Moses (given name)
Moses or Moshe is a male given name, after the biblical figure Moses.
According to the Torah, the name "Moses" comes from the Hebrew verb, meaning "to pull out/draw out" [of water], and the infant Moses was given this name by Pharaoh's daughter after rescuing him from the Nile (Exodus 2:10).
People with this name
Ancient times:
- Moses, the reputed scribe of the Pentateuch and protagonist of Exodus
- Moses of Alexandria, alchemist
Medieval:
- Moses (bishop) (c. 389), saint, first Arab bishop of the Arab people
- Moses the Black (330–405), saint
- Moses of Chorene (5th century), Armenian historian
- Moses of Kalankatuyk (7th century), Armenian historian
- Moses the Calm (Musa al-Kadhim, 8th century), Twelver Shia imam
- Moses the Hungarian (990s–1043), Russian saint
- Moses ibn Ezra (1070–1138), Jewish, Spanish philosopher
- Moses Kimhi (died c. 1190), medieval rabbi
- Moses Maimonides (1135–1204), Spanish rabbi, physician, and philosopher
- Moses de Leon (c. 1250–1305), Spanish rabbi who is thought to have composed the Zohar
Early modern to 18th century:
- Moses Cordovero (1522–1570), rabbi
- Moses Isserles (1530–1572), rabbi and talmudist
- Moses Amayraut (1596–1664), French theologian and metaphysician
- Moses Hill (died 1629), English army officer who settled in Ireland
- Moses Chaim Luzzatto (1707–1746), Italian rabbi and poet
- Moses Mendelssohn (1729–1786), German Jewish philosopher
- Moses Robinson (1741–1813), judge, governor, and senator from Vermont
- Moses Cleaveland (1754–1806), surveyor of the Connecticut Land Company
- Moses Sofer (1762–1839), rabbi
- Moses Montefiore (1784–1885), Sheriff of London, England
Modern:
- Moses Alexander (1853–1932), former governor of Idaho
- Moisés Alou (born 1966), American baseball player
- Moses Barrett III (born 1973), African–American hip hop artist
- Moshe Bejski (1921–2007), Israeli judge
- Moses Blass (born 1937), Brazilian Olympic basketball medallist
- Moses Bloom (1833–1893), American politician, the first Jewish mayor of a major American city (Iowa City, Iowa)
- Moses Brown (basketball) (born 1999), American basketball player
- Moša Pijade (1890–1957), prominent Yugoslav communist and statesman of Sephardic Jewish origin
- Moshe Czerniak (1910–1984), Israeli chess master
- Moshe Dayan (1915–81), Israeli military leader and politician
- Moses J. Epstein (c. 1911 – 1960), New York assemblyman
- Moses Ezekiel (1844–1917), American sculptor
- Moses Harrison (1932–2013), American jurist
- Moses Hess (1812–1875), early Zionist
- Moses Hogan (1957–2003), American composer and arranger of spirituals
- Moses Horwitz (1897–1975), one of the Three Stooges
- Moses Hurvitz (1844–1910), Galician–born Jewish playwright
- Moshe Ivgy (born 1953), Israeli actor
- Moshe Kasher (born 1979), American comedian
- Moshe Katsav (born 1945), Israeli-Iranian president of Israel
- Moshe Kotlarsky, Chabad rabbi and spokesman
- Moses Malone (1955–2015), NBA basketball player
- Moses Mbye (born 1993), Australian Rugby League player of Gambian descent
- Moshe Mizrahi (basketball) (born 1980), Israeli basketball player
- Moshe Ponte (born 1956), Israeli Olympic judoka and President of the Israel Judo Association
- Moses Regular (born 1971), American football player
- Moses Rosen (1912–1994), Romanian rabbi
- Moses Josef Rubin, (1892–1980), Hasidic Jewish cleric in Romania and later in the United States (New York City)
- Moses Russell, (1888–1946)) Welsh footballer
- Moshe Safdie (born 1938), Israeli–Canadian architect
- Moshe Sharett (1894-1965), Israeli Prime Minister (1954–55)
- Moshe Sharon (born 1937), Israeli historian of Islam
- Moses Sherman (1853–1932), land developer in California, USA
- Moshe Y. Vardi (born 1954), Israeli computer scientist and professor of Computer Science at Rice University
- Moshe Vilenski (1910–1997), Polish–born Israeli composer
- Moshe Wallach (1866–1957), founder and director of Shaare Zedek Hospital, Jerusalem
- Moshe Weinberg (1939–1972), Israeli Olympic wrestling coach killed in the Munich massacre
- Moses M. Weinstein (1912–2007), New York politician
- Moshe Ya'alon (born 1950), Israeli general and politician
Fictional characters
- Moses the raven in Animal Farm
Other
- Moses (horse), a 19th-century British Thoroughbred
- Moshe's, a chain of restaurants and cafés in Mumbai, India
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