Biographies of notable people — their path, achievements and key facts.
Ptolemy I
Born: c. 366 B.C.E. Macedonia Died: 283 B.C.E. Macedonian military leader, general, and ruler ...
Elizabeth I
Born: September 7, 1533 Greenwich, England Died: March 24, 1603 Surrey, England English queen Elizabeth I was queen o...
Queen of Madagascar Ranavalona I
Ranavalona I, Queen of Madagascar (c. 1788–1861) ruled that large Indian Ocean island with dictatorial ruthlessness from 1828 until her death. Yet she is noted as one of the few Af...
Lee Iacocca
Born: October 15, 1924 Allentown, Pennsylvania American businessman and auto industry executive After a thirty-two year career with Ford Motor Company,...
Henrik Ibsen
Born: March 20, 1828 Skien, Norway Died: May 23, 1906 Christiania, Norway Norwegian playwright The Norwegian playwrig...
Alexander Ii
Born: April 17, 1818 Moscow, Russia Died: March 1, 1881 St. Petersburg, Russia Russian emperor Alexander II was emper...
John Paul Ii
Born: May 18, 1920 Wadowice, Poland Polish pope Karol Wojtyla, cardinal of Krakow, Poland, was elected the 263rd pope in 1978, the first ever of ...
Prince of Monaco Rainier Iii
Born Rainier Louis Henri Maxence Bertrand Grimaldi, May 31, 1923, in Monte Carlo, Monaco; died of heart, lung, and kidney failure, April 6, 2005, in Monte Carlo. Prince of Monaco. The deat...
Toomas Hendrik Ilves
President of Estonia Born December 26, 1953, in Stockholm, Sweden; married Merry Bullock (a psychologist; divorced); married Evelin Int-Lambot, 2004; children: Luukas, Juuli...
Imhotep
Born: c. 3000 B.C.E. Ankhtowe, Egypt Died: c. 2950 B.C.E. Memphis, Egypt Egyptian magician...
Elizabeth Inchbald
British novelist, playwright, and actress Elizabeth Inchbald (1753–1821) was among the first women to find renown as a playwright. Drawing on her experiences on the stage, Inchbald...
Jimmy Iovine
Music producer Born March 11, 1953, in Brooklyn, NY; son of Jimmy Iovine, Sr. (a longshoreman); married; children: one son, one daughter. Addresses: ...
Washington Irving
Born: April 3, 1783 New York, New York Died: November 28, 1859 Irvington, New York American author Considered the fir...
John Irving
Author and screenwriter Born John Wallace Blunt, Jr., March 2, 1942, in Exeter, NH; son of John, Sr. (an executive recruiter and writer) and Frances Blunt; stepson of Colin ...
Hale Irwin
Professional golfer Born Hale S. Irwin, June 3, 1945, in Joplin, MO; son of Hale S. (an excavation contractor) and Mabel M. (Philipps) Irwin; married Sally Jean Stahlhuth, S...
Steve Irwin
Australian naturalist and television personality Steve Irwin (1962–2006) was best known for his popular wildlife program Crocodile Hunter . His u...
B. K. S. Iyengar
Indian yoga teacher B. K. S. Iyengar (born 1918) has been an instrumental figure in introducing yoga to the Western world. Yoga, an integrated system of physical and spirit...