Ismail (name)


Ismail is an Arabic given name. It corresponds to the English name Ishmael.

Etymology and meaning

The literal translation of the name Ismail is "heard by God" and according to Abrahamic tradition, it refers to the yearning of Abraham and his wife, Sarah, to have a child. Ismail's mother, however, was not Sarah, but Hagar, Sarah's maidservant, who Sarah gave to Abraham as a concubine because she was unable to have a child. Sarah later does give birth to a son, Isaac.
According to Genesis, the name is given by God as He heard the cries of Hagar who had been mistreated by Sarah after becoming pregnant and run away.
According to Islamic tradition, Ismail's mother, Hagar was also a full wife of the Prophet Abraham.

Given name

  • Ismail, son of Ibrahim
  • Ismail ibn Abd Allah ibn Abi al-Muhajir, governor of North Africa under the Umayyad Caliphate
  • Isma'il ibn Jafar, Imam of Ismaili Shia's
  • Ismail ibn Musa Menk, Grand Mufti of Zimbabwe
  • Ismail of Ghazni, Emir of Ghazna, brother of Mahmud of Ghazni
  • Ismail of Johor, sultan of Johor
  • Saint Ismael Orthodox Christian Saint
  • Ignatius Ismail, Syriac Orthodox patriarch of Mardin
  • Ismail I, founder and first shah of Safavid Iran
  • Ismail II, third shah of Safavid Iran
  • Ismaïl Aaneba, French footballer
  • Ismail Abdallah, Egyptian gymnast
  • Ismail Abilov, Bulgarian freestyle wrestler
  • Ismail Sabri Abdullah, Egyptian economist and politician
  • Ismail Abdul-Ganiyu, Ghanaian footballer
  • Ismail Abdul Rahman, Malaysian politician; former deputy prime minister
  • Ismail Abdul Razak, Ghanaian footballer
  • Ismail Abdullaiev, Ukrainian and Russian TV director
  • Ismail Abdullatif, Bahraini footballer
  • Ismail Abu, Malaysian field hockey player
  • Ismail Abu Shanab, Hamas politician
  • İsmail Acar, Turkish painter
  • Ismail Adham, Egyptian writer and literary critic
  • Ismail Adil Shah, 2nd Sultan of Bijapur
  • Ismail Ahmad, Malaysian politician
  • Ismail Ahmed, multiple people
  • Ismail Ahmedov, 10th Mufti of the Religious Council of the Caucasus
  • Ismail Akbay, Turkish scientist
  • İsmail Rüştü Aksal, Turkish civil servant and politician
  • Ismail Al-Ajmi, Omani footballer
  • Ismail Al-Amour, Palestinian footballer
  • Ismail Al Hammadi, Emirati footballer
  • Ismail Al-Karaghouli, Iraqi wrestler
  • Ismail Al-Sabiani, Saudi Arabian sprinter
  • Ismail Al-Zaabi, Emirati association football player
  • Ismail Alieksandrovič, Belarusian Islamic cleric
  • Ismail Amat, Chinese politician
  • Ismail Amirkhizi, Iranian author and constitutional intellectual
  • İsmail Arca, Turkish footballer and manager
  • Ismail as-Sadr, Lebanese Grand Ayatollah
  • Ismail Faruqi Ashari, Malaysian footballer
  • Ismail Atalan, German-Turkish football manager
  • İsmail Ateş, Turkish artist and professor
  • İsmail Ayaz, Turkish footballer
  • Ismail Ayob, South African lawyer
  • Ismaïl Ayoune, Moroccan cyclist
  • Ismail Omar Abdul Aziz, Malaysian Muslim scholar
  • Ismail Azzaoui, Belgian footballer
  • Ismail al-Armouti, Jordanian politician
  • Isma'il al-Atrash, Druze chieftain
  • Ismail al-Azhari, president of Sudan
  • Ismail al-Din, Egyptian politician
  • Ismail al-Faruqi, Palestinian American Islamic scholar
  • Ismail al-Ghoul, Palestinian journalist
  • Ismail al-Jazari, Muslim engineer and artist
  • Ismail al-Khalidi al-Minangkabawi, Islamic scholar
  • Ismail al-Zahir, 1st Dhulnunid Emir of Toledo Taifa
  • Ismail Ba, Senegalese former football midfielder
  • Esmail Babolian, Iranian numerical analyst
  • Ismail Balanga, South Sudanese football manager
  • Ismail Balkhi, Afghan politician
  • Ismail Bawa, Ghanaian politician
  • İsmail Baydil, Turkish footballer
  • İsmail Bayram, Turkish weightlifter
  • Isma'il Beg, Uyghur rebel leader
  • Ismaïl Belkacemi, Algerian footballer
  • Ismail Belmaalem, Moroccan defender
  • Ismail Berdiyev, Russian Karachay-Cherkess mufti
  • İsmail Beşikçi, Turkish scholar
  • İsmail Bilen, Turkish politician
  • Ismail Boçari, Albanian professor of medicine
  • Ismail Bouneb, French footballer
  • İsmail Budak, German footballer
  • Ismail Bulatov, Soviet Crimean Tatar major general
  • İsmail Çağlar Bayırcı, Turkish politician
  • İsmail Cem, Turkish politician
  • İsmail Cem Ulusoy, Turkish basketball player
  • Ismail Changezi, Pakistani TV actor
  • Ismail Chirine, Egyptian Royal diplomat
  • İsmail Çipe, Turkish association football player
  • İsmail Çokçalış, Turkish footballer
  • Ismail Dahqani, Qatari Irani footballer
  • Ismail Damit, Bruneian politician and architect
  • Ismail Darbar, Indian composer
  • Ismail Daut, Malaysian politician and lecturer
  • Esmail Davarfar, Iranian actor
  • Ismail Dawood, English cricketer
  • İsmail Demirci, Turkish actor
  • İsmail Demiriz, Turkish footballer and manager
  • Ismail Diakhité, Mauritanian footballer
  • Ismail Dibirov, Russian footballer
  • Ismail Easa, Maldivian footballer
  • Ismail Ebrahim, South African cricketer
  • Ismail Ediyev, Russian footballer
  • İsmail Ege Şaşmaz, Turkish actor
  • Ismail El-Gawsaqi, Egyptian politician
  • Ismail El Haddad, Moroccan footballer
  • Ismail El Shafei, Egyptian tennis player
  • Ismail Elfath, Moroccan-born American soccer referee
  • İsmail Enver, Turkish military officer
  • İsmail Erez, Turkish diplomat
  • Ismail Ergashev, Uzbek general
  • İsmail Ertekin, Turkish footballer
  • Ismail Ertug, German politician
  • İsmail Fenni Ertuğrul, Turkish politician
  • Ismail Essam, Egyptian archer
  • Ismail el Abassi, Dutch politician
  • Ismail Fahd Ismail, Kuwaiti novelist, short story writer and literary critic
  • Ismail Fahmi, Egyptian diplomat
  • İsmail Faikoğlu, Turkish wrestler
  • Ismail Fazıl Pasha, Turkish politician
  • Ismail Feyzullabeyli, Azerbaijani writer
  • İsmail Firdevs, Crimean Tatar Bolshevik revolutionary
  • İsmail Galib, ottoman numismatist
  • Ismail Gamadiid, Somali politician
  • Ismail Gasprinsky, Crimean Tatar intellectual, educator, publisher and politician
  • Ismail Ghazali, Moroccan writer
  • İsmail Özgür Göktaş, Turkish footballer
  • Ismaïl Omar Guelleh, President of Djibouti since 1999
  • İsmail Güldüren, Turkish footballer
  • Ismail Gulgee, Pakistani artist
  • İsmail Güven, Turkish footballer
  • İsmail Güzel, Turkish Greco-Roman wrestler
  • İsmail Hacıoğlu, Turkish actor
  • İsmail Hakkı, multiple people
  • Ismail Haniyeh, Palestinian politician
  • Ismail Haqqi Bursevi, Ottoman Sufi scholar
  • Ismail Haron, Singaporean musical artist
  • Ismail Hasan Metareum, Indonesian politician
  • Ismail Hasham, Indian businessman
  • Ismail Hassan, Djoboutian footballer
  • Ismail Hossain, multiple people
  • Ismail Hoxha, Albanian politician Professor Ph.D University " La Sapienza" Rome
  • Ismail Mahmud Hurre, Somalian politician
  • Ismail Hussain, Indian politician
  • Ismail Ibrahim, Pakistani cricketer
  • Ismail Isa, Bulgarian footballer
  • Ismail Isakov, Kyrgyzstani general
  • Ismail Ismaili, Macedonian association football player
  • Ismail Izzani, musical artist
  • Ismail Jakobs, Senegalese footballer
  • Ismail Jilaoui, Moroccan dressage rider
  • Ismail Juma, Tanzanian long-distance runner
  • Ismail Jumaih, Maldivian performer
  • Ismail Jussa, Zanzibari politician
  • Ismail Kadare, Albanian novelist, poet, essayist, and playwright
  • İsmail Kahraman, 27th Speaker of the Parliament of Turkey
  • Ismail Kamara, Sierra Leonean sprinter
  • İsmail Kartal, Turkish footballer
  • Ismail Kassim, Malaysian politician
  • Ismail Katamba, Ugandan weightlifter
  • İsmail Keleş, Turkish sport shooter
  • Ismail Qemali, founder and first head of state of the Albanian state
  • Ismail Keta, Albanian kickboxer
  • Ismail Khafi, Moroccan footballer
  • Ismail Khalidi , American dramatist
  • Ismail Khalil, Iraqi boxer
  • Ismail Khalinbekov, Russian footballer
  • Ismail Khan, Afghan politician and former warlord
  • Ismail Khan Ibrahim Khan, Malaysian barrister and judge
  • Ismail Khan, 16th-century Bengali nobleman
  • Ismail Khan Nakhchivanski, Russian Imperial army officer
  • Ismail Khan Qashqai, Qashqai chieftain in 18th-century Iran
  • Ismail Khan Ziyadkhanov, Azerbaijani politician
  • Ismail Khandan, ruler of Khwarazm from 1035 to 1041
  • Ismail Kijo, Malaysian politician
  • İsmail Konuk, Turkish footballer
  • Ismail Korgoloyev, Russian footballer
  • İsmail Köse, Turkish footballer
  • Ismail Kouha, Moroccan footballer
  • Esmail Koushan, Iranian film director
  • İsmail Köybaşı, Turkish footballer
  • İsmail Küçükkaya, Turkish journalist, news anchor and writer
  • İsmail Kurt, Turkish footballer
  • Ismail Lasim, Malaysian politician
  • Ismail Liban, Somali footballer
  • Ismail Lika, Albanian mobster
  • Ismail Lleshi, Albanian politician
  • Ismail Mačev, Macedonian sprinter
  • Ismail Mahdi, American football running back
  • Ismail Mahfooz, Maldivian footballer
  • Ismail Mahomed, Chief Justice of South Africa from 1997 to 2000
  • Ismaïl Mansouri, Algerian footballer
  • Ismail Marahimin, Indonesian writer
  • Ismail Mardanli, Qatari footballer
  • Ismail Marjan, Malayan-Singaporean badminton player
  • Ismail Marzuki, Indonesian composer, songwriter, and musician
  • Ismail Mashal, Afghan educator
  • Ismail Matar, Emirati footballer
  • İsmail Müştak Mayakon, Turkish politician
  • Esmail Merat, Iranian politician
  • Ismail Merathi, Indian poest and educationist
  • Ismail Merchant, Indian film producer
  • Ismail Mire, Somali commander and poet
  • Ismaïl Moalla, Tunisian volleyball player
  • Ismail Mohamed, multiple people
  • Ismail Molla, Greek politician
  • Ismail Morina, Kosovar-Albanian footballer
  • Ismail Moutaraji, Moroccan professional footballer
  • Ismail ibn Musa Menk, Zimbabwean Islamic scholar
  • Ismail Musukaev, Hungarian freestyle wrestler
  • Ismail Muttalib, Malaysian politician
  • Ismail Qasim Naji, Somali politician
  • Ismail Naurdiev, Austrian mixed martial arts fighter
  • , Turkish hurdler and sprinter
  • Ismail Nikoçi, Albanian political activist
  • İsmail Haktan Odabaşı, Turkish footballer
  • Ismail Ogama, Ugandan politician
  • İsmail Ogan, Turkish sport wrestler
  • Ismail Omar, Malaysian police officer
  • Ismail Omar , Saudi Arabian footballer
  • Ismail Othman, Malaysian politician
  • Ismaïl Ouro-Agoro, Togolese footballer
  • İsmail Özden, Yazidi Kurdish rebels
  • İsmail Özdağlar, Turkish politician and former government minister
  • Ismail Pasha, multiple people
  • Ismail Patel, British optician
  • Ismail Petra of Kelantan, sultan of Kelantan
  • Ismail Poonawala, Indian academic
  • Esmail Qaani, Iranian brigadier general
  • Ismail Rabee, Emirati footballer
  • Ismail Rafaat, Egyptian footballer
  • Ismail Ragab, Egyptian weightlifter
  • Ismail Rahoo, Pakistani politician
  • Ismail Rama, Albanian sport shooter
  • Ismail Ramsey, American lawyer
  • Ismail Khilath Rasheed, Maldivian blogger
  • Ismail Rasheed, Maldivian film actor and director
  • Ismail Rashid Ismail, Emirati footballer
  • Ismail Richards, South African politician
  • Ismail Sabri Yaakob, Malaysian politician who served as the ninth Prime Minister of Malaysia from 2021 to 2022
  • Ismail Salleh, Malaysian politician
  • Ismail Samani, Amir of the Samanids
  • Ismail Sani, Malaysian politician
  • Ismail Sassi, Tunisian footballer
  • İsmail Saymaz, Turkish journalist
  • Ismail Shafeeu, Maldivian politician
  • Ismail Shah, multiple people
  • Ismail Shahid, Pakistani actor and comedian
  • Ismail Ibn Sharif, Moroccan sultan
  • Ismail Mohammed Sharif, Iraqi footballer
  • Esmail Shooshtari, Iranian politician
  • Ismail Siddiq, Egyptian politician
  • Ismail Sidky, Prime Minister of Egypt
  • Ismail Sillakh, Ukrainian boxer
  • Ismail Smith-Wade-El, American politician
  • Ismail Strazimiri, Albanian resistance member
  • Ismail Suko, Indonesian politician
  • Ismail Tara, Pakistani actor and comedian
  • İsmail Metin Temel, Turkish former general
  • İsmail Temiz, Turkish wrestler
  • Ismail Tiliwaldi, Chinese politician
  • Ismail Tipi, Turkish-born German journalist and politician
  • İsmail Türüt, Turkish singer
  • Ismail Vadi, South African politician
  • Ismail Asif Waheed, Maldivian sprinter
  • Ishmail Wainright, American-Ugandan basketball player for Hapoel Tel Aviv of the Israeli Basketball Premier League
  • Ismail Wajeeh, Maldivian actor and choreographer
  • Ismail Watenga, Ugandan footballer
  • Ismail Yakubu, Nigerian footballer
  • Ismail Yassine, Egyptian comedian actor
  • Ismaïl Yıldırım, Dutch footballer
  • İsmail YK, Turkish German singer
  • Ismail Youssef, Egyptian football manager
  • İsmail Yüksek, Turkish footballer
  • Ismail Yunos, Singaporean footballer
  • Ismail Yuseinov, Bulgarian wrestler
  • Ismail Yusupov, Soviet politician and First Secretary of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan
  • Esmail Zanjani, American academic
  • İsmail Zehir, Turkish footballer
  • İsmail Zühdi Efendi, Ottoman calligrapher