Isidore

Isidore (sometimes spelled Isadore) is a male name of Greek origin, meaning "gift of Isis". This literal meaning did not prevent the name from surviving the suppression of the Isis worship, and being among others the name of several Christian saints. Similar "gift" names included the Greek "Theodore" ("gift of God"), the Persian "Mithradates" ("gift of Mithras") and the Hebrew "Matanya" ("gift of Ya", i.e. of Yahweh whose full name observant Jews are forbidden to pronounce).

Persons named Isidore or Isador include:

• Chief Isadore, leader of the Ktunaxa/Kootenay people in the Tobacco Plains War
• Isidore of Alexandria, 5th century neoplatonist
• Isidore of Charax, 1st century geographer, cited as a source by Pliny
• Isidore Ducasse, nom-de-plume of the 19th century poet Comte de Lautréamont
• Saint Isidore the Laborer, patron saint of farmers and of the city of Madrid, Spain.
• Isidore of Miletus, 6th century architect and co-designer of the Hagia Sophia
• Isidore Newman, founder of the Isidore Newman School
• Saint Isidore of Pelusium, 5th century theologian
• Saint Isidore of Seville, 6th/7th century archbishop of Sevilla, Spain
• Isidor Feinstein Stone, an American journalist
• Isidore of Thessalonica, also known as Isidore of Kiev, 14th/15th century theologian
• Felipe González, socialist leader in Franco-era Spain, used the nom-de-guerre Isidoro
• a surname of the Mi'kmaq family of Nova Scotia

Other uses of Isidore or Isadore include:

• San Isidro, Spanish for "Saint Isador", and the name of several people and places
• Hurricane Isidore, the second hurricane in the 2002 Atlantic hurricane season
• Isidore is a band composed of Steve Kilbey of The Church and Jeffrey Cain formerly of Remy Zero.
• Jack Isidore, a fictional character in Philip K. Dick's novel Confessions of a Crap Artist
• John R. Isidore, a fictional character in Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
• Isadore, Michigan, a small unincorporated community in Centerville Township, Michigan

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