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- Ildar Ibragimov (born 1967)
- Bella Igla (born 1985)
- Alexander Ilyin-Zhenevsky (1894–1941)
- Ernesto Inarkiev (born 1985)
- Nana Ioseliani (born 1962)
- Alexander Ivanov (born 1956)
- Igor Vasilyevich Ivanov (1947–2005)
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