Ismail
Ismail ( Arabic إسماعيل, DMG Ismāʿīl ) is the pronunciation of the Semitic name Ismael used in Arabic and Russian . According to biblical and Islamic tradition, he is considered the progenitor of the Arabs. The Turkish form of the name is İsmail .
Name bearer
First name
- Ismael / Ismail is the first son of Abraham and a prophet in Islam .
- Ismail ibn Jafar , seventh imam of the Ismailis
- Ismail al-Mansur , Caliph of the Fatimids in Tunisia from 946–953
- Ismail Chandan , third Khorezm Shah (r. 1035-1041) from the Altuntasid dynasty
- Ismail I (Granada) , emir of the Nasrid people in Granada from 1314 to 1325
- Ismail II (Granada) , emir of the Nasrid people in Granada from 1359 to 1360
- Ismail I (Shah) , first Safavid Shah in Iran from 1501 to 1524
- Ismail II (Shah) , third Safavid Shah in Iran from 1576 to 1577
- Ismail III. (* around 1733; † 1773), the last ruler from the Safavid dynasty
- Ismail Azzaoui (* 1998), Belgian football player
- Ismail Kadare (* 1936), Albanian writer
- Ismail Bey (1735–1791), Mamluk governor of Egypt 1777–1778 and 1786–1791
- Ismail Pasha (1830–1895), Viceroy of Egypt 1864–1879
- Ismail Pascha (1813–1865), actually György Kmety , Ottoman officer and Hungarian freedom fighter
- Ismail Fahmi (1922–1997), Egyptian diplomat and foreign minister
family name
- Abd al-Fattah Ismail (1939–1986) Yemeni politician, President of South Yemen
- Adel Ismail (* 1928), Swiss tennis player
- Afa Ismail (* 1993), Maldivian athlete
- Ahmed Ismail (* 1975), Egyptian boxer
- Asif Ismail (* 1970), tennis player from Hong Kong
- Atik Ismail (* 1957), Finnish football player
- Dhurgham Ismail (* 1994), Iraqi soccer player
- Fakhri Ismail (* 1991), Brunei athlete and soccer player
- Hamid Ismail (* 1987), Qatari soccer player
- Harun Ismail (* 1955), Zimbabwean tennis player
- Hazem Salah Abu Ismail (* 1961), Egyptian scholar and Islamist thinker
- Ismail Ahmed Ismail (* 1984), Sudanese athlete
- Jaseel P. Ismail (* 1972), Indian badminton player
- Maisa Fathuhulla Ismail (* 1999), badminton player from the Maldives
- Mariam Ismail († 2015), Malaysian actress
- Mohamed Ismail Ibrahim (* 1997), Djiboutian long-distance runner
- Mohamed Mu'lzuddin Ismail (* 1987), Bruneian football goalkeeper
- Mohd Farisham Ismail (* 1985), Malaysian soccer player
- Muhammad Ismāʿil (* 1946), Afghan politician
- Muhammad Hafez Ismail (1918–1997), Egyptian military man and diplomat
- Muhammad Hakimi Ismail (* 1991), Malaysian triple jumper
- Muhammad ibn Ismāʿīl , son of Ismail ibn Jafar, the 7th Imam of the Ismailis (Seventh Shiites)
- Muhammad Zulfiqar Ismail (* 2000), Malaysian sprinter
- Mulai Ismail († 1727), Sultan of the Alawids in Morocco 1672–1727
- Razali Ismail (* 1939), Malaysian politician
- Saeed Ismail (* 1981), Bahraini tennis player
- Samir Ismail , Kuwaiti-Palestinian doctor
- Sherif Ismail (* 1955), Egyptian engineer and politician
- Taufiq Ismail (* 1935), Indonesian writer
- Walid Ismail (* 1984), Lebanese soccer player
- Wan Azizah Wan Ismail (* 1952), Malaysian politician and doctor
- Zafer Ismail Oglou (* 1975), Greek entrepreneur and mafia boss
See also
- List of rulers named Ismail
- Cross of Ismail , a Russian award
- as-Salih Ismail
- Ismajil , city in Ukraine
- Ismaili