Ishmael (disambiguation)
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Ishmael may mean:
People:
- Ishmael, son of Abraham, in the context of Abrahamic religions
- Ishmael (Book of Mormon), a man who travelled with Lehi's group (in the Book of Mormon)
- Ishmael ben Elisha, more commonly "Rabbi Ishmael", a second century rabbi killed by the Romans
- 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
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
- the similar sounding Ishamael, one of the main villains of the fantasy saga The Wheel of Time from Robert Jordan
- Ishmael (A Series of Unfortunate Events), the island facilitator in The End, a book the series "A Series of Unfortunate Events"
Other:
- Ishmael (novel), a novel by Daniel Quinn
- My Ishmael, the sequel to the above novel
- Ishmael (poem), an epic poem by Peter Straub
- Ishmael, a Star Trek novel, written by Barbara Hambly
