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Ingredion

Ingredion Incorporated is an American ingredient solutions company in Westchester, Illinois, formed in 1906 as the Corn Products Refining Company and renamed in 2012, with about $7.2 billion in sales.

Ingres (database)

Ingres is a relational database management system that began at UC Berkeley in 1973, used the QUEL query language, and survives as the Actian Ingres commercial product.

Ingres; Illustra Information Technologies

Illustra Information Technologies was an Oakland, California database company founded by Michael Stonebraker in 1992 to commercialize Berkeley's POSTGRES, and was acquired by Informix in 1996 for about $400 million.

Ingress (video game)

Ingress is Niantic's 2012 location-based AR territory-control game: two factions, Enlightened and Resistance, capture real-world Portals, deploy Resonators, and link three Portals into Control Fields scoring Mind Units; it preceded and seeded Pokémon Go.

Ingria (Ингрия)

Ingria (Ингрия, Inkeri, Ingermanland) is a historical region at the eastern Gulf of Finland, now Leningrad Oblast. A Swedish province 1617–1704 after the Treaty of Stolbovo, it became home to Ingrian Finns, suffered Soviet deportations, and gave its name to a nearly extinct Finnic language.

Ingrian Finns

Ingrian Finns (inkerinsuomalaiset, ингерманландцы), descendants of 17th-century Lutheran Finnish settlers in Ingria near St. Petersburg; distinct from Izhorians; deported under Stalin, partly repatriated to Finland 1990–2010.

Ingrian language

Ingrian (Izhorian, inkeroisen kieli, ижорский язык) is a nearly extinct northern Finnic language of western Leningrad province, Russia, with at most about fifty fluent elderly speakers; surviving dialects are Soikkola and Lower Luga.

Ingrian War

Ingrian War, also Russo-Swedish War of 1610-1617, was fought between Sweden and Muscovy during Russia's Time of Troubles. It ended with the Treaty of Stolbovo (1617), by which Russia ceded Ingria and eastern Karelia and lost Baltic access.

Ingrid (Street Fighter)

Ingrid (イングリッド, Inguriddo), the Eternal Goddess, is a Capcom fighting game character created for the canceled Capcom Fighting All-Stars, who debuted in Capcom Fighting Evolution, joined Street Fighter via Alpha 3 MAX, and released as Street Fighter 6 Year 3 DLC on May 28, 2026.

Ingrid Andress

Ingrid Andress, American country-pop singer-songwriter from Michigan and Colorado, Berklee-trained, ex-songwriter for Charli XCX; debut album Lady Like, four GRAMMY nominations, 2024 anthem incident.

Ingrid Auerswald-Lange

Ingrid Auerswald-Lange (née Brestrich, born 1957, Jena), East German sprinter; 1980 Olympic 4x100m relay gold and 100m bronze, 1988 relay silver, 1983 world champion, seven relay world records including 41.37 (1985).

Ingrid Bergman

Ingrid Bergman (1915–1982), Swedish actress of Casablanca, Gaslight, Anastasia, and Autumn Sonata; three Oscars, two Emmys, a Tony; her 1949 affair with Roberto Rossellini became a Hollywood scandal.

Ingrid Bisu

Ingrid Bisu (Ingrid Bișu, Ingrid Wan), born 1987 in Bucharest, is a Romanian actress, producer, and screenwriter known for Toni Erdmann, The Nun, and co-writing and producing Malignant; she married James Wan in 2019.

Ingrid Bolsø Berdal

Ingrid Bolsø Berdal (born 1980, Inderøy) is a Norwegian actress of stage, film, and TV; Amanda-winning lead of Cold Prey (Fritt vilt), Atalanta in Hercules, Armistice in Westworld, and Ida Waage in Heksejakt.

Ingrid Christensen Coast

The Ingrid Christensen Coast is a section of the coast of Princess Elizabeth Land in East Antarctica, named after Ingrid Christensen, wife of Norwegian whaler Lars Christensen.

Ingrid Croce

Ingrid Croce (Ingrid Jacobson, born 1948) is an American singer-songwriter, artist, restaurateur, and author, widow of Jim Croce, founder of San Diego's Croce's Restaurant & Jazz Bar (1985-2016), and author of I Got a Name: The Jim Croce Story.

Ingrid Daubechies

Ingrid Daubechies is a Belgian-born American mathematician, professor emerita at Duke University, whose wavelet constructions made wavelet analysis a practical tool for image processing, earning the Wolf Prize in 2023.

Ingrid de Kok

Ingrid de Kok, also published as Ingrid Fiske, is a South African poet born in 1951 in Johannesburg, known for poems on apartheid, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and HIV/AIDS.

Ingrid E. Scheffer

Ingrid E. Scheffer, also known as Ingrid Scheffer, is an Australian pediatric neurologist and epileptologist who helped identify the first epilepsy gene in 1995 and led the 2017 revision of the international classification of the epilepsies.

Ingrid Fleming

Ingrid Fleming is a biochemist and vascular pharmacologist who directs the Institute for Vascular Signalling at Goethe University Frankfurt, studying endothelial cell signaling in diabetes.

Ingrid Goes West

Ingrid Goes West is a 2017 American dark comedy directed by Matt Spicer, starring Aubrey Plaza as a lonely woman who stalks an Instagram influencer.

Ingrid Grummt

Ingrid Grummt is a German molecular cell biologist known for her work on ribosomal RNA transcription and epigenetics, based at the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg.

Ingrid Gulbin Engel Kramer

Ingrid Gulbin Engel Kramer (Ingrid Krämer, born 1943, Dresden) is an East German diver with three Olympic golds and one silver: double champion at Rome 1960, springboard gold and platform silver at Tokyo 1964.

Ingrid Johansson

Ingrid Johansson: name of several Swedish sportswomen, including a 1950s race walker with a 5000 m walk world best (24:27.5, Borås 1951), a 1991 Women's World Cup footballer, a speed skater, a Paralympic skier, and a swimmer born 2010.

Ingrid Jonker

Ingrid Jonker (1933–1965), Afrikaans poet of Rook en Oker and Die kind; Die Sestigers member whose poem Mandela read in 1994; Order of Ikhamanga recipient.

Ingrid Jonker Prize

The Ingrid Jonker Prize is a South African literary award for a first volume of poetry, awarded annually and alternating between Afrikaans and English debut collections.

Ingrid Klimke

Ingrid Klimke (Ingrid Klimke-Busacker), German eventing and dressage rider born 1968 in Münster, daughter of Reiner Klimke; Olympic eventing team gold 2008 and 2012, silver 2016, plus world and European titles.

Ingrid Kogel-Knabner

Ingrid Kogel-Knabner, also written Ingrid Kögel-Knabner, is a German soil scientist and professor emeritus at the Technical University of Munich, elected to the US National Academy of Engineering in 2025.

Ingrid Kögel-Knabner

Ingrid Kögel-Knabner is a German soil scientist and professor emeritus at the Technical University of Munich, elected to the US National Academy of Engineering in 2025.

Ingrid Kristiansen

Ingrid Kristiansen (born 1956, Trondheim) is a Norwegian former long-distance runner, the only person to hold the 5000 m, 10,000 m, and marathon world records simultaneously; marathon record 2:21:06 (1985) stood 13 years.