''Ilona'' is a Hungarian female given name, the traditional name of the Queen of the Fairies in Magyar folklore.
Its etymology is uncertain. A common theory is that Ilona is cognate with the Greek given name '' Helen''.
Diminutive forms include ''Ilonka'' and ''Ilike''.
Ilona is a common name in Finland,There are 25,000 women named Ilona in the Finnish Population Register Name service /ref> where it is considered to refer to the Finnish word ''ilo'' ("joy") and ''ilona'' literally means "as a joy
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Ilona Elek
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* Ilona Gófitz, Hungarian conjoined twin
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Ilona Graenitz
Ilona Graenitz (15 March 1943 – 17 July 2022) was an Austrian politician who served in the National Council of Austria and the European Parliament as a member of the Social Democratic Party of Austria.
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(1943–2022), Austrian MP and MEP
* Ilona Gusenbauer (born 1947), Austrian high jumper
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(born 1977), Czech swimmer
* Ilona Jokinen (born 1981), Finnish opera singer,
* Ilona Maher (born 1996), American rugby player, 2020 Olympian with the USA Eagles Women's Rugby 7s squad,
* Ilona Massey (1910–1974), Hungarian actress
* Ilona Mitrecey (born 1993), French singer
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Ilona Novák
Ilona Novák (16 May 1925 – 14 March 2019) was a Hungarian swimmer and Olympic champion. She competed at the 1948 Olympic Games in London, where she finished 4th in 100 m backstroke and 5th in 4 × 100 m freestyle relay. At the 1952 Olympic ...
(born 1925), Hungarian swimmer
* Ilona Ostrowska, Polish actress
* Ilona Palásti (1924–1991), Hungarian mathematician
* Ilona Senderek (born 1988), Polish figure skater
* Ilona Slupianek (born 1956), retired world champion shot putter who competed for East Germany
* Ilona Staller (born 1951), aka Cicciolina, Hungarian-born Italian porn-star, sometime politician, and singer
* Ilona Štěpánová-Kurzová (1899–1975), Czech concert pianist and piano teacher
* Ilona Szabó de Carvalho (born 1978), Brazilian political scientist
* Ilona Szilágyi (before 1455–1497), Hungarian princess consort of Wallachia as the second wife of Vlad III the Impaler
* Ilona Tőzsér, Hungarian sprint canoer
* Ilona Verley, Canadian drag queen
* Ilona Zrínyi (1643–1703), Hungarian-Croatian countess
Elonka (disambiguation) Elonka may refer to:
*Elonka Dunin (b. 1958), American game developer and author of books and articles on cryptography
*Stephen Michael Elonka (d. 1983), author of numerous technical books, and creator of the fictional engineer Marmaduke Surfaceblo ...