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Isidore (Template:IPAc-en; IZ-ə-dawr), also spelled Isador, Isadore and Isidor) is an English and French masculine given name. The name is derived from the Greek name Isídor - Isídōros (Ἰσίδωρος) and can literally be translated to "gift of Isi." The name has survived in various forms throughout the centuries. Although it has never been a common name, it has historically been popular due to its association with Catholic figures and among the Jewish diaspora. Isidora is the feminine form of the name.

Pre-modern era

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Religious figures

• Isidore of Chios (died 251), Roman Christian martyr
• Isidore of Pelusium (died c. 449), Egyptian monk, saint and prolific letter writer
• Isidore of Seville (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
• 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
• Isadore Friz Freleng (1906–1995), American cartoonist
• 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
• Isidor Kaufmann (1853–1921), Austro-Hungarian painter of Jewish themes
• Izidor Kürschner (1885–1941), Hungarian football player and coach
• Joseph Isadore Lieberman, better known as Joe Lieberman (born 1942), American politician, a Senator from Connecticut (1989–2013) and Vice Presidential candidate for the Democratic Party in 2000 United States Presidential Election
• 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
• Isidor Rosenthal (1836–1915), German physiologist
• Thomas Isidore Noël Sankara (1949–1987), better known as Thomas Sankara, Burkinabé military officer and socialist revolutionary
• Isadore Singer (1924-2021), American mathematician
• 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