Isaac (name)

{{Infobox given name

| name = Isaac

| pronunciation = {{IPAc-en|ˈ|aɪ|z|ə|k}} {{respell|EYE|zək}}

| gender = Male

| languageorigin = Hebrew

| meaning = "(he) will laugh"

| nickname = Izzy, Ike, Itzik, Ziggy, Zig

| variant forms = Isak, Isaak, Iisakki, Eshaac, Isac, Ishak, Ishaaq, Issac, Ishaak, Itshak, Itzhak, Yishak, Yishaq, Yitzhak, Isack

| related names = Ike, Zak (given name), Zak (surname)

}}

Isaac ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|aɪ|z|ə|k}} {{respell|EYE|zək}}) transliterated from Yitzhak, Yitzchok ({{Hebrew name|יִצְחָק|Yīṣḥaq|Yīṣḥāq}}) 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 (Ishaq, ʼIsḥāq)
Armenian: {{lang|hy|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: 艾萨克 / 艾薩克 ({{zhi|p=Àisàkè}}), 以撒 ({{zhi|p=Yǐsǎ|j=Ji5saat3}})
Croatian: Izak
Czech: Izák
Danish: Isak, (older:) Isach
Dutch: Isaak
English: Isaac, 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, Isaac
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: Isaac
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,[http://www.irn.mj.pt/sections/irn/a_registral/registos-centrais/docs-da-nacionalidade/vocabulos-admitidos-e/downloadFile/file/Lista_de_nomes30-06-2013.pdf?nocache=1372839817.09 Instituto dos Registos e Notariado - Vocábulos admitidos e não admitidos como nomes próprios]
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 {{lookfrom|Isaac}}.

Saint Isaac (disambiguation), several people
Isaac Abarbanel (1437–1508), Portuguese Jewish statesman and philosopher
Isaac Acker (1821–1906), American politician from Pennsylvania
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 (musician) (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 Darkangelo (born 2000), American football player
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 Guerendo (born 2000), American football player
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 McKneely (born 2003), American basketball player
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 R. Nicholson (1789/1790–1844), associate justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi
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 Rex, American football player
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 (priest) (1829–1901), Anglican priest, philologist, toponymist
Isaac Titsingh (1745–1812), Dutch surgeon, scholar, merchant-trader and ambassador
Isaac Inoke Tosika, Solomon Islands politician
Isaac Ukwu (born 1999), American football player
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

=Isaach=

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
Issac 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 (1883–1965), Swiss physiologist
Isaak Asknaziy (1856–1902), Russian painter
Isaak Bacharach (1854–1942), German mathematician
Isaak Benrubi (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 (1912–1998), Canadian politician
Isaak Löw Hofmann, Edler von Hofmannsthal (1759–1849), Austrian merchant
Isaak de Graaf (1668–1743), Dutch cartographer
Isaak Guderian (born 1996), German singer
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
Isaac (Golden Sun), Player character first introduced in Golden Sun

Surname Isaac or Isaak

Adèle Isaac (1854–1915), French operatic soprano
Adisa Isaac (born 2001), American football player
Alexandre Isaac (1845–1899), French lawyer, Senator of Guadeloupe 1885–1889
Arthur Isaac, English cricketer
Auguste Isaac (1849–1938), 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 (Ugonis, Henricus, Heinrich, Arrigo or Ysaac; c.1450–1517), 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
Ashley MacIsaac, Canadian violinist