List of people with given name Ivan

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This is a list of notable people with the given name Ivan.

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Notable people

Mononymously known as Ivan

Royalty

Nobility

Clergy

  • Ivan Lee (1955 or 1956–2020), Australian Anglican bishop
  • Ivan Rilski (John of Rila), Bulgarian Orthodox hermit and patron saint (876–946)
  • Ivan Šaško (born 1966), Croatian Roman Catholic prelate and theologian also Auxiliary Bishop of Zagreb since 2008

Military

Politics

Sports

Arts

  • Ivan Barias, Dominican-American music producer and songwriter
  • Ivan Brunetti (born 1967), cartoonist
  • Ivan Bunin (1870–1953), Russian writer and Nobel laureate in literature
  • Ivan Della Mea (1940–2009), Italian singer-songwriter
  • Ivan Dixon (1931–2008), American actor, director and producer
  • Ivan Dorn (born 1988), Ukrainian singer and actor
  • Ivan Doroschuk (born 1957), lead vocalist for Men Without Hats
  • Ivan Dorschner (born 1990), Filipino-American actor, host and model
  • Ivan Franko (1856–1916), Ukrainian writer
  • Ivan (gorilla), painter
  • Ivan Graziani (1945–1997), Italian singer-songwriter
  • Ivan Jones, British Writer and poet
  • Ivan Klíma (1931–2025), Czech novelist and playwright
  • Ivan Král (1948–2020), Czech-American musician
  • Ivan Meštrović (1883–1962), Croatian sculptor and architect
  • Ivan Moody (born 1980), singer of heavy metal band Five Finger Death Punch
  • Ivan Morley (born 1966), American painter
  • Van Morrison (George Ivan Morrison, born 1945), Northern Irish singer-songwriter and musician
  • Ivan Ozhogin (born 1978), Russian singer and actor
  • Ivan Reitman (1946–2022), Czechoslovak-born Canadian film and television director, producer and screenwriter
  • Ivan Shishmanov (1862–1928), Bulgarian writer, ethnographer, politician and diplomat
  • Ivan Turgenev (1818–1893), Russian novelist
  • Ivan Urgant (born 1978), Russian television personality, presenter, actor and musician
  • Ivan Vazov (1850–1921), Bulgarian poet, novelist and playwright, often referred to as "the Patriarch of Bulgarian literature"

Science, academia, business and other

  • Ivan Aboimov (1936–2022), Russian diplomat and ambassador
  • Ivan Agayants (1911–1968), Soviet intelligence officer of Armenian origin
  • Ivan Aksakov (1823–1886), Russian littérateur and notable Slavophile
  • Ivan Boesky (1937–2024), Wall Street trader who inspired the character of Gordon Gekko in the film Wall Street.
  • Ivan Chermayeff (1932–2017), graphic designer
  • Ivan Corea, Sri Lankan Anglican priest
  • Ivan Gazidis (born 1964), chief executive of the AC Milan
  • Ivan Glasenberg (born 1957), CEO of Glencore, director of Xstrata and Minara Resources
  • Ivan Greenberg (1896–1966), English journalist
  • Ivan Hričovský (1932–2024), Slovak celebrity gardener
  • Ivan Ilyin (1883–1954), Russian religious and political philosopher
  • Ivan Massow (born 1967), chairman of the Institute of Contemporary Arts
  • Ivan Menezes (1959–2023), CEO of Diageo, non-executive director at Coach, Inc.
  • Ivan Milat, Croatian Australian serial killer famous for the backpacker killings
  • Ivan Miller (1898–1967), Canadian journalist and sportscaster
  • Ivan Vsevolodovich Meshcherskiy (1859–1935), Russian mathematician
  • Ivan J. Parron, entertainment attorney and entrepreneur
  • Ivan Pavlov (1849–1946), Russian physiologist and Nobel laureate in Medicine & Physiology
  • Ivan Rogers (born 1960), British civil servant, former Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the European Union
  • Ivan Seidenberg (born 1946), chairman & CEO at Verizon Communications
  • Ivan Selin (born 1937), former chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Fulbright scholar
  • Ivan Semwanga, Ugandan-born South African philanthropist
  • Ivan Šramko, (born 1957), Governor of the National Bank of Slovakia (2005–2010)
  • Ivan Wettengel (1876–1935), Naval Governor of Guam

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