Real people edit

• Ilya (Archbishop of Novgorod), 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 (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 (1933–2023), Russian-American conceptual artist of Jewish origin
• Ilya Kaler (born 1963), violinist
• Ilya Glazunov (1930–2017), Russian painter
• Ilya Kaminsky (born 1977), Ukrainian-American-Jewish poet
• Ilya Kharun (born 2005), Canadian swimemr
• 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 (born 1996), Kazakhstani ice hockey player
• Ilya Espino de Marotta, Marine engineer and leader of the Panama Canal Expansion Project
• Ilia Malinin (born 2004), American figure skater, first person to land a *quadruple axel
• Ilya Mechnikov (1845–1916), Russian Nobel Prize-winning microbiologist
• Ilya Petrov (born 1995), Russian footballer
• Ilya Prigogine (1917–2003), physical chemist and Nobel Prize-winning physicist
• Ilya Prusikin (born 1985), Russian musician, singer, record producer, vlogger, video director and screenwriter
• Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro (1929–2009), Russian-Jewish-Israeli mathematician
• Ilya Yashin (born 1983), Russian political figure
• Ilya Yefimovich Repin (1844–1930), Russian painter
• Ilya Salkind (born 1947), movie producer
• Ilya Salmanzadeh (born 1986), Persian-Swedish music producer
• Ilya Samsonov (born 1997), a Russian goaltender for the Toronto Maple Leafs, formerly Washington Capitals
• Ilya Sorokin (born 1995), a Russian goaltender for the New York Islanders
• Ilya Strebulaev, Russian-American financial economist
• Ilya Sutskever, computer scientist
• Ilya Tsipursky (1934–2022), Soviet judoka and sambist
• Ilya Ulyanov (1831–1886), father of Soviet revolutionary Vladimir Lenin
• Ilya Zhitomirskiy (1989–2011), Russian-American founder of Diaspora
• Ilya Serov (born 1986), Russian-American trumpeter and singer
• Ilya Dzhirkvelov (born 1927), author and KGB defector
• Ilya Oberyshyn (1921-2007), Ukrainian insurgent

Religious figures edit

• 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".)^[2][3]

Fictional characters edit

• 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 (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
• Ilya Goryunov, a character from Dmitry Glukhovski´s book Text

• Illya Kuryaki and the Valderramas

• Elia (disambiguation)
• Eli
• Ilyin
• Ilyinka
• Ilyinsky (disambiguation)
• Ilyino