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Hyder Ali (ಹೈದರ್ ಅಲಿ)
Hyder Ali (ಹೈದರ್ ಅಲಿ, c. 1720–1782), illiterate soldier-adventurer and de facto ruler of Mysore from 1761; fought the British in the First and Second Anglo-Mysore Wars; built a French-trained army with rockets; father of Tipu Sultan.
Hyman G. Rickover
Hyman G. Rickover (Chaim Gdala Rykower, 1900–1986), American admiral called the Father of the Nuclear Navy; directed Naval Reactors 1949–1982, built USS Nautilus, served 63 years, won two Congressional Gold Medals.
Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi
Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi (Ali Mohamed al-Fakheri), Libyan al-Qaeda trainer captured in Pakistan in 2001, rendered to Egypt, whose false Iraq-al-Qaeda WMD training claims helped justify the 2003 Iraq invasion; he died in Abu Salim prison, Libya, in May 2009.
Ibrahim Aqil (إبراهيم عقيل)
Ibrahim Aqil (إبراهيم عقيل), alias Tahsin or Hajj Abd al-Qader, was a senior Hezbollah commander on the Jihad Council who headed operations and the Radwan Force; killed in an Israeli strike on Beirut's Dahieh, September 20, 2024, aged 61, with a $7 million U.S. reward.
Ibrahim Babangida
Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (IBB), Nigerian Army general born 1941 in Minna, ruled Nigeria as military president 27 August 1985 to 26 August 1993 after ousting Buhari, led the 1986 Structural Adjustment Program, and is chiefly known for annulling the June 12, 1993 election won by MKO Abiola.
Ibrahim Traoré
Ibrahim Traoré (born 1988, Kéra, Bondokuy) is a Burkinabè army captain, President of Faso since the 30 September 2022 coup that ousted Paul-Henri Damiba; he leads MPSR2, extended military rule in 2024, and aligns Burkina Faso with Russia and the Alliance of Sahel States.
Idanthyrsus
Idanthyrsus, also transliterated Idanthyrsos, was a Scythian king who led the united Scythian resistance against Darius I's invasion around 513 BCE, as recounted by Herodotus.
Idriss Déby
Idriss Déby Itno (1952–2021), Chadian general and president 1990–2021, overthrew Hissène Habré in 1990, ruled via the MPS through contested elections, channeled oil revenues into patronage, and died fighting rebels in 2021, succeeded by his son Mahamat.
Ignác Martinovics
Ignác Martinovics (Martinovics Ignác, 1755–1795) was a Hungarian philosopher, former Franciscan friar, and police informant who led the Hungarian Jacobin movement of 1794–1795 and was beheaded in Buda.
Ignacio Zaragoza
Ignacio Zaragoza was a Mexican general and Secretary of War under President Benito Juárez who defeated French forces at the Battle of Puebla in 1862.
Ignacy Hryniewiecki
Ignacy Hryniewiecki (Grinevitsky, 1855/1856–1881), Polish-born Narodnaya Volya revolutionary who assassinated Tsar Alexander II with a bomb on 13 March 1881 in St. Petersburg, dying of his own blast; cited as possibly the first suicide bombing.
Igor Girkin
Igor Girkin (Igor Strelkov), born 1970, former FSB colonel, DPR defense minister and Sloviansk commander in 2014; convicted in absentia by The Hague in 2022 of murdering 298 people aboard MH17; jailed in Russia since 2023 for extremism.
Igor Gouzenko
Igor Gouzenko was a Soviet cipher clerk in Ottawa who defected in 1945 with documents exposing a Soviet spy network, often called the start of the Cold War.
Igor Kirillov (Игорь Анатольевич Кириллов) (general)
Igor Kirillov (Игорь Анатольевич Кириллов), Russian lieutenant general, chief of the RKhBZ nuclear, chemical, and biological defence troops from 2017; sanctioned by the UK in 2024 and assassinated by a scooter bomb in Moscow on 17 December 2024, claimed by Ukraine's SBU.
Ike Atkinson
Leslie "Ike" Atkinson (Sergeant Smack), 1925-2014, retired U.S. Army master sergeant from Goldsboro, North Carolina, who ran a Bangkok-to-North Carolina heroin network via duffel bags and hollowed furniture, not coffins, and was convicted in 1976.
Ike Clanton
Ike Clanton (Joseph Isaac Clanton, 1847-1887), Arizona cattleman of the Cowboy gang, brother of Billy Clanton; unarmed survivor of the 1881 O.K. Corral gunfight who filed murder charges against the Earps and was shot dead in Apache County in 1887.
Illegals Program
The Illegals Program, named by the U.S. Department of Justice, was a network of Russian SVR sleeper agents under non-official cover; ten were arrested June 27, 2010 in FBI Operation Ghost Stories and swapped in Vienna for four prisoners including Sergei Skripal.
Iltutmish (شمس الدین التتمش)
Iltutmish (شمس الدین التتمش), also written Altamash, was the third ruler of the Delhi Sultanate from 1211 to 1236, who gave it Delhi as its capital, won caliphal recognition, and introduced the silver tanka.
Ilyo Voyvoda
Ilyo Voyvoda (Ильо войвода), born Iliya Markov Popgeorgiev (1805–1898), was a Bulgarian hajduk leader and voivode who fought in nearly every campaign of the Bulgarian liberation struggle.
Imad Mughniyeh (عماد فايز مغنية)
Imad Mughniyeh was a Lebanese Shia militant who built and led Hezbollah's military wing, credited with the 1983 Beirut bombings, until his 2008 assassination in Damascus.
Imad-ul-Mulk
Imad-ul-Mulk was a title in the Delhi Sultanate, where the bearer was appointed Diwan-i-Ariz by Balban. A well-documented Mughal-era vizier with the same name was Ghazi-ud-Din.
Imai Kanehira
Imai Kanehira (今井兼平) was a Japanese warrior of the late Heian period, foster brother and retainer of Minamoto no Yoshinaka, who died with him at Awazu in 1184.
Imru Haile Selassie
Imru Haile Selassie (ዕምሩ ኃይለ ሥላሴ, 1892–1980) was an Ethiopian noble and soldier who commanded armies against Fascist Italy in 1935 and later served as regent and ambassador.
Ioan Culcer
Ioan Culcer, often spelled Ion Culcer, was a Romanian engineer general who commanded the First Army at the start of the 1916 campaign in World War I.
Ion Antonescu
Ion Antonescu (1882–1946), Romanian general and Marshal, dictator of Romania 1940–1944, Hitler's key eastern ally, overseer of the murder of about 220,000 Romanian Jews, overthrown 23 August 1944, tried 6–17 May 1946, executed 1 June 1946.
Ion Mihai Pacepa
Ion Mihai Pacepa (1928–2021), Romanian lieutenant general, first deputy director of foreign intelligence (DIE) and Ceaușescu's security adviser; defected to the US in July 1978, the highest-ranking Soviet-bloc intelligence defector, later author of Red Horizons.
Ira Hayes
Ira Hayes (Ira Hamilton Hayes, 1923-1955), Pima Indian Marine and Gila River tribal member, one of six flag raisers in Joe Rosenthal's 1945 Iwo Jima photograph; later honored by the Marine Corps War Memorial and Johnny Cash's ballad.
Irena Sendler
Irena Sendler (Irena Stanisława Sendlerowa, 1910–2008), Polish social worker and head of Żegota's children's section, pseudonym Jolanta, who smuggled Jewish children out of the Warsaw ghetto, survived a Gestapo death sentence, and was named Righteous Among the Nations in 1965.
Iryna Terekh
Iryna Terekh (Ірина Терех), born 1992 in Kharkiv, is a Ukrainian architect-turned-defense executive, CEO and CTO of Fire Point, maker of the FP-1 drone and FP-5 Flamingo missile and Ukraine's largest long-range weapons producer.
Isa Boletini
Isa Boletini (1864–1916) was an Albanian revolutionary commander and guerrilla leader from Kosovo who fought Ottoman rule and attended the declaration of Albanian independence at Vlora in 1912.