Irving is an originally Scottish surname, a variant of the name
Irvine Irvine may refer to:
Places On Earth Antarctica
*Irvine Glacier
*Mount Irvine (Antarctica)
Australia
*Irvine Island
*Mount Irvine, New South Wales
Canada
*Irvine, Alberta
* Irvine Inlet, Nunavut
United Kingdom
*Irvine, North Ayrshire, Scotla ...
, which is derived from the eponymous
River Irvine
The River Irvine ( gd, Irbhinn) is a river that flows through southwest Scotland. Its watershed is on the Lanarkshire border of Ayrshire at an altitude of above sea-level, near Loudoun Hill, Drumclog Moss, Drumclog, and SW by W of Strathaven. I ...
in
Dumfriesshire
Dumfriesshire or the County of Dumfries or Shire of Dumfries (''Siorrachd Dhùn Phris'' in Gaelic) is a historic county and registration county in southern Scotland. The Dumfries lieutenancy area covers a similar area to the historic county.
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. Irving is also used as a male given name.
Notable people with the name include:
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Amy Irving
Amy Davis Irving (born September 10, 1953) is an American actress and singer, who worked in film, stage, and television. Her accolades include an Obie Award, and nominations for two Golden Globe Awards and an Academy Award.
Born in Palo Alto, Ca ...
(born 1953), American film and stage actress
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Arthur Irving
Arthur Lee Irving, (born 1930) is a Canadian billionaire businessman, the second son of industrialist K.C. Irving. He is the sole owner, through the Arthur Irving Family Trust, of Irving Oil Ltd. As of June 2022, his net worth was estimated at ...
(born 1931), Canadian industrialist, son of K.C. Irving
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Bob Irving (sportscaster)
Bob "Knuckles" Irving, (born 1950) is a Canadians, Canadian former sportscaster and was the radio play-by-play voice for the Canadian Football League, Canadian Football League's Winnipeg Blue Bombers from 1973 until his retirement in 2021. He i ...
, Canadian sportscaster
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Bud Irving (born 1926), Canadian football player
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Charles Irving (surgeon)
Charles Irving () was a Scottish naval surgeon and inventor. In 1770, he introduced a method for distillation of seawater to the Royal Navy, and was awarded the sum of £5,000 () for his method in 1772. His apparatus for distilling seawater was ...
(?-1794?), Scottish naval surgeon, inventor and colonial entrepreneur
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Clifford Irving
Clifford Michael Irving (November 5, 1930 – December 19, 2017) was an American novelist and investigative reporter. Although he published 20 novels, he is best known for an "autobiography" allegedly written as told to Irving by billionaire ...
(1930–2017), American author who created a hoax autobiography of Howard Hughes
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Dan Irving
David Daniel "Dan" Irving (31 October 1854 – 25 January 1924) was a British socialist activist and Labour Party Member of Parliament.
Born in Birmingham, Irving moved to Bristol in 1875, where he began working on the railways. After he lost ...
(1854–1924), British politician, Labour MP
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David Irving
David John Cawdell Irving (born 24 March 1938) is an English author and Holocaust denier who has written on the military and political history of World War II, with a focus on Nazi Germany. His works include ''The Destruction of Dresden'' (19 ...
(born 1938), British writer, best known for his denial of the Holocaust
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David Irving (footballer)
David Irving (born 10 September 1951) is an English football manager and former player who played as a forward.
Playing career
Irving started his professional playing career with Workington AFC before signing for Everton in the old English Foo ...
(born 1951), British footballer
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Edmund George Irving
Rear-Admiral Sir Edmund George Irving, (5 April 1910 – 1 October 1990) was a naval hydrographer.
Early life
Irving was born in Sandakan, British North Borneo to the resident magistrate George Clerk Irving and his wife Ethel Mary Frances Poole ...
(1910–1990), British naval hydrographer
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Edward Irving
Edward Irving (4 August 17927 December 1834) was a Scottish clergyman, generally regarded as the main figure behind the foundation of the Catholic Apostolic Church.
Early life
Edward Irving was born at Annan, Annandale the second son of Ga ...
(1792–1834), Scottish clergyman
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Edward Irving (plant collector) (1816–1855), Scottish surgeon
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Edward A. Irving
Edward A. "Ted" Irving, (27 May 1927 – 25 February 2014) was a geologist and scientist with the Geological Survey of Canada. His studies of paleomagnetism provided the first physical evidence of the theory of continental drift. His effort ...
(1927–2014), Canadian geologist
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Francis Irving
Francis Irving is a British computer programmer, activist for freedom of information and former CEO of ScraperWiki.
Francis Irving developed TortoiseCVS.
He co-founded Public Whip with Julian Todd and became a developer of the affiliated T ...
, British programmer and activist for freedom of information
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George S. Irving
George S. Irving (born Irving Shelasky; November 1, 1922 – December 26, 2016) was an American actor known primarily for his character roles on Broadway theatre, Broadway and as the voice of Heat Miser in the American Christmas television spe ...
, (1922–2016), American actor
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Godfrey Irving
Major General Godfrey George Howy Irving (25 August 1867 – 11 December 1937) was a senior Australian Army officer during the First World War.
Early life and career
Godfrey George Howy Irving was born on 25 August 1867 at the University of M ...
(1867–1937), senior Australian Army officer
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Henry Irving
Sir Henry Irving (6 February 1838 – 13 October 1905), christened John Henry Brodribb, sometimes known as J. H. Irving, was an English stage actor in the Victorian era, known as an actor-manager because he took complete responsibility ( ...
(1838–1905), British actor
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Isabel Irving
Isabel Irving (February 28, 1871 –September 1, 1944) was an American stage actress.
Irving made her London debut at the Lyceum Theatre in 1890 as Daisy in ''Nancy and Company''.
In 1894, she signed a three-year contract with the manager o ...
(1871–1944), American actress
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James K. Irving
James Kenneth Irving, (born March 20, 1928) is a Canadian billionaire businessman who is the eldest son of industrialist K.C. Irving. With an estimated net worth of US$6.9 billion (as of 2019), Irving was ranked by ''Forbes'' as the 4th richest ...
(born 1928), Canadian industrialist, son of K.C. Irving
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Jayne Irving
Jayne Irving (born 30 August 1956, Sheffield, West Riding of Yorkshire) is a British TV presenter best known for appearing on the Breakfast Television show ''Good Morning Britain (1983), Good Morning Britain'', plus the BBC One weekday morning pho ...
(born 1956), British TV presenter
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John Irving (disambiguation) John Irving (born 1942) is an American novelist and Academy Award-winning screenwriter.
John Irving may also refer to:
*John E. Irving (1932–2010), Canadian businessman
*John Irving (basketball) (1953–2015), American college basketball player ...
, several people
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Jules Irving
Jules Irving (né Julius Israel; April 13, 1925 – July 28, 1979) was an American actor, director, educator, and producer, who in the 1950s co-founded the Actor's Workshop, San Francisco Actor's Workshop. When the Actor's Workshop closed in 19 ...
(1925–1979), American actor, director, educator, and producer,
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K. C. Irving
Kenneth Colin Irving, (March 14, 1899 – December 13, 1992) was a Canadian businessman whose business began with a family sawmill in Bouctouche, N.B., in 1882. In 1989, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.
Biography Early life
Bor ...
(Kenneth Colin Irving, 1899–1992), Canadian industrialist, founder of the Irving Group of Companies
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Kyrie Irving
Kyrie Andrew Irving (; lkt, Ȟéla, italic=no, ; born March 23, 1992) is an American professional basketball player for the Brooklyn Nets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was named the Rookie of the Year after being selected b ...
(born 1992), American professional basketball player
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Martin Howy Irving
Martin Howy Irving (21 February 1831 – 23 January 1912) was an English rower and educationist who spent nearly all his career in Australia .
Background and early career
Irving was born in St Pancras, London, the son of Edward Irving, a major fi ...
(1831–1912), English rower and educationist in Australia; father of Godfrey Irving
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Mary Jane Irving
Mary Jane Irving (October 20, 1913 – July 17, 1983) was an American actress. She appeared in 58 films between 1917 and 1938.
Biography
Born in Columbia, South Carolina, Irving began her career as a child actor in silent films. A popular c ...
(1913–1983), American actress
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Robert Irving (disambiguation) Robert Irving may refer to:
* Robert Irving (industrialist), 20th- and 21st-century Canadian industrialist
* Robert Irving (conductor) (1913–1991), orchestral conductor, son of Robert Lock Graham Irving
* Bob Irving (rugby league) (1948–1999), ...
, several people
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Thomas Ballantyne Irving (1914–2002), publisher of the first American English translation of the Qur'an
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Thomas Irving (Medal of Honor)
Thomas Irving (born 1842, date of death unknown) was a Union Navy sailor in the American Civil War and a recipient of the U.S. military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor, for helping to free his grounded ship.
Born in 1842 in England, Irvi ...
(born 1842)
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Washington Irving
Washington Irving (April 3, 1783 – November 28, 1859) was an American short-story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century. He is best known for his short stories "Rip Van Winkle" (1819) and " The Legen ...
(1783–1859), American author, historian and diplomat
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William Irving (disambiguation) William Irving may refer to:
* William Irving (British politician) (1892–1967), British Labour Co-operative MP 1945–1955
* William Irving (steamship captain) (1816–1872), steamship captain from Scotland, active in Oregon, Washington and Brit ...
, several people
Given name
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Irving Abella
Irving Martin Abella (July 2, 1940 – July 3, 2022) was a Canadian historian who served as a professor at York University from 1968 to 2013. He specialized in the history of the Jews in Canada and the Canadian labour movement.
Early life
Abe ...
(1940-2022), Canadian writer
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(1918–2011), printmaker
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Irving Azoff
Irving Azoff (; born December 12, 1947) is an American entertainment executive and chairman of Full Stop Management, which represents recording artists. In the mid-1980s, he brought success to MCA Records.
Since September 2013, he has been chai ...
(born 1947), American music executive and manager
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Irving Berlin
Irving Berlin (born Israel Beilin; yi, ישראל ביילין; May 11, 1888 – September 22, 1989) was a Russian-American composer, songwriter and lyricist. His music forms a large part of the Great American Songbook.
Born in Imperial Russi ...
(1888–1989), Russian-born American songwriter
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Irving Block Irving may refer to:
People
*Irving (name), including a list of people with the name
Fictional characters
* Irving, the main character's love interest in Cathy (comic strip)
* Lloyd Irving, the main protagonist in the ''Tales of Symphonia'' vide ...
, American matte painter and screenwriter, wrote the story on which ''
Forbidden Planet
''Forbidden Planet'' is a 1956 American science fiction film from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, produced by Nicholas Nayfack, and directed by Fred M. Wilcox (director), Fred M. Wilcox from a script by Cyril Hume that was based on an original film story ...
'' was based.
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Irving Caesar
Irving Caesar (born Isidor Keiser, July 4, 1895 – December 18, 1996) was an American lyricist and theater composer who wrote lyrics for numerous song standards, including " Swanee", "Sometimes I'm Happy", "Crazy Rhythm", and " Tea for Tw ...
(1895–1996), American lyricist
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Irving D. Chais
Irving D. Chais (August 22, 1925 – April 24, 2009) was an American businessman and craftsman who owned the New York Doll Hospital from 1964 until 2009. He also acted as "Chief Surgeon" for the hospital. Chais's grandfather, an immigrant from Germ ...
(1925–2009), American businessman
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Irving Chernev
Irving Chernev (January 29, 1900 – September 29, 1981) was a chess player and prolific Russian-American chess author. He was born in Pryluky in the Russian Empire (now in Ukraine) and emigrated to the United States in 1905. Chernev was a nati ...
(1900–1981), Russian-American chess player and author
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Irving Copi
Irving Marmer Copi (; né Copilovich or Copilowish; July 28, 1917 – August 19, 2002) was an American philosopher, logician, and university textbook author.
Biography
Copi studied under Bertrand Russell while at the University of Chicago. I ...
(1917–2002), American philosopher
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Irving Cottler
Irving Cottler (February 13, 1918 – August 8, 1989), Hollywood, Los Angeles based musician was a first-call Drummer / percussionist and original member of The Wrecking Crew. Cottler credits include LOVE, Impossible, Stardust and Unforgettabl ...
(1918–1989), American drummer
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Irving Crane
Irving Crane (November 13, 1913 – November 17, 2001), nicknamed "the Deacon", was an American pool player from Livonia (near Rochester), New York,Billiard Congress America (1995-2005)BCA Hall of Fame Inductees: 1977 - 1984. Retrieved Nove ...
(1913–2001), American pool player
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Irving Dardik, American surgeon
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Irving Davidson (born 1929), Australian rules footballer
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Irving Davis (1896–1958), American footballer
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Irving Fein
Irving Fein (June 21, 1911 – August 10, 2012) was an American television and film producer, and the manager of entertainers Jack Benny and George Burns.Tobias, Ted. ''In Tribute: Eulogies of Famous People'' Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 1999. ...
(1911–2012), American television and film producer
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Irving Feinstein Irving "Puggy" Feinstein (October 6, 1909 – September 5, 1939) was a Jewish-American mobster involved in illegal gambling and labor racketeering with Louis "Lepke" Buchalter. Puggy had made the mistake of attempting to move into turf which was no ...
(1910–1939), American mobster
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Irving Feldman
Irving Feldman (born September 22, 1928) is an American poet and professor of English.
Academic career
Born and raised in Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York, Feldman worked as a merchant seaman, farm hand, and factory worker through his univers ...
(born 1928), American poet
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Irving Fields
Irving Fields (born Yitzhak Schwartz; August 4, 1915 – August 20, 2016) was an American pianist and lounge music artist who was born in New York City. Some of his most noteworthy compositions include "Miami Beach Rhumba"; "Managua, Nicaragua"; ...
(1915–2016), American pianist
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Irving Fine
Irving Gifford Fine (December 3, 1914 – August 23, 1962) was an American composer. Fine's work assimilated neoclassical, romantic, and serial elements. Composer Virgil Thomson described Fine's "unusual melodic grace" while Aaron Copland noted ...
(1914–1962), American composer
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Irving Finkel
Irving Leonard Finkel (born 1951) is a British philologist and Assyriologist. He is the Assistant Keeper of Ancient Mesopotamian script, languages and cultures in the Department of the Middle East in the British Museum, where he specialises in c ...
, British philologist and Assyriologist, curator in the Middle East department of the British Museum
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Irving Fisher
Irving Fisher (February 27, 1867 – April 29, 1947) was an American economist, statistician, inventor, eugenicist and progressive social campaigner. He was one of the earliest American neoclassical economists, though his later work on debt def ...
(1867–1947), American economist
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Irving Folwartshny
Irving Henry "Shorty" Folsworth (born Folwartshny; March 16, 1914 – July 27, 1994) was an American hammer thrower and weight thrower. He was a seven-time United States champion and briefly held the indoor world record in men's weight throw.
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(1914–1994), American athlete
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Irving Freese
Irving C. Freese (February 19, 1903 – September 11, 1964) was the mayor of Norwalk, Connecticut.
Life and family
Freese attended a one-room school in East Brunswick, New Jersey, and was graduated from New Brunswick High School. He first cam ...
(1903–1964), Mayor of
Norwalk,
Connecticut
Connecticut () is the southernmost state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It is bordered by Rhode Island to the east, Massachusetts to the north, New York to the west, and Long Island Sound to the south. Its cap ...
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Irving Garcia (soccer, born 1988)
Irving Garcia (born February 4, 1988 in Yuma, Arizona) is an American football player who currently plays for FC Arizona.
Career
College and amateur
Garcia attended San Luis High School and played college soccer at Yavapai College from 2006 ...
(born 1988), American footballer
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Irving Garcia (boxer)
Irving Jose Garcia (born 29 January 1979) is a Puerto Rican former professional boxer who competed from 1998 to 2012. He challenged for the WBA welterweight interim title in 2008 and won two regional WBC titles at the same weight.
Professio ...
(born 1979), Puerto Rican boxer
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Irving C. Gardner,
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Irving Gill
Irving John Gill (April 26, 1870 – October 7, 1936), was an American architect. He did most of his work in Southern California, especially in San Diego and Los Angeles. He is considered a pioneer of the modern movement in architecture. Twelve ...
(1870–1936), American architect
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Irving Goff
Irving Goff (1911 - 17 May 1989) was a member of the Communist Party USA and the Abraham Lincoln Battalion, a unit that volunteered to fight during the Spanish Civil War for the Popular Front. During World War II, he was a member of the American O ...
(1900–1989),
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Irving Goldman
Irving Goldman (September 2, 1911 – April 7, 2002) was an American anthropologist. He is known for his acute ability to reconstruct the worldviews and systems of thought of the indigenous peoples whose lives and thought he analysed in several ma ...
(1911–2012), American anthropologist
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Irving B. Goldman
Irving B. Goldman (1898–1975) was an American otolaryngologist and plastic surgeon. Dr. Goldman created and taught a popular rhinoplasty course at Mount Sinai Hospital (New York). The course focus was the "Goldman Tip," a rhinoplasty technique t ...
(1898–1975), American otolaryngologist
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Irving Gottesman
Irving Isadore Gottesman (December 29, 1930 – June 29, 2016) was an American professor of psychology who devoted most of his career to the study of the genetics of schizophrenia. He wrote 17 books and more than 290 other publications, mostly ...
(1930–2016), American psychologist
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Irving Gould
Irving Gould (1919–2004) was a Canadian businessman credited with both saving and sinking Commodore.
Commodore was originally formed in Canada and initially produced mechanical typewriters and calculators. In 1965, Jack Tramiel, Commodore's foun ...
(1919–2004), Canadian businessman
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Irving Harper
Irving Harper (July 14, 1916 – August 4, 2015) was an American industrial designer.
, metropolismag. ...
,
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Irving Howe
Irving Howe (; June 11, 1920 – May 5, 1993) was an American literary and social critic and a prominent figure of the Democratic Socialists of America.
Early years
Howe was born as Irving Horenstein in The Bronx, New York. He was the son o ...
(1920–1993), Jewish-American literary critic
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Irving Janis
Irving Lester Janis (May 26, 1918 – November 15, 1990) was an American research psychologist at Yale University and a professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley most famous for his theory of "groupthink" which described the ...
(1918–1990), American psychologist
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Irving Johnson
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Irving McClure Johnson (July 4, 1905 – January 2, 1991) was an American sail training pioneer, adventurer, lecturer and writer.
Johnson was born in Hadley, Massachusetts, the fifth child of the writer Clifton Johnson (author), C ...
(1905–1991), American adventurer and author
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Irving Kane Pond
Irving Kane Pond (May 1, 1857 – September 29, 1939) was an American architect, college athlete, and author. Born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Pond attended the University of Michigan and received a degree in civil engineering in 1879. He was a me ...
(1857–1939), American architect
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Irving Kaplan (government official) Irving Kaplan was an official of the United States government, accused of involvement in Soviet espionage.
Career
Kaplan worked with David Weintraub in the Works Progress Administration's National Research Project, later moving to the Department ...
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Irving Kaplan (chemist) (1913–1997), American chemist
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Irving Kaplan (radiation oncologist), American radiation oncologist
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Irving Kaplansky
Irving Kaplansky (March 22, 1917 – June 25, 2006) was a mathematician, college professor, author, and amateur musician.O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Irving Kaplansky", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andr ...
(1917–2006), mathematician
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Irving Kaplan (chemist), an MIT professor
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Irving Langmuir
Irving Langmuir (; January 31, 1881 – August 16, 1957) was an American chemist, physicist, and engineer. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1932 for his work in surface chemistry.
Langmuir's most famous publication is the 1919 art ...
(1881–1957), chemist and physicist and winner of the 1932 Nobel Prize for Chemistry
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Irving Lavin
Irving Lavin (14 December 1927 – 3 February 2019) was an art historian of Late Antique, Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, and Modern painting, sculpture, and architecture. His wide-ranging contributions centered primarily on the correlation be ...
(born 1927), American art historian
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Irving R. Levine
Irving Raskin Levine (August 26, 1922 – March 27, 2009) was an American journalist and longtime correspondent for NBC News. During his 45-year career, Levine reported from more than two dozen countries. He was the first American television c ...
(1922–2009), broadcast journalist
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Irving Layton
Irving Peter Layton, OC (March 12, 1912 – January 4, 2006) was a Romanian-born Canadian poet. He was known for his "tell it like it is" style which won him a wide following, but also made him enemies. As T. Jacobs notes in his biography (2001) ...
(1912–2006), Canadian poet
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Irving Lehman
Irving Lehman (January 28, 1876 – September 22, 1945) was an American lawyer and politician from New York. He was Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals from 1940 until his death in 1945.
Biography
He was born on January 28, 1876, in New ...
(1876–1945), American lawyer and Jewish politician
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Irving Lerner
Irving Lerner (March 7, 1909, New York City – December 25, 1976, Los Angeles) was an American filmmaker.
Biography
Before becoming a filmmaker, Lerner was a research editor for Columbia University's Encyclopedia of Social Sciences, getting h ...
(1909–1976), American filmmaker
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Irving Lowens Irving Lowens (19 August 1916 – 14 November 1983) was an American musicologist, critic, and librarian in the Washington, D.C. area. He served as the chief music critic at the ''Washington Star'' newspaper, the Assistant Head of the music divi ...
(1916–1983), American musicologist and critic
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Irving Malin
Irving Malin (March 18, 1934 – December 3, 2014) was an American literary critic. Malin attended Thomas Jefferson High School and Jamaica High School and graduated magna cum laude from Queens College in 1955 and received his PhD from Stanford U ...
(1934–2014), American literary critic
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Irving Martin
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Irving Mansfield
Irving Mansfield (July 23, 1908 – August 25, 1988) was an American producer, publicist and writer. He is best remembered as the husband of novelist Jacqueline Susann and for his promotion of Susann's popular books.
Early life and career
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(1908–1988), American producer and writer
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Irving Mills
Irving Harold Mills (born Isadore Minsky; January 16, 1894 – April 21, 1985) was an American music publisher, musician, lyricist, and jazz artist promoter. He sometimes used the pseudonyms Goody Goodwin and Joe Primrose.
Personal
Mills was ...
(1894–1985), American music publisher
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Irving Millman Irving Millman (May 23, 1923 – April 17, 2012) was a noted virology, virologist and microbiologist. He was a member of the U.S. Army's Eighth Armored Division during the Second World War, earning a Bronze Star. In 1948, Millman earned a bachelor's ...
(1923–2012), American virologist and microbiologist
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Irving Mondschein
Irving "Moon" Mondschein (February 7, 1924 – June 5, 2015) was an American track and field athlete and football player.
Personal life
Mondschein, who was Jewish, was born in Brooklyn, New York. He attended Boys High School, where he ran track. ...
(1924–2015), track and field champion
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Irving Morrow
Irving Foster Morrow (September 22, 1884 – October 28, 1952) was an American architect best known for designing the Golden Gate Bridge.
Early life
He was born and raised in Oakland, California, the son of Susie (née Kirkman) and James Alexand ...
(1884–1952), American architect
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Irving Moskowitz
Irving Moskowitz (January 11, 1928 – June 16, 2016) was an American physician, businessman, and activist. His activism, in part, sought to create a Jewish majority in Palestinian Arab neighborhoods of East Jerusalem by purchasing land.
Biogra ...
(1928–2016), American physician, businessman, and philanthropist
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Irving Mosberg
Irving Mosberg (May 6, 1908 – April 25, 1973) was an American lawyer and politician from New York.
Life
He was born on May 6, 1908, in New York City. He attended the public schools and Morris High School in the Bronx. He attended New York Uni ...
(1908–1973), New York politician and judge
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Irving Nattrass
Irving Nattrass (born 20 December 1952) is an English former footballer who played primarily as a right back for Newcastle and Middlesbrough.
Born in Fishburn, England, Nattrass attended Ferryhill Grammar School and signed with Newcastle at age ...
(born 1952), English footballer
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Irving Penn
Irving Penn (June 16, 1917October 7, 2009) was an American photographer known for his fashion photography, portraits, and still lifes. Penn's career included work at ''Vogue'' magazine, and independent advertising work for clients including Is ...
(1917–2009), American photographer
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Irving S. Reed
Irving Stoy Reed (November 12, 1923 – September 11, 2012) was an American mathematician and engineer. He is best known for co-inventing a class of algebraic error-correcting and error-detecting codes known as Reed–Solomon codes in collabora ...
(1923–2012), American mathematician and engineer
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Irving Reiner
Irving Reiner (February 8, 1924 in Brooklyn, New York – October 28, 1986 in Urbana, Illinois) was a mathematician at the University of Illinois who worked on representation theory. He solved the problem of finding which abelian groups have a f ...
(1924–1986), American mathematician
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Irving "Ving" Rhames, African-American actor
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Irv Rubin
Irving David Rubin (April 12, 1945 – November 13, 2002) was a Canadian-born American political and religious activist who served as chairman of the Jewish Defense League (JDL) from 1985 to 2002. He committed suicide in jail when awaiting trial on ...
(Irving David Rubin) (1945–2002), former Jewish Defense League leader
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Irving Sablosky (1924–2016), American diplomat
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Irving Saladino
Irving Jahir Saladino Aranda (born January 23, 1983) is a Panamanian former long jumper. He was Olympic champion, having won at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, and is Panama's first and only Olympic gold medalist. He was world champion in the long j ...
(born 1983), Panamanian long jumper
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Irving Sandler
Irving Sandler (July 22, 1925 – June 2, 2018) was an American art critic, art historian, and educator. He provided numerous first hand accounts of American art, beginning with abstract expressionism in the 1950s. He also managed the Tanager Gal ...
(1925–2018), American art critic and art historian
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Irving Saraf
Irving Saraf (1932 – December 26, 2012) was a Polish-born American film producer, film editor, film director and academic. Saraf won an Oscar for producing the 1991 documentary film, ''In the Shadow of the Stars''. In total, Saraf had more th ...
(1932–2012), Polis-born American film producer
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Irving Sayles
Irving Sayles (1872 – 8 February 1914) was an African-American vaudeville entertainer. He spent much of his life in Australia as a popular minstrel show performer, touring the Tivoli circuit. He performed coon songs and employed a self-deprecatin ...
(1872–1914), African-American vaudeville entertainer
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Irving H. Saypol (1905–1977), American attorney
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Irving Schwartz (1929–2010), Canadian businessman
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Irving Selikoff
Irving J. Selikoff (January 15, 1915 – May 20, 1992) was a medical researcher who in the 1960s established a link between the inhalation of asbestos particles and lung-related ailments. His work is largely responsible for the regulation of a ...
(1915–1992), American physician
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Irving Slosberg
Irving Slosberg (born August 26, 1947) is a former Democratic member of the Florida House of Representatives, representing the 91st District, which stretches from Boynton Beach to Boca Raton in southeastern Palm Beach County, from 2012 to 2016. ...
(born 1947), American politician
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Irving Stone
Irving Stone (born Tennenbaum, July 14, 1903 – August 26, 1989) was an American writer, chiefly known for his biographical novels of noted artists, politicians, and intellectuals. Among the best known are '' Lust for Life'' (1934), about the l ...
(1903–1989), American writer
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Irving Stowe
Irving Harold Stowe (né Strasmich; July 25, 1915 – October 28, 1974) was a Yale lawyer, activist, and a founder of Greenpeace. He was named one of the "BAM 100" (Brown University's 100 most influential graduates of the 20th century).
Biogr ...
(1915–1974), American lawyer
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Irving Taylor (songwriter)
Irving Taylor (April 8, 1914 – December 3, 1983) was an American composer, lyricist, and screenwriter.
Biography
He was born Irving Goldberg in 1914 in Brooklyn, New York, United States.
A member of ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Au ...
(b. 1983), American songwriter
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Irving Taylor (ice hockey) (1919–1991), Canadian ice hockey player
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Irving Thalberg
Irving Grant Thalberg (May 30, 1899 – September 14, 1936) was an American film producer during the early years of motion pictures. He was called "The Boy Wonder" for his youth and ability to select scripts, choose actors, gather productio ...
(1899–1936), American film producer
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Irving Thalberg, Jr.
Irving Grant Thalberg Jr. (August 25, 1930August 21, 1987) was an author and the son of 1930s Hollywood producer Irving Thalberg and Academy Award-winning actress Norma Shearer.
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(1930–1987), American philosopher
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Irving C. Tomlinson
Rev. Irving Clinton Tomlinson (March 22, 1860 – October 1, 1944) was an American Universalist minister who converted to Christian Science, becoming a practitioner and teacher. For a time, he lived as one of the workers in the household of church ...
(1860–1944), American Universalist minister
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Irving Townsend
Irving Townsend (November 27, 1920 – December 17, 1981) was an American record producer and author. He is most famous for having produced the Miles Davis album ''Kind of Blue'', which is the best-selling jazz album of all time according to ...
(1920–1981), American record producer and author
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Irving Vendig
Irving Vendig (October 11, 1902 – January 7, 1995) was an American soap opera writer best known for creating ''The Edge of Night''.
Career
Born in the Mississippi city of Holly Springs, Vendig created ''The Edge of Night'' for Procter and Ga ...
, (1902–1995), American soap opera writer
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Irving Wallace
Irving Wallace (March 19, 1916 – June 29, 1990) was an American best-selling author and screenwriter. He was known for his heavily researched novels, many with a sexual theme.
Early life
Wallace was born in Chicago, Illinois, to Bessie Liss a ...
, American novelist and non-fiction writer
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Irving B. Weiner Irving B. Weiner is an American psychologist and past president of Division 12 of the American Psychological Association. and past president of the Society for Personality Assessment. He is the author and editor of many books on psychology.
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, American psychologist
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Irving Zola
Irving Kenneth Zola (1935–1994) was an American activist and writer in medical sociology and disability rights.
Early life and education
Irving Kenneth Zola, born in 1935, in Newton, Massachusetts. He came from a working class Jewish family. ...
(1935–1994), American activist and writer
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Irving Zurita (born 1991), Mexican footballer
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Earvin
Earvin is a given name. Notable people with the name include:
*Earvin "Magic" Johnson (born 1959), American executive and former basketball player
* Earvin "EJ" Johnson (born 1992), son of Magic; American television personality
*Earvin N'Gapeth (b ...
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Ervin (disambiguation) Ervin may refer to:
*Ervin (given name)
*Ervin (surname)
*Ervin Township, Howard County, Indiana, one of eleven townships in Howard County, Indiana, USA
See also
* Justice Ervin (disambiguation)
* Earvin
* Ervine
* Erving (disambiguation)
* Erwan
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Ervine Ervine is a given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include:
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* Ervine Metzl (1899–1963), American graphic artist and illustrator best known for his posters and postage stamp designs
* Ervine Mosby (1877–1916), Englis ...
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Erving (disambiguation) Erving may refer to:
People
* Cameron Erving (born 1992), American college football player
* George W. Erving (1769–1850), American diplomat
* Julius Erving (born 1950), American basketball player, also known as "Dr. J"
* Erving Goffman (1922–1 ...
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Erwan Erwan () is a masculine Breton given name, sometimes spelled ''Erwann''. Its francization is the French given name Yves.
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From Old Breton given name . It might thus be formed of Proto-Brythonic words "well, good" and "talent, natural ...
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Erwin (disambiguation) Erwin may refer to:
People Given name
* Erwin Chargaff (1905–2002), Austrian biochemist
* Erwin Dold (1919–2012), German concentration camp commandant in World War 2
* Erwin Hauer (1926–2017), Austrian-born American sculptor
* Egon Erwin Kis ...
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Irvin
Irvin is both a given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include:
Given name
* Irvin J. Borowsky (1924-2014), American publisher
* Irvin Cobb (1876–1944), American author
*Irvin Dorfman (1924–2006), American tennis player
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Irvine (disambiguation) Irvine may refer to:
Places On Earth Antarctica
*Irvine Glacier
*Mount Irvine (Antarctica)
Australia
*Irvine Island
*Mount Irvine, New South Wales
Canada
*Irvine, Alberta
* Irvine Inlet, Nunavut
United Kingdom
*Irvine, North Ayrshire, Scotla ...
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Irwin (disambiguation) Irwin may refer to:
Places
;United States
* Irwin, California
* Irwin, Idaho
* Irwin, Illinois
* Irwin, Iowa
* Irwin, Nebraska
* Irwin, Ohio
* Irwin, Pennsylvania
* Irwin, South Carolina
* Irwin County, Georgia
* Irwin Township, Venango County, Pe ...
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