Ilya

Famous namesakes

Real people

• Ilya, 12th-century Russian Orthodox cleric and saint
• Ilya Averbukh, Russian ice dancer
• Ilja Bereznickas, Lithuanian animator, illustrator scriptwriter and caricaturist
• Ilya Bryzgalov, Russian ice hockey goalie
• Ilya Ehrenburg, Russian writer and Soviet cultural ambassador
• Ilya Gringolts, violinist
• Ilya Grubert, violinist
• Ilya Ilf, Russian author of Twelve Chairs and the Golden Calf
• Ilya Ilyin, Kazakhstani Olympic weightlifter
• Ilya Ivashka, Belarusian tennis player
• Ilya Kabakov, Russian-American conceptual artist of Jewish origin
• Ilya Kaler, violinist
• Ilya Kovalchuk, Russian ice hockey winger for the Washington Capitals
• Ilia Kulik, Russian figure skater
• Ilya Lagutenko, lead singer of the Russian rock band Mumiy Troll
• Ilya Lobanov, Kazakhstani ice hockey player
• Elia Abu Madi, Lebanese-American poet
• Ilya Espino de Marotta, Marine engineer and leader of the Panama Canal Expansion Project
• Ilya Mechnikov, Russian Nobel Prize-winning microbiologist
• Ilya Petrov, Russian footballer
• Ilya Prigogine, Nobel Prize-winning physicist
• Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro, Russian-Jewish-Israeli mathematician
• Ilya Yefimovich Repin, Russian painter
• Ilya Salkind, movie producer
• Ilya Salmanzadeh, Persian-Swedish music producer
• Ilya Samsonov, a Russian goaltender for the Washington Capitals
• Ilya Strebulaev, Russian-American financial economist
• Ilja Szrajbman, Polish swimmer
• Ilya Ulyanov, father of Soviet revolutionary Vladimir Lenin
• Ilya Zhitomirskiy, American/Russian founder of Diaspora
• Ilja Hurník, Czech composer, pianist and essayist
• Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer, Dutch poet, novelist, polemicist and classic scholar
• Ilya Serov, Russian-American trumpeter and singer
• Ilja Richter, German actor

  Mythical/Biblical figures

• Ilya Muromets, Orthodox monastic saint, Russian folk hero
• Elijah, a Hebrew prophet of the ninth century BCE, known in Russian as Ilya
• Ali or Eli, a cousin and son-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, and the first Imam of shiahs

Fictional characters

• Ilya Pasternak, 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, a character in the 1997 film The Saint
• Ilya in the book Letters from Rifka
• Ilya, a character in the book and film adaption Heaven Knows What
• Ilya Afanasyevich Shamrayev, a character in Anton Chekhov's The Seagull
• Ilya Stepanovich Igolkin, a character in Vladimir Obruchev's Plutonia
• Ilya Snegiryov, a character in Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov
• Illyasviel von Einzbern, a character in Fate series by Type-Moon

  Places

• Ilya, Belarus, village near Minsk