# 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.
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: 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 (Àisàkè), 以撒 (Yǐsǎ; 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,
* 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 (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
* 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