Isidore ( ; also spelled Isador, Isadore and Isidor) is a masculine given name. The name is derived from the Greek name ''Isídōros'' (Ἰσίδωρος, latinized ''Isidorus'') and can literally be translated to 'gift of

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. Isidora is the feminine form of the name.

Pre-modern era

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Religious figures

* Isidorus (2nd century AD), pagan Egyptian priest * Isidore, son of Basilides, the Egyptian Christian Gnostic (2nd century AD) * Isidore of Chios (died 251), Roman Christian martyr * Isidore of Scetes (died c. 390), 4th-century Egyptian Christian priest and desert ascetic * Isidore of Alexandria (died 403), Egyptian Christian priest, saint * Isidore of Pelusium (died c. 449), Egyptian monk, saint and prolific letter writer *

Isidore of Seville Isidore of Seville (; 4 April 636) was a Spania, Hispano-Roman scholar, theologian and Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Seville, archbishop of Seville. He is widely regarded, in the words of the 19th-century historian Charles Forbes René de Montal ...

(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 * Isidor George Beaver (1859–1934), British-born Australian architect * 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 * Isidore Goldblum (1863–1925), Polish Hebrew writer and bibliographer * 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 * Isadore Gilbert Jeffery (1840-1919), American poet, lyricist * Isidor Kaufmann (1853–1921), Austro-Hungarian painter of Jewish themes * Izidor Kürschner (1885–1941), Hungarian football player and coach * Isadore Gilbert Mudge (1875–1957), American librarian * 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 * Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre (1758-1794), French lawyer and revolutionary * 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/Kootenay people in the Tobacco Plains War * Isidor Burakh a fictional character from the video game "Pathologic Classic" (2005),"Pathologic Classic HD" (2015) and "Pathologic 2" {{given name Theophoric names English masculine given names Masculine given names French masculine given names