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Armando Iannucci

Armando Iannucci is a writer, director and producer who first became successful as part of the cult comedy team involved in On the Hour and The Day Today. He then presented the satirical comedy show Saturday Night Armistice and wrote and starred in the surreal sketch series The Armando Iannucci Shows before creating the BAFTA Award-winning comedy The Thick of It. A movie spin-off, In The Loop, was released in 2009 to great acclaim. This in turn led to an HBO series, Veep, which has won numerous awards including four Emmy Awards and a Screen Actors Guild Award.

Armando Iannucci

Armando Ianucci

Alan Partridge presents 'Up With the Partridge' on Radio Norwich and a military-based game show on cable TV. He'll soon be living in a house built to his own specifications in the outskirts of Norwich. He has written a bestselling autobiography, I, Partridge, and 2013 sees the release of his long-awaited film Alpha Papa. He drives a Lexus. (Scripts and extra material by Steve Coogan, Armando Ianucci, Peter Baynham and Patrick Marber)

Armando Ianucci

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

Zlatan Ibrahimovich is a professional footballer, one of the world's most prolific strikers. Captain of his native Sweden, he has played for all of Europe's top teams, including Ajax, Juventus, Internazionale, Barcelona, Milan, Paris Saint-Germain, Manchester United and, most recently, the LA Galaxy.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

Robert Iger

Robert Iger is chairman and CEO of The Walt Disney Company. He previously served as president and CEO, beginning in October 2005, and was president and COO from 2000 to 2005. Iger began his career at ABC in 1974, and as chairman of the ABC Group he oversaw the broadcast television network and station group and cable telvision properties, and guided the merger between Capital Cities/ABC and the Walt Disney Company. Iger officially joined the Disney senior management team in 1996 as chairman of the Disney-owned ABC Group and in 1999 was given the additional responsibility of president, Walt Disney International. In that role, Iger expanded Disney's presence outside of the United States, establishing the blueprint for the company's international growth today.

Robert Iger

K. Iggulden

K. Iggulden was born and raised in Ireland in the 1940s.

K. Iggulden

Michael Ignatieff

Michael Ignatieff is internationally renowned both as a commentator on moral, ethical and political issues and as a novelist. His novel Scar Tissue was short listed for the Booker Prize in 1993, and his non-fiction works include a biography of Isaiah Berlin, and four books on ethnic war and intervention: Blood and Belonging, The Warrior's Honour, Virtual War and the recent Empire Lite: Nation Building in Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan.

Michael Ignatieff

Steve Ilardi

Stephen S Ilardi, PhD, is associate professor of clinical psychology at the University of Kansas, USA, and the author of over 40 professional articles on mental illness. Through his active clinical practice, Dr Ilardi has treated several hundred depressed patients.

Steve Ilardi

Valerie Illingworth

Valerie Illingworth worked in Reference book publishing before going freelance in 1976. She has edited many scientific books including the Dictionary of Computing and the Penguin Dictionary of Electronics. Dr Cullerne is currently teaching at Winchester.

Valerie Illingworth

Yas Imamura

Yas Imamura is an illustrator based in Portland, Oregon. Much of her work draws inspiration from the books she enjoyed as a child, her art evolving into an amalgamation of both the timeless and modern. Yas's preferred materials are gouache and watercolour.

Yas Imamura

Gary Imlach

Gary Imlach started out writing for national newspapers at the age of 18. He has worked for the BBC, ITN, CNN & Channel 4, and currently presents ITV's coverage of the Tour de France and American Football. He is also the producer of several documentaries, and in 2000 was nominated for a BAFTA as Editor-in-Chief of the BBC's Paralympics coverage in Sydney. His first book, My Father and Other Working-Class Football Heroes, was the William Hill Sports Book of the Year 2005.

Gary Imlach

Mick Imlah

Notable Scottish poets in their own right, Mick Imlah is Poetry Editor at the Times Literary Supplement and Robert Crawford is Professor of Modern Scottish Literature at the University of St Andrews.

Mick Imlah

Shiho Inada

Shiho Inada was born in Kanagawa Prefecture on October 17. She is a Libran with blood type B. She made her debut with Camouflage in 1994. Fuyumi Ono was born in Oita Prefecture and made her debut with the teen novel Teen's Heart. Her best known series are Evil Spirit and Twelve Kingdoms.

Shiho Inada

Mr Robin Ince

Brian Cox is a physicist and television presenter. His broadcasting credits include the BBC Two series Wonders of the Solar System, Wonders of the Universe and Wonders of Life. Robin Ince is a writer, actor and comedy performer. His radio credits include Steve Lamcq’s BBC Radio 6 music show and BBC Radio 4 Extra’s Serious About Comedy

Mr Robin Ince

Elizabeth Inchbald

Elizabeth Inchbald (1753-1821) was an English novelist, actress, and playwright.

Elizabeth Inchbald

Simon Inglis

Born in Birmingham, writer and broadcaster Simon Inglis penned his first comments on stadiums at the age of six. Among various football and stadium-related works he is best known for the acclaimed Sightlines: A Stadium Odyssey, Football Grounds of Europe (1990) and the bestselling Football Grounds of Britain (1996). When not watching Aston Villa, he lives with his wife and two cats in London, coincidentally - he insists - halfway between Wembley Stadium and Lord's cricket ground.

Simon Inglis

Bruce Ingman

Paul Bright (Author) Paul originally trained as an engineer – which is rather unusual for a children's author. His work has taken him all over the world, and wherever he goes Paul has always written stories and poems. Many are now published, including Quiet! which was shortlisted for the Blue Peter Book Award. Bruce Ingman (Illustrator) Bruce Ingman was born in Liverpool. He studied for an MA in Illustration at the Royal College of Art, London, and also taught at a number of art colleges. After illustrating for magazines, including British Vogue and The Sunday Times, Bruce Ingman's first book When Martha's Away was published to great critical acclaim, winning The National Art Library Award in 1996. He also won the prestigious Mother Goose Award as the most exciting British newcomer to children's books. Since then he has produced a number of highly distinctive and individual books.

Bruce Ingman

Bruce Ingman

Bruce Ingman was born in Liverpool. He studied for an MA in Illustration at the Royal College of Art, London, and also taught at a number of art colleges. After illustrating for magazines, including British Vogue and The Sunday Times, Bruce Ingman's first book When Martha's Away was published to great critical acclaim, winning The National Art Library Award in 1996. He also won the prestigious Mother Goose Award as the most exciting British newcomer to children's books. Since then he has produced a number of highly distinctive and individual books.

Bruce Ingman

Bruce Ingman

Bruce Ingman is an internationally acclaimed, award-winning author and illustrator. He studied at the Royal College of Art. His first book, When Martha's Away, won the prestigious Mother Goose Award for the Best British Newcomer to Children's Picture Books and The Overall Winner of the V&A Illustration Award. His partnership with author Allan Ahlberg has yielded many successes including, The Runaway Dinner and The Pencil - Winner of the Red House Children's Picture Book Award. Their latest book, Alison Hubble is to be published by Puffin in 2016.

Bruce Ingman

Jay Ingram

Jay Ingram is the distinguished science broadcaster and writer who has won many awards for raising public awareness of science, including the Sandford Fleming Medal and a Michael Smith Award for Science Promotion. He was co-host of Discovery Channel’s science show, Daily Planet, for 16 years and his 13 books have been translated into 14 languages. In 2015 he was the recipient of the Walter C Alvarez Award for medical writing. www.Jayingram.ca

Jay Ingram

Miranda Innes

Former garden editor of Country Living, and sister of Jocasta Innes, Miranda Innes lives in Spain with her husband, Dan Pearce, and an assortment of dogs and cats. Her first book, an account of the restoration of her house and garden in Andalucia, Getting to Manana, is published in paperback by Black Swan.

Miranda Innes

Roberto Innocenti

Roberto Innocenti was born in 1940 in Bagno a Ripoli, a small town near Florence. Never having attended art school, he went to Rome to work in an animation studio. Returning to Florence, he began designing books and illustrating film and theatre posters. He has illustrated Pinocchio, A Christmas Carol, J. Patrick Lewis's The Last Resort and Ruth Vander Zee's Erika's Story. He lives in Florence with his wife.

Roberto Innocenti

Liz Ireland

Jane Green is a former journalist who gave up her job on the Daily Express to write a real woman's account of being single in the city. That account became Jane's first novel, Straight Talking. It was followed by nine more bestselling novels: Jemima J, Mr Maybe, Bookends, Babyville, Spellbound, The Other Woman, Life Swap, Second Chance and The Beach House. Jane lives in Connecticut with her husband, Ian Warburg, and their blended family of six children. www.janegreen.com Jennifer Coburn spends the winter holidays at home with her with her family in San Diego, where the only way she notices the seasons changing is by checking the calendar. Holidays in Southern California are a bit different than New York City, where Coburn was born and raised. Mall Santas are tan and Mrs. Claus is rumored to be a Botox devotee. Jennifer burns her menorah candles from both ends working as a public relations consultant and writer. Liz Ireland grew up in Texas, where all her Christmases except one were green. Her favorite gift ever was the yellow Schwinn bike (with a banana seat and white wicker basket) she got when she was nine. She now celebrates the holidays in Oregon with her husband and a menagerie of pets.

Liz Ireland

Eddie Irvine

Eddie Irvine was born born 10 November 1965 in Northern Ireland. He was a Formula One driver between 1993 and 2002, and runner-up in the 1999 World Drivers' Championship, driving for Scuderia Ferrari.

Eddie Irvine

Lucy Irvine

Lucy Irvine was born on 1 February 1956 in Whitton, Middlesex. She ran away from school very early and had no full-time education after the age of thirteen. She has been employed as a charlady, monkey- keeper, waitress, stonemason's mate, life model, pastry-cook and concierge as well as having worked with disabled people and as a clerk at the Inland Revenue. She is the author of one novel, One is One, as well as Castaway and an account of her early years, Runaway. Faraway, her latest book, is her account of her year spent on a remote island in the Solomons. She has three sons and lives in the Highlands of Scotland.

Lucy Irvine

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