Isaacs (surname)
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Isaacs is a surname
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Surname
A surname is a name added to a given name and is part of a personal name. In many cases, a surname is a family name. Many dictionaries define "surname" as a synonym of "family name"...
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- Alick IsaacsAlick IsaacsAlick Isaacs was a British virologist. He is best remembered for his work on interferon, having been Head of the Laboratory for Research on Interferon, National Institute for Medical Research, 1964–7....
, virologist - Avrom IsaacsAvrom IsaacsAvrom Isaacs, is a Canadian art dealer.Born in Winnipeg, Isaacs graduated with an Honours B.A. in Political Science and Economics from the University of Toronto in 1950...
, Canadian art dealer - Erwin IsaacsErwin IsaacsErwin Isaacs is a South African football midfielder and striker for Premier Soccer League club Santos and South Africa....
, a South African football (soccer) player - George IsaacsGeorge IsaacsGeorge Alfred Isaacs JP DL was a British politician and trades unionist who served in the government of Clement Attlee....
, a British politician and trades unionist - Gregory IsaacsGregory IsaacsGregory Anthony Isaacs was a Jamaican reggae musician. Milo Miles, writing in the New York Times, described Isaacs as "the most exquisite vocalist in reggae". His nicknames include Cool Ruler and Lonely Lover....
, Jamaican reggae musician. - Iorrie IsaacsIorrie IsaacsIorwerth 'Iorrie' Isaacs was a Welsh dual-code international rugby flanker who played international rugby for Wales. At club level he played rugby union for Pontypridd, Cardiff and later rugby league for Wales, and Leeds....
, Wales international rugby player - Sir Isaac IsaacsIsaac IsaacsSir Isaac Alfred Isaacs GCB GCMG KC was an Australian judge and politician, was the third Chief Justice of Australia, ninth Governor-General of Australia and the first born in Australia to occupy that post. He is the only person ever to have held both positions of Chief Justice of Australia and...
, Australian politician, jurist and Governor-General - Jason IsaacsJason IsaacsJason Isaacs is an English actor born in Liverpool, who is best known for his performance as the villain Lucius Malfoy in the Harry Potter films, the brutal Colonel William Tavington in The Patriot and as lifelong criminal Michael Caffee in the internationally broadcast American television series...
, British actor - Jeremy IsaacsJeremy IsaacsSir Jeremy Isaacs is a British television producer and executive, winner of many BAFTA awards and international Emmy Awards. He was also General Director of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden .-Early life:...
, British television producer and executive - John IsaacsJohn IsaacsJohn Isaacs was an early African-American professional basketball player. Born in Panama but raised in New York City, he was a member of the New York Renaissance, the Washington Bears, and various other teams....
, African-American professional basketball player - John Dove IsaacsJohn Dove IsaacsJohn Dove Isaacs was a Renaissance man – a world-renowned scientist, engineer, teacher, naturalist, fisherman, author, inventor, and more.He became Full Professor at the University of California, San Diego, which honored him posthumously by creating the John Dove Isaacs Chair in Natural...
, American oceanic scientist - Jorge IsaacsJorge IsaacsJorge Isaacs Ferrer was a Colombian writer, politician and soldier. His only novel, María, became one of the most notable works of the Romantic movement in Spanish literature....
, Colombian writer, politician and soldier - Nathaniel IsaacsNathaniel IsaacsNathaniel Isaacs was an English adventurer who played a part in the history of Natal, South Africa. He wrote a book spread over two volumes called "Travels and Adventures in Eastern Africa"...
, British adventurer - Pamela IsaacsPamela Isaacs-Theatre:In 1987 Isaacs appeared in Conrack, a musical based on Pat Conroy's novel The River Is Wide, at AMAS Repertory Theater. The show is set in 1969 and recounts the adventures of Pat Conroy, a young white teacher who teaches black children on the remote South Carolina island of Yamacraw....
, American actress - Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of ReadingRufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of ReadingRufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading, GCB, GCSI, GCIE, GCVO, PC, KC , was an English lawyer, jurist and politician...
, English politician and jurist - Rufus Isaacs (game theorist)Rufus Isaacs (game theorist)Rufus Philip Isaacs was a game theorist especially prominent in the 1950s and 1960s with his work on differential games.-Biography:...
, a US-American mathematician - Susan IsaacsSusan IsaacsSusan Isaacs is an American novelist and screenwriter. She was born in Brooklyn, New York, educated at Queens College, and worked as a senior editor at Seventeen magazine. She married Elkan Abramowitz, a lawyer, in 1968 and in 1970 left work to stay at home with her newborn son, Andrew. Three...
, author - Susan Sutherland IsaacsSusan Sutherland IsaacsSusan Sutherland Isaacs, CBE was a Lancashire-born educational psychologist and psychoanalyst. She published studies on the intellectual and social development of children and promoted the nursery school movement...
, British educational psychologist and psychoanalyst - Susie IsaacsSusie IsaacsSusan J. Isaacs is an American professional poker player, who has been based in Las Vegas, Nevada since 1986....
, professional poker player
Fictional characters
- Jeff Isaacs, from Degrassi: The Next Generation
- Doctor Sam Isaacs, from Resident Evil (film)Resident Evil (film)Resident Evil is a British-German 2002 horror film written and directed by Paul W.S. Anderson. The film stars Milla Jovovich, Michelle Rodriguez, Eric Mabius, and James Purefoy...
- Toby Isaacs, from Degrassi: The Next Generation