Isidore ( ; also spelled Isador, Isadore and Isidor) is an English and French masculine given name. The name is derived from the Greek name ''Isídōros'' (Ἰσίδωρος) and can literally be translated to "gift of Isis." The name has survived in various forms throughout the centuries. Although it has never been a common name, it has historically been popular due to its association with Catholic figures and among the Jewish diaspora.

Isidora Isidora or Isadora is a female given name of Greek origin, derived from Ἰσίδωρος, ''Isídōros'' (a compound of Ἶσις, ''Ísis'', and δῶρον, ''dōron'': "gift of he goddessIsis"). The male equivalent is Isidore. The name surviv ...

is the feminine form of the name.

Pre-modern era

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Religious figures

Isidore of Alexandria Isidore of Alexandria (; also Isidorus ; el, Ἰσίδωρος ὁ Ἀλεξανδρεύς; ) was a GreekEncyclopædia BritannicaIsidore of Alexandria (Greek philosopher)/ref> philosopher and one of the last of the Neoplatonists. He lived in Athen ...

(died 403), Egyptian priest, saint *

Isidore of Chios Isidore of Chios was an Egyptian Christian soldier martyred on the island of Chios in 251 during the persecutions ordered by the Roman emperor Decius. His feast day is commemorated on May 14. Life and martyrdom His life is the subject of several ...

(died 251), Roman Christian martyr * Isidore of Scété (died c. 390), 4th-century A.D. Egyptian Christian priest and desert ascetic * Isidore of Pelusium (died c. 449), Egyptian monk, saint and prolific letter writer *

Isidore of Seville Isidore of Seville ( la, Isidorus Hispalensis; c. 560 – 4 April 636) was a Spanish scholar, theologian, and archbishop of Seville. He is widely regarded, in the words of 19th-century historian Montalembert, as "the last scholar of ...

(c. 560–636), Catholic saint and scholar, last of the Fathers of the Church and Archbishop of Seville * Isidore the Laborer (c. 1070–1130), Spanish religious leader * Isidore I of Constantinople (died 1350), Greek Ecumenical Patriarch (1347–1350) * Isidore II of Constantinople (died 1462), Greek Ecumenical Patriarch (1456–1462) * Isidore of Kiev (1385–1463), Greek religious leader and theologian

Others

* Isidore of Charax (fl. 1st century), Greek geographer * Isidore of Alexandria (died c. 520), Greco-Egyptian philosopher * Isidore of Miletus, Greek architect who co-designed the Hagia Sophia in Constantinople from 532 to 537 * Isidore (inventor), according to legend the Russian Orthodox monk erroneously credited with producing the first genuine recipe of Russian vodka, c. 1430

Modern world

:''Ordered alphabetically by last name'' * Isidore Gordon Ascher (1835–1933), British-Canadian novelist and poet * Isidor Bajic (1878–1915), Serbian composer, pedagogue and publisher * Isidore Bakanja (c. 1885–1909), beatified martyr in the Belgium Congo * Isadore Coop (1926-2003), Canadian architect * Isador Coriat (1875–1943), American psychiatrist and neurologist * Ivor Cutler (born Isadore; 1923–2006), Scottish poet, songwriter and humorist * Isidore Ducasse (1846-1870), French poet best known under the nom de plume of Comte de Lautréamont * Isidor Izzy Einstein (1880–1938), American federal police officer during the Prohibition era * Isidor Fisch (1905–1934), German associate of Bruno Hauptmann * Isadore Friz Freleng (1906–1995), American cartoonist * Isador Goodman (1909–1982), South African-Australian musician and composer * Isidor Gunsberg (1854–1930), Hungarian chess player * Isidore Itzkowitz (1892–1964), better known as Eddie Cantor, American performer and comedian * Isidor Kaufmann (1853–1921), Austro-Hungarian painter of Jewish themes * Izidor Kürschner (1885–1941), Hungarian football player and coach * Isidore Newman (fl. 1903), founder of the Isidore Newman School * Isidor Philipp (1863–1958), Hungarian-French pianist, composer and pedagogue * Isidor Isaac Rabi (1898–1988), Galician-born American physicist and Nobel laureate * Isidor Rosenthal (1836–1915), German physiologist * Isadore Singer (1924-2021), American mathematician * Isador Sobel (1858–1939), American lawyer * Isidore Spielmann (1854–1925), British art critic and exhibition organizer * I. F. Stone (1907–1989), American investigative journalist * Isidor Straus (1845–1912), co-owner of Macy's, drowned in the sinking of RMS ''Titanic'' * Isador Samuel Turover (1892–1978), Belgian-American chess master * Chief Isadore (fl. 1860s), leader of the Ktunaxa Kinbasket Tribal Council, Ktunaxa/Kootenay people in the Tobacco Plains War {{given name Theophoric names English masculine given names French masculine given names