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Ilias Gyftopoulos

Elias Panayiotis Gyftopoulos (Ηλίας Γυφτόπουλος; 1927–2012) was a Greek-born American nuclear engineer and thermodynamicist at MIT, known for a unified non-statistical quantum theory of mechanics and thermodynamics and for introducing exergy analysis into energy-systems engineering.

Ilias Latina

The Ilias Latina is a 1,070-line Latin hexameter poem, generally attributed to Baebius Italicus and dated around 54–65 CE, that condenses Homer's Iliad into a brief epitome.

Ilídio Vieira Té

Ilídio Vieira Té (born 1983, Biombo Region) is a Bissau-Guinean lawyer and PRS politician, Guinea-Bissau's transitional prime minister and finance minister since 28 November 2025, appointed after the 26 November 2025 coup; finance minister since 2022 and Embaló's 2025 campaign director.

Ilidža

Ilidža is a municipality of Kanton Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, at the foot of Mount Igman near Sarajevo, known for its thermal-mineral springs, Roman-era Aquae settlement, and the Vrelo Bosne park.

Ilie Bolojan

Ilie Bolojan (Ilie Gavril Bolojan), Romanian PNL politician born 1969; three-term mayor of Oradea, Bihor County Council president, Senate president, interim president Feb–May 2025, and prime minister June 2025 to May 2026, ousted by a PSD–AUR no-confidence motion amid a 9.3% deficit austerity program.

Ilie Ciocan

Ilie Ciocan (28 May/10 June 1913 – 27 May 2026) was a Romanian supercentenarian and World War II veteran, the oldest validated person ever in Romania and the Balkans at 112 years, 351 days, and Europe's oldest living man at death.

Ilie Năstase

Ilie Năstase, Romanian tennis player, first ATP world No. 1 (23 August 1973, 40 weeks), two Grand Slam singles titles (US Open 1972, French Open 1973), 64 singles titles, Hall of Fame 1991.

Ilieon Kome

Ilieon Kome (Ἰλιέων κώμη), the Village of the Ilians, was a settlement on Karatepe in the Troad, Turkey. Strabo, following Demetrius of Scepsis, placed Homeric Troy there, 30 stadia east of Ilion, though no ancient remains were visible.

Iligan

Iligan, officially the City of Iligan, is a highly urbanized city on the northern coast of Mindanao, Philippines, known as the "City of Majestic Waterfalls."

Ilija Garašanin

Ilija Garašanin (Илија Гарашанин), born Ilija Savić, was a Serbian statesman who served as interior and foreign minister and prime minister and wrote the 1844 program Načertanije.

Ilija Kolarac

Ilija Kolarac (around 1800 to 1878) was a Serbian grain merchant and philanthropist in Pančevo who left his fortune to found a university endowment and support Serbian literature.

Ilijan power station

The Ilijan power station is a 1,271 MW natural gas-fired combined cycle plant in Batangas City, Philippines, operating since 2002 and described as the country's largest.

ILIMA/LAND at FRS

ILIMA/LAND at FRS refers to two experimental programs at GSI in Darmstadt: ILIMA, measuring masses and lifetimes of exotic nuclei in storage rings, and the ALADIN-LAND reaction setup.

Iliman Ndiaye

Iliman Ndiaye (Iliman Cheikh Baroy Ndiaye), Senegalese winger born 2000 in Rouen; Sheffield United, Marseille, Everton, then Manchester City for £65m in 2026; Senegal at 2022 World Cup and AFCON.

Ilimilimma

Ilimilimma was a king of the royal house of Yamhad, the Amorite kingdom centered on Halab (Aleppo), and the father of Idrimi, who later ruled Alalakh.

Ilimilku

Ilimilku of Ugarit was a 13th-century BC scribe and priest who signed five colophons on Ugaritic mythological tablets, including the Baal Cycle, Kirta, and Aqhat.

Ilinden

Ilinden (Илинден) is a 1953 historical novel by Bulgarian writer Dimitar Talev, the third in his tetralogy about the Glaushev family, centered on the 1903 Ilinden uprising.

Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising

The Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising was a revolt against Ottoman rule in Macedonia and Thrace, organized by the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization in 1903 and crushed in about two months at the cost of thousands of civilian lives.

Iliniza

Iliniza (Los Ilinizas), twin-peaked potentially active stratovolcano in Ecuador's Western Cordillera about 50 km south of Quito; North edifice 123-116 ka, South edifice 46-25 ka with a VEI 5 Jatuncama eruption, Holocene Pongo lava flow 6±4 ka.

iLiNS-DYAD-M trial

iLiNS-DYAD-M (NCT01239693) was a randomized controlled trial in Mangochi district, Malawi, testing 20 g daily lipid-based nutrient supplements for pregnant women and infants against iron-folic acid and multiple micronutrients; it found no effect on birth outcomes, growth, or development.

Ílion, Attica

Ílion (Ίλιον), until 1994 Nea Liosia, is a municipality in West Athens, Attica, Greece, 8 km northwest of the city center; 2021 census population 84,004, municipality since 1963.

Iliopsoas

Iliopsoas: the hip musculotendinous unit of psoas major, psoas minor, and iliacus; the body's strongest hip flexor, inserting on the lesser trochanter, innervated by lumbar plexus and femoral nerve, and prone to tendinopathy, bursitis, abscess, and snapping hip.

Iliotibial band syndrome

Iliotibial band syndrome (ITBS, iliotibial band friction syndrome) is an overuse injury causing lateral knee pain in runners and cyclists, treated first with structured rehabilitation; PRP has emerging Level I evidence for refractory cases.

Iliotibial tract

Iliotibial tract (iliotibial band, Maissiat's band): thickened lateral thigh fascia lata band from iliac crest to Gerdy's tubercle, aponeurosis for tensor fasciae latae and gluteus maximus; source of iliotibial band syndrome in runners.

Ilioúpoli

Ilioupoli (Ηλιούπολη), Municipality of Ilioupolis, a municipality on the southwestern slopes of Mount Hymettus in southeastern Athens, Greece; founded as a planned suburb in 1925-1928 by the Drandakis-Pagkalos company, named after Heliopolis of Cairo, population 78,153 (2011).

Ilipula Minor

Ilipula Minor, also Illipa Minor, was a Roman town of Baetica in Hispania, a Pliny stipendiary town of the Conventus Astigitanus later made a Latin municipality by Vespasian, located at Cortijos de Repla, Los Corrales, province of Seville, Spain.

Ilir Latifi

Ilir Latifi, "The Sledgehammer", Swedish heavyweight MMA fighter in the UFC (17-9-0), Albanian-born, Greco-Roman wrestling base, famous for his five-days'-notice 2013 UFC debut against Gegard Mousasi and his 2020 move up from light heavyweight to fight Derrick Lewis.

Ilir Meta

Ilir Meta (born 1969, Skrapar) is an Albanian politician: prime minister 1999–2002, parliament speaker 2013–2017, president 2017–2022, founder of the Socialist Movement for Integration, later Freedom Party leader, arrested October 2024 and charged with corruption in May 2025.

Ilish (ইলিশ)

Ilish (ইলিশ), hilsa or Indian shad (Tenualosa ilisha), is the anadromous national fish of Bangladesh, a prized Bengali food fish; a US$2 billion fishery, overfished in parts, with Ganga restoration and 2026 India-to-Bangladesh exports.

Ilīsharaḥ Yaḥḍub

Ilīsharaḥ Yaḥḍub (Ilsharah Yahdub) was a king of Sabaʾ and dhū-Raydān in ancient South Arabia who reigned about 120 to 125 AD, seized Marib, and fought Qatabān and Ḥimyar.