Irina Mutsuovna Khakamada is a Russian economist, political activist, journalist, teacher, publicist, and politician who ran in the 2004 Russian presidential election.
Irina Korschunow was a German writer. Her oeuvre comprises short stories, novels theatrical works and film scripts. Born in Stendal, she started her career as a journalist and writer for children's books and young adult literature but focused predominantly on writing novels in her later years since about 1983. She was also a translator.
Irina Nikolaevna Levchenko was a medic turned tank officer in the Red Army during World War II who was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union in 1965; she was also the first Soviet woman awarded the Florence Nightingale Medal.
Irina Mashinski is a Russian-American poet, essayist, editor, and translator. She is best known for her Russian-language poetry and prose, her editorial work, and her fusion book in English, The Naked World: A Tale with Verse.
Irina Vasilevna Medvedeva was a Russian medical scientist, rector of Tyumen State Medical University, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor, and Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation.
Irina Vadimovna Muravyova is a Russian film, television and stage actress, who is most known for her performances in Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears (1979), Karnaval (1981), The Most Charming and Attractive (1985) and her work with Maly Theatre of Moscow. She was awarded with USSR State Prize, Order of Merit for the Fatherland and Order of Honour.
Iraida Heinike, known by the pen name Irina Vladimirovna Odoyevtseva was a Russian poet, novelist and memoirist, and the wife of the poet Georgy Ivanov.
Irina Dmitrievna Prokhorova is a Russian philologist, literary critic and cultural historian, chief editor of the New Literary Observer publishing house and of the literature academic journal of the same name, co-founder of the Mikhail Prokhorov Charitable Foundation. In 2012, she helped her billionaire brother Mikhail Prokhorov in his presidential run, heading his political party Civic Platform from 2013–2014.
