Ilya

Ilya
Gender	male
Origin
Word/Name	Russian-language or alternatively Kurdish
Meaning	"My god is He" (Hebrew meaning) or "great or glorious" (Kurdish meaning)
Other names
Related names	Elijah, Ilya, Iliya, Ilja, Ilyusha, Ilyushenka, Ilyich, Ilyinichna, Ali or Ilia

Ilya, Illya, Iliya, Ilja, or Ilia is the Slavic 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 for a son of Ilya is "Ilyich", and a daughter is "Ilyinichna".

Ilya is also a Kurdish name meaning great and glorious.

Contents 1 Places 2 Famous namesakes 2.1 Real people 2.2 Mythical/Biblical figures 2.3 Fictional characters 3 Music 4 References 5 Related 6 See also

Places

• Ilya, Belarus

Famous namesakes

Real people

• Ilya Averbukh, Russian ice dancer
• Ilja Bereznickas, Lithuanian animator, illustrator scriptwriter and caricaturist
• Ilya Bryzgalov, Russian ice hockey player
• Ilya Ehrenburg, Russian writer and Soviet cultural ambassador
• Ilya Ilf, Russian author of Twelve Chairs and the Golden Calf
• Ilya Kabakov, Russian-American conceptual artist of Jewish origin
• Ilya Kovalchuk, Russian ice hockey player for the New Jersey Devils
• Ilia Kulik, Russian figure skater
• Elia Abu Madi, Lebanese-American poet
• Ilya Mechnikov, Russian Nobel Prize-winning microbiologist
• Ilya Prigogine, Nobel Prize-winning physicist
• Ilya Yefimovich Repin (1844–1930), Russian painter
• Ilya Salkind, movie producer
• Ilja Szrajbman, Polish swimmer
• Ilya Ulyanov, father of Soviet revolutionary Vladimir Lenin
• Ilya Zhitomirskiy American/Russian founder of Diaspora
• Ilja Ylikangas, Finnish film director, screenwriter

Mythical/Biblical figures

• Ilya Muromets, Russian folk hero
• Elijah, a Hebrew prophet of the ninth century BC
• Elias, another name for the prophet Elias (St Ilya in Russian)
• ایلیا, (Arabic, Persian) Ali, 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"),^[1][2]

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 Afanasyevich Shamrayev, a character in Anton Chekhov's The Seagull
• Ilya Stepanovich Igolkin, a character in Vladimir Obruchev's Plutonia

Music

• Ilya (Bristol band), from Bristol
• Ilya (San Diego band)
• "Ilya", a song by Martina Topley-Bird from Quixotic
• Ilya Kaler, violinist
• Ilya Grubert, violinist
• Ilya Lagutenko, lead singer of the Russian rock band Mumiy Troll
• Ilya Petrov, Ceremonial Perfection band, bass guitarist

References

Related

• Branch, in East African languages
• "There is" (il y a), in French
• "Irya" (Powerful, Energy, Glorious, Sun), in Sanskrit

See also

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

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