Isaac| Pronunciation | EYE-zək |
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| Gender | Male |
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| Language(s) | Hebrew |
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| Meaning | "(he) will laugh" |
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| Variant form(s) | Isak, Iisakki, Eshaac, Isac, Ishak, Ishaaq, Issac, Ishaak, Itshak, Itzhak, Yishak, Yishaq, Yitzhak, Isack |
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| Nickname(s) | Izzy, Ike, Itzik |
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| Related names | Ike, Zak (given name), Zak (surname) |
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Isaac ( EYE-zək) transliterated from Yitzhak, Yitzchok (Hebrew: יִצְחָק, Modern: Yīṣḥaq, Tiberian: Yīṣḥāq) was one of the three patriarchs in the Hebrew Bible, whose story is told in the book of Genesis.
Isaac is a given name derived from Judaism and a given name among Jewish, Christian, and Muslim societies, generally in reference to the above. "Ike" and "Ise" are also short forms of the name.
Given name
Isaac
This is a selection of better known people with the name Isaac; for a comprehensive list, see All pages with titles beginning with Isaac.
- Saint Isaac (disambiguation), several people
- Isaac Abarbanel (1437–1508), Portuguese Jewish statesman and philosopher
- Isaac Acker (1821–1906), American politician from Pennsylvania
- Isaac Aguiar Tomich (born 2004), Brazilian footballer
- Isaac Alarcón (born 1998), Mexican American football player
- Isaac Albéniz (1860–1909), Spanish pianist and composer
- Isaac Alfasi (1013–1103), Algerian Talmudist and jurist
- Isaac II Angelos (1156–1204), Byzantine emperor
- Isaac of Armenia (354–439), Patriarch of the Armenian Apostolic Church
- Isaac Asiata (born 1992), American football player
- Isaac Asimov (1920–1992), Russian-born American writer and biochemist
- Isaac Babel (1894–1940), Russian journalist, playwright and short story writer
- Isaac Barrow (1630–1677), English theologian and mathematician
- Isaac Beeckman (1588–1637), Dutch philosopher and scientist
- Isaac de Benserade (1613–1691), French poet
- Isaac the Blind (c.1160–1235), French Jewish mysticist and Kabbalist
- Isaac Boleslavsky (1919–1977), Soviet chess grandmaster
- Isaac Brock (1769–1812), British Army officer and colonial administrator
- Isaac Brock (musician) (born 1975), American lead singer in Modest Mouse
- Isaac Casaubon (1559–1614), French-born English classical scholar and philologist
- Isaac of the Cells, Egyptian Christian monk who lived during the 6th and 7th centuries
- Isaac da Costa (1798–1860), Dutch Jewish poet
- Isaac Cuenca (born 1991), Spanish footballer
- Isaac Dalby (1744–1824), English mathematician and surveyor
- Isaac D'Israeli (1766–1848), British writer, scholar and man of letters
- Isaac Deutscher (1907–1967), Polish writer, journalist and political activist
- Isaac ben Eliezer, 15th-century German rabbi
- Isaac of Firuz Shabur, rabbi of the Geonic period
- Isaac Hanson (born 1980), American musician, guitarist in Hanson
- Isaac Hayes (1942–2008), American singer-songwriter, voice actor, and producer
- Isaac Israel Hayes (1832–1881), American Arctic explorer, physician and politician
- Isaac Hamilton (born 1994), American basketball player
- Isaac Heller (1926–2015), American toy manufacturer, co-founder of Remco
- Isaac Hempstead Wright (born 1999), English actor
- Isaac Herzog (born 1960), 11th President of Israel
- Isaac Holloway (1805–1885), American politician from Ohio
- Isaac Isaacs (1855–1948), Australian Chief Justice and Governor-General
- Isaac Israeli ben Solomon (c. 832 – c. 932), Arab Jewish physician and philosopher
- Isaac Israëls (1865–1934), Dutch impressionist painter
- Isaac bar Judah, 4th-century Babylonian rabbi
- Isaac ben Judah, 12th-century rabbi
- Isaac ben Judah HaLevi, 13th-century French rabbi
- Isaac Kashdan (1905–1985), American chess grandmaster
- Isaac I Komnenos (c. 1007–1061), Byzantine emperor
- Isaac Komnenos (son of Alexios I) (1093 – aft. 1152), Byzantine prince
- Isaac Komnenos of Cyprus (c.1155–1196), ruler of Cyprus
- Isaac Kragten (born 2002), Canadian actor
- Isaac Lea (1792–1886), American publisher, conchologist and geologist
- Isaac Levitan (1860–1900), Russian landscape painter
- Isaac Luria (1534–1572), Jewish religious leader and mysticist
- Isaac Makwala (born 1986), Botswana sprinter
- Isaac McKneely (born 2003), American basketball player
- Isaac Musa (died 2008), Liberian military officer and politician
- Isaac Nappaha, Galilean rabbi of the 3rd-4th centuries
- Isaac Nauta (born 1997), American football player
- Isaac Newton (1642–1727), English mathematician, astronomer, and physicist
- Isaac of Nineveh (c. 613 – c. 700), Syriac Christian bishop and theologian
- Isaac Okoro (born 2001), American basketball player
- Isaac Okoronkwo (born 1978), Nigerian footballer
- Isaac Oliver (c.1565–1617), French-born English portrait painter
- Isaac van Ostade (1621–1649), Dutch genre and landscape painter
- Isaac Peral (1851–1895), Spanish engineer, naval officer and designer of the Peral Submarine
- Isaac Leib Peretz (1852–1915), Yiddish writer from Poland
- Isaac Pitman (1813–1897), English inventor of shorthand/stenography
- Isaac Rex, American football player
- Isaac Roberts (1829–1904), Welsh amateur astronomer
- Isaac Rodrigues de Lima (born 2004), Brazilian footballer
- Isaac Rochell (born 1995), American football player
- Isaac Rosefelt (born 1985), American-Israeli basketball player
- Isaac Henrique Sequeira (1738–1816), Portuguese physician
- Isaac Shelby (1750–1826), Governor of Kentucky
- Isaac Singer (1811–1875), American inventor and businessman (sewing machine)
- Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902–1991), Polish-born American author, Nobel prize literature 1978
- Isaac Slade (born 1989), American lead singer in The Fray
- Isaac Stern (1920–2001), Ukrainian-born American violinist and conductor
- Isaac Taylor (1787–1865), English philosopher & historian
- Isaac Taylor (priest) (1829–1901), Anglican priest, philologist, toponymist
- Isaac Titsingh (1745–1812), Dutch surgeon, scholar, merchant-trader and ambassador
- Isaac Vorsah (born 1988), Ghanaian footballer
- Isaac Watts (1674–1748), English Christian minister, hymn writer, theologian, and logician
- Isaac Yiadom (born 1996), American football player
- Isaac Wayne (1772–1856), U.S. Congressman
- Isaac Wayne (1699–1774), Pennsylvania Provincial Assembly member, Captain of Pennsylvania Provincial Forces during the French and Indian War
- Isaac White (basketball) (born 1998), Australian basketball player
Isaach
Fictional people
- Isaac, a character played by Ashley David in the British web series Corner Shop Show
- Isaac, the main antagonist from the video game Konami's Castlevania: Curse of Darkness and Nintendo's Devil's Third
- Isaac, the main protagonist in video games The Binding of Isaac and The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth
- Isaac, a main character in Nintendo's Golden Sun series
- Isaac, an android of extraterrestrial origin in American television series The Orville, played by Mark Jackson
- Isaac Chroner, the main antagonist from the Stephen King short story Children of the Corn
- Isaac Clarke, the main protagonist from the Dead Space video game series
- Isaac Davis, Woody Allen's character in Manhattan
- Isaac Dian in the light novel and anime series Baccano!
- Isaac Harris in the Stephen King novella The Bazaar of Bad Dreams
- Isaac Heller, main antagonist from season 4 of Once Upon a Time
- Isaac Henderson in The Mummy
- Isaac Kleiner in the video games Half-Life and Half-Life 2
- Isaac Lahey, in MTV's cult television series Teen Wolf, played by Daniel Sharman
- Isaac Mendez in the television series Heroes, played by Santiago Cabrera
- Isaac Netero in the manga series Hunter × Hunter
- Isaac Washington, bartender on The Love Boat, played by Ted Lange
Isaak
- Isaak Abelin (1883–1965), Swiss physiologist
- Isaak Asknaziy (1856–1902), Russian painter
- Isaak Bacharach (1854–1942), German mathematician
- Isaak Benrubi (1876–1943), Ottoman philosopher
- Isaak van den Blocke (1574–1626), Flemish painter in Poland
- Isaak Brodsky (1884–1939), Soviet painter
- Isaak Bubis (1910–2000), Moldavian Soviet engineer and architect
- Isaak August Dorner (1809–1884), German church leader
- Isaak Dunayevsky (1900–1955), Soviet composer
- Isaak Elias (1912–1998), Canadian politician
- Isaak Löw Hofmann, Edler von Hofmannsthal (1759–1849), Austrian merchant
- Isaak de Graaf (1668–1743), Dutch cartographer
- Isaak Guderian (born 1996), German singer
- Isaak Iselin (1728–1782), Swiss philosopher of history and politics
- Isaak Markus Jost (1793–1860), German Jewish historian
- Isaak Kikoin (1908–1984), Soviet physicist
- Isaak Markovich Khalatnikov (1919–2021), Soviet physicist
- Isaak B. Klejman (1921–2012), Ukrainian Soviet archaeologist
- Isaak Lalayants (1870–1933), Russian revolutionary
- Isaak Ah Mau (born 1982), New Zealand rugby league player
- Isaak D. Mayergoyz, American academic
- Isaak Mazepa (1884–1952), Ukrainian politician
- Isaak Moiseevich Milin (1919–1992), Soviet mathematician
- Isaak "Tjaak" Pattiwael (1914–1987), Indonesian footballer
- Isaak Pomeranchuk (1913–1966), Soviet physicist
- Isaak Illich Rubin (1886–1937), Soviet economist
- Isaak Augustijn Rumpf (1673–1723), Dutch Governor of Ceylon
- Isaak Tirion (1705–1765), Dutch publisher
- Isaak Voss (1618–1689), Dutch scholar and manuscript collector
- Isaak Yaglom (1921–1988), Soviet mathematician
- Isaak Zelensky (1890–1938), Soviet politician
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