Real people •
Ilia Kulik (born 1977), Russian figure skater •
Ilia Malinin (born 2004), American Olympic figure skater, 2024 & 2025 world champion •
Ilya (Archbishop of Novgorod), 12th-century Russian Orthodox cleric and saint •
Ilya Borok (born 1993), Russian jiujitsu fighter •
Ilya Bryzgalov (born 1980), Russian ice hockey goalie •
Ilya Dzhirkvelov (1927–2006), author and KGB defector •
Ilya Ehrenburg (1891–1967), Russian writer and Soviet cultural ambassador •
Ilya Espino de Marotta, Marine engineer and leader of the Panama Canal Expansion Project •
Ilya Frank (1908–1990), Russian physicist •
Ilya Glazunov (1930–2017), Russian painter •
Ilya Gringolts (born 1982), Russian violinist •
Ilya Grubert (born 1954), Latvian violinist •
Ilya Ilf (1897–1937), Russian author of
Twelve Chairs and the
Golden Calf •
Ilya Ilyin (born 1988), Kazakhstani Olympic weightlifter •
Ilya I. Alekseyev (1772–1830), commander of the Russian Imperial Army •
Ilya Ivashka (born 1994), Belarusian tennis player •
Ilya Kabakov (1933–2023), Russian-American conceptual artist of Jewish origin •
Ilya Kaler (born 1963), Russian-American violinist •
Ilya Kaminsky (born 1977), Ukrainian-American-Jewish poet • • •
Ilya Kharun (born 2005), Canadian swimmer •
Ilya Kovalchuk (born 1983), Russian ice hockey winger in the KHL, formerly for the Atlanta Thrashers, New Jersey Devils, L.A. Kings and Washington Capitals of the NHL •
Ilya Kuvshinov (born 1990), Russian animator •
Ilya Lagutenko (born 1968), lead singer of the Russian rock band Mumiy Troll •
Ilya Lobanov (born 1996), Kazakhstani ice hockey player •
Ilya Mechnikov (1845–1916), Russian Nobel Prize-winning microbiologist •
Ilya Mizernykh (born 2007), Kazakhstani ski jumper •
Ilya Oberyshyn (1921–2007), Ukrainian insurgent •
Ilya Osipov (born 2005), nicknamed "m0NESY", Russian professional
Counter-Strike 2 player for Team Falcons •
Ilya Petrov (born 1995), Russian footballer •
Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro (1929–2009), Russian-Jewish-Israeli mathematician •
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 Remeslo (born 1983), Russian lawyer and blogger •
Ilya 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 Serov (born 1986), Russian-American trumpeter and singer •
Ilya Sorokin (born 1995), a Russian goaltender for the New York Islanders •
Ilya Strebulaev, Russian-American financial economist •
Ilya Sutskever, computer scientist, co-founder and former chief scientist of OpenAI •
Ilya Tsipursky (1934–2022), Soviet judoka and sambist •
Ilya Ulyanov (1831–1886), father of Soviet revolutionary Vladimir Lenin •
Ilya Yashin (born 1983), Russian political figure •
Ilya Zhitomirskiy (1989–2011), Russian-American founder of Diaspora
Religious figures •
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".) •
Elijah, a Hebrew prophet of the ninth century BCE, known in Russian as Iliya the Prophet (
Илия́ Проро́к) •
Ilya Muromets, Orthodox monastic saint, Russian folk hero
Fictional characters •
Illya Kuryakin, a main character in the TV show
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. •
Illyasviel von Einzbern, a character in
Fate series by Type-Moon •
Ilya Rozanov, a character in the
Game Changers novel series and its television adaptation
Heated Rivalry • Ilya (Ilyusha) Snegiryov, a character in Fyodor Dostoevsky's
The Brothers Karamazov • Ilya Afanasyevich Shamrayev, a character in Anton Chekhov's
The Seagull • Ilya in the book
Letters from Rifka •
Ilya Pasternak, fictional character from the video game
Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation • Ilya Stepanovich Igolkin, a character in Vladimir Obruchev's
Plutonia •
Ilya Tretiak, a character in the 1997 film
The Saint • Ilya, a character in the book and film adaption
Heaven Knows What ==Music==