Ishmael (disambiguation)

Ishmael is the first child of Abraham in Abrahamic religions.

Ishmael may also refer to:

People

• Ishmael son of Nataniah, 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), author and former Sierra Leonean child soldier
• Ishmael Noko, General Secretary of the Lutheran World Federation since 1995
• Ishmael Reed (born 1938), American poet, essayist and novelist
• Ishmael (Ian Smale) (born 1950), Christian singer from the UK, specialising in children's music

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

Literature

• Ishmael (novel), a 1992 philosophical novel by Daniel Quinn
• 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

See also

• St. Ishmael's
• Ismael (disambiguation)
• Ismail (disambiguation)
• Ismaël
• Ishamael
• Isfael