikue Ōtani (大谷 育江)
Ikue Ōtani (大谷育江, born 1965) is a Japanese voice actress of Mausu Promotion, the worldwide voice of Pikachu since the Pokémon anime's first episode, also Tony Tony Chopper, Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya, Zatch Bell, and twice Seiyu Awards Kids Family Award winner.
Ikuei Moritani
Ikuei Moritani, also recorded as Ichiro Moritani, was a chemist who with Yuzo Fujiwara observed in 1967 the palladium-catalyzed reaction of benzene with olefins now called the Fujiwara–Moritani reaction.
Ikuko Hara‐Nishimura
Ikuko Hara-Nishimura is a Japanese plant molecular biologist known for identifying VPE as an executor of plant programmed cell death and for discovering the peptide hormone Stomagen.
Ikun-Mari
Ikun-Mari is an early king of Mari on the middle Euphrates, known only from a royal-inscription corpus entry and dated to about the 25th century BC.
Ikun-Shamash
Ikun-Shamash (Iku(n)-Šamaš) was a king of Mari on the middle Euphrates during the Early Dynastic period, known from a votive inscription by his courtier Arra-Ilum.
Ikunum
Ikunum was a king of Aššur in the early Old Assyrian period, son of Erišum I and father of Sargon I, reigning about 1934–1920 BC.
Ikuo Hirano
Ikuo Hirano was an American gastroenterologist and professor of medicine at Northwestern University who helped define eosinophilic esophagitis, chaired its major clinical guidelines, and died in 2024.
Ikuo Kushiro
Ikuo Kushiro (久城 育夫, born 1934) is a Japanese experimental petrologist whose high-pressure experiments established how mantle peridotite melts to form basalt and andesite magmas.
Ikuo Nishimoto
Ikuo Nishimoto (西本 征央, 1956–2003) was a Japanese neurology researcher and pharmacology professor at Keio University whose work on Alzheimer's disease led to the discovery of Humanin.
Ikuo Takeuchi
Ikuo Takeuchi (竹内 郁雄, born 1946) is a Japanese computer scientist known for the Takeuchi function behind the Lisp benchmark "Tak", the multi-paradigm language TAO, and the ELIS Lisp machine.
Ikuro Abe
Ikuro Abe (阿部 郁朗) is a Japanese natural products chemist and enzymologist who led the Laboratory of Natural Products Chemistry at The University of Tokyo from 2009 to 2026.
Ikuta Yorozu
Ikuta Yorozu (生田万) was a Japanese kokugaku scholar of the late Edo period who led a failed 1837 attack on the Kashiwazaki outpost in Echigo Province, then died by suicide.
IKZF1
IKZF1 (IKAROS family zinc finger 1), at 7p12.2, encodes the Ikaros zinc-finger transcription factor governing lymphoid development; its deletions mark high-risk B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia, especially Ph+ and Ph-like subtypes.
IKZF3
IKZF3, the Ikaros family zinc finger 3 gene on chromosome 17, encodes Aiolos, a transcription factor needed for memory B cells, plasma cells, and NK cell maturation.
Il (king of Umma)
Il, also read Ila, was a Sumerian king of Umma during Early Dynastic IIIb, known from his own inscription and from hostile Lagash accounts of the border conflict.