Isaac (name)
Isaac transliterated from Yitzhak, 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.
Forms of the name in different languages
- Albanian: Isak
- Arabic: إسحٰق, إسحاق
- Armenian: Սահակ
- Azerbaijani: İshaq / Исһаг / ایسهاق, İsaak / Исаак / ایسااک
- Basque: Isaak
- Belarusian: Ісак
- Bengali: ইসহাক
- Bosnian: Ishak
- Breton: Izaag
- Bulgarian: Исаак
- Catalan: Isaac
- Chinese: 艾萨克 / 艾薩克, 以撒
- Croatian: Izak
- Czech: Izák
- Danish: Isak, Isach
- Dutch: Isaak
- English: Isaac, Ike, Isac
- Esperanto: Isaako, Izaak, Isĥak, Ike, 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, Itshak
- Hindi: इसहाक
- Hmong: Ixaj
- Hungarian: Izsák
- Icelandic: Ísak
- Indonesian: Ishak, Isaac
- Irish: Íosác
- Italian: Isacco
- Japanese: アイザック, イサク
- Javanese: Iskak
- Kannada: ಐಸಾಕ್
- Kazak: Ысқақ, Ысақ
- Khmer: អ៊ីសាក
- Korean: 이삭, 아이작
- Kyrgyz: Ыскаак, Исхак
- Lao: ອີຊາກ
- Ladino: יצחק, Ike, Itshak, Izak, Yshac, Yshak, Ishac, Isak, Yitzhak, Yitshak, Yitzjak, Isacc
- Latin: Isaac
- Latvian: Aizeks, Izaks
- Lithuanian: Izaokas
- Macedonian: Исак
- Malay: Ishak, Sahak
- Malayalam: ഇസഹാക്
- Māori: Ihaka
- Mongolian: Исаак
- Norwegian: Isak
- Persian: اسحاق
- Polish: Izaak
- Portuguese: Isaque,
- Russian: Исаак, Айзек
- Romanian: Isac, Ițac
- Scottish Gaelic: Iosag
- Serbian Cyrillic: Исак
- Slovene: Izak
- Somali: Isxaaq
- Spanish: Isaac
- Swahili: Isaka, Isaki
- Swedish: Isak, Isac
- Syriac: ܐܝܤܚܩ
- Tamil: ஈசாக்கு
- Telugu: ఇస్సాకు,
- 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 (disambiguation), several people
- Isaac Abarbanel, Portuguese Jewish statesman and philosopher
- Isaac Acker, American politician from Pennsylvania
- Isaac Aguiar Tomich, Brazilian footballer
- 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 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 Bonga, German basketball player
- Isaac Brock, British Army officer and colonial administrator
- Isaac Brock (musician), American lead singer in Modest Mouse
- Isaac Casaubon, French-born English classical scholar and philologist
- Isaac of the Cells, Egyptian Christian monk who lived during the 6th and 7th centuries
- Isaac Watts Choate, associate justice of the Montana Supreme Court
- Isaac da Costa, Dutch Jewish poet
- Isaac Cuenca, Spanish footballer
- Isaac Dalby, English mathematician and surveyor
- Isaac Darkangelo, American football player
- Isaac D'Israeli, British writer, scholar and man of letters
- Isaac Deutscher, Polish writer, journalist and political activist
- Isaac ben Eliezer, 15th-century German rabbi
- Isaac of Firuz Shabur, rabbi of the Geonic period
- Isaac Guerendo, American football player
- 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, 11th President of Israel
- Isaac Holloway, American politician from Ohio
- Isaac Isaacs, Australian Chief Justice and Governor-General
- Isaac Israeli ben Solomon, Arab Jewish physician and philosopher
- Isaac Israëls, 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, American chess grandmaster
- Isaac I Komnenos, Byzantine emperor
- Isaac Komnenos (son of Alexios I), Byzantine prince
- Isaac Komnenos of Cyprus, ruler of Cyprus
- Isaac Kragten, Canadian actor
- Isaac "Ike" Larsen, American football player
- Isaac Lea, American publisher, conchologist and geologist
- Isaac Levitan, Russian landscape painter
- Isaac Luria, Jewish religious leader and mysticist
- Isaac Makwala, Botswana sprinter
- Isaac McKneely, American basketball player
- Isaac Musa, Liberian military officer and politician
- Isaac Nappaha, Galilean rabbi of the 3rd-4th centuries
- Isaac Nauta, American football player
- Isaac Newton, English mathematician, astronomer, and physicist
- Isaac R. Nicholson, associate justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi
- Isaac of Nineveh, Syriac Christian bishop and theologian
- Isaac Okoro, American basketball player
- 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 Rex, American football player
- Isaac Roberts, Welsh amateur astronomer
- Isaac Rodrigues de Lima, Brazilian footballer
- Isaac Rochell, American football player
- Isaac Rosefelt, American-Israeli basketball 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 Taylor, English philosopher & historian
- Isaac Taylor (priest), Anglican priest, philologist, toponymist
- Isaac TeSlaa, American football player
- Isaac Titsingh, Dutch surgeon, scholar, merchant-trader and ambassador
- Isaac Inoke Tosika, Solomon Islands politician
- Isaac Ukwu, American football player
- Isaac Vorsah, Ghanaian footballer
- Isaac Watts, English Christian minister, hymn writer, theologian, and logician
- Isaac Wayne, 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), Australian basketball player
- Isaac Witz, Austrian-born Israeli immunologist, cancer researcher and academic
- Isaac Yiadom, American football player
Isaach
- 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 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 Bean, a Season 4 contestant in Fetch! with Ruff Ruffman
- 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
- Captain Isaac Higgintoot, an American Revolution officer in the CBS series Ghosts
- 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 Sumdac, a character from animated series Transformers Animated
- 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 Guderian, German singer
- 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
Fictional people
- Isaak (Tekken), Character first introduced in Tekken Mobile
- Isaac (Golden Sun), Player character first introduced in Golden Sun
Surname Isaac or Isaak
- Adèle Isaac, French operatic soprano
- Adisa Isaac, American football player
- Alexandre Isaac, French lawyer, Senator of Guadeloupe 1885–1889
- Arthur Isaac, English cricketer
- Auguste Isaac, French politician
- Bryan Isaac, British ballroom dancer
- Bobby Isaac, American racing driver
- Chris Isaak, American musician
- George Isaac (politician), Egyptian politician
- Glynn Isaac, South African archaeologist
- Heinrich Isaac, Franco-Flemish composer
- John Isaac (cricketer), English cricketer
- Jonathan Isaac, American basketball player
- 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, American politician
- Ty Isaac, American football player
- Ashley MacIsaac, Canadian violinist