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Pronunciation
  
IS-i-dore

Word/name
  
Greek

Nickname(s)
  
Izzy, Dora, Sid

Gender
  
male, female

Meaning
  
"gift of Isis"

Isidore

Related names
  
Isadore, Isador, Isidoro, Esidoro, Isidro, Ysidro, Isidor

Isidore (/ˈɪzədɔːr/, sometimes spelled Isidor, Isadore, or Isador) is a male given name of Greek origin, derived from Ἰσίδωρος, Isídōros (a compound of Ἶσις, Ísis, and δῶρον, dōron: "gift of [the goddess] Isis").

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Similar "gift" names include the Greek "Theodore" ("gift of God"), the Persian "Mithradates" ("gift of Mithras") and Datis ("gift"), and the Hebrew "Matanya" ("gift of YHWH"). The Indo-European "gift" names are ultimately derived from the *PIE root *deh₃-, "to give".

Isidora is the equivalent female given name.

People with the name Isidore include:

Religious figures

  • Isidore of Seville (c. 560–636), Scholar, last of the Fathers of the Church, Archbishop of Seville, Catholic saint and the most notable individual named Isidore.
  • Isidore of Chios (d. 251), Roman Christian martyred on the island of Chios
  • Isidore I of Constantinople, Ecumenical Patriarch in 1347–1350
  • Isidore II of Constantinople, Ecumenical Patriarch in 1456–1462
  • Isidore of Kiev (1385–1463), Greek religious leader and theologian
  • Isidore the Laborer (c. 1070–1130), Spanish religious leader
  • Isidore of Pelusium (died c. 449), Egyptian theologian

    • Scholars

  • Isidore of Alexandria (fl. c. 500), eastern-Mediterranean philosopher
  • Isidore of Charax (fl. 1st century), geographer

    • Writers

  • Isidore Gordon Ascher (1835–1933), British-Canadian novelist and poet
  • Isidore-Lucien Ducasse (1846–1870), orthonym of Comte de Lautréamont, 19th-century poet
  • I. F. Stone (1907–1989), American investigative journalist

    • Other people

  • Chief Isadore (fl. 1860s), leader of the Ktunaxa/Kootenay people in the Tobacco Plains War
  • Isidore (inventor) (fl. 15th century), Russian religious leader and distiller
  • Isidoro, nom de guerre of Felipe González (born 1942), socialist leader in Franco-era Spain
  • Isador Coriat (1875–1943), American psychiatrist and neurologist
  • Isadora Duncan dancer
  • Izzy Einstein (1880–1938), American policeman during the prohibition period
  • Isador Goodman (1909–1982), South African-Australian musician and composer
  • Isidore of Miletus (fl. 6th century), architect
  • 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
  • Sir Isidore Spielmann (1854–1925) British art critic and exhibition organizer
  • 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

    • Other

  • Isidore (platform), is a web-based platform dedicated to the sharing of scientific knowledge in human and social sciences.
  • Isadore Nabi, pseudonym used by a group of scientists including Richard Lewontin, Richard Levins, Robert MacArthur, and Leigh van Valen in the 1960s.
  • San Isidro (disambiguation), Spanish for "Saint Isidore", and the name of several people and places
  • Jack Isidore, a fictional character in Philip K. Dick's novel Confessions of a Crap Artist
  • John R. Isidore, a fictional character in Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
  • Isidore Saack is a fictional character in Gaston Leroux's Phantom of the Opera
  • Isadore (song) is a song by Incubus (band) on If Not Now, When? (album).

    • References

    Isidore Wikipedia
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