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Iva Jovic
Iva Jovic, American tennis player born 2007 in Torrance, California; two-time WTA 500 Guadalajara champion (2025, 2026), 2026 Australian Open quarterfinalist, career-high WTA singles ranking No. 11.
Iva Majoli
Iva Majoli, Croatian tennis player (born 1977, Zagreb), 1997 Roland Garros champion who beat top seed Martina Hingis; career-high No. 4, eight singles titles, Croatia's first Grand Slam singles winner.
Ivan Basso
Ivan Basso, Italian road cyclist born 1977 in Gallarate, two-time Giro d'Italia winner (2006, 2010) and 2005 Tour runner-up; banned in Operación Puerto as 'Birillo', returned to win the 2010 Giro, retired 2015 with testicular cancer, now co-runs Polti VisitMalta with the Contador brothers.
Ivan Bogdan
Ivan Bogdan (Іван Гаврилович Богдан, 1928–2020), Soviet Ukrainian Greco-Roman heavyweight wrestler; Olympic gold at Rome 1960 (+87 kg) and World champion 1958 and 1961; not the footballers or armwrestlers of the same name.
Ivan Brown
Ivan Elmore Brown (1908–1963), American bobsledder of the Keene Valley Athletic Club; with Al Washbond won two-man gold at the 1936 Garmisch-Partenkirchen Winter Olympics in 5:29.29, plus North American and AAU titles.
Ivan Byakov
Ivan Byakov (Иван Иванович Бяков, Іван Іванович Бяков), Soviet-Ukrainian biathlete, 1944-2009. Won 4x7.5 km relay gold at Sapporo 1972 and Innsbruck 1976; first president of the Ukrainian Biathlon Federation.
Ivan Cavaleiro
Ivan Cavaleiro (Ivan Ricardo Neves Abreu Cavaleiro), Portuguese-born winger born 1993, Benfica youth product who won Primeira Liga 2014, Ligue 1 2017 with Monaco, and the English Championship with Wolves (2018) and Fulham (2022); 2 Portugal caps, later Angola, now at Petro Atlético.
Ivan Chakarov
Ivan Chakarov (Иван Христов Чакъров), Bulgarian weightlifter born 1966; 1993 world champion and world-record holder (185 kg snatch, 407.5 kg total, Melbourne), 1991 European champion, 5th at the 1992 Olympics. Not the footballer Ivan Chakarov or hockey player Ivan Chukarov.
Ivan Cleary
Ivan Cleary (born 1971, Sydney) is an Australian rugby league coach and former player, Penrith Panthers head coach 2012-2015 and 2019-present, winner of four straight NRL premierships 2021-2024, stepping down after 2027 for Peter Wallace.
Iván Córdoba
Iván Córdoba (Iván Ramiro Córdoba Sepúlveda, born 1976), Colombian defender, Inter Milan 2000-2012, 455 appearances, 15 trophies including 2010 Champions League; won Copa América 2001 with Colombia.
Ivan Deryugin
Ivan Deryugin (Іван Костянтинович Дерюгін, 1928–1996), Soviet Ukrainian modern pentathlete; 1956 Melbourne Olympic team gold, 9th individual, 1961 world team champion and individual silver.
Ivan Drago
Ivan Drago is the fictional Soviet boxer played by Dolph Lundgren in Rocky IV (1985), billed 'The Siberian Express'; he kills Apollo Creed in Las Vegas, loses to Rocky in Moscow, and returns training son Viktor in Creed II (2018).
Ivan Dresser
Ivan Dresser (Ivan Chandler Dresser, 1896–1956), American long-distance runner and Cornell graduate; won 1920 Antwerp Olympic gold in the 3000 m team race with Brown and Schardt, DNF'd the 5000 m final, later a General Motors manager.
Ivan Dvorny
Ivan Dvorny (Иван Васильевич Дворный, 1952-2015), Soviet basketball center, 1972 Munich Olympic gold medalist when the USSR beat the USA 51-50; later imprisoned for smuggling, ending his career early.
Ivan Eastman
Ivan Leclare Eastman (1884-1949), American sport shooter and 2nd Ohio Infantry corporal; won 1908 London Olympic gold in military rifle team (US 2,531 points) and placed =13th in the 1,000-yard free rifle.
Ivan Fuqua
Ivan Fuqua (Ivan William Fuqua, 1909–1994), American sprinter and coach; lead-off runner on the world-record US 4x400m relay gold medal team at the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics; later Brown University track coach.
Ivan Ivanov
Ivan Ivanov (Иван Иванов): name of several Olympians, chiefly a Bulgarian weightlifter born 1971, 1992 flyweight gold medalist, four-time world champion, and 2000 Sydney doping disqualification; also runners, swimmers, gymnasts, and snowboarders.
Ivan Ivanov (Иван Иванов) (tennis)
Ivan Ivanov (Иван Иванов), Bulgarian tennis player born 2008 in Varna; 2025 junior Wimbledon and US Open boys' champion, ITF Junior World Champion, Nadal Academy player, later ATP top 500.
Ivan Jurić
Ivan Jurić, Croatian football manager and former midfielder born 1975 in Split; Gasperini-school man-marking coach. Led Crotone to first Serie A promotion; later Torino, Roma, Southampton, Atalanta, and Monza from 2026.
Ivan Kizimov
Ivan Kizimov (Иван Михайлович Кизимов, 1928-2019), Soviet dressage rider, 1968 Olympic individual gold and 1972 team gold on the Ukrainian warmblood Ikhor; also world team champion 1970.
Ivan Koloff
Ivan Koloff, ring name of Canadian Oreal Donald Perras (1942-2017), was a Soviet-billed wrestling heel who ended Bruno Sammartino's seven-year WWWF title reign on January 18, 1971, and joined the WWE Hall of Fame in 2025.
Ivan Lendl
Ivan Lendl, born 1960 in Ostrava, Czechoslovakia, is a Czech-American Hall of Fame tennis player: eight Grand Slam singles titles, 94 ATP titles, 270 weeks at world No. 1, three straight US Opens, later coach of Andy Murray.
Ivan Litvinovich
Ivan Litvinovich (Іван Уладзіміравіч Літвіновіч), Belarusian trampoline gymnast born 2001 in Vileyka; only male trampolinist with two Olympic golds, winning Tokyo 2020 (61.715) and Paris 2024 (63.090) as an Individual Neutral Athlete.
Ivan Ljubičić
Ivan Ljubičić, Croatian tennis player born 1979 in Banja Luka; career-high world No. 3 in 2006, 10 ATP titles, 2005 Davis Cup winner; later coach of Federer and FFT high-performance director.
Ivan Mauger
Ivan Mauger, born Ivan Gerald Mauger, was a New Zealand speedway rider who won a record six world championships between 1968 and 1979, including three consecutive.
Iván Menczel
Iván Menczel (1941–2011), Hungarian midfielder with Salgótarjáni BTC, Tatabánya, and Vasas SC; won gold with Hungary at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, playing all six matches, scoring three goals including the equalizer in the 4–1 final win over Bulgaria.
Ivan Miljkovic
Ivan Miljkovic (Ivan Miljković, Иван Миљковић), born 1979, Serbian volleyball right-side attacker; Olympic gold 2000 with Yugoslavia, four-time World League MVP, 2002 CEV Champions League winner with Lube Macerata, International Volleyball Hall of Fame class of 2025.
Ivan Miroshnichenko
Ivan Miroshnichenko (Иван Мирошниченко), born 2004, Russian NHL left winger drafted 20th overall by Washington in 2022 after recovering from Hodgkin's lymphoma; Hershey Bears Calder Cup winner.
Ivan Moro
Iván Moro (Iván Moro Fernández), Spanish water polo player born 1974 in Madrid; Olympic gold at Atlanta 1996, world champion 1998 and 2001, brother of Daniel Moro.
Ivan Patzaichin
Ivan Patzaichin (1949–2021), Romanian sprint canoeist from Mila 23 in the Danube Delta; four Olympic golds and three silvers over five Games (1968–1984), 22 World Championship medals, later national coach and Danube Delta ecotourism founder.