Isaac (name)
Isaac (/ˈaɪzək/ EYE-zək) transliterated from Yitzhak, Yitzchok (Hebrew: יִצְחָק, Modern: Yīṣḥaq, Tiberian: Yīṣḥāq) was one of the three patriarchs in the Hebrew Bible, whose story is told in the book of Genesis.
| Pronunciation | /ˈaɪzək/ EYE-zək | 
|---|---|
| Gender | Male | 
| Origin | |
| Word/name | Hebrew | 
| Meaning | "(he) will laugh" | 
| Other names | |
| Variant form(s) | Isak, Iisakki, Eshaac, Isac, Ishak, Ishaaq, Issac, Ishaak, Itshak, Itzhak, Yishak, Yishaq, Yitzhak, Isack | 
| Nickname(s) | Izzy, Ike, Itzik | 
| Related names | Ike, Zak (given name), Zak (surname) | 
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 in different languages
    
- Albanian: Isak
 - Arabic: إسحٰق, إسحاق (Ishaq, ʼIsḥāq)
 - Armenian: Սահակ (Sahak or Sahag)
 - Azerbaijani: İshaq/Исһаг/ایسهاق, İsaak/Исаак/ایسااک
 - Basque: Isaak
 - Belarusian: Ісак (Isak)
 - Bengali: ইসহাক (Ishak)
 - Bosnian: Ishak
 - Breton: Izaag
 - Bulgarian: Исаак (Isaak)
 - Catalan: Isaac
 - Chinese Simplified: 艾萨克 (Aìsàkè) / 以撒 (Mandarin: Yǐsǎ; Cantonese: Ji5saat3)
 - Chinese Traditional: 艾薩克 (Àisàkè) / 以撒 (Mandarin: Yǐsǎ; Cantonese: Ji5saat3)
 - Croatian: Izak
 - Czech: Izák
 - Danish: Isak, (older:) Isach
 - Dutch: Isaak
 - English: Ike, Isac (Old English)
 - Esperanto: Isaako, Izaak, Isĥak, Ike, Isac
 - Estonian: Iisak
 - Ewe: Isak
 - Faroese: Ísakur
 - Finnish: Iisakki
 - French: Isaac
 - Galician: Isaac
 - Georgian: ისააკ (Isaak)
 - German: Isaak
 - Greek: Ισαάκιος (Isaakios), Ισαάκ (Isaák)
 - Haitian Creole: Izarak
 - Hausa: Is'haƙu, Isaka
 - Hebrew: יִצְחָק, (Yiṣḥāq, IPA /jits'xak/), Yitzhak, Itzhak, Yitshak, Itshak
 - Hindi: इसहाक (Isahaak)
 - Hmong: Ixaj
 - Hungarian: Izsák
 - Icelandic: Ísak
 - Indonesian: Ishak
 - Irish: Íosác
 - Italian: Isacco
 - Japanese: アイザック (Aizakku) / イサク (Isaku)
 - Javanese: Iskak
 - Kannada: ಐಸಾಕ್ (Aisāk)
 - Kazak: Ысқақ (Isqaq), Ысақ (Isaq)
 - Khmer: អ៊ីសាក (Aisak)
 - Korean: 이삭 (I-sak), 아이작 (Aijak)
 - Kyrgyz: Ыскаак (Isqaaq), Исхак (İshaq)
 - Lao: ອີຊາກ (Isak)
 - Ladino: יצחק (Yiṣḥāq), Ike, Itshak, Izak, Yshac, Yshak, Ishac, Isak, Yitzhak, Yitshak (Yitsḥak), Yitzjak, Isacc
 - Latin: ius, us
 - Latvian: Aizeks, Izaks
 - Lithuanian: Izaokas
 - Macedonian: Исак (Isak)
 - Malay: Ishak, Sahak
 - Malayalam: ഇസഹാക് (Isahaak)
 - Māori: Ihaka
 - Mongolian: Исаак (Isaak)
 - Norwegian: Isak
 - Persian: اسحاق (Eshaq)
 - Polish: Izaak
 - Portuguese: Isaque,[1]
 - Russian: Исаак (Isaak), Айзек(Ayzek)
 - Romanian: Isac, Ițac
 - Scottish Gaelic: Iosag
 - Serbian Cyrillic: Исак (Isak)
 - Slovene: Izak
 - Somali: Isxaaq
 - Spanish: Isaac
 - Swahili: Isaka, Isaki
 - Swedish: Isak, Isac
 - Syriac: ܐܝܤܚܩ (Iskhaaq)
 - Tamil: ஈசாக்கு (eesaaku)
 - Telugu: ఇస్సాకు, (Issāku)
 - Thai: อิสอัค, ไอแซก (Xịsæk)
 - Turkish: İshak, İshâk
 - Ukrainian: Ісаак (Isaak)
 - Uyghur: ئىسھاق (Ishaq), ئىساق (Isaq)
 - Uzbek: Ishoq (Is-hoq)
 - Urdu: اسحاق
 - Yiddish: יצחק (Yẕẖq) (= Yitskhok, IPA /'jitsxok/), 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 All pages with titles beginning with Isaac.
- Saint Isaac, several people
 - Isaac Abarbanel (1437–1508), Portuguese Jewish statesman and philosopher
 - Isaac Aguiar Tomich (born 2004), Brazilian footballer
 - Isaac Alarcón (born 1998), Mexican American football player
 - Isaac Albéniz (1860–1909), Spanish pianist and composer
 - Isaac Alfasi (1013–1103), Algerian Talmudist and jurist
 - Isaac II Angelos (1156–1204), Byzantine Emperor
 - Isaac of Armenia (354–439), Patriarch of the Armenian Apostolic Church
 - Isaac Asiata (born 1992), American football player
 - Isaac Asimov (1920–1992), Russian-born American writer and biochemist
 - Isaac Babel (1894–1940), Russian journalist, playwright and short story writer
 - Isaac Barrow (1630–1677), English theologian and mathematician
 - Isaac Beeckman (1588–1637), Dutch philosopher and scientist
 - Isaac de Benserade (1613–1691), French poet
 - Isaac the Blind (c.1160–1235), French Jewish mysticist and Kabbalist
 - Isaac Boleslavsky (1919–1977), Soviet chess grandmaster
 - Isaac Brock (1769–1812), British Army officer and colonial administrator
 - Isaac Brock (born 1975), American lead singer in Modest Mouse
 - Isaac Casaubon (1559–1614), French-born English classical scholar and philologist
 - Isaac of the Cells, Egyptian Christian monk who lived during the 6th and 7th centuries
 - Isaac da Costa (1798–1860), Dutch Jewish poet
 - Isaac Cuenca (born 1991), Spanish footballer
 - Isaac Dalby (1744–1824), English mathematician and surveyor
 - Isaac D'Israeli (1766–1848), British writer, scholar and man of letters
 - Isaac Deutscher (1907–1967), Polish writer, journalist and political activist
 - Isaac ben Eliezer, 15th-century German rabbi
 - Isaac of Firuz Shabur, rabbi of the Geonic period
 - Isaac Hanson (born 1980), American musician, guitarist in Hanson
 - Isaac Hayes (1942–2008), American singer-songwriter, voice actor, and producer
 - Isaac Israel Hayes (1832–1881), American Arctic explorer, physician and politician
 - Isaac Hamilton (born 1994), American basketball player
 - Isaac Heller (1926–2015), American toy manufacturer, co-founder of Remco
 - Isaac Hempstead Wright (born 1999), English actor
 - Isaac Herzog (born 1960), 11th President of Israel
 - Isaac Holloway (1805–1885), American politician from Ohio
 - Isaac Isaacs (1855–1948), Australian Chief Justice and Governor-General
 - Isaac Israeli ben Solomon (c. 832 – c. 932), Arab Jewish physician and philosopher
 - Isaac Israëls (1865–1934), 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 (1905–1985), American chess grandmaster
 - Isaac I Komnenos (c. 1007–1061), Byzantine Emperor
 - Isaac Komnenos (son of Alexios I) (1093 – aft. 1152), Byzantine prince
 - Isaac Komnenos of Cyprus (c.1155–1196), ruler of Cyprus
 - Isaac Kragten (born 2002), Canadian actor
 - Isaac Lea (1792-1886), American publisher, conchologist and geologist
 - Isaac Levitan (1860–1900), Russian landscape painter
 - Isaac Luria (1534–1572), Jewish religious leader and mysticist
 - Isaac Makwala (born 1986), Botswana sprinter
 - Isaac Musa (died 2008), Liberian military officer and politician
 - Isaac Nappaha, Galilean rabbi of the 3rd-4th centuries
 - Isaac Nauta (born 1997), American football player
 - Isaac Newton (1642–1727), English mathematician, astronomer, and physicist
 - Isaac of Nineveh (c. 613 – c. 700), Syriac Christian bishop and theologian
 - Isaac Okoro (born 2001), American basketball player
 - Isaac Okoronkwo (born 1978), Nigerian footballer
 - Isaac Oliver (c.1565–1617), French-born English portrait painter
 - Isaac van Ostade (1621–1649), Dutch genre and landscape painter
 - Isaac Peral (1851–1895), Spanish engineer, naval officer and designer of the Peral Submarine
 - Isaac Leib Peretz (1852–1915), Yiddish writer from Poland
 - Isaac Pitman (1813–1897), English inventor of shorthand/stenography
 - Isaac Roberts (1829–1904), Welsh amateur astronomer
 - Isaac Rodrigues de Lima (born 2004), Brazilian footballer
 - Isaac Rochell (born 1995), American football player
 - Isaac Rosefelt (born 1985), American-Israeli basketball player
 - Isaac Henrique Sequeira (1738–1816), Portuguese physician
 - Isaac Shelby (1750–1826), Governor of Kentucky
 - Isaac Singer (1811–1875), American inventor and businessman (sewing machine)
 - Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902–1991), Polish-born American author, Nobel prize literature 1978
 - Isaac Slade (born 1989), American lead singer in The Fray
 - Isaac Stern (1920–2001), Ukrainian-born American violinist and conductor
 - Isaac Taylor (1787–1865), English philosopher & historian
 - Isaac Taylor (1829–1901), Anglican priest, philologist, toponymist
 - Isaac Titsingh (1745–1812), Dutch surgeon, scholar, merchant-trader and ambassador
 - Isaac Vorsah (born 1988), Ghanaian footballer
 - Isaac Watts (1674–1748), English Christian minister, hymn writer, theologian, and logician
 - Isaac Yiadom (born 1996), American football player
 - Isaac Wayne (1772–1856), 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) (born 1998), Australian basketball player
 
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- Isaach de Bankolé (born 1957), 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 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
 - Isaac Kleiner in 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 in the television series Heroes, played by Santiago Cabrera
 - Isaac Netero in the manga series Hunter × Hunter
 - Isaac Washington, bartender on The Love Boat, played by Ted Lange
 
Isaak
    
- Isaak Abelin (1883–1965), Swiss physiologist
 - Isaak Asknaziy (1856–1902), Russian painter
 - Isaak Bacharach (1854–1942), German mathematician
 - Isaak Benrubi (born 1876–1943), Ottoman philosopher
 - Isaak van den Blocke (1574–1626), Flemish painter in Poland
 - Isaak Brodsky (1884–1939), Soviet painter
 - Isaak Bubis (1910–2000), Moldavian Soviet engineer and architect
 - Isaak August Dorner (1809–1884), German church leader
 - Isaak Dunayevsky (1900–1955), Soviet composer
 - Isaak Elias (born 1912–1998), Canadian politician
 - Isaak Löw Hofmann, Edler von Hofmannsthal (1759–1849), Austrian merchant
 - Isaak de Graaf (born 1668–1743), Dutch cartographer
 - Isaak Iselin (1728–1782), Swiss philosopher of history and politics
 - Isaak Markus Jost (1793–1860), German Jewish historian
 - Isaak Kikoin (1908–1984), Soviet physicist
 - Isaak Markovich Khalatnikov (1919–2021), Soviet physicist
 - Isaak B. Klejman (1921–2012), Ukrainian Soviet archaeologist
 - Isaak Lalayants (1870–1933), Russian revolutionary
 - Isaak Ah Mau (born 1982), New Zealand rugby league player
 - Isaak D. Mayergoyz, American academic
 - Isaak Mazepa (1884–1952), Ukrainian politician
 - Isaak Moiseevich Milin (1919–1992), Soviet mathematician
 - Isaak "Tjaak" Pattiwael (1914–1987), Indonesian footballer
 - Isaak Pomeranchuk (1913–1966), Soviet physicist
 - Isaak Illich Rubin (1886–1937), Soviet economist
 - Isaak Augustijn Rumpf (1673–1723), Dutch Governor of Ceylon
 - Isaak Tirion (1705–1765), Dutch publisher
 - Isaak Voss (1618–1689), Dutch scholar and manuscript collector
 - Isaak Yaglom (1921–1988), Soviet mathematician
 - Isaak Zelensky (1890–1938), Soviet politician
 
Fictional people
    
- Isaak (Tekken), Character first introduced in Tekken Mobile
 
Surname Isaac or Isaak
    
- Adèle Isaac (1854–1915), French operatic soprano
 - Alexandre Isaac (1845–1899), French lawyer, Senator of Guadeloupe 1885–1889
 - Arthur Isaac, English cricketer
 - Auguste Isaac (1849–1938), French politician
 - Bryan Isaac, dancer
 - Bobby Isaac, American racing driver
 - Chris Isaak, American musician
 - George Isaac (politician), Egyptian politician
 - Glynn Isaac, South African archaeologist
 - Heinrich Isaac, Ugonis, Henricus, Heinrich, Arrigo or Ysaac, Franco-Flemish composer
 - John Isaac (cricketer), English cricketer
 - 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
 
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