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 or Eliyahu is a masculine Hebrew given name and surname of biblical origin. It means "My God is Yahweh" and derives from the prophet Elijah who, according to the Bible, lived during the reign of King Ahab (9th century BCE). People named Elia ...

(Eliahu), meaning "My God is

Yahu Yahweh *''Yahwe'', was the national god of ancient Israel and Judah. The origins of his worship reach at least to the early Iron Age, and likely to the Late Bronze Age if not somewhat earlier, and in the oldest biblical literature he posse ...

Jah Jah or Yah ( he, , ''Yāh'') is a short form of (YHWH), the four letters that form the tetragrammaton, the personal name of God: Yahweh, which the ancient Israelites used. The conventional Christian English pronunciation of ''Jah'' is , even th ...

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Byzantine Greek Medieval Greek (also known as Middle Greek, Byzantine Greek, or Romaic) is the stage of the Greek language between the end of classical antiquity in the 5th–6th centuries and the end of the Middle Ages, conventionally dated to the Ottoman co ...

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".

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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 (born 1993), Russian jiujitsu fighter * Ilya Bryzgalov (born 1980), Russian ice hockey goalie * Ilya Ehrenburg (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 (born 1982), violinist * Ilya Grubert (born 1954), violinist * Ilya Ilf (1897–1937), Russian author of ''Twelve Chairs'' and the ''Golden Calf'' * Ilya Ilyin (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 (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, Marine engineer and leader of the Panama Canal Expansion Project * Ilya Mechnikov (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, 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 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'' *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

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