Isaacson is a
surname
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meaning "son of
Isaac
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", the
Biblical
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figure. Notable people with the surname include:
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Bruce Isaacson (born 1956), American poet and publisher
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Caroline Isaacson (1900–1962), Australian journalist
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David Isaacson, American military officer
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Dean Isaacson (born 1941), American statistician
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Doug Isaacson
Douglas W. Isaacson (born October 18, 1957) is an American Republican politician and a former member of the Alaska House of Representatives from District 1. He represented the 1st district from January 18, 2013 – January 15, 2015.
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(born 1957), American politician from Alaska
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Frederick Wootton Isaacson
Frederick Wootton Isaacson (1836-22 February 1898) was an English businessman and Conservative Party (UK), Conservative politician.
Born in Mildenhall, Suffolk, he was the son of Frederick Isaacson and Emma Elizabeth ''née'' Case. In 1857 he m ...
(1836–1898), English politician
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Jacob Isaacson
Jacob Isaacson (May 5, 1911 – September 8, 1980) was an American composer and musician.
Isaacson was most noted for his own Colortone musical notation and his early works within this system. His association with the Fluxus movement was played do ...
(1911–1980), American composer and musician
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James Isaacson
James Isaacson (born 7 January 1980 in Easington, County Durham) is an English former rugby union footballer who played in the 1990s and 2000s. He played at club level for Newcastle Falcons and Leeds Carnegie, as a Prop, or Hooker. He was edu ...
(born 1980), English rugby union football player
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Jason Isaacson
Jason Isaacson (born May 20, 1971) is a Minnesota politician and former member of the Minnesota Senate. A member of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL), he was elected to the Minnesota Senate in 2016, after serving in the Minneso ...
(born 1971), American politician from Minnesota
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Jeff Isaacson
Jeffrey Glen Isaacson (born July 14, 1983) is an American curler. He is a two-time Olympian, playing on the United States men's curling team at the 2010 and 2014 Winter Olympics.
Career
Isaacson played as second on John Shuster's team which w ...
(born 1983), American curler
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Judith Magyar Isaacson (1925–2015), Hungarian-American schoolteacher, academic administrator, and writer
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Leonard Isaacson (1925–2018), American chemist and composer
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Megan Isaacson
Megan Isaacson is an American Gospel Music Association award winning Christian and gospel singer.
Career
Megan Isaacson was born in Austin, Texas. She started her career in 2000, when she flew to Australia to sing with the Continental Sing ...
, American gospel singer
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Michael Isaacson
Michael Isaacson (born in Brooklyn, New York, USA in 1946) is a composer of Jewish synagogue music, and one of the originators of the Jewish camp song movement.Alexander Gelfand"A Musical Midrashist", ''The Forward'', December 5, 2007.Alexande ...
(born 1946), American composer
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Peter Isaacson
Peter Stuart Isaacson, Order of Australia, AM, Distinguished Flying Cross (United Kingdom), DFC, Air Force Cross (United Kingdom), AFC, Distinguished Flying Medal, DFM (31 July 1920 – 7 April 2017) was an Australian publisher and decora ...
(1920–2017), English-born Australian newspaper publisher and military pilot
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Rich Isaacson
Rich Isaacson (born October 18, 1964) is an American international music entrepreneur whose influence spans artists such as Wu-Tang Clan, MIKA, Akon, Gustavo Santaolalla, Charles Bradley, Mobb Deep, Melanie Fiona, SafetySuit, and Three 6 Mafi ...
(born 1964), American music entrepreneur
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Richard A. Isaacson
Richard Allen Isaacson (born October 6, 1941) is a retired American physicist who has been cited by 2017 Nobel Laureate Rainer Weiss as indispensable to the LIGO gravitational wave project. Isaacson's 1967 PhD dissertation established that the the ...
, American physicist
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Robert Isaacson
Robert Isaacson (1 September 1927, St. Louis, Missouri – 5 November 1998, New York City) was a collector, scholar, and art dealer eulogized upon his death as "the Berenson of nineteenth century academic studies."Draper, James David (biograp ...
(1927–1998), American art collector, dealer, and scholar
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Thorpe B. Isaacson
Henry Thorpe Beal Isaacson (September 6, 1898 – November 9, 1970) was a leader in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), serving as a counselor in the First Presidency to church president David O. McKay from 1965 to 197 ...
(1898–1970), American leader in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
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Walter Isaacson
Walter Seff Isaacson (born May 20, 1952) is an American journalist who has written biographies of Henry Kissinger, Benjamin Franklin, Leonardo da Vinci, Albert Einstein, Steve Jobs, Jennifer Doudna and Elon Musk. As of 2024, Isaacson is a profes ...
(born 1952), American author, columnist and CEO
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