Ilya, Illia, Illya, Iliya, Ilja, Ilija, or Ilia (Cyrillic: Илья or Илия) is the East Slavic form of the male Hebrew name Eliyahu (Elijah), meaning "My god is He". It comes from the Byzantine Greek pronunciation of the vocative (Elia) of the Greek Elias (Ηλίας). It is pronounced with stress on the second syllable. The diminutive form is Ilyusha or Ilyushenka. The Russian patronymic for a son of Ilya is "Ilyich", and a daughter is "Ilyinichna".
Ilya Averbukh, Russian ice dancerIlja Bereznickas, Lithuanian animator, illustrator scriptwriter and caricaturistIlya Bryzgalov, Russian ice hockey goalie for the Anaheim DucksIlya Ehrenburg, Russian writer and Soviet cultural ambassadorIlya Grubert, violinistIlya Ilf, Russian author of Twelve Chairs and the Golden Calf'Ilya Ilin, Kazakh olympic weightlifterIlya Kabakov, Russian-American conceptual artist of Jewish originIlya Kaler, violinistIlya Kovalchuk, Russian ice hockey winger for SKA Saint PetersburgIlia Kulik, Russian figure skaterIlya Lagutenko, lead singer of the Russian rock band Mumiy TrollElia Abu Madi, Lebanese-American poetIlya Mechnikov, Russian Nobel Prize-winning microbiologistIlya Petrov (born 1995), Russian footballerIlya Prigogine, Nobel Prize-winning physicistIlya Piatetski-Shapiro, Russian-Jewish-Israeli mathematicianIlya Yefimovich Repin (1844–1930), Russian painterIlya Salkind, movie producerIlya Salmanzadeh, Persian-Swedish music producerIlja Szrajbman, Polish swimmerIlya Ulyanov, father of Soviet revolutionary Vladimir LeninIlya Zhitomirskiy American/Russian founder of DiasporaIlja Hurník Czech composer, pianist and essayistIlja Leonard Pfeijffer Dutch poet, novelist, polemicist and classic scholarIlya Muromets, Russian folk heroElijah, a Hebrew prophet of the ninth century BCE, known in Russian as IlyaAli 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"),
Ilya Pasternak, fictional character from the video game Ace Combat 6: Fires of LiberationIllya 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 SaintIlya in the book Letters from RifkaIlya Afanasyevich Shamrayev, a character in Anton Chekhov's The SeagullIlya Stepanovich Igolkin, a character in Vladimir Obruchev's PlutoniaIlya (Ilyusha) Snegiryov, a character in Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Brothers KaramazovIllyasviel von Einzbern, a character in Fate series by Type-MoonIlya, Belarus, village near Minsk 