Ives is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include:

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Alice Emma Ives Alice Emma Ives (1876–1930) was an American dramatist and journalist. A native of Detroit, at an early age, she wrote for the newspapers. She was "one of the more prolific women playwrights of the Victorian era". She had considerable success as ...

(1876–1930), American dramatist, journalist *

Burl Ives Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives (June 14, 1909 – April 14, 1995) was an American Folk music, folk singer and actor with a career that spanned more than six decades. Ives began his career as an itinerant singer and guitarist, eventually launching his o ...

(1909–1995), American singer, author and actor *

Charles Ives Charles Edward Ives (; October 20, 1874May 19, 1954) was an American modernist composer, actuary and businessman. Ives was among the earliest renowned American composers to achieve recognition on a global scale. His music was largely ignored d ...

(1874–1954), American composer * Charles Ives (footballer) (1907–1942), football player from New Zealand * Chauncey Ives (1810–1894), American sculptor in Italy * Clarrie Ives (1890–1956), Australian rugby league footballer *

Clay Ives James "Clay" Ives (born September 5, 1972) is a Canadian-born American luger who competed from the early 1990s until his 2002 retirement. Competing in three Winter Olympics (the first two with Canada, the last with the United States), he won the ...

(born 1972), Canadian-born American luger *

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 *

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 on ...

(1926–1997), American basketball player * Edward D. Ives (1925–2009), American folklorist * Edward Ives (toymaker) (1839–1918), U.S. toymaker * Edward Ives (rower) (born 1961), American Olympic oarsman * Edward H. Ives (1819–1892), Wisconsin politician *

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. Early life ...

(1931–2012), English historian * Eugene S. Ives (1859–1917), New York and Arizona politician * F. Badger Ives (1858–1914), Wisconsin politician * Florence Carpenter Ives (1854–1900), American journalist *

Frederic Eugene Ives Frederic Eugene Ives (February 17, 1856 – May 27, 1937) was a United States of America, U.S. inventor who was born in Litchfield, Connecticut, Litchfield, Connecticut. In 1874–78 he had charge of the photographic laboratory at Cornell Universi ...

(1856–1937), photography and halftoning pioneer *

George Cecil Ives George Cecil Ives (1 October 1867 – 4 June 1950) was an English poet, writer, penal reformer and early homosexual law reform campaigner. Life and career Ives was born at Frankfurt, Kingdom of Prussia, in 1867, the illegitimate son of Gor ...

(1867–1950), poet, writer, penal reformer and early gay rights campaigner * George Frederick Ives (1881–1993), last surviving veteran of the Boer War * Gideon S. Ives (1846–1927), American politician *

Grayston Ives Charles John Grayston Ives (born 1948), also known as Bill Ives, is a British composer, singer and choral director. Education and career Ives was a chorister at Ely Cathedral and later studied music at Selwyn College, Cambridge, where he held a ...

(born 1948), British composer, singer and choral director *

Greg Ives Gregory Stuart Ives (born September 13, 1979) is an American NASCAR crew chief who works for JR Motorsports as the crew chief of their No. 40 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 in the NASCAR Cup Series, which is fielded part-time for Justin Allgaier. He is als ...

(born 1979), American NASCAR crew chief *

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 Washington ...

(1847–1911), American art museum director * Henry S. Ives ( 1862–1894), American financier *

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–Stilw ...

(1882–1953), physicist and inventor; son of Frederick Ives *

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, partner in the firm Currier and Ives *

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 College ...

(1829–1868), American botanist, surveyor, engineer and Confederate officer *

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, pub ...

(1854–1931), first Professor of Music at the University of Adelaide, South Australia *

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 portfolio ...

(1923–1978), American artist, professor, print publisher * Ralph B. Ives (1873–1934), American businessman *

Thomas Ives Thomas Ives (born June 25, 1997) is an American football wide receiver who is a free agent. He played college football at Colgate and was signed by the Chicago Bears as an undrafted free agent in 2019. Early life At Hinsdale Central High Scho ...

(born 1996), American football player * William Ives (disambiguation), several people

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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 '' Chronico ...

(before 1000), Cornish saint *

Ivo of Chartres Ivo of Chartres, canon regular, Can.Reg. (also Ives, Yves, or Yvo; ; 1040 – 23 December 1115), was a French canon regular and abbot who then served as the Bishop of Chartres from 1090 until his death. He was an important authority in Catholic c ...

(1040–1115), French bishop and saint * Ives of Kermartin (1253–1303), French parish priest and patron saint of Brittany, lawyers, and abandoned children * Ives I de Belesme, 10th century Norman baron, controlling the lands and tower of Belesme *

Ives Goddard Robert Hale Ives Goddard III (born 1941) is a linguist and a curator emeritus in the Department of Anthropology of the National Museum of Natural History at the Smithsonian Institution. He is widely considered the leading expert on the Algonqui ...

(born 1941), American linguist and curator * Ives Roqueta (1936–2015), Occitan author * Ives Antero de Souza (born 1985), Brazilian footballer

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