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Illan Meslier
Illan Meslier (born 2000, Lorient) is a French goalkeeper signed by Arsenal in July 2026 after seven seasons at Leeds United: 215 appearances, 72 clean sheets, and Championship titles in 2019/20 and 2024/25.
Illang: The Wolf Brigade
Illang: The Wolf Brigade (인랑) is Kim Jee-woon's 2018 South Korean live-action remake of the 1999 anime Jin-Roh, set in 2029 Korea amid a reunification crisis, starring Gang Dong-won; a costly box-office flop.
Illangelo
Illangelo, born Carlo Montagnese in 1987, is a Canadian Grammy-winning producer, songwriter, and mixing engineer best known for his work on the Weeknd's Trilogy and After Hours.
Illawarra Hawks
Illawarra Hawks, Wollongong-based NBL basketball club founded 1979, the only club to play every NBL season; champions in 2000/01 and 2024/25, coached by Justin Tatum at WIN Entertainment Centre.
Illawarra Steelers
Illawarra Steelers, Wollongong-based NSWRL/ARL/NRL rugby league club 1982-1998, named for the region's steel industry; 17 first-grade seasons, best year 1992, merged with St George Dragons in September 1998 to form the St George Illawarra Dragons.
Ille-et-Vilaine
Ille-et-Vilaine (department 35) is a department of Brittany, northwestern France, prefecture Rennes, named for the Ille and Vilaine rivers. Most populous Breton department with 1,120,666 inhabitants (2023), 333 communes, and Brittany's leading economy.
Illeana Douglas
Illeana Douglas (Illeana Hesselberg), American actress, writer, producer, and director, granddaughter of Melvyn Douglas; discovered dubbing screams for Scorsese's The Last Temptation of Christ, known for Cape Fear, Grace of My Heart, Ghost World, and the memoir I Blame Dennis Hopper.
Illegal - Justice, Out of Order
Illegal - Justice, Out of Order (Illegal) is a Hindi legal drama web series, 2020-2024, three seasons, 26 episodes, starring Neha Sharma and Piyush Mishra, created by Reshu Nath, directed by Sahir Raza, on Voot then JioHotstar.
Illegal drug trade
The illegal drug trade is the global underground economy of producing, trafficking, and selling prohibited psychoactive substances, governed by the 1912, 1961, 1971, and 1988 UN drug conventions; UNODC estimates continued expansion of cocaine and methamphetamine markets alongside declining opiate supply.
Illegal drug trade in Colombia
Illegal drug trade in Colombia: the cocaine-centered illicit economy making Colombia the world's leading cocaine producer, with 253,000 hectares of coca in 2023, Medellín and Cali cartel history, Plan Colombia, and record seizures.
Illegal immigration
Illegal immigration, also called unauthorized, undocumented, or irregular migration, is entry or residence in violation of a country's immigration laws. Covers U.S. history, 1986 IRCA legalization, population estimates, economics, and crime research.
Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996
IIRIRA, also called the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (Division C of P.L. 104-208), is a U.S. statute signed September 30, 1996 that created expedited removal, unlawful-presence bars (3 and 10 years), restricted judicial review, and tightened relief from deportation.
Illegal immigration to India
Illegal immigration to India: foreign nationals entering without valid travel documents or overstaying visas. Governed by the Citizenship Act 1955 and Immigration and Foreigners Act 2025; enforcement concentrated in Assam, with about 1.9 million excluded from its NRC.
Illegal immigration to the United States
Illegal immigration to the United States, also called unauthorized or undocumented immigration, is residence without legal status. Pew estimates a record 14 million unauthorized immigrants in 2023, up from 10.5 million in 2021, with probable decline after 2025 enforcement changes.
Illegal logging
Illegal logging: harvesting, transporting, buying, or selling timber in violation of national laws; no single legal definition. Costs $1–2 trillion yearly with fishing and wildlife trade; 50–90% of timber illegal in some countries; fought via EU FLEGT, EUTR, and EUDR.
Illegal number
An illegal number is a number deemed unlawful to hold or share in some jurisdiction because it encodes prohibited data, such as prime numbers encoding the DVD decryption program DeCSS.
Illegality and public policy in contract law
Illegality and public policy in contract law: doctrines refusing enforcement of contracts involving crimes, statutory prohibitions, or conduct contrary to public policy. Modern English approach set by Patel v Mirza (2016) range-of-factors test, replacing the reliance rule of Tinsley v Milligan.
Illegals Program
The Illegals Program, named by the U.S. Department of Justice, was a network of Russian SVR sleeper agents under non-official cover; ten were arrested June 27, 2010 in FBI Operation Ghost Stories and swapped in Vienna for four prisoners including Sergei Skripal.
Illegible name on Peutinger Map (possibly St-Germain-du-Salembre)
Ca[...]o (possibly St-Germain-du-Salembre, conjectural Calambrio): an illegible Gaulish toponym on the Peutinger Map, segment II grid 1B1, between Corterate and an unnamed station, identified only tentatively.
Illegitimi non carborundum
Illegitimi non carborundum, also noli illegitimi carborundum, is a mock-Latin aphorism meaning "Don't let the bastards grind you down", coined around WWII, attributed to British army intelligence and popularized by Gen. Stilwell; carborundum is an abrasive trademark, not a Latin verb.
Illeism
Illeism is third-person self-reference, from Latin ille, term coined by Coleridge in 1809. Practiced by Julius Caesar, Shakespeare's characters, biblical figures, children, and celebrities; psychology research links distanced self-talk to wiser reasoning.
Illenium
Illenium (Nicholas Miller, born 1990) is a Denver-based American electronic producer and DJ of melodic bass and future bass; Grammy-nominated for Fallen Embers, with four consecutive Billboard Dance/Electronic number-one albums and a 2026 Sphere Las Vegas residency.
Illenium B2B Slander
Illenium B2B Slander is a recurring back-to-back DJ pairing of Illenium and Slander, two American melodic bass headliners who have played Decadence NYE, EDC Las Vegas, and the Sphere.
Illertissen
FV Illertissen 1921 e.V., Bavarian football club founded 1921, plays in Regionalliga Bayern at the Vöhlinstadion; former WFV member, WFV-Pokal winner 1963, three-time Toto-Pokal winner, DFB-Pokal giant-killer against Nürnberg in 2025.
Illex argentinus
Illex argentinus, commonly the Argentine shortfin squid (Spanish: Pota; Japanese: Matsuika), is a squid of the western South Atlantic whose fishery has exceeded one million tons in some years.
Illia Korzun
Illia Korzun (Ілля Рыгоравіч Корзун), Belarusian ice hockey player born 2004, Sdushor Minsk; won gold in boys' 3-on-3 mixed-NOC hockey at the 2020 Lausanne Winter Youth Olympics with Team Green, beating Team Red 10-4 in the final.
Illia Yefimchyk
Illia Yefimchyk (Illia 'Golem', 'The Mutant'), Belarusian bodybuilder born 1988, died September 2024 at 36 after cardiac arrest. Never competed professionally; famed for ~158–160 kg frame, 272 kg bench press, 16,500-calorie diet, 300,000+ Instagram followers.
Illiberal democracy
An illiberal democracy is a regime that holds competitive elections while eroding liberal checks on power, such as independent courts, a free press, and minority rights.
Illicium
Illicium (anisetree, star anise) is a genus of about 40 aromatic evergreen shrubs and trees in Schisandraceae, order Austrobaileyales, native from the Himalaya to Japan and the southeastern United States to Mexico and the Caribbean; only I. verum is edible, other species contain neurotoxic sesquiterpene lactones such as anisatin.
Illicium verum (八角)
Illicium verum (八角, ba jiao hui xiang), star anise or Chinese star anise, an evergreen Schisandraceae tree native to southern China and northeast Vietnam; its dried star fruit yields trans-anethole oil and shikimic acid for oseltamivir, and is adulterated by toxic I. anisatum.