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Ira H. Abbott (1906–1988), American aerospace engineer •
Ira Aldridge (1807–1867), American actor •
Ira Allen (1751–1814), American politician •
Ira Alterman (1945–2015), American journalist and author •
Ira Angustain (born 1958), American actor •
Ira Aten (1862–1953), American sheriff •
Ira Babcock (1808–1888), American pioneer •
Ira Baldwin (1895–1999), American scientist •
Ira Coleman Batman (1862–1934), American jurist and politician •
Ira Steven Behr (born 1953), American television producer •
Ira Berkow (born 1940), American writer •
Ira Berlin (1941–2018), American historian •
Ira Brahm Born (1924–2023), American businessman and inventor •
Ira Bowman (born 1973), American basketball player •
Ira Brown (born 1982), Japanese basketball player •
Ira Byock (born 1951), American physician and author •
Ira Cohen (1935 – 2011), American poet, publisher, photographer, and filmmaker •
Ira Colitz (1916–1998), American businessman and politician •
Ira Condict (1764–1811), American college president •
Ira Clifton Copley (1864–1947), American politician and newspaper publisher •
Ira P. DeLoache (1879–1965), American real estate developer •
Ira Deutchman (born 1953), American film producer •
Ira Drukier (born 1945), American hotelier •
Ira Dubey (born 1984), Indian film actress •
Ira Einhorn (1940–2020), American convicted murderer •
Ira C. Eaker (1896–1987), American general •
Ira Allen Eastman (1809–1881), American politician •
Ira Elliot (born 1963), American drummer •
Ira Flatow (born 1949), American radio and television journalist •
Ira Fuchs (born 1948), American computer scientist •
Ira A. Fulton (born 1931), American businessman •
Ira Gershwin (1896–1983), American lyricist •
Ira Gitler (1928–2019), American jazz historian and journalist •
Ira Glass (born 1959), American radio presenter •
Ira Glasser (born 1938), former director of the American Civil Liberties Union •
Ira B. Harkey Jr. (1918–2006), American writer •
Ira Hamilton Hayes (1923–1955), United States Marine and Pima Native American, photographed raising the flag on Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima •
Ira G. Hedrick (1868–1937), American civil engineer •
Ira Herskowitz (1946–2003), American geneticist •
Ira B. Hyde (1838–1926), American politician •
Ira Kaplan (born 1957), American musician •
Ira Katznelson (born 1944), American political scientist •
Ira Levin (1929–2007), American writer •
Ira A. Lipman (1940–2019), American businessman and philanthropist •
Ira M. Lish (1855–1937), American politician •
Ira Losco (born 1981), Maltese singer •
Ira Magaziner (born 1947), American consultant •
Ira Mellman, American cell biologist •
Ira Newborn (born 1949), American composer •
Ira C. Owens (born 1936), American general •
Ira Pastan (born 1931), American scientist •
Ira B. Pauly (born 1930), American psychiatrist •
Ira Pierce (1874–1906), American chemist and college sports coach •
Ira Remsen (1846–1927), American chemist •
Ira Sachs (born 1965), American filmmaker •
Ira Sankey (1840–1908), American singer •
Ira "Ike" Schab (1920–2025), American World War II Navy veteran •
Ira Sharkansky (born 1938), American political scientist •
Ira Shor (born 1945), American educator •
Ira Stoll (born 1972), American journalist •
Ira Valentine (1963–2022), American football player •
Ira Wolfert (1908–1997), American war correspondent ==Fictional characters==