Igor (given name)

Igor

Igor of Kiev, first from right. Illumination from the Radziwiłł Chronicle
Gender	Male
Origin
Word/name	Old Norse
Meaning	Protected
Region of origin	Eastern Europe
Other names
Related names	Ingvar, Inga

Igor (Russian: Игорь [ˈiɡərʲ]; Ukrainian: Ігор (Ihor) [ˈiɦɔr]; Belarusian: Ігар (Ihar) [ˈiɣar]) is a common given Slavic name derived from the Norse name Ingvar, that was brought to ancient Rus' by the Norse Varangians, in the form Ingvar or Yngvar. Igor (son of the Varangian chief Rurik) was left as a child with Rurik's distant relative (supposedly) first Grand Prince of Kiev - Oleg and later, after the death of Oleg replaced him on Kiev's throne.

People

• Igor of Kiev, ruler of Kievan Rus' from 913 to 945
• Igor II of Kiev (died 1147), Grand Prince of Kiev (1146)
• Igor the Assassin, name given to one of the alleged assassins of Alexander Litvinenko
• Igor Akinfeev (born 1986), Russian football goalkeeper
• Igor Andreev (born 1983), Russian tennis player
• Igor Antón (born 1983), Basque / Spanish cyclist
• Igor Bobček (born 1983), Slovak ice hockey defenceman
• Igor Boki (born 1994), Belarusian Paralympic swimmer
• Igor Cavalera (born 1970), Brazilian musician
• Igor Chugainov (born 1970), Russian football player and coach
• Igor M. Diakonoff (1915–1999), Russian historian, linguist, and translator
• Igor Gaydamaka, Soviet sprint canoer
• Igor Girkin, Russian army artillery veteran
• Igor González de Galdeano (born 1973), Basque cyclist
• Igor Kunitsyn (born 1981), Russian tennis player
• Igor Kurnosov (1985–2013), Russian chess grandmaster
• Igor Larionov (born 1960), Soviet and Russian retired ice hockey player
• Igor Luzhkovsky (1938–2000), Russian swimmer
• Igor Matovič (born 1973), Slovak politician
• Igor Menshchikov (born 1970), Russian football player and coach
• Igor Nikitin (ice hockey) (1966–2013), Russian ice hockey player
• Igor Oistrakh (born 1931), Ukrainian violinist
• Igor Olshanetskyi (born 1986), Israeli Olympic weightlifter
• Igor Olshansky (born 1982), Ukrainian-born American National Football League player
• Igor Pavlov (athlete) (born 1979), Russian pole vaulter
• Igor Severyanin (1887–1941), Russian poet
• Igor Sijsling (born 1987), Dutch tennis player
• Igor Sikorsky (1889–1972), Russian American pioneer of aviation in both helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft
• Igor Smirnov (born 1941), Transnistrian politician
• Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971), Russian composer
• Igor Subbotin (born 1990), Estonian footballer
• Igor Svyatoslavich (1151–1201/1202), Russian prince
• Igor Ursov (1927-2002) Russian phthisiatrist, scientist

See also

• Ihor Rybak
• Yegor