Ignat is a Slavic given name that corresponds to the given name Ignatius. Notable persons with that name include:
- Ignat Bednarik (1882–1963), Romanian painter
- Ignat Dameika (1802–1889), Belarusian geologist, mineralogist and educator
- Ignat Damyanov, Bulgarian footballer
- Ignat Dishliev, Bulgarian footballer
- Ignat Herrmann (1854–1935), Czech novelist, satirist and editor
- Ignat Kaneff (1926–2020), Bulgarian-born Canadian business magnate and philanthropist
- Ignat Kovalev, Russian sprint canoeist
- Ignat Malei Belarusian track cyclist
- Ignat Nekrasov, leader of the Nekrasov Cossacks who fled to the Kuban in September 1708
- Ignat Pakhotin, actor playing Boris Bannon in My Spy Family, a live action family comedy series
- Ignat Solzhenitsyn, Russian-American conductor and pianist
- Ignat Zemchenko, Ukrainian-Russian ice hockey player
