Elia

Elia Abu Madi (May 15, 1890 – November 23, 1957) was a Lebanese poet. His poems are very well known among Arabs; poet, author, and journalist Gregory Orfalea wrote that "his poetry is as commonplace and memorized in the Arab world as that of Robert Frost is in ours".

Elia Antonio Liut (Fiume Veneto, March 6, 1894 - Quito, May 12, 1952) was an Italian aviator who was the first to fly across the Andes of Ecuador on the 4th of November of 1920, where he is regarded as a national hero.

Elia Suleiman (born July 28, 1960) is a Palestinian film director and actor of Rûm Greek Orthodox origin. He is best known for the 2002 film "Divine Intervention", a modern tragic comedy on living under occupation in Palestine which won the Jury Prize at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival. Elia Suleiman's cinematic style is often compared to that of Jacques Tati and Buster Keaton, for its poetic interplay between "burlesque and sobriety".

Elia Filippo Francesco Giuseppe Maria Millosevich (September 5, 1848, in Venice – December 5, 1919, in Rome), was an Italian astronomer. He specialized in calculating the orbits of comets and asteroids, in particular 433 Eros.

Elia was the pen name of Charles Lamb (1775-1834), an English essayist who has been referred to as the most lovable figure in English literature. "Essays of Elia" was a collection of essays written by him.

Elia Kazan was a famous film director.