British author (1908–1964)
Ian Fleming
Ian Lancaster Fleming was a British writer best known for his postwar James Bond series of spy novels.
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Sufi scholar and Sunni philosopher (1165–1240)
Ibn Arabi
Ibn 'Arabī was a Sunni Muslim Arab scholar, Sufi mystic, poet, and Muslim philosopher from al-Andalus, who exercised notable influence within Sufi metaphysics and Islamic thought in general.
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14th century Muslim Maghrebi scholar and explorer
Ibn Battuta
Ibn Battuta was a Maghrebi Muslim traveller, explorer, and scholar from Tangier, Morocco.
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Historiographer and historian
Ibn Khaldun
Ibn Khaldūn was an Arab Tunisian scholar, historian, philosopher, and sociologist.
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Islamic scholar, jurist and philosopher (1263–1328)
Ibn Taymiyyah
Ibn Taymiyya was a Sunni Muslim scholar, jurist, Mujtahid, traditionist, Qadiri Sufi, proto-Salafist theologian and iconoclast.
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Russian-empire painter of Ukrainian birth (1844-1930)
Ilya Repin
Ilya Yefimovich Repin was a Ukrainian-born Russian painter.
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Egyptian architect, physician, astronomer, and god of medicine in ancient Egyptian mythology.
Imhotep
Imhotep was an Egyptian chancellor to the King Djoser, possible architect of Djoser's step pyramid, and high priest of the sun god Ra at Heliopolis.
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Hungarian author (1929–2016)
Imre Kertész
Imre Kertész was a Hungarian author and recipient of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Literature, "for writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history".
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