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136 Name(s) Begining with "I"

Name: IACOCCA, Lido "Lee", Anthony
Title: president Ford Motor Company; Chairman /CEO Chrysler Corp.

Name: IAGNEMMA, Karl,
Title: roboticist Michigan Institute of Technology (MIT)

Name: IAN, Janis,
Title: American songwriter/singer/multi-instrumental musician; "At Seventeen" "Society*s Child"1975 Grammy for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance (born: Janis Eddy Fink)

Name: IANNIELLO, Matthew "Matty the Horse",
Title: alleged NY capo Genovese organized crime family; arrested

Name: IBERT, Jacques,
Title: French composer; classical music; won Prix de Rome 1919 for cantata “Le poète et la fée” “Escales”; scored Orson Welles* version of Macbeth

Name: IBIS, Meryl,
Title: field organizer for Democratic congressional candidate Al WEED; resigned (October 2006) after she referred to Sen. George ALLEN R-Virginia as "Macacawitz"; IBIS did exactly what she and WEED accused George ALLEN of doing; WEED challenging Rep. Virgil H. GOODE Jr. R-Virginia for congress

Name: IBRAHIM, Sabawi,
Title: Saddam Hussein's half-brother, #36 on the "most-wanted" people in Iraq and six of diamonds in the deck of 55

Name: IBRAHIM, Dawood,
Title: Alleged international gangster & terrorist suspected Al Qaeda supporter in India

Name: IBRAHIM, Kareem,
Title: Trinidad; taken into custody in Trinidad; arrested for allegedly plotting to blow up a fuel line that feeds John F. Kennedy International Airport; others named in the case: Abdul KADIR; Russell DEFREITAS; Abdel NUR; June 2007

Name: IBRAHIM, Abdullah,
Title: South African pianist/composer; member band “The Jazz Epistles” - Sophiatown; soundtrack for award winning film “Chocolat”; father New York undeground rapper Jean GRAE (born Adolph Johannes BRAND; aka: Dollar BRAND)

Name: IBRAIHIM, Muktar, Said
Title: suspect in the failed July 21

Name: IBSEN, Henrik,
Title: Norwegian playwright/poet “The Burial Mound” “Brand” “Peer Gynt”; most performed play “Hedda Gabler”

Name: ICAHN, Carl, C.
Title: Investor; reputation for hostile take over of companies

Name: ICE CUBE, ,
Title: actor/composer/producer/writer: films - TV -albums; films: “Are We There Yet?” “Barbershop 2: Back in Business” “Three Kings” “Boyz n the Hood”; Album/songs: “Hand of the Dead Body” “Down for Whatever” “Natural Born Killaz”; TV: originator West Coast hip hop gangsta rap (born; O*Shea JACKSON)

Name: ICKE, David,
Title: former professional football player/ reporter/BBC television sports presenter/British Green Party national spokes person; claimed that he was God or the son of God; promotes New Age philosophy and apocalyptic conspiracism and what some call anti-Semitic views

Name: ICKES, Harold,
Title: deputy White House chief of staff for President Bill Clinton; director Media Fund, a 527 committee; son of Harold L. Ickes: Secretary of the Interior under Franklin D. Roosevelt

Name: ICKES, Harold, LeClair
Title: Secretary of the Interior 1933 to 1946: appointed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt*s and was known as point man for New Deal

Name: IDLE, Eric,
Title: English comedian/song writer; member of Monty Python comedy group; wrote: "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life" for film “Life of Brian”; co-creator of “The Rutlesband” parodied The Beatles; films: “Nuns on the Run” (with Robbie Coltrane); “Splitting Heirs” “Monty Python and the Holy Grail”; actor in TV series “Suddenly Susan”

Name: IDOL, Billy,
Title: English singer/muscian; "White Wedding" and "Dancing with Myself"; first LP - “Rebel Yell”; portrayed himself in film “The Wedding Singer” with Adam SANDLER and Drew BARRYMORE

Name: IENNER, Don,
Title: CEO Sony Music Label Group

Name: IFANS, Rhys,
Title: Welsh actor films/stage; performed at Royal National Theatre - London and Royal Exchange Theatre - Manchester; films: “Midsummer Dream” “Vanity Fair” “Little Nicky” “Notting Hill”

Name: IGER, Robert, A.
Title: CEO, Walt Disney Company; formerly President and COO Capital Cities/ABC until that company was purchased by Disney.

Name: IGLESIAS, Julio,
Title: Spanish singer sold 250 million records and released nearly 80 records; "Begin The Beguine" "To All The Girls I*ve Loved Before" duet with Willie Nelson; "All Of You" duet with Diana Ross; “Starry Night” son Enrique also singing star(born: Julio José Iglesias de la Cueva)

Name: IGLESIAS, Enrique,
Title: Spanish singer; “Por Amarte” “Vivir” Grammy winner; son of Julio IGLESIAS

Name: IGNATIEFF, Michael,
Title: Canadian scholar/author of Russian descent; “The Russian Album” - 1987 (winner of the 1987 Governor General*s Award for Non-Fiction)

Name: IGNATIUS (Saint), ,
Title: principal founder and first Superior General of the Society of Jesus - religious order of Catholic Church known as Jesuits; beatified by Pope Paul V and canonized by Pope Gregory XV (aka: Íñigo López de Loyola)

Name: IJAZ, Mansoor,
Title: former CLINTON admin. Middle Eastern advisor; calls on Muslims to “root out the enemy in their midst”; calls Islamic leaders have been stunning failure to eradicate cancerous al-Qaeda.

Name: IKEDA, Daisaku,
Title: president of Soka Gakkai International (SGI); Buddhist association of more than 12 million members in more than 190 countries and territories; founded: Soka schools (from kindergarten through university level); Min-On Concert Association; Komeito and Tokyo Fuji Art Museum

Name: ILES, George,
Title: author “Library of Little Masterpieces - in Forty-Four Volumes”

Name: ILLARIONOV, Andrei,
Title: economic adviser to the Russian president Vladimir PUTIN resigned government saying “he could no longer work in a government that had done away with political freedoms”

Name: ILLICH, Ivan,
Title: American/Austrian sociologist polymath/polemicist; most celebrated work “Deschooling Society”

Name: ILOILO, Ratu, Josefa (VATU-ULUIVUDA)
Title: president, Fiji

Name: IMBRUGLIA, Natalie,
Title: Australian singer/actress; TV: soap “Neighbours”; music: "Torn" “Left of the Middle” “White Lilies Island”

Name: IMHOFF, John,
Title: founded Industrial Engineering Department at the University of Arkansas

Name: IMMELT, Jeffrey,
Title: CEO General Electric

Name: IMRE, Tammy,
Title: Stratford-CN. woman-30 pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of risk of injury to a minor for having sex with an 8-year-old neighbor boy; given 6-year prison sentence, 10 years probation and register as sex offender

Name: IMUS, Don,
Title: Radio talk show host

Name: INCE, Paul,
Title: football player Manchester United-England; first black player to captain the England team; named one of "100 Great Black Britons"

Name: INDIANA, Robert,
Title: American artist best known image is word "LOVE" in a square with a tilted "O"; pop art movement; theatrical set/costume designer for Virgil Thomson*s The Mother of Us All - based on life of suffragist Susan B. ANTHONY

Name: INDURAIN, Miguel,
Title: Spanish cyclist; retired; first to consecutively win Tour de France from 1991 to 1995

Name: INDYK, Martin,
Title: Director, Saban Center for Middle East Policy

Name: INFANTE, Guillermo, Cabrera
Title: Cuban author/essayist/translator/critic; “Tres Tristes Tigres” (English: “Three Trapped Tigers”) (nom de plume: G. Caín.)

Name: ING, Dean,
Title: American author; science fiction/ techno-thriller; United States Air Force/aerospace engineer/university professor with doctorate in communications theory; “Soft Targets” “Home Sweet Home” “Blood of Eagles” “Silent Thunder” “The Rackham Files”

Name: INGALLS, John, James
Title: member of Wyandotte constitutional convention 1859 to make Kansas a free state; said to have coined the state motto: Ad Astra per Aspera ("To the stars through difficulties"); elected to U.S. Senate in 1873 succeeding Samuel C. Pomeroy; Ingalls served for 18 years;

Name: INGE, William, Ralph
Title: clergyman/English author/Anglican prelate/professor of divinity at Cambridge England; columnist 25-years for Evening Standard; Prime Minister Asquith to be the Dean of St. Paul*s Cathedral in London; "Christian Mysticism"

Name: INGEBRETSEN, Robert, B.
Title: inventor - compact discs

Name: INGELOW, Jean,
Title: English poet/novelist “A RhymingThe Story of Doom and other Poems” “Chronicle of Incidents and Feelings” “Stories told to a Child”; "Sailing beyond Seas" and "When Sparrows build in Supper at the Mill" provided lyrics for popular songs of the day

Name: INGEROE, Odd, Olsen
Title: Governor, Svalbard

Name: INGERSOLL, Robert, Green
Title: American lawyer/political leader/orator defending atheism; raised the 11th Illinois Cavalry Regiment during American Civil War and took command fighting in the Battle of Shiloh; gave nominating speech for James G. BLAINE for US President; speech known as the "Plumed Knight"

Name: INGHAM, Bernard,
Title: journalist; English Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher*s former press secretary

Name: INGLESIAS, Julio,
Title: singer "To All the Girls I*ve Loved Before"

Name: INGLIS, Bob,
Title: USA Congressman, SC-R, Dist. 04

Name: INGRAHAM, Laura,
Title: American talk radio host/author/attorney/speechwriter President Ronald REAGAN Administration;law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence THOMAS; CBS commentator and hosted the program "Watch It!" on MSNBC; launched "The Laura Ingraham Show"

Name: INGRAM, Martha, Rivers
Title: COB/CEO/entrepreneur/philanthropist Ingram Industries

Name: INGSTAD, Helge,
Title: Norway explorer/historian; he and his wife Anne STINE found the proof of Viking settlement in North America at the northern tip of the Long Peninsula of Newfoundland; L*Anse aux Meadows: National Historic Site of Canada; now World Heritage Site; authored: “The Land of Feast and Famine” chronicling experiences in Canadian Northwest Territories

Name: INHOFE, James,
Title: USA Senator, OK, Republican

Name: INMAN, Bobby, Ray
Title: retired U.S. admiral Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency; Director of Naval Intelligence; Director of the National Security Agency; Board of Directors of Council on Foreign Relations; President Bill Clinton*s first choice to succeed Les Aspin as Secretary of Defense but failed to gain Senate consent

Name: INNES, Laura,
Title: actress/director/writer TV/Films; TV: "Another World" “See Jane Run” "ER" “Taking Back Our Town”; films: “Deep Impact” “Can*t Stop Dancing”; director: "The West Wing" "ER"

Name: INOUYE, Daniel,
Title: Former USA Senator, HI, Democrat

Name: INSLEE, Jay,
Title: USA Congressman, WA-D, Dist. 01

Name: IOMMI, Tony,
Title: English guitarist; member Black Sabbath heavy metal band; says working-relation with Ian Anderson led to success of Black Sabbath; "Paranoid" "War Pigs" "N.I.B." "The Wizard" "Heaven & Hell” “Cross Purposes” “Iommi “; Rolling Stone*s List of 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time

Name: IONESCO, Eugene,
Title: French/Romanian playwright; considered one of foremost writers in theater of the absurd; “The Bald Soprano” “Rhinoceros” “Hunger and Thirst”; Theoretical writings: “Fragments of a Journal” “Journeys among the Dead”

Name: IPARRAQUIRRE, Soledad,
Title: Suspected Basque Separatist leader of ETA, captured by French Police

Name: IQBAL, Asif,
Title: Guantanamo Bay-Afghanistan detainee suing Donald Rumsfeld, USA Sec. Def.

Name: IQBAL, Javed,
Title: 42-yoa New York man; operator Brooklyn-based company HDTV Ltd.; arrested for broadcasting Hezbollah television station al-Manar a U.S. Treasury Department designated terrorist entity

Name: IQBAL, Javed,
Title: 42-yoa New York man; operator Brooklyn-based company HDTV Ltd.; arrested for broadcasting Hezbollah television station al-Manar a U.S. Treasury Department designated terrorist entity

Name: IQBAL PhD., Allama, Muhammad
Title: Indian Muslim; considered one of pre-eminent founding fathers of Pakistan with Muhammad Ali Jinnah; poet/philosopher/thinker; ALLAHABAD delivered speech outlining his vision for a Muslim majority state in the northwestern part of India (altspl: Mohammed IQBAL)

Name: IREDELL, James,
Title: USA Supreme Court associate justice 1790-1799; nominated: President George WASHINGTON; floor leader of the Federalists in the North Carolina U.S. Constitution Ratification Convention; Attorney General of North Carolina

Name: IRELAND, Justus, A.
Title: Alleged Earth Liberation Front eco-terrorist accused of setting fire at Salt Lake Lumber Co.

Name: IRELAND, Patricia,
Title: president National Organization for Women; authored: autobiography, "What Women Want"

Name: IRELAND, Kathy,
Title: fashion model/actress TV-films; TV: “Bandit: Beauty and the Bandit” “Twice Upon a Christmas” “Intimate Portrait: Kathy Ireland”; films: “Backfire!” “Gridlock”; born 1963 Santa Barbara-CA

Name: IRELAND, Samuel, William Henry
Title: forger of would-be Shakespearean documents and plays; produced alleged new William Shakespeare play - “Vortigern and Rowena” which he forged; play lasted only one performance; republished as his own play

Name: IRELAND, Jay,
Title: President - NBC Universal Television Stations

Name: IRIARTE, Mikel, Albizu
Title: Suspected Basque Separatist leader of ETA, captured by French Police

Name: IRIS, Donnie,
Title: American singer; former lead singer group The Jaggerz; with group: Wild Cherry had hit "Play That Funky Music"

Name: IRONS, Jeremy,
Title: actor "M. Butterfly" "Die Hard: With a Vengeance" "The Merchant of Venice"

Name: IRONS, Jack,
Title: American drummer; performed with Red Hot Chili Peppers and Pearl Jam; clinically depressed since childhood friend and bandmate -Hillel Slovak - died of heroin overdose June1988

Name: IRONSIDES, Michael,
Title: actor "Scanners" "Top Gun" "Total Recall"

Name: IRVINE, Eddie,
Title: auto racing driver; Formula Three moved to Formula 3000 in 1989; started driving for Jordan as a Japanese Formula 3000 driver; moved to Ferrari later helped establish Jaguar team in 2000

Name: IRVINE, Andrew "Sandy",
Title: one of first to attempt to scale Mount Everest with George MALLORYJune-1924; in 1999 - Mallory*s body was found at around 28000 ft (8530 m) on the North Face of Everest by an American expedition; not determined as to whether they reached the summit; as school boy submitted to the English War Office a design for an interrupter gear which would allow a machine to fire from a propeller plane without damaging the blades

Name: IRVING, David,
Title: British historian in Vienna jail while he is charged with denying the Holocaust happened

Name: IRVING, John,
Title: American author/screenwriter; “The 158-Pound Marriage” “The World According to Garp” “The Hotel New Hampshire” “A Prayer for Owen Meany”; Academy Award winning screenwriter for “The Cider House Rules”

Name: IRVING, Julius,
Title: basketball player Virginia Squires and the New York Nets in American Basketball Association; with Philadelphia 76ers in National Basketball Associatiion; won three championships; 4-Most Valuable Player Awards; won 3-scoring titles; NBA*s 50th Anniversary All-Time team; NBA Hall of Fame

Name: IRVING, Washington,
Title: American author "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" "Rip van Winkle"; also American ambassador to Britain and later to Spain

Name: IRVING, Clifford,
Title: American author; famed for "authorized autobiography" of Howard HUGHES which turned out to be a hoax; claimed to have access to manuscript by James PHELAN - who was ghostwriting memoirs of Noah DIETRICH - former business manager to HUGHES; other books: “On A Darkling Plain” “The Hoax” “The Death Freak” “Final Argument”

Name: IRVING, Amy,
Title: American actress; films: “Carrie” “Crossing Delancey” “I*m Not Rappaport” “Deconstructing Harry” “Traffic”; ex-wife film director Steven Spielberg; prenuptial agreement settlement with Spielberg giving her an estimated $100-million in their divorce

Name: IRVING, Edward,
Title: clergy established Irvingite or Holy Catholic Apostolic Church-1832; authored: “For the Oracles of God - Four Orations” “For Judgment to come” “Babylon and Infidelity foredoomed”

Name: IRVING, Henry,
Title: considered one of the famous stage actors of all time; Digby Grant in James Albery*s “Two Roses”; Mathias in “The Bells”; performed most of Shakespeare*s plays (born: John Brodribb)

Name: IRVING, David, John Cawdell
Title: author British Holocaust denier; “Hitler*s War” “Goebbels - Mastermind of the "Third Reich” considered not just a historian of Nazism - but a Nazi historian; "Uprising!” about 1956 revolt in Hungary; arrested in Austria charged with denying the Holocaust-a crime in Austria; trial scheduled February 2006

Name: IRWIN, James,
Title: Astronaut, Apollo Program, walked on the moon

Name: IRWIN, Steve,
Title: Australian TV host "Crocodile Hunter"; killed by stingray September 2006 during filming nature show.

Name: IRWIN, William, Henry
Title: American author/writer/journalist wrote poetry collection “The Hamadryads” 1904

Name: IRWIN, Bill,
Title: American clown and actor: degree in theater arts and from the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Clown College; TV: “Northern Exposure” "Mr. Noodle" in the "Elmo*s World" segment of the PBS* Sesame Street; film: “My Blue Heaven”; Tony Award for Best Actor in Edward ALBEE*S Who*s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Name: ISAAC, Heinrich,
Title: Belgium composer “Innsbruck - ich muss dich lassen”

Name: ISAACS, Jason,
Title: English actor

Name: ISAAK, Chris,
Title: American composer/actor; composer: “Married to the Mob” “Eyes Wide Shut” “The Family Man” “Blue Velvet”; actor: “Married to the Mob” “The Silence of the Lambs” “That Thing You Do!”; TV: "From the Earth to the Moon"

Name: ISAIAS, Afworki,
Title: President, Eritrea

Name: ISAKSON, John “Johnny”, Hardy
Title: USA Senator R-Georgia; 6th Congressional district in the House from 1999 to 2004; preceded by: Zell MILLER D-Georgia; often referred to as a RINO (Republican In Name Only)

Name: ISDELL, Neville,
Title: CEO Coca-Cola Co.

Name: ISHERWOOD, Christopher,
Title: American/English author; "Mr. Norris Changes Trains"; book of short stories - “Goodbye to Berlin”; stories subsequently inspired play “I Am A Camera” and musical “Cabaret”

Name: ISHIGURO, Kazuo,
Title: English/Japanese author won the 1986 Whitbread Prize for “An Artist of the Floating World”; 1989 Booker Prize for “The Remains of the Day” (film taken from book was nominated for 9-Academy Awards) “A Pale View of Hills” “The Unconsoled” “When We Were Orphans”

Name: ISHIHARA, Shintaro,
Title: Tokyo Japan Governor

Name: ISHIHARA, Shintaro,
Title: Japanese author/nationalist/ populist/governor of Tokyo; co-authored with then-Sony chairman Akio MORITA: “The Japan That Can Say No” advocating that his fellow countrymen stand up to the United States; claimed in “Playbody” magazine interview Chinese “Nanjing Massacre never happened" and was “Chinese creation" in WWII

Name: ISIKOFF, Micheal,
Title: reporter, Newsweek Magazine; wrote Monica Lewinsky scandal but article was killed by top Newsweek executives hours before publication; Clinton/Lewinsky story subsequently broke first on Matt Drudge "DrudgeReport.com" website Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse; "Uncovering Clinton: A Reporter’s Story, was named Best Non-Fiction Book of 1999; reported a Islamic Qur'an flusheddown a toilet at Guantanamo"; story was later retracted.

Name: ISLAM, Yusuf,
Title: singer, peace activist (aka: Cat STEVENS)

Name: ISLAM, Umar,
Title: London-England man of Pakistani origan; alleged al Qaeda terrorist; one of nineteen arrested in plotting to use liquid explosives in sports drink cans to become suicide bombers to take down 6 to 10 airliners; targets thought to be United Airlines - Continental Airlines and American Airlines were specifically which fly from London to the America (August 2006); also arrested: Abdula Ahmed ALI; Cossor ALI; Nabeel HUSSAIN; Tanvir HUSSAIN; Umair HUSSAIN; Waseem KAYANI; Assan Abdullah KHAN; Waheed Arafat KHAN; Osman Adam KHATIB; Abdul Muneem PATEL; Tayib RAUF; Muhammed Usman SADDIQUE; Assad SARWAR; Ibrahim SAVANT; Amin Asmin TARIQ; Shamin Mohammed UDDIN; Waheed ZAMAN

Name: ISOCRATES, ,
Title: Greek rhetorician; one of ten Attic orators considered the greatest orators and logographers (hired courtroom speech writer) of classical era Greece (5th century BC–4th century BC); wrote: autobiographical Antidosis and educational texts “Against the Sophists”

Name: ISRAEL, Steve,
Title: USA Congressman, NY, Dist. 02

Name: ISRAEL, Lee,
Title: biographical author “Miss Tallulah Bankhead” “Dorothy Kilgallen” “Estee Lauder: Beyond the Magic”

Name: ISSA, Darrell,
Title: USA Congressman, Republican, District 49

Name: ISSA, Mijbil,
Title: Sunni member of the Iraq constitutional committee assassinated along with fellow committee member Sunni Dhamin HUSSEIN; murdered by al-Qaeda terrorist to end Sunni participation in the constitutional committee

Name: ISSIGONIS, Alec, Arnold Constantine
Title: car designer; credited with development of the Austin Mini in 1959; designer with British Motor Corporation (BMC); quote: "A camel is a horse designed by committee"

Name: ISSMAN, Matthew,
Title: Vice president of the Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association

Name: ISTOOK, Ernest, J.
Title: USA Congressman, OK-R, Dist. 05

Name: ITO, Lance, Allan
Title: Los Angeles judge presided in OJ Simpon murder trial

Name: ITO, Joichi,
Title: Japanese-born/American-educated/activist/ entrepreneur/venture capitalist; founded PSINet Japan - Digital Garage - Infoseek Japan

Name: ITOH, Iccho,
Title: mayor Nagasaki-Japan; promoted Nagasaki Peace Declaration 2003

Name: IVANISEVIC, Goran,
Title: Croatian tennis player; won first Olympic medal for his newly independent country of Croatia; BBC Sports Personality of the Year; Overseas Personality Award

Name: IVANOV, Sergei,
Title: defense minister Russia; recinded ABC News Russian press credentials for airing interview with Chechen warlord/terrorist Shamil BASAYEV conducted by Russian journalist Andrei BABITSKY

Name: IVANOV, Igor, Sergeyevich
Title: former foreign minister Russia; appointed by Prime Minister Mikhail FRADKOV to post of Secretary of the Security Council; key in mediating deal between Georgian President Eduard SHEVARDNADZE and opposition parties during Georgia*s "Rose Revolution" 2003

Name: IVANOV, Yevgeny,
Title: Soviet Captain engaged in espionage in England; Soviet naval attaché at the Russian embassy in London 1950; attemped to recruit English prostitute Christine KEELER to get military secrets from John Dennis PROFUMO former British Cabinet minister in Prime Minister Harold MACMILLAN government

Name: IVERSON, Allen,
Title: American professional basketball player

Name: IVERSON, Kenneth, E.
Title: developer APL programming language

Name: IVERSON, F., Kenneth
Title: former CEO Nucor Corporation

Name: IVES, David,
Title: Johnson American playwright; “All in the Timing” “Words-Words-Words” “Sure Thing” “Philip Glass Buys a Loaf of Bread” “Don Juan in Chicago”; awarded Outer Critic*s; John Gassner Playwriting Award; 1994 George and Elizabeth Martin Playwriting Award

Name: IVES, Charles,
Title: American composer of classical music; “The Unanswered Question” written for trumpet- four flutes and string quartet; Piano Sonata No. 2: Concord-Massachusetts 1840-60; Symphony No. 4 (1910-16)

Name: IVES, Burl, Icle Ivanhoe
Title: folk singer/author/actor; "Lavender Blue" (his first hit - a folk song from the 17th century) "Foggy Foggy Dew" (a colonial American tune) "Blue-Tailed Fly" (an old Civil War tune) and "Big Rock Candy Mountain"; films; “Show Boat” “East of Eden” “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” “The Big Country”; described by Carl Sandburg as "the mightiest ballad singer born in any century"; once jailed in Mona-Utah for singing "Foggy Foggy Dew" considered a bawdy song

Name: IVESTER, M., Douglas
Title: COB/CEO former Coca-Cola Company ; Deer Run Investments; Emory University Board of Trustees

Name: IVINS, Molly,
Title: American political commentator/journalist/author; written for “Esquire” “The Atlantic Monthly” “The Nation” “Harper*s” “The Progressive” “The Progressive Populist” “Mother Jones”; TV/radio commentator NPR; The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer; 60 Minutes; Bushwhacked: Life in George W. Bush*s America; column: “Bush-hater strikes again”

Name: IVORY, Elenora, Giddings
Title: Director, Washington Office, National Ministeries Division

Name: IVORY, James, Francis
Title: American film director/producer; firrst film: “Venice: Theme and Variations” named by The New York Times ten best non-theatrical films of the year 1957 - was thesis film for degree in cinema at USC; films: “A Room with a View” “Maurice” “Mr. and Mrs. Bridge” “Howards End” “The Remains of the Day” “Surviving Picasso”; 8-Academy Awards nominations; 3-Academy Awards

Name: IVORY, “Sir” James,
Title: Scottish mathematician; known for analytical expression for the rectification of the ellipse; papers on Cubic Equations (1799) and Kepler*s Problem (1802) facilitate handling of algebraic formulae

Name: IWAMOTO, Kevin,
Title: president National Business Travel Association

Name: IYER, Pico,
Title: British-born Indian freelance journalist/author; contributed to: “Time” magazine “Harper*s” magazine “Conde Nast Traveler” “The New York Review of Books” “Video Night in Kathmandu: And Other Reports from the Not-so-Far East” (with: Robin Desser) “Sun after Dark: Flights into the Foreign”

Name: IZETBEGOVIC, Alija,
Title: Bosniak activist/philosopher/politician/author; president of Bosnia and Herzegovina 1990 to 1996; member of Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina; authored: “Islam Between East and West”

Name: IZZARD, Eddie,
Title: English comedian/actor; describes himself as an “executive” or “action” transvestite and as “male tomboy”; impressionist/characterist; films: “Ocean*s Twelve” “The Avengers”; British Comedy Awards in 1993

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