Notable inmates

Isaak Khristoforovich Lalayants (pseudonyms: Columbus, Izarov, Insarov et al.; 5 August [O.S.

Issa Ali Abdullah al Murbati is a citizen of Bahrain who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.

Isabel do Carmo ComL is a former founder and leader of the Portuguese activist organization, Brigadas Revolucionárias (BR), which took part in an armed struggle against the Portuguese government, both before and after the overthrow of the repressive Estado Novo regime.

Isabelle Choko (née Izabela Sztrauch Galewska, 18 September 1928 – 21 July 2023) was a Polish-French Holocaust survivor and chess player who won the 1956 French Women's Chess Championship.

Isac Peltz or Ițic Peltz (12 February 1899 – 10 August 1980) was a Romanian prose writer and journalist.

Isaiah Spiegel (Hebrew: ישעיהו שפיגל, Polish: Jeszajahu Szpigel; January 14, 1906 – July 14, 1990) was Polish and Israeli poet, writer and essayist writing in Yiddish, a Holocaust survivor (Łódź Ghetto and Auschwitz II-Birkenau). Before deportation from the Łódź Ghetto he hid some writing.

Isa Khan is a citizen of Pakistan who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba. His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 23. On July 6, 2010, he was arrested again in Bannu, Pakistan, for allegedly rejoining the Taliban.

Isa Vermehren (21 April 1918 Lübeck, Germany – 15 July 2009 Bonn, Germany) was a German religious sister, a former cabaret artist and film actress.

Israël Chaim "Ischa" Meijer (14 February 1943 – 14 February 1995) was a Dutch journalist, television presenter, radio presenter, critic and author.

Isidore Goudeket (1 August 1883 in Amsterdam – 9 July 1943 in Sobibor extermination camp, Poland) was a Dutch gymnast who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics.

Isidor Levin (Latvian: Izidors Levins; September 20, 1919 – July 24, 2018) was a Latvian Jewish-born Soviet/Estonian folklorist, narrative researcher, theologian, and Professor Emeritus at the St.