Isaac (name)
| Isaac/Isaak | |
|---|---|
| Pronunciation | /ˈaɪzək/ |
| Gender | Male |
| Origin | |
| Word/name | Hebrew |
| Meaning | "laughing", "laughter" |
| Other names | |
| Variant form(s) | Issac, Isac |
| Related names | Izzy, Ike, Zack, Israel, Isamu, Abraham |
Isaac or Isaak, transliterated from (Hebrew: יִצְחָק, Standard Yiẓḥaq Tiberian Yiṣḥāq) as Itzhak or Yitzhak, or Yitzchok, 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. "Isaac" is loosely translated as "laughing". "Ike" and "Ise" are also short forms of the name Isaac.
In world languages
- Albanian: Isak
- Arabic: إسحٰق, إسحاق (Ishaq, ʼIsḥāq)
- Armenian: Սաակ (Saak), Սահակ (Sahak), Սահակ (Sahag)
- Azerbaijani: İshaq
- Belarusian: Ісак (Isak)
- Bengali: ইসহাক (Ishak)
- Bosnian: Ishak
- Bulgarian: Исаак (Isaak)
- Catalan: Isaac
- Chinese Simplified: 艾萨克 (Aìsàkè)
- Chinese Traditional: 艾薩克 (Àisàkè) / 以撒 (ji5saat3)
- Croatian: Izak
- Czech: Izák
- Danish: Isak, (older:) Isach
- Dutch: Isaak
- English: Isaac, Issac
- Esperanto: Isaak
- Estonian: Iisak
- Ewe: Isak
- Faroese: Ísakur
- Finnish: Iisakki
- French: Isaac
- Galician: Isaac
- Georgian: ისააკ (Isaak)
- German: Isaak
- Greek: Ισαάκιος (Isaakios), Ισαάκ (Isaák)
- Haitian Creole: Izarak
- Hausa: Is'haƙu, Isaka
- Hebrew: יִצְחָק, (Yitzchak), Yitzhak, Itzhak
- Hmong: Ixaj
- Hungarian: Izsák
- Icelandic: Ísak
- Indonesian: Ishak
- Irish: Íosác
- Italian: Isacco
- Japanese: アイザック (Aizakku)
- Javanese: Iskak
- Kannada: ಐಸಾಕ್ (Aisāk)
- Khmer: អ៊ីសាក (Aisak)
- Korean: 이삭 (I-sak), 아이작 (Aijak)
- Kyrgyz: Ыскаак (Ysqaaq), Исхак (Iskhaq)
- Lao: ອີຊາກ (Isak)
- Latin: Isaacius, Isaacus
- Latvian: Aizeks, Izaks
- Lithuanian: Izaokas
- Macedonian: Исак (Isak)
- Malay: Ishak
- Maori: Ihaka
- Mongolian: Исаак (Isaak)
- Norwegian: Isak
- Persian: اسحاق
- Polish: Izaak
- Portuguese: Isaque[1]
- Russian: Исаак (Isaak)
- Romanian: Isac, Ițac
- Scottish Gaelic: Iosag
- Serbian Cyrillic: Исак (Isak)
- Somali: Isxaaq
- Spanish: Isaac
- Swahili: Isaka, Isaki
- Swedish: Isak, Isac
- Sylheti: ইছহাক (Ishaak)
- Syriac: ܐܝܤܚܩ (Iskhaaq)
- Thai: อิสอัค, ไอแซก (Xịsæk)
- Turkish: İshak, İshâk
- Ukrainian: Ісаак (Isaak)
- Uyghur: ئىسھاق (Ishaq), ئىساق (Isaq)
- Uzbek: Ishoq (Is-hoq)
- Urdu: اسحاق
- Yiddish: יצחק (Yẕẖq), Aizik, Isaak, Izik, Yitzhak, Isac, Itzak, Izaak, Zack, Zak
- Yoruba: Ísákì
- Zulu: Isaka
Given name
Isaac
This is a selection of better known people with the name Isaac; for a comprehensive list, see All pages beginning with Isaac.
- Isaac Abarbanel (1437–1508), Portuguese Jewish statesman and philosopher
- 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 (born 1975), American lead singer in Modest Mouse
- Isaac Casaubon (1559–1614), French-born English classical scholar and philologist
- Isaac da Costa (1798–1860), Dutch Jewish poet
- Isaac Cuenca (born 1991), Spanish footballer
- Isaac D'Israeli (1766–1848), British writer, scholar and man of letters
- Isaac Deutscher (1907–1967), Polish writer, journalist and political activist
- 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), Israeli politician and lawyer
- 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 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 Levitan (1860–1900), Russian landscape painter
- Isaac Luria (1534–1572), Jewish religious leader and mysticist
- Isaac Makwala (born 1986), Botswana sprinter
- Isaac Newton (1642–1727), English mathematician, astronomer, and physicist
- Isaac of Nineveh (c. 613 – c. 700), Syriac Christian bishop and theologian
- 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 Roberts (1829–1904), Welsh amateur astronomer
- Isaac Rochell (born 1995), American football 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 (1920–2011), Ukrainian-born American violinist and conductor
- 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
- Saint Issac, various persons
- Isaach
- Isaach de Bankolé (born 1957), Ivorian actor
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 The Binding of Isaac "The Binding of Isaac" and The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth
- Isaac, a main character in Nintendo's Golden Sun series
- Isaac Clarke, a fictional character from the video game Dead Space
- Isaac Davis, Woody Allen's character in Manhattan
- Isaac Dian, a fictional character from the light novel and anime series Baccano!
- Isaac Jaffe, Robert Guillaume's character in Aaron Sorkin's Sports Night
- Isaac Kleiner, fictional character from the video games Half-Life and Half-Life 2
- Isaac Lahey, a werewolf and former member of the McCall Pack in MTV's cult television series Teen Wolf, played by Daniel Sharman
- Isaac Mendez, fictional character from the television series Heroes, played by Santiago Cabrera
- 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 van den Blocke (1574–1626), Flemish painter in Poland
- Isaak Brodsky (1884–1883), Soviet painter
- Isaak August Dorner (1809–1884), German church leader
- Isaak Dunayevsky (1900–1955), Soviet composer
- Isaak Löw Hofmann, Edler von Hofmannsthal (1759–1849), Austrian merchant
- 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 (born 1919), Soviet physicist
- Isaak B. Klejman (1921–2012), Ukrainian Soviet archaeologist
- Isaak Lalayants (1870–1933), Russian revolutionary
- 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
Surname Isaac or Isaak
- Adèle Isaac (1854–1915), French operatic soprano
- Alexandre Isaac (1845–1899), French lawyer, Senator of Guadeloupe from 1885 until 1889
- Arthur Isaac, English cricketer
- Auguste Isaac (1849-1938), French politician
- Bryan Isaac, dancer
- Bobby Isaac, American racing driver
- George Isaac (politician), Egyptian politician
- Glynn Isaac, South African archaeologist
- Heinrich Isaac, Ugonis, Henricus, Heinrich or Arrigo or Ysaac, Franco-Flemish composer
- Jason Isaac, American politician
- John Isaac, English cricketer
- Luis Isaac, Puerto Rican baseball player
- Oscar Isaac, American actor
- Ray Isaac (quarterback), American football player
- Ray Isaac (singer), Australian singer
- Rhys Isaac, American historian
- Robert M. Isaac, mayor of Colorado Springs
- Chris Isaak, American musician
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