Ilya, Iliya,
Ilia,
Ilja, or Ilija (russian: Илья́, Il'ja, , or russian: Илия́, Ilija, ; uk, Ілля́, Illia, ; be, Ілья́, Iĺja ) is the
East Slavic form of the male Hebrew name
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Jah
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pronunciation of the vocative (Ilía) of the Greek Elias (Ηλίας, Ilías). It is pronounced with stress on the second syllable. The diminutive form is Iliusha or Iliushen'ka. The Russian patronymic for a son of Ilya is " Ilyich", and a daughter is "Ilyinichna".
People with the name
Real people
*Ilya (Archbishop of Novgorod)
Ilya of Novgorod, also known as Ioann (John) of Novgorod (russian: Иоанн Новгородский, his name upon entering the Great Schema and the name by which he is known in Russian Orthodox hagiography), was Archbishop of Novgorod from 1165 ...
, 12th-century Russian Orthodox cleric and saint
* Ilya Ivanovitch Alekseyev (1772–1830), commander of the Russian Imperial Army
*Ilya Borok
Ilya Grigorievich Borok (russian: Илья Григорьевич Борок, born 10 August 1993) is a Russian jiujitsu fighter. Borok has won many major tournaments in jiujitsu, including the World Championships, the World Games, the World Com ...
(born 1993), Russian jiujitsu fighter
* Ilya Bryzgalov (born 1980), Russian ice hockey goalie
*Ilya Ehrenburg
Ilya Grigoryevich Ehrenburg (russian: link=no, Илья́ Григо́рьевич Эренбу́рг, ; – August 31, 1967) was a Soviet writer, revolutionary, journalist and historian.
Ehrenburg was among the most prolific and notable autho ...
(1891–1967), Russian writer and Soviet cultural ambassador
*Ilya Glazunov
Ilya Sergeyevich Glazunov (russian: Илья́ Серге́евич Глазуно́в; 10 June 1930 – 9 July 2017) was a Soviet and Russian artist from Saint Petersburg. He was the founder of the Russian Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Arc ...
(1930–2017), Russian painter
*Ilya Gringolts
Ilya Gringolts (russian: Илья́ Алекса́ндрович Гринго́льц ''Il′já Aleksándrovič Gringól′c'') born 2 July 1982 in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) is a Russian violinist and composer.
Gringolts studied violin in S ...
(born 1982), violinist
*Ilya Grubert
Ilya, Iliya, Ilia, Ilja, or Ilija (russian: Илья́, Il'ja, , or russian: Илия́, Ilija, ; uk, Ілля́, Illia, ; be, Ілья́, Iĺja ) is the East Slavic form of the male Hebrew name Eliyahu (Eliahu), meaning "My God is Yahu/ Jah. ...
(born 1954), violinist
*Ilya Ilf
Ilya Arnoldovich Ilf (born Iehiel-Leyb Aryevich Faynzilberg, russian: Иехи́ел-Лейб Арьевич Фа́йнзильберг) ( in Odessa – 13 April 1937, Moscow), was a popular Soviet journalist and writer of Jewish origin who usu ...
(1897–1937), Russian author of ''Twelve Chairs'' and the ''Golden Calf''
*Ilya Ilyin
Ilya Aleksandrovich Ilyin (russian: Илья Александрович Ильин; born 24 May 1988) is a retired Kazakhstani weightlifter who won four world championships. On 12 December, 2015 at the President's Cup in Grozny, Russia, Ilyin s ...
(born 1988), Kazakhstani Olympic weightlifter
* Ilya Ivashka (born 1994), Belarusian tennis player
* Ilya Kabakov (born 1933), Russian-American conceptual artist of Jewish origin
* Ilya Kaler (born 1963), violinist
* Ilya Kaminsky (born 1977), Ukrainian-American-Jewish poet
*Ilya Kovalchuk
Ilya Valeryevich Kovalchuk (russian: Илья Валерьевич Ковальчук; born 15 April 1983) is a Russian former professional ice hockey winger. He played for the Atlanta Thrashers, New Jersey Devils, Los Angeles Kings, Montrea ...
(born 1983), Russian ice hockey winger in the KHL and formerly the NHL for the Atlanta Thrashers, New Jersey Devils, L.A. Kings and Washington Capitals
* Ilya Kuvshinov (born 1990), animator
* Ilya Lagutenko (born 1968), lead singer of the Russian rock band Mumiy Troll
*Ilya Lobanov
Ilya Lobanov (born 1 December 1996) is a Kazakhstani ice hockey defenceman playing for Barys Astana of the Kontinental Hockey League
The Kontinental Hockey League (KHL; russian: Континентальная хоккейная лига (КХ ...
(born 1996), Kazakhstani ice hockey player
*Ilya Espino de Marotta
Ilya R. Espino de Marotta is an engineer best known for leading the Panama Canal Expansion Project as Executive Vice President for Engineering in the Panama Canal Authority. Espino de Marotta was appointed to the role in 2012 and was the first ...
, Marine engineer and leader of the Panama Canal Expansion Project
*Ilya Mechnikov
Ilya, Iliya, Ilia, Ilja, or Ilija (russian: Илья́, Il'ja, , or russian: Илия́, Ilija, ; uk, Ілля́, Illia, ; be, Ілья́, Iĺja ) is the East Slavic form of the male Hebrew name Eliyahu (Eliahu), meaning "My God is Yahu/ Jah. ...
(1845–1916), Russian Nobel Prize-winning microbiologist
*Ilya Petrov
Ilya Alekseyevich Petrov (russian: Илья Алексеевич Петров; born 27 June 1995) is a Russian football player. He plays for FC SKA-Khabarovsk.
Club career
He made his professional debut in the Russian Football National League ...
(born 1995), Russian footballer
*Ilya Prigogine
Viscount Ilya Romanovich Prigogine (; russian: Илья́ Рома́нович Приго́жин; 28 May 2003) was a physical chemist and Nobel laureate noted for his work on dissipative structures, complex systems, and irreversibility.
Biogra ...
(1917–2003), physical chemist and Nobel Prize-winning physicist
*Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro
Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro (Hebrew: איליה פיאטצקי-שפירו; russian: Илья́ Ио́сифович Пяте́цкий-Шапи́ро; 30 March 1929 – 21 February 2009) was a Soviet-born Israeli mathematician. During a career that sp ...
(1929–2009), Russian-Jewish-Israeli mathematician
*Ilya Yashin
Ilya Valeryevich Yashin (russian: Илья́ Вале́рьевич Я́шин; born 29 June 1983) is a Russian opposition politician who led the PARNAS party from 2012 to 2016, and then its Moscow branch. He was also head of the Moscow munici ...
(born 1983), Russian political figure
* Ilya Yefimovich Repin (1844–1930), Russian painter
*Ilya Salkind
Ilya Juan Salkind Domínguez (; born July 27, 1947), usually known as Ilya Salkind, is a Mexican film and television producer, known for his contributions to three of the four live-action Superman films of the 1970s and 1980s alongside his fath ...
(born 1947), movie producer
*Ilya Salmanzadeh
Ilya Salmanzadeh (; born 19 September 1986 in Stockholm), known mononymously as ILYA, is a Swedish-Persian songwriter, producer and singer. He rose to prominence outside of Sweden after co-writing and producing Ariana Grande's " Problem" and Je ...
(born 1986), Persian-Swedish music producer
*Ilya Samsonov
Ilya Alexeyevich Samsonov (, russian: Илья Алексеевич Самсонов; born 22 February 1997) is a Russian professional ice hockey goaltender for the Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League (NHL).
Growing up in Magnitog ...
(born 1997), a Russian goaltender for the Washington Capitals
*Ilya Sorokin
Ilya Igorevich Sorokin (russian: Илья Игоревич Сорокин; born 4 August 1995) is a Russian professional ice hockey goaltender for the New York Islanders of the National Hockey League (NHL). Sorokin was selected by the Islanders ...
(born 1995), a Russian goaltender for the New York Islanders
*Ilya Strebulaev
Ilya A. Strebulaev is a Russian-American financial economist. He is the David S. Lobel Professor of Private Equity and Professor of Finance at the Stanford University Stanford Graduate School of Business, Graduate School of Business, where he has ...
, Russian-American financial economist
*Ilya Sutskever
Ilya Sutskever is a computer scientist working in machine learning, who co-founded and serves as Chief Scientist of OpenAI.
He has made several major contributions to the field of deep learning. He is the co-inventor, with Alex Krizhevsky and Ge ...
, computer scientist
*Ilya Tsipursky
Ilya Lazarevich Tsipursky (; 26 August 1934 – 3 August 2022) was a Soviet judoka and sambist. He participated at the 1964 European Judo Championships, being awarded the silver medal in the amateurs's 80 kg event. He was in the middleweight c ...
(1934–2022), Soviet judoka and sambist
* Ilya Ulyanov (1831–1886), father of Soviet revolutionary Vladimir Lenin
*Ilya Zhitomirskiy
Ilya Zhitomirskiy (12 October 1989 – 12 November 2011) was a Russian-American software developer and entrepreneur. Zhitomirskiy was a co-founder and developer of the Diaspora social network and the Diaspora free software that powers it.
Biog ...
(1989–2011), Russian-American founder of Diaspora
*Ilya Serov
Ilya Serov (born November 8, 1986) is an American trumpeter and singer.
Ilya Serov is a Los Angeles-based jazz trumpet player and singer. Serov released his first album, ''September In The Rain'', in December 2013. Serov was named Best New Artis ...
(born 1986), Russian-American trumpeter and singer
*Ilya Dzhirkvelov
Ilya Grigoryevich Dzhirkvelov (russian: Илья Григорьевич Джирквелов; 23.02.1927 - 26.02.2006) is a Georgian author, journalist, TASS editor and former KGB agent who defected from the Soviet Union in 1980 and now lives in En ...
(born 1927), author and KGB defector
Religious figures
* Ilya Muromets, Orthodox monastic saint, Russian folk hero
* Elijah, a Hebrew prophet of the ninth century BCE, known in Russian as Iliya the Prophet (''Илия́ Проро́к'')
*Ali
ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib ( ar, عَلِيّ بْن أَبِي طَالِب; 600 – 661 CE) was the last of four Rightly Guided Caliphs to rule Islam (r. 656 – 661) immediately after the death of Muhammad, and he was the first Shia Imam. ...
or Eli (Arabic name), a cousin and son-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, and the first Imam of shiahs. (There is a quote from Imam Ali "I am called Elya / Alya among Jews, Elia among Christians, Ali for my father, and Haydar for my mother".)[Allameh Amini, ''Alghadir'', Vol. 7, p. 78.]
Fictional characters
*Ilya Pasternak
is a 2007 Arcade game, arcade-style Combat flight simulation game, combat flight simulation video game developed by Project Aces and published by Namco Bandai Games exclusively for the Xbox 360. It is the seventh entry in the ''Ace Combat'' franc ...
, fictional character from the video game ''Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation''
* Illya Kuryakin, a main character in the TV show ''The Man from U.N.C.L.E.''
*Ilya Tretiak
''The Saint'' is a 1997 American thriller film directed by Phillip Noyce, written by Jonathan Hensleigh and Wesley Strick, and starring Val Kilmer in the title role, with Elisabeth Shue and Rade Šerbedžija. The plot of the film revolves around ...
, a character in the 1997 film ''The Saint''
*Ilya in the book ''Letters from Rifka
''Letters From Rifka'' is a children's historical novel by Karen Hesse, published by Holt in 1992. It features a Jewish family's emigration from Russia in 1919, to Belgium and ultimately to the U.S., from the perspective of daughter Rifka, based ...
''
*Ilya, a character in the book and film adaption ''Heaven Knows What
''Heaven Knows What'' is a 2014 psychological drama film directed by Ben and Joshua Safdie and written by Ronald Bronstein and Joshua Safdie. The film stars Arielle Holmes, Buddy Duress, Ron Braunstein, Eleonore Hendricks, Caleb Landry Jone ...
''
*Ilya Afanasyevich Shamrayev, a character in Anton Chekhov's ''The Seagull
''The Seagull'' ( rus, Ча́йка, r=Cháyka, links=no) is a play by Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov, written in 1895 and first produced in 1896. ''The Seagull'' is generally considered to be the first of his four major plays. It dramatises t ...
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*Ilya Stepanovich Igolkin, a character in Vladimir Obruchev's '' Plutonia''
*Ilya (Ilyusha) Snegiryov, a character in Fyodor Dostoevsky's '' The Brothers Karamazov''
*Ilya, Also known as Julian Devorak, plague doctor from "The Arcana"
* Illyasviel von Einzbern, a character in ''Fate'' series by Type-Moon
See also
*Elia (disambiguation)
Elia is a name which may be a variant of the names Elias, Elijah, Eli or Eliahu, and may refer to:
People
* Aelia (gens) or Elia, a ''gens'' of Ancient Rome
Mononymic
* Elia or Elijah, a biblical prophet
* Elia, a pen-name of Charles Lamb
First ...
*Eli
Eli most commonly refers to:
* Eli (name), a given name, nickname and surname
* Eli (biblical figure)
Eli or ELI may also refer to:
Film
* ''Eli'' (2015 film), a Tamil film
* ''Eli'' (2019 film), an American horror film
Music
* ''Eli'' (Jan ...
*Ilyin Ilyin or Ilin (russian: Ильин) is a Russian masculine surname that is derived from the male given name Ilya and literally means ''Ilya's''. its feminine counterpart is Ilyina or Ilina. It may refer to
* Aleksandr Ilyin (disambiguation), sever ...
*Ilyinka Ilyinka (russian: Ильинка) is the name of several inhabited localities in Russia.
Modern localities Altai Krai
As of 2012, two rural localities in Altai Krai bear this name:
* Ilyinka, Shelabolikhinsky District, Altai Krai, a '' selo'' i ...
*Ilyinsky (disambiguation) Ilyinsky (masculine), Ilyinskaya (feminine), or Ilyinskoye (neuter) may refer to:
* Ilyinsky (surname) (''Ilyinskaya'')
Places
* Ilyinsky District, several districts in Russia
*Ilyinsky Urban Settlement, a municipal formation which the Work Settle ...
*Ilyino Ilyino may refer to:
* Ilyino, Bryansk Oblast, a village in Bryansk Oblast, Russia
* Ilyino, Kalininsky District, Tver Oblast, name of two villages in Kablukovskoye Rural Settlement of Kalininsky District of Tver Oblast, Russia
* Ilyino, Kimrsky Di ...
References
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