Leading Figures in History

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Ivan Hlinka

Czech ice hockey player and coach (1950–2004)

Iván Hurtado

b. 1974

Ecuadorian footballer (born 1974)

Ivan Hutchinson

Film critic and television personality

Ivan II of Moscow

Prince of Moscow from 1353 to 1359

Ivan III of Russia

Grand Prince of Moscow from 1462 to 1505

Ivan Illich

b. 1926

Austrian Catholic priest and philosopher (1926–2002)

Ivan Iusco

b. 1970

Italian musician and composer

Iván Kaviedes

b. 1977

Ecuadorian footballer (born 1977)

Ivan Kaye

b. 1961

British actor (b. 1961)

Ivan Kireyevsky

Russian philosopher (1806–1856)

Ivan Koloff

b. 1942

Canadian professional wrestler (1942–2017)

Ivan Konev

Soviet military commander (1897–1973)

Ivan Kozák

b. 1970

Slovak footballer

Iván López (footballer, born 1993)

b. 1993

Spanish footballer

Ivan M. Niven

b. 1915

Canadian-American number theorist (1915–1999)

Ivan Mane Jarnović

b. 1747

Musical artist

Ivan Marconi

b. 1989

Italian footballer

Ivan Martin Jirous

Czech poet and dissident

Ivan Mauger

b. 1939

New Zealand speedway rider (1939–2018)

Ivan Mazepa

Hetman of the Cossack Hetmanate from 1687 to 1709

Ivan Meštrović

b. 1883

Croatian sculptor and architect (1883–1962)

Ivan Mihailov

b. 1896

Bulgarian revolutionary in interwar Macedonia

Ivan Minatti

Slovene poet, editor, and translator