Moses (given name)

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

According to the Torah, the name "Moses" comes from the Hebrew verb meaning "to pull/draw out" [of water]. 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 author of the Pentateuch and protagonist of Exodus

Medieval:

• Moses (bishop) (c. 389), saint, first Arab bishop of the Arabs
• 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 (born 1955), former NBA basketball player
• Moses Mbye (born 1993), Australian Rugby League player of Gambian descent
• Moses Regular (born 1971), America football player
• Moses Rosen (1912–1994), Romanian rabbi
• Moshe Safdie (born 1938), Israeli–Canadian architect
• Moses Sherman (1853–1932), land developer in California, USA
• Moshe Y. Vardi (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
• Moses M. Weinstein (1912–2007), New York 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