Isaac (name)
Isaac or Isaak, transliterated from 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. "Ike" and "Ise" are also short forms of the name Isaac.
In world languages
- Albanian: Isak
- Arabic: إسحٰق, إسحاق
- Armenian: Սաակ, Սահակ, Սահակ
- Azerbaijani: İshaq
- Basque: Isaak
- Belarusian: Ісак
- Bengali: ইসহাক
- Bosnian: Ishak
- Breton: Izaag
- Bulgarian: Исаак
- Catalan: Isaac
- Chinese Simplified: 艾萨克
- Chinese Traditional: 艾薩克 / 以撒
- Croatian: Izak
- Czech: Izák
- Danish: Isak, Isach
- Dutch: Isaak
- English: Isaac, Isac
- Esperanto: Isaako, Izaak, Isĥak, Isaac, Isac
- Estonian: Iisak
- Ewe: Isak
- Faroese: Ísakur
- Finnish: Iisakki
- French: Isaac
- Galician: Isaac
- Georgian: ისააკ
- German: Isaak
- Greek: Ισαάκιος, Ισαάκ
- Haitian Creole: Izarak
- Hausa: Is'haƙu, Isaka
- Hebrew: יִצְחָק,, Yitzhak, Itzhak, Yitshak, Its.hak
- Hmong: Ixaj
- Hungarian: Izsák
- Icelandic: Ísak
- Indonesian: Ishak
- Irish: Íosác
- Italian: Isacco
- Japanese: アイザック
- Javanese: Iskak
- Kannada: ಐಸಾಕ್
- Khmer: អ៊ីសាក
- Korean: 이삭, 아이작
- Kyrgyz: Ыскаак, Исхак
- Lao: ອີຊາກ
- Ladino: יצחק, Isaac, Itshak, Izak, Yshac, Yshak, Ishac, Isak, Yitzhak, Yitshak, Yitzjak, Isacc
- Latin: Isaacius, Isaacus
- Latvian: Aizeks, Izaks
- Lithuanian: Izaokas
- Macedonian: Исак
- Malay: Ishak
- Malayalam: ഇസഹാക്
- Maori: Ihaka
- Mongolian: Исаак
- Norwegian: Isak
- Persian: اسحاق
- Polish: Izaak
- Portuguese: Isaque, Isac, Isaac, Isaak, Isack, Isak, Izak, Ysaack, Zac, Zaci
- Russian: Исаак
- Romanian: Isac, Ițac
- Scottish Gaelic: Iosag
- Serbian Cyrillic: Исак
- Slovene: Izak
- Somali: Isxaaq
- Spanish: Isaac
- Swahili: Isaka, Isaki
- Swedish: Isak, Isac
- Syriac: ܐܝܤܚܩ
- Thai: อิสอัค, ไอแซก
- Turkish: İshak, İshâk
- Ukrainian: Ісаак
- Uyghur: ئىسھاق, ئىساق
- Uzbek: Ishoq
- Urdu: اسحاق
- Yiddish: יצחק , Aizik, Isaak, Izik, Yitzhak, Isac, Itzak, Itzek, Itzig, Hiztig, Izaak, Zack, Zak
- Yoruba: Ísáàkì
- Zulu: Isaka
Given name
Isaac
This is a selection of better known people with the name Isaac; for a comprehensive list, see.- Saint Isaac, several people
- Isaac Abarbanel, Portuguese Jewish statesman and philosopher
- Isaac Alarcón, Mexican American football player
- Isaac Albéniz, Spanish pianist and composer
- Isaac Alfasi, Algerian Talmudist and jurist
- Isaac II Angelos, Byzantine Emperor
- Isaac of Armenia, Patriarch of the Armenian Apostolic Church
- Isaac Asiata, American football player
- Isaac Asimov, Russian-born American writer and biochemist
- Isaac Babel, Russian journalist, playwright and short story writer
- Isaac Christina Gladys, Prominent Anglo-Indian journalist, Goa, migrated to London. Married surname is Viegas.
- Isaac Barrow, English theologian and mathematician
- Isaac Beeckman, Dutch philosopher and scientist
- Isaac de Benserade, French poet
- Isaac the Blind, French Jewish mysticist and Kabbalist
- Isaac Boleslavsky, Soviet chess grandmaster
- Isaac Brock, British Army officer and colonial administrator
- Isaac Brock, American lead singer in Modest Mouse
- Isaac Casaubon, French-born English classical scholar and philologist
- Isaac da Costa, Dutch Jewish poet
- Isaac Cuenca, Spanish footballer
- Isaac D'Israeli, British writer, scholar and man of letters
- Isaac Deutscher, Polish writer, journalist and political activist
- Isaac Hanson, American musician, guitarist in Hanson
- Isaac Hayes, American singer-songwriter, voice actor, and producer
- Isaac Israel Hayes, American Arctic explorer, physician and politician
- Isaac Hamilton, American basketball player
- Isaac Heller, American toy manufacturer, co-founder of Remco
- Isaac Hempstead Wright, English actor
- Isaac Herzog, Israeli politician and lawyer
- Isaac Isaacs, Australian Chief Justice and Governor-General
- Isaac Israeli ben Solomon, Arab Jewish physician and philosopher
- Isaac Israëls, Dutch impressionist painter
- Isaac Kashdan, American chess grandmaster
- Isaac I Komnenos, Byzantine Emperor
- Isaac Komnenos , Byzantine prince
- Isaac Komnenos of Cyprus, ruler of Cyprus
- Isaac Levitan, Russian landscape painter
- Isaac Luria, Jewish religious leader and mysticist
- Isaac Makwala, Botswana sprinter
- Isaac Nauta, American football player
- Isaac Newton, English mathematician, astronomer, and physicist
- Isaac of Nineveh, Syriac Christian bishop and theologian
- Isaac Okoronkwo, Nigerian footballer
- Isaac Oliver, French-born English portrait painter
- Isaac van Ostade, Dutch genre and landscape painter
- Isaac Peral, Spanish engineer, naval officer and designer of the Peral Submarine
- Isaac Leib Peretz, Yiddish writer from Poland
- Isaac Pitman, English inventor of shorthand/stenography
- Isaac Roberts, Welsh amateur astronomer
- Isaac Rochell, American football player
- Isaac Henrique Sequeira, Portuguese physician
- Isaac Shelby, Governor of Kentucky
- Isaac Singer, American inventor and businessman
- Isaac Bashevis Singer, Polish-born American author, Nobel prize literature 1978
- Isaac Slade, American lead singer in The Fray
- Isaac Stern, Ukrainian-born American violinist and conductor
- Isaac Titsingh, Dutch surgeon, scholar, merchant-trader and ambassador
- Isaac Vorsah, Ghanaian footballer
- Isaac Watts, English Christian minister, hymn writer, theologian, and logician
- Isaac Yiadom, American football player
- Isaac White, English Bass player with the Indie rock band RedFaces.
- Isaach de Bankolé, 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 ' and Nintendo's Devil's Third
- Isaac, the main protagonist in The Binding of Isaac "The Binding of Isaac" and '
- Isaac, a main character in Nintendo's Golden Sun series
- Isaac, android being serving aboard the eponymous starship 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, 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 Harris, character from the Stephen King novella The Bazaar of Bad Dreams
- Isaac Heller, main antagonist from season 4 of Once Upon a Time
- 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 Netero, a character in the manga series Hunter × Hunter
- Isaac Washington, bartender on The Love Boat, played by Ted Lange
Isaak
- Isaak Abelin, Swiss physiologist
- Isaak Asknaziy, Russian painter
- Isaak Bacharach, German mathematician
- Isaak Benrubi, Ottoman philosopher
- Isaak van den Blocke, Flemish painter in Poland
- Isaak Brodsky, Soviet painter
- Isaak Bubis, Moldavian Soviet engineer and architect
- Isaak August Dorner, German church leader
- Isaak Dunayevsky, Soviet composer
- Isaak Elias, Canadian politician
- Isaak Löw Hofmann, Edler von Hofmannsthal, Austrian merchant
- Isaak de Graaf, Dutch cartographer
- Isaak Iselin, Swiss philosopher of history and politics
- Isaak Markus Jost, German Jewish historian
- Isaak Kikoin, Soviet physicist
- Isaak Markovich Khalatnikov, Soviet physicist
- Isaak B. Klejman, Ukrainian Soviet archaeologist
- Isaak Lalayants, Russian revolutionary
- Isaak Ah Mau, New Zealand rugby league player
- Isaak D. Mayergoyz, American academic
- Isaak Mazepa, Ukrainian politician
- Isaak Moiseevich Milin, Soviet mathematician
- Isaak "Tjaak" Pattiwael, Indonesian footballer
- Isaak Pomeranchuk, Soviet physicist
- Isaak Illich Rubin, Soviet economist
- Isaak Augustijn Rumpf, Dutch Governor of Ceylon
- Isaak Tirion, Dutch publisher
- Isaak Voss, Dutch scholar and manuscript collector
- Isaak Yaglom, Soviet mathematician
- Isaak Zelensky, Soviet politician
Surname Isaac or Isaak
- Adèle Isaac, French operatic soprano
- Alexandre Isaac, French lawyer, Senator of Guadeloupe from 1885 until 1889
- Arthur Isaac, English cricketer
- Auguste Isaac, French politician
- Bryan Isaac, dancer
- Bobby Isaac, American racing driver
- Chris Isaak, American musician
- George Isaac, 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, American football player
- Ray Isaac, Australian singer
- Rhys Isaac, American historian
- Robert M. Isaac, mayor of Colorado Springs
- Ty Isaac, American football player