Ian
Ian [ˈiːˌən] is a Scottish Gaelic variant of the first name Johannes . Other variants are Iain , Eian and Eoin .
Name bearer
First name
- Ian Anderson (born 1947), British singer
- Ian Atkins (born 1957), English football player and coach
- Ian Bargh (1935–2012), British-Canadian jazz pianist
- Ian Bowyer (born 1951), English football player and coach
- Ian Brady (1938-2017), British serial killer
- Ian Brennan (* around 1978), American actor, screenwriter and producer
- Ian Broudie (* 1958), British pop musician
- Ian Brownlie (1932-2010), British legal scholar
- Ian Buchanan (1932-2008), British publicist
- Ian Buchanan (born 1957), Scottish actor
- Ian Burgess (1930–2012), British racing car driver
- Ian Caldwell (* 1976), American author
- Ian Carr (1933–2009), British jazz musician
- Ian Clarke (1931-1997), New Zealand rugby union player
- Ian Clarke (* 1977), Irish computer scientist
- Ian Curtis (1956–1980), British musician
- Ian Deary (* 1954), British psychologist
- Ian Duncan (* 1973), British politician
- Ian Duncan (* 1975), South African actor
- Ian Dury (1942-2000), British musician and actor
- Ian Edmondson (* 1957), American freestyle skier
- Ian Fleming (1908–1964), British writer
- Ian Fleming (1935) British chemist
- Ian Gillan (born 1945), British singer
- Ian Gomez (born 1964), American actor
- Ian Graham (* 1967), English snooker player
- Ian Holm (1931-2020), British actor
- Ian Kare Bosson Holm, real name of Nino Holm (* 1950), Swedish musician
- Ian Hunter (1900–1975), British actor
- Ian Hunter (born 1939), British rock musician
- Ian Hunter (* 1960), Australian politician
- Ian McLellan Hunter (1915–1991), British-American screenwriter
- Ian Hutchinson (1948-2002), English football player
- Ian Hutchinson (* 1979), British motorcycle racer
- Ian W. Hutchinson (born 1927), Australian badminton player
- Ian Johns (* 1984), American poker player
- Ian Jones (1931–2018), Australian film producer, screenwriter and director
- Ian Jones (* 1980), football player from the Turks and Caicos Islands
- Ian Kershaw (born 1943), English historian
- Ian Fraser Kilmister, real name of Lemmy Kilmister (1945-2015), British rock musician
- Ian Lawson (1917–1998), British Air Force officer
- Ian Lawson (born 1939), English football player
- Ian Livingstone (born 1949), British author
- Ian MacKaye (born 1962), American musician
- Ian MacNaughton (1925–2002), British director and actor
- Ian Maconachie (≈1905–?), Irish badminton player
- Ian McAndrew (* 1989), Australian soccer player
- Ian McDiarmid (born 1944), Scottish actor
- Ian McDonald (born 1946), British rock musician
- Ian McDonald (born 1960), British writer
- Ian Alexander McDonald (1922–1990), Australian gynecologist and obstetrician
- Ian McEwan (born 1948), British writer
- Ian McGuire (* 1964), British writer, biographer and literary scholar
- Ian McKellen (born 1939), British actor
- Ian McLagan (1945-2014), British rock musician
- Ian Murdock (1973–2015), German-American computer scientist
- Ian Nelson (* 1982), American actor
- Ian Nelson (born 1995), American actor
- Ian O'Brien-Docker (* 1977), German musician
- Ian Paice (born 1948), British drummer
- Ian Paisley (1926–2014), Northern Irish clergyman and politician
- Ian Pearce (1921–2012), Australian jazz pianist
- Ian Pearce (born 1974), English football player
- Ian Rankin (* 1960), British writer
- Ian Robinson (born 1952), English squash player
- Ian Rush (born 1961), Welsh football player
- Ian Shaw (born 1962), Welsh jazz singer
- Ian Smith (1919–2007), Rhodesian politician
- Ian Smith (1925-2015), South African cricketer
- Ian Smith (born 1957), New Zealand cricketer and commentator
- Ian Smith (* 1967), English cricketer
- Ian Hendrickson-Smith (* 1974), American jazz musician
- Ian Michael Smith (* 1987), American actor
- Ian Snodin (born 1963), English football player
- Ian Somerhalder (* 1978), American actor and model
- Ian Stewart (1929-2017), British racing driver
- Ian Stewart, Baron Stewartby (1935-2018), British politician
- Ian Stewart (1938–1985), British musician
- Ian Stewart (* 1945), British mathematician
- Ian Stewart (born 1949), British athlete
- Ian Stuart Donaldson (1957-1993), British musician
- Ian Thompson (born 1949), British marathon runner
- Ian Thorpe (* 1982), Australian swimmer
- Ian Tomlinson (1936-1995), Australian track and field athlete
- Ian Wilson (born 1939), British cameraman
- Ian Wilson (* 1940), South African conceptual artist, member of Art & Language
- Ian Wilson (born 1941), British writer
- Ian Wilson (born 1964), Irish composer
- Ian Wood (* 1964), Canadian-German ice hockey player
- Ian N. Wood (born 1950), British historian
- Ian Wright (born 1961), New Zealand rower
- Ian Wright (born 1963), English football player