All articles starting with I

Ilya (Илья)

Ilya (Илья) is a Russian male given name, the vernacular form of Elijah, from Hebrew Eliyahu, "my God is Yahweh"; patronymics Ilyich and Ilyinichna, name day 2 August, and a top-ten Russian baby name.

Ilya Bezprozvanny

Ilya Bezprozvanny (Илья Безпрозванный; born 1965) is a neuroscientist studying calcium signaling in neurodegenerative disease, long a professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas.

Ilya Byakin

Ilya Byakin (Илья Владимирович Бякин), Russian defenseman born 1963 in Sverdlovsk; 1988 Olympic gold and three World titles with USSR; 57 NHL games with Edmonton and San Jose; retired 2004, later a coach.

Sep 24, 2026

Ilya Ehrenburg

Ilya Ehrenburg (Илья Эренбург) was a Soviet writer and journalist, born in Kiev in 1891, whose anti-fascist wartime articles made him the USSR's most popular publicist.

Oct 20, 2026

Ilya Ilyin

Ilya Ilyin (Илья Александрович Ильин), Kazakh weightlifter born 1988, double Olympic 94kg champion (2008, 2012) and four-time world champion; stripped of both Olympic golds after stanozolol and turinabol retest positives, sanctioned two years in 2018.

Ilya J. Finkelstein

Ilya J. Finkelstein is a professor of molecular biosciences at the University of Texas at Austin who studies CRISPR-Cas systems and DNA repair using single-molecule imaging.

Ilya Kablukov

Ilya Kablukov (Илья Андреевич Каблуков, born 1988, Moscow) is a Russian ice hockey center, 2018 Olympic champion with Olympic Athletes from Russia and three-time Gagarin Cup winner (SKA 2015, 2017; Avangard 2021), a defensive forward with over 1,000 KHL games.

Ilya Kolmanovsky

Ilya Kolmanovsky is an American control systems engineer, a professor of aerospace engineering at the University of Michigan elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2026.

Ilya Kovalchuk (Илья Валерьевич Ковальчук)

Ilya Kovalchuk (Илья Валерьевич Ковальчук), Russian hockey forward born 1983; first Russian taken first overall in the NHL draft (2001, Atlanta); his 17-year Devils contract was voided for cap circumvention; three Gagarin Cups; 2018 Olympic gold; now Shanghai Dragons president.

Ilya Kvochko

Ilya Kvochko (Илья Александрович Квочко; born 2004) is a Russian professional ice hockey forward for Severstal Cherepovets of the Kontinental Hockey League who won the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics.

Ilya Lifshitz

Ilya Lifshitz (Илья Михайлович Лифшиц, 1917–1982) was a Soviet theoretical physicist in condensed matter who led theory departments in Kharkov and Moscow and gave his name to the Lifshitz–Kosevich formula, Lifshitz tails, and the Lifshitz transition.

Oct 22, 2026

Ilya Mashkov

Ilya Mashkov (1881–1944) was a Russian and Soviet painter, a founder and leader of the Jack of Diamonds group, known above all as a colorist and master of still life.

Ilya Mate

Ilya Mate (Илья Фёдорович Мате), Ukrainian-born Soviet freestyle heavyweight wrestler, born 1956 in Starohnativka to a Greek family; 1980 Moscow Olympic champion, 1979 and 1982 world champion, 1979 European champion.

Ilya Mechnikov

Ilya Mechnikov, also known as Élie Metchnikoff, was a Russian-born zoologist and immunologist who discovered phagocytosis and shared the 1908 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Paul Ehrlich.

Sep 24, 2026

Ilya Miloslavsky

Ilya Miloslavsky, also known as Ilya Danilovich Miloslavsky (Илья Данилович Милославский), was a Russian boyar whose daughter married Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich in 1648, making him de facto head of government.

Ilya Muromets (Илья Муромец)

Ilya Muromets (Илья Муромец), chief bogatyr of the Russian byliny of the Kyiv cycle, senior to Dobrynya Nikitich and Alyosha Popovich; peasant hero from Karacharovo near Murom, first documented in the 16th century, venerated as a saint of the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra since 1643.

Ilya Naishuller (Илья Викторович Найшуллер)

Ilya Naishuller (Илья Найшуллер) is a Russian film director known for Hardcore Henry (2016) and Nobody (2021), who began as frontman of the band Biting Elbows.

Oct 10, 2026

Ilya of Novgorod

Ilya of Novgorod (Илия, in monastic schema Ioann) was the first permanent archbishop of Novgorod, from 1165 to 1186, and was glorified as a saint in 1547.

Oct 10, 2026

Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro

Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro (Илья Иосифович Пятецкий-Шапиро; 1929–2009) was a Soviet-born Israeli mathematician who co-founded the theory of automorphic representations, proved a 1953 prime number theorem for ⌊n^c⌋ sequences, and won the Israel Prize and Wolf Prize.

Ilya Ponomarev (Илья Владимирович Пономарёв)

Ilya Ponomarev (Илья Владимирович Пономарёв), also Ilya Vladimirovich Ponomarev, is a Russian opposition politician exiled in Ukraine since 2016 who was the only State Duma deputy to vote against the 2014 annexation of Crimea.

Ilya Prigogine

Ilya Prigogine, born Ilya Romanovich Prigogin in Moscow in 1917, was a Belgian physical chemist who won the 1977 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his theory of dissipative structures.

Ilya Raskin

Ilya Raskin is a plant biologist and Distinguished Professor at Rutgers University known for establishing salicylic acid as a plant defense signal and for work on phytoremediation.

Ilya Repin (Илья Ефимович Репин)

Ilya Repin (Илья Ефимович Репин, Ілля Юхимович Рєпін, 1844–1930), Ukrainian-born realist painter of the Peredvizhniki; painted Barge Haulers on the Volga, Ivan the Terrible and His Son, and Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks; taught Serov and Kustodiev; died at Penaty, Kuokkala.