Ives is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include:
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Alice Emma Ives (1876–1930), American dramatist, journalist
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Burl Ives
Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives (June 14, 1909 – April 14, 1995) was an American musician, actor, and author with a career that spanned more than six decades.
Ives began his career as an itinerant singer and guitarist, eventually launching his own rad ...
(1909–1995), American singer, author and actor
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Charles Ives
Charles Edward Ives (; October 20, 1874May 19, 1954) was an American modernist composer, one of the first American composers of international renown. His music was largely ignored during his early career, and many of his works went unperformed f ...
(1874–1954), American composer
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Charles Ives (footballer) (1907–1942), football player from New Zealand
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Chauncey Ives (1810–1894), American sculptor in Italy
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Clarrie Ives
J.C. 'Clarrie' Ives (1890 – 25 February 1956) was an Australian rugby league footballer who played for the North Sydney Bears, North Sydney club in the NSWRFL.
Playing career
A tough prop-forward, Ives started his first grade career with Nor ...
(1890–1956), Australian rugby league footballer
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Clay Ives (born 1972), Canadian-born American luger
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David Ives
David Ives (born July 11, 1950) is an American playwright, screenwriter, and novelist. He is perhaps best known for his comic one-act plays; ''The New York Times'' in 1997 referred to him as the "maestro of the short form". Ives has also written ...
(born 1950), contemporary American playwright
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Dick Ives
Richard C. Ives (April 26, 1926 – May 5, 1997) was an American basketball player for the University of Iowa from 1943–44 to 1946–47. A native of Diagonal, Iowa, Ives passed up the opportunity to play college basketball at Drake University o ...
(1926–1997), American basketball player
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Edward D. Ives (1925–2009), American folklorist
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Edward Ives (toymaker) (1839–1918), U.S. toymaker
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Edward Ives (rower) (born 1961), American Olympic oarsman
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Edward H. Ives (1819–1892), Wisconsin politician
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Eric Ives
Eric William Ives (12 July 1931 – 25 September 2012) was a British historian who was an expert on the Tudor period, and a university administrator. He was Emeritus Professor of English History at the University of Birmingham.
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(1931–2012), English historian
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Eugene S. Ives
Eugene Semmes Ives (November 11, 1859 Washington, D.C. – August 25, 1917 Mist, Madera County, California) was an American lawyer and politician from New York and Arizona.
Life
He was the son of Joseph Christmas Ives (1829–1868) and Cora Ma ...
(1859–1917), New York and Arizona politician
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F. Badger Ives (1858–1914), Wisconsin politician
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Florence Carpenter Ives
Florence Carpenter Ives (, Carpenter; March 10, 1854 – December 20, 1900) was an American journalist and editor. She served as editor of the woman's department of the ''Metropolitan and Rural Home'' and was in charge of all the press work sent o ...
(1854–1900), American journalist
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Frederic Eugene Ives
Frederic Eugene Ives (February 17, 1856 – May 27, 1937) was a U.S. inventor who was born in Litchfield, Connecticut. In 1874–78 he had charge of the photographic laboratory at Cornell University. He moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where ...
(1856–1937), photography and halftoning pioneer
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George Cecil Ives
George Cecil Ives (1 October 1867 in Frankfurt, Germany – 4 June 1950 in Hampstead/Middlesex, Great Britain) was an English poet, writer, penal reformer and early homosexual law reform campaigner.
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Ives was the illegitimate ...
(1867–1950), poet, writer, penal reformer and early gay rights campaigner
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George Frederick Ives
George Frederick Ives (17 November 1881 – 12 April 1993) was a British Canadian army veteran, who became known as the last surviving veteran of the Boer War. Ives became known in the UK after a piece in the Peterborough Column in the '' Daily ...
(1881–1993), last surviving veteran of the Boer War
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Gideon S. Ives
Gideon Sprague Ives (January 19, 1846December 20, 1927) was an American politician who served as Mayor of St. Peter, Minnesota, Minnesota State Senator and as the 11th Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota.
Life and career
Ives was born in Dickins ...
(1846–1927), American politician
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Grayston Ives (born 1948), British composer, singer and choral director
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Greg Ives
Gregory Stuart Ives (born September 13, 1979) is an American former NASCAR crew chief who last worked for Hendrick Motorsports as the crew chief for their No. 48 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 driven by Alex Bowman.
Ives previously was the crew chief for ...
(born 1979), American NASCAR crew chief
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Halsey Ives
Halsey Cooley Ives (27 October 1847 – 5 May 1911) was the founding director of the St. Louis School and Museum of Fine Arts.Stevens, Walter B. Page 7 The institution later became two distinct bodies; the Saint Louis Art Museum, and the Washingto ...
(1847–1911), American art museum director
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Henry S. Ives ( 1862–1894), American financier
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Herbert E. Ives
Herbert Eugene Ives (July 31, 1882 – November 13, 1953) was a scientist and engineer who headed the development of facsimile and television systems at AT&T in the first half of the twentieth century. He is best known for the 1938 Ives–Stilwel ...
(1882–1953), physicist and inventor; son of Frederick Ives
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James Merritt Ives
James Merritt Ives (March 5, 1824 – January 3, 1895) was an American lithographer, bookkeeper, and businessman. He oversaw the business and financial side of the firm, Currier and Ives, which he co-managed with his business partner, Natha ...
(1824–1895), American lithographer; founder of Currier and Ives
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John Ives
John Ives FRS and FSA (14 July 1751 – 9 January 1776) was an antiquarian and officer of arms at the College of Arms in London.Joseph Christmas Ives
Joseph Christmas Ives (25 December 1829 – 12 November 1868) was an American soldier, botanist, and an explorer of the Colorado River in 1858.
Biography
Ives was born in New York City on Christmas Day, 1829. He graduated from Bowdoin Colleg ...
(1829–1868), American botanist, surveyor, engineer and Confederate officer
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Joshua Ives Joshua Ives (2 May 1854 – 16 June 1931)Doreen Bridges, 'Ives, Joshua (1854–1931)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/ives-joshua-6807/text11777, publ ...
(1854–1931), first Professor of Music at the University of Adelaide, South Australia
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Norman Ives
Norman Seaton Ives (1923–1978) was an American artist, graphic designer, educator, and fine art publisher. He co-founded Ives-Sillman, Inc. alongside Sewell Sillman, which published silkscreen prints and photographs in monographic art portfolios ...
(1923–1978), American artist, professor, print publisher
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Ralph B. Ives (1873–1934), American businessman
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Thomas Ives (born 1996), American football player
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William Ives (disambiguation), several people
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Ives Antero De Souza
Ives Antero De Souza (born June 11, 1985 in Rio de Janeiro), known as Ives, is a Brazilian footballer
A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are associ ...
(born 1985), Brazilian football (soccer) player
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Ives Roqueta Ives Roqueta (; born 29 February 1936 in Sète, Hérault, died January 4, 2015) was an Occitan author. He played a major role in the country's political and cultural movement. He was the president of the IEO for a number of years and his brother J ...
(1936–2015), Occitan author
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Ivo of Ramsey
Saint Ivo (also known as Ives) was a Cornish bishop and hermit, and became the eponymous saint of St Ives, Huntingdonshire.
History
The discovery of Bishop Ivo's remains in 1001 was first mentioned briefly in John of Worcester's ''Chronicon e ...
(before 1000), Cornish saint
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Ivo of Chartres (1040–1115), French bishop and saint
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Ives of Kermartin
Ivo of Kermartin, T.O.S.F. (17 October 1253 – 19 May 1303), also known Yvo, Yves, or Ives (and in Breton as Erwan, Iwan, Youenn or Eozenn, depending on the region, and known as Yves Hélory (also ''Helori'' or ''Heloury'') in French), was a p ...
(1253–1303), also known as Ivo of Kermartin, French parish priest and patron saint of Brittany, lawyers, and abandoned children
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Ives I de Belesme, 10th century Norman baron, controlling the lands and tower of Belesme
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Ivo
Ivo is a masculine given name, in use in various European languages. The name used in western European languages originates as a Normannic name recorded since the High Middle Ages, and the French name Yves is a variant of it. The unrelated So ...
, variant
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Yves, variant
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Ives, Missouri, a community in the United States
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Currier and Ives
Currier and Ives was a New York City printmaking business that operated between 1835 and 1907. Founded by Nathaniel Currier, the company designed and sold inexpensive, hand painted lithographic works based on news events, views of popular cultu ...
, U.S. lithographer
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Ives Manufacturing Company
The Ives Manufacturing Company, an American toy manufacturer from 1868 to 1932, was the largest manufacturer of toy trains in the United States from 1910 until 1924, when Lionel Corporation overtook it in sales.
Early history
Ives was founded i ...
, American toy manufacturer (1868–1932)
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Ives–Stilwell experiment
The Ives–Stilwell experiment tested the contribution of relativistic time dilation to the Doppler shift of light. The result was in agreement with the formula for the transverse Doppler effect and was the first direct, quantitative confirmati ...
, a test of Einstein's special relativity theory
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Ives noir
Ives noir is a red hybrid grape variety that is grown throughout the United States. Named after its propagator, Connecticut wine grower Henry Ives, the grape's pedigree and exact origin are unclear. After Prohibition in the United States, Ives ...
, hybrid wine grape
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St Ives (disambiguation) St Ives may refer to:
Places
* St Ives, Cornwall
** St Ives railway station, in the town
** St Ives (UK Parliament constituency), the parliamentary constituency that covers the far west of Cornwall
* St Ives, Cambridgeshire, formerly in Huntingdo ...
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