Ishmael (disambiguation)

Ishmael

Gender	Male
Other names
Related names	Ismail

Ishmael refers to the son of Abraham, in the context of Abrahamic religions.

Ishmael may also refer to:

People:

• Ishmael (Book of Mormon), a figure in the Book of Mormon who travelled with Lehi's group.
• Ishmael ben Elisha, more commonly "Rabbi Ishmael", a second century rabbi.
• Ishmael ben Jose, a third-century rabbi, the son of Jose ben Halafta
• Ishmael Noko, a general secretary of the Lutheran World Federation
• Ishmael Reed, an American poet, essayist and novelist
• Ishmael (Ian Smale), a Christian singer from the UK, specialising in children's music
• Ishmael Beah, Author and former Sierra Leonean child soldier

Fictional characters:

• Ishmael (Moby-Dick), the protagonist 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 (A Series of Unfortunate Events), the island facilitator in The End, a book in the series "A Series of Unfortunate Events"
• Ishmael, the wizard who imprisoned the goblins in Goblins in the Castle by Bruce Coville

Other:

• Ishmael (novel), a novel about a telepathically communicating gorilla by Daniel Quinn
• My Ishmael, a sequel to the above novel
• Ishmael (poem), an epic poem by Peter Straub
• Ishmael (Star Trek), a Star Trek novel, written by Barbara Hambly

See also

• Ishamael
• Ismaël
• Ismail