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Ira J. Pitel

Ira J. Pitel is an American power-electronics engineer who founded Magna-Power Electronics in Flemington, New Jersey, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2026.

Ira Levin (Ira Marvin Levin, 1929-2007), American novelist and playwright, author of Rosemary's Baby, The Stepford Wives, and The Boys from Brazil; seven novels, Deathtrap on Broadway, Edgar and Stoker awards, nearly all works filmed.

Ira M. Hall

Ira M. Hall is an American geneticist known for mapping structural variation in human genomes; he is Professor of Genetics and Director of the Yale Center for Genomic Health.

Ira M. Jacobson

Ira M. Jacobson, also known as Ira Jacobson, is an American hepatologist who leads pivotal hepatitis B and C clinical trials as director of hepatology at NYU Langone Health.

GeneralSep 20, 2026

Ira Mellman

Ira Mellman is an American cell biologist and cancer immunologist, President of Research at the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy, who discovered endosomes and conceptualized the Cancer-Immunity Cycle.

Ira Murchison

Ira Murchison (Ira James Murchison, nicknamed Sputnik, 1933–1994) was an American sprinter, 1956 Olympic 4x100m relay gold medalist and 100m world record holder at 10.1, later NCAA champion for Western Michigan.

GeneralSep 20, 2026

Ira Pastan

Ira Pastan is an American molecular biologist and cancer researcher who founded the National Cancer Institute's Laboratory of Molecular Biology in 1970 and developed recombinant immunotoxins for cancer.

Ira Remsen

Ira Remsen (1846–1927) was an American chemist who codiscovered saccharin in 1879, founded the chemistry department at Johns Hopkins University, and later served as its president from 1901 to 1913.

Ira Rennert

Ira Rennert is an American private equity and buyout investor who owns 97.9% of the Renco Group, holding AM General, Doe Run, and U.S. Magnesium.

Ira S. Bowen

Ira S. Bowen was an American astrophysicist at Caltech who solved the nebulium mystery in 1927 and directed the Mount Wilson and Palomar Observatories from 1948 to 1964.

Ira Shoulson

Ira Shoulson (1946–2024) was an American neurologist and clinical trialist at the University of Rochester who led the DATATOP trial, co-founded the Parkinson Study Group, and helped bring ten neurological drugs to FDA approval.

Ira Singhal

Ira Singhal, IAS officer (2015 batch, AGMUT cadre), first differently-abled woman to top India's UPSC Civil Services Examination, ranking AIR 1 in 2014 with 1082/2025 after winning a CAT case over denied IRS postings.

GeneralSep 20, 2026

Ira Tabas

Ira Tabas, born 1953, is an American physician-scientist at Columbia University known for research on macrophage cell biology in atherosclerosis and, more recently, fatty liver disease in obesity.

Ira von Fürstenberg

Ira von Fürstenberg (Virginia Carolina Theresa Pancrazia Galdina von und zu Fürstenberg), 1940–2024, Roman-born princess of the House of Fürstenberg and Agnelli heiress; jet-set socialite, actress in over 25 films, Valentino perfume director, and creator of objets uniques.

IRAC study

IRAC study: the INCMNSZ Rheumatoid Arthritis Cohort (NCT03389711), an observational early rheumatoid arthritis cohort at Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, Mexico City, begun 2004; distinct from Spitzer's IRAC camera and IRAC insecticide classes.

Iracema

Iracema (Lenda do Ceará) is an 1865 novel by the Brazilian writer José de Alencar, telling of love between an indigenous woman and a Portuguese colonist in early seventeenth-century Ceará.

GeneralOct 15, 2026

Irache

Irache, in Basque Iratxe, is a former Benedictine monastery in Ayegui, Navarre, Spain, documented since 958 and on the Camino de Santiago; it later housed Navarre's first university.

Irada (इरादा) (2017 film)

Irada (इरादा) is a 2017 Hindi eco-thriller directed by Aparnaa Singh, starring Naseeruddin Shah, Arshad Warsi, Divya Dutta, Sharad Kelkar, and Sagarika Ghatge. Released 17 February 2017, it depicts groundwater poisoning in Punjab and won two 65th National Film Awards.

IRADIENT study

IRADIENT (Genomic Instability in Vascular Surgeons), ClinicalTrials.gov NCT04363190, a completed 2020-registered observational study by Hospital Clínico Universitario de Valladolid on chronic low-dose radiation effects in vascular surgeons; no results posted.

Iraivan

Iraivan (இறைவன்) is a 2023 Tamil psychological action thriller directed by I. Ahmed, starring Jayam Ravi, Nayanthara, and Rahul Bose as the Smiley Killer; released 28 September 2023, later on Netflix.

Iraivi

Iraivi (இறைவி), 2016 Tamil drama by Karthik Subbaraj, starring S.J. Suryah, Vijay Sethupathi, Bobby Simha; three men's choices ruin the women in their lives; mixed reviews, producers' ban.

Iraiyanar Akapporul

Iraiyanar Akapporul, also known as the Kalaviyal, is a Tamil treatise of sixty sūtras on akam love poetics, traditionally attributed to the god Śiva and probably from the fifth or sixth century.

GeneralSep 19, 2026

Iraj Bastami

Iraj Bastami (ایرج بسطامی) was an Iranian classical vocalist from Bam who fused avaz singing with folk-inflected Persian song, dying in the 2003 Bam earthquake.

Iraj Mirza

Iraj Mirza (ایرج‌میرزا), titled Jalal-al-Mamalek, was a Persian poet and satirist of the Qajar and Constitutional era, a pioneer of colloquial language in Persian verse.

Iraj Pezeshkzad

Iraj Pezeshkzad (ایرج پزشکزاد, 1928–2022) was an Iranian novelist, satirist, and diplomat, best known for the comic novel My Uncle Napoleon, published in 1970.

IRAK1

IRAK1 (interleukin-1 receptor-associated kinase 1, also IRAK or Pelle homolog) is an X-linked serine/threonine kinase of the myddosome in TLR and IL-1R innate immune signaling; kinase activity is dispensable for NF-κB signaling but required for IRF7-driven interferon production.