Isaiah (given name)
Isaiah is a masculine name of biblical origin. It comes from the, meaning 'Yahweh is salvation'. The best known Isaiah is a prophet, in the Book of Isaiah. In Ruthenia, the name Isaiah pervaded from Greek, in the form of Isaija, as well as in the abbreviated form Isaj, which in the fifteenth century was popular in Halic Rus, then connected to Poland for a hundred years.
Notable people named Isaiah
Pre-modern era
- Isaiah of Gaza, Christian ascetic, writer and saint
- Isaiah I of Armenia, Catholicos of Armenia from 775 to 778
- Isaiah of Rostov, Russian Christian missionary, bishop and Orthodox saint
- Isaiah of Salona was a Greek cleric
- Isaiah di Trani, Italian Talmudist
- Isaiah di Trani the Younger, 13th- and 14th-century Italian Talmudist and commentator, grandson of Isaiah di Trani
- Isaiah Bakish, Spanish Rabbi
- Isaiah of Onogošt, Serbian hermit and Orthodox saint
Modern era
- Isaiah Adams, American football player
- Isaiah Anderson, American football player
- Isaiah Andrews, American economist
- Isaiah Aram Minasian, British violinist and orchestrator
- Isaiah Armwood, American basketball player
- Isaiah Austin, American basketball coach and player
- Isaiah Balat, Nigerian politician
- Isaiah Battle, American football player
- Isaiah Berlin, British social and political theorist, philosopher and historian of ideas
- Isaiah Bershadsky, Russian novelist
- Isaiah Beer Bing, French writer, translator, and Hebraist
- Isaiah Blankson, Ghanaian scientist, academic and engineer
- Isaiah Blood, American farmer, manufacturer and politician
- Isaiah Bolden, American football player
- Isaiah Bond, American football player
- Isaiah James Boodhoo, Trinidadian painter and writer
- Isaiah Bowman, American geographer
- Isaiah Briscoe, American basketball player
- Isaiah Bruse, American football player
- Isaiah Buggs, American football player
- Isaiah Campbell, American baseball player
- Isaiah Canaan, American basketball player
- Isaiah D. Clawson, American politician
- Isaiah Collier, American basketball player
- Isaiah Coulter, American football player
- Isaiah Cousins, American basketball player in the Israeli Basketball Premier League
- Isaiah Cozart, American basketball player
- Isaiah Crawford, American basketball player
- Isaiah Crawley, American basketball player
- Isaiah Crowell, American football player
- Isaiah Davis, American football player
- Isaiah Dixon, American politician and businessman
- Isaiah Sol Dorfman, American lawyer
- Isaiah Dorman, former slave, interpreter for the US Army, and the only African American killed at the Battle of Little Big Horn
- Isaiah Drake, American baseball player
- Isaiah Dudley, Australian rules footballer
- Isaiah Dunn, American football player
- Isaiah DeGrasse, American minister
- Isaiah Eisendorf, American-Israeli basketball player in the Israeli Basketball Premier League
- Isaiah Ekejiuba, Nigerian-American football player
- Isaiah Evans, American college basketball player
- Isaiah Fawkes Everhart, American physician and naturalist
- Isayah Fatu, birth name of Zilla Fatu, American professional wrestler
- Isaiah Firebrace, Australian singer, also known by the mononym Isaiah
- Isaiah Ford, American football player
- Isaiah Foskey, American football player
- Isaiah Foster, American soccer player
- Isaiah Frazier, American oil speculator
- Isaiah George, Canadian ice hockey player
- Isaiah Glasker, American football player
- Isaiah Green, American football player
- Isaiah L. Green, American politician
- Isaiah Harris, baseball pitcher in the Negro leagues
- Isaiah Hart, American plantation owner and founder of Jacksonville, Florida
- Isaiah Hartenstein, German-American basketball player
- Isaiah T. Hatton, American architect
- Isaiah H. Hedge, American physician, businessman, abolitionist and philanthropist
- Isaiah Hicks, American basketball player
- Isaiah Hill, American model and actor
- Isaiah Hodgins, American football player
- Isaiah Horton, American football player
- Isaiah Horowitz, Levite rabbi and mystic
- Isaiah Harris Hughes, English stage magician
- Isaiah Inman, American sheriff
- Isaiah Iongi, Tongan-Australian rugby league footballer
- Isaiah Irving, American football player
- Isaiah Iton, American football player
- Isaiah Jackson (basketball), American basketball player
- Isaiah Jackson (conductor), African American music conductor
- Isaiah Jewett, American middle-distance runner
- Isaiah Jones, multiple people
- Isaiah Joe, American basketball player
- Isaiah Johnson (disambiguation), multiple people
- Isaiah Johnston, Canadian soccer player
- Isaiah Katumwa, Ugandan musician and saxophonist
- Isaiah Kacyvenski, American football player
- Isaiah L. Kenen, Canadian-American journalist and lawyer
- Isaiah Kiplangat Koech, Kenyan long-distance runner
- Isaiah Kopinsky, Ukrainian Orthodox metropolitan
- Isaiah Land, American football player
- Isaiah Langley, American football player
- Isaiah Leacock, Trinidadian footballer
- Isaiah Lee, Trinidadian footballer
- Isaiah LeFlore, American soccer player
- Isaiah Likely, American football player
- Isaiah Livers, American basketball player
- Isaiah Lukens, American clockmaker, gunsmith, machinist, and inventor
- Isaiah L. Lyons, American politician
- Isaiah Mack, American football player
- Isaiah Mays, American soldier
- Isaiah Martinez, American wrestler
- Isaiah McDuffie, American football player
- Isaiah McGuire, American football player
- Isaiah McKenzie, American football player
- Isaiah McKinnon, American politician, academic, and law enforcement officer
- Isaiah Miles, American basketball player
- Isaiah Miller, American basketball player
- Isaiah Mobley, American basketball player
- Isaiah Montgomery, American community leader, politician, and founder of Mound Bayou, Mississippi
- Isaiah Morgan, American trumpeter
- Isaiah Morris, American basketball player
- Isaiah Emmanuel Morter, Belizean businessman
- Isaiah Moss, American basketball player
- Isaiah Msibi, Swazi middle-distance runner
- Isaiah Murphy,, Japanese basketball player
- Isaiah Mustafa, American actor and football player
- Isaiah Neyor, American football player
- Isaiah Nixon, African-American murder victim
- Isaiah Ntshangase, South African politician
- Isaiah Nwokobia, American football player
- Isaiah Oggins, American communist spy for the Soviet Union
- Isaiah Okafor, Swiss footballer
- Isaiah Oliver, American football player
- Isaiah Osbourne, English footballer
- Isaiah "Ikey" Owens, American keyboardist
- Isaiah Padua, American drag queen
- Isaiah Papali'i, Samoa-New Zealand international rugby league footballer
- Isaiah Parente, American soccer player
- Isaiah Parker, American soccer player
- Isaiah Pead, American football player
- Isaiah Perry, English Methodist minister
- Isaiah Philmore, German basketball player
- Isaiah Pillars, American lawyer, member of the Ohio House of Representatives, and Ohio Attorney General
- Isaiah Pola-Mao, American football player
- Isaiah Prince, American football player
- Isaiah Rajah, Trinidadian cricketer
- Isaiah Rankin, English football forward
- Isaiah Rashad, American rapper
- Isaiah Rice, American photographer
- Isaiah Rider, American basketball player
- Isaiah Edward Robinson Jr., African-American educator and Tuskegee Airman
- Isaiah Roby, American basketball player
- Isaiah Rodgers, American football player
- Isaiah Rogers, American architect
- Isaiah Rose, American politician
- Isaiah Rynders, American businessman, sportsman, underworld figure and political organizer for the Tammany Hall political machine
- Isaiah Sakpo, Nigerian Christian clergyman, evangelist, and writer
- Isaiah Rajendra Sanam, Indian archer
- Isaiah Sategna III, American football player
- Isaiah Saville, American ice hockey player
- Isaiah Benjamin Scott, American theologian, educator, and journalist
- Isaiah Sellers, riverboat captain
- Isaiah Shachar, Israeli historian
- Isaiah Sharkey, American guitarist
- Isaiah Shavitt, Polish-Israeli chemist
- Isaiah Simmons, American football player
- Isaiah Smithurst, English cricketer
- Isaiah Spiegel, Polish-Israeli poet, writer and essayist
- Isaiah Spiller, American football player
- Isaiah Stalbird, American football player
- Isaiah Stanback, American football player
- Isaiah Stannard, American actor
- Isaiah Stevens, American basketball player
- Isaiah Stewart, American basketball player
- Isaiah Stewart, American musician
- Isaiah Stillman, Illinois militia officer involved in the Black Hawk War
- Isaiah Swann, American basketball player
- Isaiah Swope, American basketball player
- Isaiah Sykes, American basketball player
- Isaiah Tass, Australian rugby league footballer
- Isaiah Taylor, American basketball player in the Israeli Basketball Premier League
- Isaiah Thomas (disambiguation), multiple people
- Isaiah Todd, American basketball player
- Isaiah Toothtaker, American rapper
- Isaiah Turner, English footballer
- Isaiah Turner, American Internet entrepreneur and software engineer
- Isaiah Washington, American actor
- Isaiah Whaley, American basketball player
- Isaiah Whitehead, American basketball player
- Isaiah Wilkerson, American basketball player
- Isaiah Williams (disambiguation), multiple people
- Isaiah Vansant Williamson, American merchant and philanthropist
- Isaiah Wilson (disambiguation), multiple people
- Isaiah Winstead, American football player
- Isaiah Wong, American basketball player
- Isaiah Wright, American football player
- Isaiah Wynn, American football player
- Isaiah Young, American soccer player
- Isaiah Zagar, American artist
- Isaiah Zeldin, American rabbi
- Isaiah Zuber, American football player
Fictional characters
- Isaiah Bradley, Marvel Comics character
- Isaiah Crockett, DC Comics superhero
- Isaiah Richards "Lewins", the titular character of the 1995 drama film Losing Isaiah
- Isaiah Wright, main character in 2024 American Christian drama film ''The Forge''