Ishmael (disambiguation)

Ishmael is the first child of Abraham in Abrahamic religions.

Ishmael may also refer to:

People

 * Ishmael son of Nethaniah, 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), Sierra Leonean author and former child soldier
 * Ishmael Hyman (born 1995), American football player
 * Ismail Kadare (1936—2024), Albanian novelist and poet
 * Ishmael Kipkurui (born 2005), Kenyan middle- and long-distance runner
 * Ishmael Noko, General Secretary of the Lutheran World Federation since 1995
 * Ishmael Reed (born 1938), American poet, essayist and novelist
 * Nola Ishmael (born 1943), Barbadian nurse
 * Prophet Ishmael, Zimbabwean religious leader

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
 * Ishmael, the main protagonist in The Haj, a 1984 novel by Leon Uris
 * Ishmael (character), the name of two fictional characters in DC Comics

Literature

 * Ishmael (Quinn novel), a 1992 philosophical novel by Daniel Quinn
 * Ishmael (Southworth novel), an 1876 novel by E.D.E.N. Southworth
 * 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
 * Ishmael, Missouri, a ghost town in the United States