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Moses (given name)

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Moses or Moshe is a male given name, after the biblical figure Moses.

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According to the Torah, the name "Moses" comes from the Hebrew verb, meaning "to pull out/draw out" [of water], and the infant Moses was given this name by Pharaoh's daughter after rescuing him from the Nile (Exodus 2:10). Some scholars have suggested that the name was derived from the Egyptian word for "son" rather than from Hebrew.

People with this name

Ancient times:

  • Moses, the reputed scribe of the Pentateuch and protagonist of Exodus
  • Moses of Alexandria, alchemist

    • Medieval:

  • Moses (bishop) (c. 389), saint, first Arab bishop of the Arab people
  • Moses the Black (330-405), saint
  • Moses of Chorene (5th century), Armenian historian
  • Moses of Kalankatuyk (7th century), Armenian historian
  • Moses the Calm (Musa al-Kadhim, 8th century), Twelver Shia imam
  • Moses the Hungarian (990s–1045), Russian saint
  • Moses ibn Ezra (1070–1138), Jewish, Spanish philosopher
  • Moses Kimhi (died c. 1190), medieval rabbi
  • Moses Maimonides (1135–1204), Spanish rabbi, physician, and philosopher
  • Moses de Leon (c. 1250–1305), Spanish rabbi who is thought to have composed the Zohar

    • Early Modern to 18th century:

  • Moses Cordovero (1522–1570), rabbi
  • Moses Isserles (1530–1572), rabbi and talmudist
  • Moses Amayraut (1596–1664), French theologian and metaphysician
  • Moses Chaim Luzzatto (1707–1746), Italian rabbi and poet
  • Moses Mendelssohn (1729–1786), German Jewish philosopher
  • Moses Cleaveland (1754–1806), surveyor of the Connecticut Land Company
  • Moses Sofer (1762–1839), rabbi
  • Moses Montefiore (1784–1885), former Sheriff of London, England

    • Modern:

  • Moses Alexander (1853–1932), former governor of Idaho
  • Moisés Alou (born 1966), American baseball player
  • Moses Barrett III (born 1973), African–American hip hop artist
  • Moshe Bejski (1921–2007), Israeli judge
  • Moses Blass (born 1937), Brazilian Olympic basketball medallist
  • Moses Bloom (1833–1893), American politician, the first Jewish mayor of a major American city (Iowa City, Iowa)
  • Moshe Czerniak (1910–1984) Israeli chess master
  • Moshe Dayan (1915–81), Israeli military leader and politician
  • Moses J. Epstein (c.1911–1960), New York assemblyman
  • Moses Ezekiel (1844–1917), American sculptor
  • Moses Harrison (1932-2013), American jurist
  • Moses Hess (1812–1875), early Zionist
  • Moses Hogan (1957–2003), American composer and arranger of spirituals
  • Moses Horwitz (1897–1975), one of the Three Stooges
  • Moses Hurvitz (1844–1910), Galician–born Jewish playwright
  • Moshe Ivgy (born 1953), Israeli actor
  • Moshe Kasher (born 1979), American comedian
  • Moshe Katsav (born 1945), Israeli-Iranian president of Israel
  • Moshe Kotlarsky, Chabad rabbi and spokesman
  • Moses Malone (1955-2015), NBA basketball player
  • Moses Mbye (born 1993), Australian Rugby League player of Gambian descent
  • Moshe Mizrahi (basketball) (born 1980), Israeli basketball player
  • Moshe Ponte (born 1956), Israeli Olympic judoka and President of the Israel Judo Association
  • Moses Regular (born 1971), America football player
  • Moses Rosen (1912–1994), Romanian rabbi
  • Moshe Safdie (born 1938), Israeli–Canadian architect
  • Moshe Sharon (born 1937), Israeli historian of Islam
  • Moses Sherman (1853–1932), land developer in California, USA
  • Moshe Y. Vardi (born 1954), Israeli computer scientist and professor of Computer Science at Rice University
  • Moshe Vilenski (1910–1997), Polish–born Israeli composer
  • Moshe Wallach (1866–1957), founder and director of Shaare Zedek Hospital, Jerusalem
  • Moshe Weinberg (1939-1972), Israeli Olympic wrestling coach killed in the Munich massacre
  • Moses M. Weinstein (1912–2007), New York politician
  • Moshe Ya'alon (born 1950), Israeli general and politician

    • Fictional characters

  • Moses the raven in Animal Farm

    • Other

  • Moses (horse), a 19th-century British Thoroughbred
  • Moshe's, a chain of restaurants and cafés in Mumbai, India

    • References

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