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- Idan Ofer1955Israeli shipping and energy magnate (Israel Corp), son of Sammy Ofer.
- Idan Reichel1977Israeli musician who founded the genre-blending Idan Raichel Project.
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- Ignaz Bruell1846Pianist and composer
- Ignaz Friedman1882Classical pianist
- Ignaz Moscheles1794Pianist and composer
- Igor AleinerPhysicist (condensed matter theory)
- Igor Dzyaloshinsky1931Physicist
- Igor Kipnis1930Harpsichordist
- Igor Klebanov1962Physicist
- Igor Krichever1950Integrable systems and algebraic geometry
- Igor Landau1944French business executive, former CEO of Aventis and chairman of Sanofi.
- Igor Levit1987Russian-German pianist acclaimed for his Beethoven sonata cycle
- Igor Melchuk1932Linguist who developed Meaning-Text Theory of natural language.
- Igor Oistrakh1931Classical violinist
- Igor Rodnianski2023Mathematician of general relativity and wave equations
- Igor Tyutin2009Co-discoverer of BRST symmetry in quantum field theory
- Ike Barinholtz1977Comedian and actor ('MADtv', 'The Mindy Project', 'Blockers')
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- Ilan Pappe1954Israeli-born historian and author.
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- Ilana Vered1943Classical pianist
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- Ilya IlfAuthor
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- Ira Hirsh1922Psychologist and pioneer of psychoacoustics
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- Ira LevinAuthor
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- Ira Progoff1921Depth psychologist who developed the Intensive Journal method
- Ira Rennert1975Investor and Industrialist
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- Irene Fine1936Faced with a mandatory internship for her PhD but nowhere she could teach courses on…
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- Irvin StiglitzComputer & information scientist
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- Irving Berlin1942White Christmas - Best-Selling Single
- Irving Brecher1944Screenwriter of Meet Me in St. Louis and Marx Brothers films
- Irving CaesarPoet / lyricist
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- Irving Howe1920Critic and historian of Jewish New York (World of Our Fathers)
- Irving Janis1918Social psychologist who developed the concept of groupthink
- Irving KahalPoet / lyricist
- Irving Kaplansky1917Algebra
- Irving KravisEconomist
- Irving LaytonPoet / lyricist
- Irving London1918Hematologist and physician-scientist
- Irving Lorge1905Educational psychologist known for research on intelligence and readability
- Irving Louis Horowitz1929Political sociologist and founder of Transaction publishers
- Irving Millman1923Microbiologist who co-developed the hepatitis B vaccine and blood test.
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- Irving S. Sigal1988Merck molecular biologist
- Irving Segal1918Functional analysis
- Irving StoneAuthor
- Irving Thalberg1932Head of production at MGM in the 1930s
- Irving WallaceAuthor
- Irving Weissman1939Biologist who first isolated blood-forming stem cells, a landmark in stem cell science.
- Irwin Cotler1940Canadian jurist and former Justice Minister known internationally as a human-rights…
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- Irwin I. Shapiro1929Astrophysicist who discovered the Shapiro time delay and pioneered radar astronomy of the…
- Irwin Jacobs1933Co-founded Qualcomm and pioneered CDMA wireless communications.
- Irwin Kostal1911Film music arranger
- Irwin Oppenheim1929Theoretical chemist known for nonequilibrium statistical mechanics
- Irwin Rose1926Awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation.
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- Isaac Abravanel1437Statesman, Bible commentator, and Jewish philosopher of the late medieval period
- Isaac Alfasic. 1080Codifier whose halakhic compendium (the Rif) became a foundation of Jewish law
- Isaac Asimov1950Science Fiction Author
- Isaac Babel1894Russian short-story writer ('Red Cavalry', 'Odessa Tales')
- Isaac Bashevis Singer1978Novelist
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- Isaac D'Israeli1791Author of Curiosities of Literature, the Sephardic man of letters who never left Judaism…
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- Isaac Djerassi1922Oncologist who pioneered platelet transfusion and high-dose methotrexate chemotherapy
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- Isaac Herzog202111th President of Israel (since 2021)
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- Isaac ibn Ghayyat1038Spanish poet, liturgist, and Talmudist who composed a large body of piyyutim.
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- Isaac Karabtchevsky1934Orchestra conductor
- Isaac Larian1979Founded MGA Entertainment, the world's largest privately owned toy company
- Isaac Levitan1860Russian painter, master of the 'mood landscape'
- Isaac Luria1534Foremost kabbalist, founder of Lurianic Kabbalah
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- Isaac Pereire1852Cofondateur du Crédit mobilier, théoricien du crédit et bâtisseur du réseau ferroviaire…
- Isaac Rosenberg1890British First World War poet ('Break of Day in the Trenches')
- Isaac Rubin1944Social psychologist who pioneered the empirical study of romantic love
- Isaac Schneersohn1943Fondateur du Centre de documentation juive contemporaine, origine du Mémorial de la Shoah
- Isaac Stern1960Acclaimed American concert violinist
- Isaak Dunaevsky1900Soviet film and song composer
- Isaak Khalatnikov1919Physicist
- Isaak Kikoin1959Physicist
- Isaak Pomeranchuk1913Physicist
- Isabella Vengerova1877Pianist and teacher
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- Isaiah Berlin1909British political philosopher and historian of ideas, known for 'Two Concepts of Liberty'…
- Isak Andic1984Turkish-Spanish entrepreneur, founder of the clothing retailer Mango in Barcelona in…
- Ishai Golan1973Israeli actor known for leading roles in Israeli film and television.
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- Ishtar (Esther Zach)1968Israeli singer (Alabina)
- Isidor Fankuchen1904Crystallographer who advanced X-ray studies of biological molecules including viruses
- Isidor Gunsberg1891World Chess Championship challenger against Steinitz (1891)
- Isidor Natanson1906Real analysis and theory of functions
- Isidor Rabi1944Resonance method for recording the magnetic properties of atomic nuclei, the basis of NMR…
- Isidor Straus1896Co-owner of Macy's with his brother Nathan
- Isidor Traube1860Physical chemist known for research on surface tension and colloids
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- Israel Belkind1882Founder of Bilu, the first organized group of Zionist pioneers of 1882, co-designer of…
- Israel Gelfand1913Functional analysis
- Israel Gohberg1928Operator theory and integral equations
- Israel Goldstein1896American Jewish Congress president who publicly condemned church bombings and mobilized…
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- Israel Kleiner1885Physiological chemist whose early experiments contributed to the discovery of insulin
- Israel Najarac. 1555Hebrew poet and liturgist whose hymns, including 'Yah Ribbon,' entered the synagogue…
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- Israel Scheffler1923Philosopher of science, language, and education
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- Israel Yinon1956Orchestra conductor
- Israel Zangwill1864British author who coined 'The Melting Pot' ('Children of the Ghetto')
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- Istvan Kertész1929Orchestra conductor
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- Ithiel de Sola Pool1917Political scientist
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- Itzhak Perlman1945Classical violinist
- Itzik Cohen1968Israeli actor known for the series Fauda.
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- Iva Greenwald1958Developmental biologist, research on Notch signaling
- Ivan Fischer1951Orchestra conductor
- Ivan IllichProfiled in Thinkers of the 20th Century
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- Ivan Roitt1927Immunologist who helped establish autoimmunity and authored a leading immunology textbook.
- Ivan SchullerPhysicist (condensed matter and materials physics)
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- Ivry Gitlis1922Classical violinist
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