Ishmael (disambiguation)

Ishmael is the first child of Abraham in Abrahamic religions.

Ishmael may also refer to:

People

• Ishmael son of Nethaniah, the murderer of Gedaliah, Nebuchadnezzar II's provincial governor
• Ishmael (Book of Mormon), a figure in the Book of Mormon
• Ishmael ben Elisha, more commonly "Rabbi Ishmael", 2nd-century rabbi
• Ishmael ben Jose, 3rd-century rabbi, the son of Jose ben Halafta
• Saint Isfael, a 6th-century Breton prince and Welsh saint also known as Ismael and Ishmael
• Ishmael Beah (born 1980), Sierra Leonean author and former child soldier
• Ishmael Hyman (born 1995), American football player
• Ismail Kadare (1936—2024), Albanian novelist and poet
• Ishmael Kipkurui (born 2005), Kenyan middle- and long-distance runner
• Ishmael Noko, General Secretary of the Lutheran World Federation since 1995
• Ishmael Reed (born 1938), American poet, essayist and novelist
• Nola Ishmael (born 1943), Barbadian nurse
• Prophet Ishmael, Zimbabwean religious leader

Fictional characters

• Ishmael (Moby-Dick), the narrator in the novel Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
• Ishmael, a "mad" character with apparent mystical powers in Ingmar Bergman's film Fanny and Alexander
• Ishmael, the wizard who imprisoned the goblins in Goblins in the Castle by Bruce Coville
• Ishmael, the main protagonist in The Haj, a 1984 novel by Leon Uris
• Ishmael (character), the name of two fictional characters in DC Comics

Literature

• Ishmael (Quinn novel), a 1992 philosophical novel by Daniel Quinn
• Ishmael (Southworth novel), an 1876 novel by E.D.E.N. Southworth
• Ishmael (Star Trek), a Star Trek novel by Barbara Hambly
• Ishmael, a chapbook by Peter Straub

Places

• Ismael, Sar-e Pol, a village in Afghanistan
• Ishmael, Missouri, a ghost town in the United States

See also

• St Ishmaels
• Ismael (disambiguation)
• Ismail (disambiguation)
• Ismaël
• Ismayil
• Ishamael
• Isfael