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Ilya, Illya, Iliya, Ilja, or Ilia is the Slavic

Slavic peoples

The Slavic people are an Indo-European panethnicity living in Eastern Europe, Southeast Europe, North Asia and Central Asia. The term Slavic represents a broad ethno-linguistic group of people, who speak languages belonging to the Slavic language family and share, to varying degrees, certain...

form of the male Hebrew name Eliyahu (Elijah), meaning "My god is He". It is pronounced with stress on the second syllable. The diminutive form is Ilyusha or Ilyushenka. The Russian patronymic

Patronymic

A patronym, or patronymic, is a component of a personal name based on the name of one's father, grandfather or an even earlier male ancestor. A component of a name based on the name of one's mother or a female ancestor is a matronymic. Each is a means of conveying lineage.In many areas patronyms...

for a son of Ilya is "Ilyich", and a daughter is "Ilyinichna".

Ilya is also a Kurdish name meaning great and glorious.

Real people

Ilya Averbukh, Russian ice dancer
Ilja Bereznickas
Ilja Bereznickas
Ilja Bereznickas is a Lithuanian animator, illustrator, scriptwriter and caricaturist.-Biography:...

, Lithuanian animator, illustrator scriptwriter and caricaturist
Ilya Bryzgalov
Ilya Bryzgalov
Ilya Nikolayevich Bryzgalov is a Russian professional ice hockey goaltender for the Philadelphia Flyers of the National Hockey League after being acquired by the team on June 7, 2011. He was selected in the second round of the 2000 NHL Entry Draft, 44th overall, by the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim.In...

, Russian ice hockey player
Ilya Ehrenburg
Ilya Ehrenburg
Ilya Grigoryevich Ehrenburg was a Soviet writer, journalist, translator, and cultural figure.Ehrenburg is among the most prolific and notable authors of the Soviet Union; he published around one hundred titles. He became known first and foremost as a novelist and a journalist - in particular, as a...

, Russian writer and Soviet cultural ambassador
Ilya Ilf
Ilya Ilf
Ilya Ilf was an extremely popular Soviet author of the 1920s and 1930s, who worked in collaboration with Yevgeni Petrov. See Ilf and Petrov for more info....

, Russian author of Twelve Chairs and the Golden Calf
Ilya Kabakov
Ilya Kabakov
Ilya Kabakov, Russian Илья́ Ио́сифович Кабако́в , is a Russian-American conceptual artist of Jewish descent, born in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine. He worked for thirty years in Moscow, from the 1950s until the late 1980s. He now lives and works on Long Island...

, Russian-American conceptual artist of Jewish origin
Ilya Kovalchuk
Ilya Kovalchuk
Ilya Valerevich Kovalchuk is a Russian professional ice hockey left winger who is an alternate captain of the New Jersey Devils of the National Hockey League. Drafted first overall in the 2001 NHL Entry Draft by the Atlanta Thrashers, he began his NHL career in 2001–02 with Atlanta and was...

, Russian ice hockey player for the New Jersey Devils
New Jersey Devils
The New Jersey Devils are a professional ice hockey team based in Newark, New Jersey, United States. They are members of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League...
Ilia Kulik
Ilia Kulik
Ilia Alexandrovich Kulik is a Russian figure skater. He is the 1998 Olympic Champion, the 1995 European Champion, the 1997–1998 Grand Prix Final champion, and the 1995 World Junior champion.- Career :...

, Russian figure skater
Elia Abu Madi
Elia Abu Madi
Elia Abu Madi was a Lebanese-American poet.-Life and career:Abu Madi was born in the village of Al-Muhaydithah, now part of Bikfaya, Lebanon, in 1889 or 1890...

, Lebanese-American poet
Ilya Mechnikov, Russian Nobel Prize-winning microbiologist
Ilya Prigogine
Ilya Prigogine
Ilya, Viscount Prigogine was a Russian-born naturalized Belgian physical chemist and Nobel Laureate noted for his work on dissipative structures, complex systems, and irreversibility.-Biography :...

, Nobel Prize-winning physicist
Ilya Yefimovich Repin
Ilya Yefimovich Repin
Ilya Yefimovich Repin |realist]]ic works often expressed great psychological depth and exposed the tensions within the existing social order. Beginning in the late 1920s, detailed works on him were published in the Soviet Union, where a Repin cult developed about a decade later...

(1844–1930), Russian painter
Ilya Salkind
Ilya Salkind
Ilya Juan Salkind Dominguez , usually known as Ilya Salkind, is a film and television producer, well known for his contributions to the live-action Superman films of the 1970s and '80s alongside his father, Alexander Salkind....

, movie producer
Ilja Szrajbman
Ilja Szrajbman
Lejzor Ilja Szrajbman was a Polish Olympic freestyle swimmer.Szrajbman was born in Warsaw, Poland. He competed in the for Poland at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany.Ilja died in 1943 in the Majdanek concentration camp....

, Polish swimmer
Ilya Ulyanov
Ilya Ulyanov
Ilya Nikolayevich Ulyanov was a Russian public figure in the field of public education and a teacher...

, father of Soviet revolutionary Vladimir Lenin
Ilya Zhitomirskiy
Ilya Zhitomirskiy
Ilya Zhitomirskiy was a Russian-American software developer and entrepreneur. Zhitomirskiy was a co-founder and developer of the open-source social network DIASPORA* and software service Diaspora.-Early life:...

American/Russian founder of Diaspora
Diaspora
A diaspora is "the movement, migration, or scattering of people away from an established or ancestral homeland" or "people dispersed by whatever cause to more than one location", or "people settled far from their ancestral homelands".The word has come to refer to historical mass-dispersions of...

Mythical/Biblical figures

Ilya Muromets
Ilya Muromets
Ilya Muromets is a Kievan Rus' epic hero. He is celebrated in numerous byliny . Along with Dobrynya Nikitich and Alyosha Popovich he is regarded as the greatest of all the legendary bogatyrs...

, Russian folk hero
Elijah, a Hebrew prophet of the ninth century BC
Elias
Elias
Elias is the Latin transliteration of the Greek name , which in turn is the Hellenized form of the , meaning "Yahweh is my God". Another form of Eliyahu in English is Elijah.The name belonged most notably to Elijah , the Hebrew prophet...

, another name for the prophet Elias (St Ilya in Russian)
ایلیا, (Arabic, Persian) Ali
Ali
' |Ramaḍān]], 40 AH; approximately October 23, 598 or 600 or March 17, 599 – January 27, 661).His father's name was Abu Talib. Ali was also the cousin and son-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, and ruled over the Islamic Caliphate from 656 to 661, and was the first male convert to Islam...

, cousin, son-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, and the first Imam of shias. (There is a quote from Imam Ali "I'm called Elia among jews, Ilya among christians, Ali for my father, and Heydar for my mother"),

Fictional characters

Ilya Pasternak, fictional character from the video game Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation
Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation
is the sixth installment developed by Project Aces and published by Namco Bandai Games exclusively for the Xbox 360 as part of the Ace Combat franchise...
Illya Kuryakin
Illya Kuryakin
Illya Nickovetch Kuryakin is a fictional character from the 1960s TV spy series The Man from U.N.C.L.E..The series was remarkable for pairing an American Napoleon Solo and the Russian Kuryakin as two spies who work together for an international espionage organisation at the height of the Cold War...

, a main character in the TV show The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. is an American television series that was broadcast on NBC from September 22, 1964, to January 15, 1968. It follows the exploits of two secret agents, played by Robert Vaughn and David McCallum, who work for a fictitious secret international espionage and law-enforcement...
Ilya Tretiak, a character in the 1997 film The Saint
The Saint (film)
The Saint is a 1997 film based on the character of Simon Templar created by Leslie Charteris in 1928 for a series of books published as "The Saint." The film stars Val Kilmer, Elisabeth Shue and Rade Šerbedžija...
Ilya in the book Letters from Rifka
Letters from Rifka
Letters From Rifka is a historical young-adult novel by Karen Hesse. It was a recipient of a National Jewish Book Award and several other honours. In the "Author's Note" to the novel, Hesse claims that it was based on the personal account of her great-aunt Ali Jacob's immigration to America...
Ilya Afanasyevich Shamrayev, a character in Anton Chekhov's The Seagull
The Seagull
The Seagull is the first of what are generally considered to be the four major plays by the Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov. The Seagull was written in 1895 and first produced in 1896...
Ilya Stepanovich Igolkin, a character in Vladimir Obruchev
Vladimir Obruchev
Vladimir Afanasyevich Obruchev was a Russian and Soviet geologist who specialized in the study of Siberia and Central Asia. He was also one of the first Russian science fiction authors.- Scientific research :...

's Plutonia
Plutonia (novel)
Plutonia is a novel released in 1915 by Vladimir Obruchev. Is a hollow-earth-type of science fiction novel set in an underground world of rivers, lakes, volcanoes, and strange vegetation, a world which has its own sun –Pluto– and inhabited by monstrous animals and primitive people...

Music

Ilya (Bristol band), from Bristol
Ilya (San Diego band)
"Ilya", a song by Martina Topley-Bird
Martina Topley-Bird
Martina Topley-Bird is a British vocalist and songwriter who first gained fame as the featured female vocalist on trip hop pioneer Tricky's debut album, Maxinquaye...

from Quixotic
Quixotic (album)
Quixotic is the debut album by English singer-songwriter Martina Topley-Bird. The album spans several musical styles including trip-hop, electronic and rock. It was co-written and produced by Topley-Bird and received positive reviews from music critics upon its release and was shortlisted for the...
Ilya Kaler
Ilya Kaler
Ilya Kaler is a Russian violinist. He was born in Moscow.Kaler is the only violinist to win Gold Medals at these three highly prestigious competitions: the International Tchaikovsky Competition ; the Sibelius ; and the Paganini .- Education :Born into a family of an orchestral musician, Ilya Kaler...

, violinist
Ilya Grubert
Ilya Grubert
Ilya Grubert is a Latvian classical violinist. He has won Paganini Competition and Tchaikovsky Competition in 1978.Born in Riga, Grubert began his studies at the Emil Darzins School of Music. He has studied under Yuri Yankelevich and Zinaida Gilels, and then under Leonid Kogan at the Moscow...

, violinist
Ilya Lagutenko, lead singer of the Russian rock band Mumiy Troll
Mumiy Troll
Mumiy Troll is a Russian rock group, founded in 1983 in Vladivostok by vocalist and songwriter Ilya Lagutenko . The literal name of the band, 'The mummies' troll', is a pun on Moomin Troll, the series of Finnish children's books by Tove Jansson.Mumiy Troll broke up when Lagutenko, who graduated in...
Ilya Petrov, Ceremonial Perfection band, bass guitarist

Branch
Branch
A branch or tree branch is a woody structural member connected to but not part of the central trunk of a tree...

, in East African languages
"There is" (il y a), in French
"Irya" (Powerful, Energy, Glorious, Sun), in Sanskrit
Sanskrit
Sanskrit , is a historical Indo-Aryan language and the primary liturgical language of Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism.Buddhism: besides Pali, see Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Today, it is listed as one of the 22 scheduled languages of India and is an official language of the state of Uttarakhand...

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