# People and Peoples (I)

I. L. Patterson
I L Patterson was an American politician. He was a Republican governor of Oregon from 1927 until 1929.

Ian Bannen
Ian Bannen is an actor. He was born in 1928.

Ian Carmichael
Ian Carmichael is an actor. He was born in 1920.

Ian Charleson
Ian Charleson was an actor. He died in 1990.

Ian Gilmour
Ian Gilmour is an actor.

Ian Hunter
Ian Hunter was an actor. He was born in 1900 and died in 1975.

Ian Jenble
Ian Jenble is an actor.

Ian Keith
Ian Keith was an actor. He was born in 1899 and died in 1960.

Ian McKellen
Ian McKellen is an actor. He was born in 1935.

Ian McShane
Ian McShane is an actor. He was born in 1942.

Ian Ogilvy
Ian Ogilvy is an actor. He was born in 1943.

Ian Wolfe
Ian Wolfe is an actor. He was born in 1896.

Iban
Iban is a replacement term for Dyak.

Ibo
The Ibo are a west African culture group occupying south east Nigeria and numbering about 18,000,000. Primarily cultivators, they inhabit the richly forested tableland, bounded by the river Niger to the west and the river Cross to the east. They are divided into five main groups, and their languages belong to the Kwa branch of the Niger-Congo family.

Ibra C. Blackwood
Ibra C Blackwood was an American politician. He was a Democratic governor of South Carolina from 1931 until 1935.

Ichabod Goodwin
Ichabod Goodwin was an American politician. He was a Republican governor of New Hampshire from 1859 until 1861.

Ida
Ida was a valiant Saxon king of Northumbria in 547.

Ida Kaminska
Ida Kaminska was an actress. She died in 1980.

Ida Lupino
Ida Lupino is an actress. She was born in 1914.

Ida Moore
Ida Moore was an actress. She was born in 1883 and died in 1964.

Ifugao
The Ifugao are an indigenous people of north Luzon in the Philippines, numbering approximately 70,000. In addition to practising shifting cultivation on highland slopes, they build elaborate terraced rice fields. Their language belongs to the Austronesian family. The Ifugao live in scattered hamlets and traditionally recognise a class of nobles, kadangya, who are obliged to provide expensive feasts on particular social occasions. Although indigenous beliefs remain, many Ifugao have adopted Christianity.

Ignacy Paderewski
Ignacy Paderewski was a Polish composer. He was born in 1860 and died in 1941. He composed Minuet in G.

Ignance Paderewski
Ignance Jan Paderewski was a Polish musician. He was born in 1860 at Kurilowka and died in 1941.

Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky was a Russian composer. He was born in 1882, dying in 1971. He wrote several ballets.

Ike Eisenmann
Ike Eisenmann is an actress.

Ilocano
The Ilocano are a polynesian people of Malay descent living in the north-west corner of Luzon in the Philippines. According to their tradition they arrived there via Borneo, Palawan and Mindoro before 200 BC.

Ilona Massey
Ilona Massey was an actress. She was born in 1912 and died in 1974.

Ilse Steppat
Ilse Steppat was an actress. She was born in 1917 and died in 1969.

Imaelda Staunton
Imaelda Staunton is an actress.

Iman
Iman is an actress. She was born in 1956.

Imeretians
The Imeretians are a western Georgian tribe of the Grazinian people.

Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant was a German philosopher. He was born at Konigsberg in 1724 and died in 1804. He wrote 'Critique of Pure Reason' and 'Critique of Practical Reason'.

Ina
Ina was King of the West Saxons. He ascended to the throne in 689. In 728 he resigned his crown and went on pilgrimage to Rome. He was renowned as a brave and wise ruler who left behind a code of laws.

Ina Claire
Ina Claire was an actress. She was born in 1892 and died in 1985.

Inca
The Inca were an Indian tribe of Peru.

Increase Sumner
Increase Sumner was an American politician. He was a Federalist governor of Massachusetts from 1797 until 1799.

Indulf
Indulf was King of Scotland from 954 to 962.

Inga Swenson
Inga Swenson is an actress. She was born in 1932.

Inger Stevens
Inger Stevens was an actress. She was born in 1935 and died in 1970.

Ingmari Carlssen
Ingmari Carlssen is an actress.

Ingrid Anderson
Ingrid Anderson is an actress.

Ingrid Bergman
Ingrid Bergman was a Swedish actress. She was born in 1915 at Stockholm and died in 1982. She was educated at the Royal Dramatic Theater School, Stockholm and quickly became a star in Swedish films. Her performance in Intermezzo, her eleventh film, brought her to the attention of American film producers. Her first film in the USA was an English-language version of Intermezzo. She appeared in more than twenty American and European films in the next thirty years. For her performances in Gaslight, Anastasia, and Murder on the Orient Express she received Academy Awards.

Ingrid Pitt
Ingrid Pitt is an actress. She was born in 1944.

Ingrid Thulin
Ingrid Thulin is an actress. She was born in 1929.

Inigo Jones
Inigo Jones was an English architect. He was born in 1573 and died in 1652.

Inmuttooyahlatlat
Inmuttooyahlatlat ('Chief Joseph') was an American Indian chief of the Nez Perce tribe. He was born in 1840 at Wallowa Valley and died in 1904. He succeeded to the leadership of the tribe in 1871 and led resistance to white encroachment, leading his people in the Nez Perce War of 1877, defeating the US army at several engagements while conducting a masterly retreat toward Canada. He at last surrendered to General Nelson A Miles on October the 5th 1877.

Innokenti Smoktunovsky
Innokenti Smoktunovsky is an actor. He was born in 1925.

International Chrysis
International Chrysis was an actor. He was born in 1951 and died in 1990.

Inuit
The Innuit are a people inhabiting the Arctic coasts of North America, the east islands of the Canadian Arctic, and the ice-free coasts of Greenland. Inuktitut, their language, has about 60,000 speakers; it belongs to the Eskimo-Aleut group. The Inuit object to the name Eskimos given them by the Algonquin Indians.

Ira Joy Chase
Ira Joy Chase was an American politician. He was a Republican governor of Indiana from 1891 until 1893.

Irene Cara
Irene Cara is an actress.

Irene Daily
Irene Daily is an actress.

Irene Dunne
Irene Dunne was an actress. She was born in 1901 and died in 1990.

Irene Handl
Irene Handl was an actress. She was born in 1902 and died in 1987.

Irene Hervey
Irene Hervey is an actress. She was born in 1910.

Irene Jacob
Irene Jacob was an actress.

Irene Manning
Irene Manning is an actress. She was born in 1917.

Irene Miracle
Irene Miracle is an actress.

Irene Papas
Irene Papas is an actress. She was born in 1926.

Irene Rich
Irene Rich is an actress. She was born in 1891.

Irene Ryan
Irene Ryan was an actress. She was born in 1903 and died in 1973.

Irene Tsu
Irene Tsu is an actress. She was born in 1943.

Irene Vanbrugh
Irene Vanbrugh was an actress. She was born in 1872 and died in 1949.

Irene Worth
Irene Worth is an actress. She was born in 1916.

Irina Muravyova
Irina Muravyova is an actress.

Irine Fenwick
Irine Fenwick was an actress. She was born in 1936.

Iris Berben
Iris Berben is an actress.

Irish
The Irish are people of Irish culture from Ireland or person of Irish descent. The Irish mainly speak English, though there are approximately 30,000-100,000 speakers of Irish Gaelic, a Celtic language belonging to the Indo-European family. Celtic tribes, the ancestors of the Irish, migrated to Ireland about 300 BC. Later known as Gaels (Irishmen), they settled on the Isle of Man and south west Scotland, and established colonies in west Wales, Devon, and Cornwall.

Irish Invincibles
The Irish Invincibles were a secret society established in Dublin in 1881 with the purpose to make history by killing tyrants. Each member was bound to obey orders, under pain of death.

Irish McCalla
Irish McCalla is an actress.

Iroquois
The Iroquois were a family of North American Indian tribes including the Mohawks, Oneidas and Senecas. They lived on the shores of the Mohawk river, and spread through to the Mississippi. Their expansion was checked by white settlers who wiped out several of the tribes and imprisoned others on squalid reservations.

Irving Berlin
Irving Berlin is an actor. He was born in 1888.

Irving Pichel
Irving Pichel was an actor. He was born in 1891 and died in 1954.

Irwin Corey
Irwin Corey is an actor.

Isa Miranda
Isa Miranda was an actress. She was born in 1905 and died in 1982.

Isaac Bickerstaff
Isaac Bickerstaff was an Irish dramatic writer. He was born in 1735 and died in 1812.

Isaac H. Williamson
Isaac H Williamson was an American politician. He was a Democratic-Republican governor of New Jersey from 1817 until 1829.

Isaac Hill
Isaac Hill was an American politician. He was a Democratic governor of New Hampshire from 1836 until 1839.

Isaac Johnson
Isaac Johnson was an American politician. He was a Democratic governor of Louisiana from 1846 until 1850.

Isaac Murphy
Isaac Murphy was an American politician. He was a Union governor of Arkansas from 1864 until 1868.

Isaac P. Gray
Isaac P Gray was an American politician. He was a Democratic governor of Indiana from 1880 until 1881.

Isaac Shelby
Isaac Shelby was an American politician. He was a Democratic-Republican governor of Kentucky from 1812 until 1816.

Isaac Singer
Isaac Merritt Singer was an American engineer. He was born in 1811 and died in 1875. He developed and patented a single-thread and chain-stitching sewing machine.

Isaac Tichenor
Isaac Tichenor was an American politician. He was a Federalist governor of Vermont from 1797 until 1807.

Isaac Todhunter
Isaac Todhunter was an English mathematician. He was bor in 1820 at Rye and died in 1884. He was senior wrangler at Cambridge and compiled the standard Euclid in 1862 as well as writing other books on mathematics.

Isaac Watts
Isaac Watts was an English poet and hymn-writer. he was born in 1674 and died in 1748.

Isaac Wilbur
Isaac Wilbur was an American politician. He was a governor of Rhode Island from 1806 until 1807.

Isaac Williams
Isaac Williams was a Welsh poet and theologian. He was was born in 1802 near Aberystwith and died in 1865. In 1831 he became a fellow of Trinity College, Oxford. His poems and prose writings are chiefly devotional, among the former being The Cathedral, The Christian Seasons', and among the latter, Devotional Commentary on the Gospel Narratives, The Apocalypse, and Sermons. Williams' religious views were of tho Tractarian school, and he was the author of the celebrated tract, 'Reserve in communicating Religious Knowledge'.

Isabel Dean
Isabel Dean is an actress. She was born in 1918.

Isabel Jeans
Isabel Jeans was an actress. She was born in 1891 and died in 1985.

Isabel Jewell
Isabel Jewell was an actress. She was born in 1913 and died in 1972.

Isabella Rossellini
Isabella Rossellini is an actress. She was born in 1955.

Isabelle Adjani
Isabelle Adjani is an actress. She was born in 1955.

Isabelle Huppert
Isabelle Huppert is an actress. She was born in 1955.

Isham G. Harris
Isham G Harris was an American politician. He was a Democratic governor of Tennessee from 1857 until 1862.

Iskandar Bey
see "Skanderbeg"

Isobel Elsom
Isobel Elsom was an actress. She was born in 1893 and died in 1981.

Israel Pickens
Israel Pickens was an American politician. He was a Democratic-Republican governor of Alabama from 1821 until 1825.

Israel Smith
Israel Smith was an American politician. He was a Democratic-Republican governor of Vermont from 1807 until 1808.

Israel Washburn, Jr
Israel Washburn Jr was an American politician. He was a Republican governor of Maine from 1861 until 1863.

Israeli
An Israeli is an inhabitant of Israel.

Ivan Desny
Ivan Desny is an actor. He was born in 1922.

Ivan Dixon
Ivan Dixon is an actor.

Ivan Mazeppa
Ivan Stepanovich Mazeppa was a Cossack nobleman. He was born in 1644, dying in 1709. He fought for independence for the Ukraine from Russia.

Ivan Mosjoukine
Ivan Mosjoukine was an actor. He was born in 1889 and died in 1939.

Ivan Pavlov
Ivan Petrovich Pavlov was a Russian psychologist. He was born in 1849 at Ryazan and died in 1936. He conducted work into conditioned reflexes using dogs.

Ivan Simpson
Ivan Simpson was an actor. He was born in 1875 and died in 1951.

Ivan Triesault
Ivan Triesault was an actor. He was born in 1898 and died in 1980.

Ivan Turgenev
Ivan Sergeievitch Turgenev was a Russian novelist. He was born in 1818 at Orel and died in 1883. He wrote 'A Sportsman's Sketches' in 1852 which dealt with country life and the plight of Russian serfs.

Ivan Vasoff
Ivan Vasoff was a Bulgarian novelist and poet. He was born in 1850. He developed and beautified the modern Bulgarian language.

Ivar Aasen
Ivar Andreas Aasen was a Norwegian philologist. He was born in 1813 and died in 1896. From Old Norwegian and various dialects he constructed the language Landsmal to replace the official Dano-Norwegian language and published 'Det norske folkesprog grammatik' in 1848, and 'Ordbog over det norske folkesprog' in 1850.

Ivor Francis
Ivor Francis is an actor.

Ivor Novello
Ivor Novello was an actor. He was born in 1893 and died in 1951.

Ivory Stone
Ivory Stone is an actress.

Ivy Angustain
Ivy Angustain is an actress.

Ivy StHelier
Ivy StHelier is an actress.

Izaak Walton
Izaak Walton was an English writer. He was born in 1593 at Stafford and died in 1683. He wrote 'The Compleat Angler', the first English nature book.

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