Moses (given name)

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Moses (Greek: Μωϋσῆς),^{[NB 1]}Moishe (Yiddish: משה‎),^{[NB 2]} or Moshe (Hebrew: משה‎),^{[NB 3]} is a male given name, after the biblical figure Moses.

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  1 People with this name
  


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  2 Fictional characters
  


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  3 Animals
  


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  4 Other
  


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  5 Notes
  


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  6 References
  


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  7 See also
  

According to the Torah, the name "Moses" comes from the Hebrew verb, meaning "to pull out/draw out" [of water], and the infant Moses was given this name by Pharaoh's daughter after rescuing him from the Nile (Exodus 2:10)^[1]

People with this name

Ancient times:

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  Moses, the reputed scribe of the Pentateuch and protagonist of Exodus
  


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  Moses of Alexandria, alchemist

Medieval:

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  Moses (bishop) (c. 389), saint, first Arab bishop of the Arab people


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  Moses the Black (330–405), saint


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  Moses of Chorene (5th century), Armenian historian


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  Moses of Kalankatuyk (7th century), Armenian historian


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  Moses the Calm (Musa al-Kadhim, 8th century), Twelver Shia imam
  


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  Moses the Hungarian (990s–1043), Russian saint


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  Moses ibn Ezra (1070–1138), Jewish, Spanish philosopher


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  Moses Kimhi (died c. 1190), medieval rabbi


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  Moses Maimonides (1135–1204), Spanish rabbi, physician, and philosopher


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  Moses de Leon (c. 1250–1305), Spanish rabbi who is thought to have composed the Zohar

Early modern to 18th century:

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  Moses Cordovero (1522–1570), rabbi


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  Moses Isserles (1530–1572), rabbi and talmudist


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  Moses Amayraut (1596–1664), French theologian and metaphysician


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  Moses Hill (died 1629), English army officer who settled in Ireland


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  Moses Chaim Luzzatto (1707–1746), Italian rabbi and poet


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  Moses Mendelssohn (1729–1786), German Jewish philosopher


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  Moses Robinson (1741–1813), judge, governor, and senator from Vermont
  


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  Moses Cleaveland (1754–1806), surveyor of the Connecticut Land Company
  


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  Moses Sofer (1762–1839), rabbi


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  Moses Montefiore (1784–1885), Sheriff of London, England

Modern:

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  Moses Alexander (1853–1932), former governor of Idaho


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  Moisés Alou (born 1966), American baseball player


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  Moses Barrett III (born 1973), African–American hip hop artist


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  Moshe Bejski (1921–2007), Israeli judge


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  Moses Blass (born 1937), Brazilian Olympic basketball medallist


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  Moses Bloom (1833–1893), American politician, the first Jewish mayor of a major American city (Iowa City, Iowa)


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  Moses Brown (basketball) (born 1999), American basketball player


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  Moša Pijade (1890–1957), prominent Yugoslav communist and statesman of Sephardic Jewish origin


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  Moshe Czerniak (1910–1984), Israeli chess master


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  Moshe Dayan (1915–81), Israeli military leader and politician


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  Moses J. Epstein (c. 1911 – 1960), New York assemblyman


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  Moses Ezekiel (1844–1917), American sculptor


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  Moses Harrison (1932–2013), American jurist


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  Moses Hess (1812–1875), early Zionist


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  Moses Hogan (1957–2003), American composer and arranger of spirituals


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  Moses Horwitz (1897–1975), one of the Three Stooges
  


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  Moses Hurvitz (1844–1910), Galician–born Jewish playwright


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  Moses Isegawa (born 1963), Ugandan author


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  Moshe Ivgy (born 1953), Israeli actor


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  Moshe Kasher (born 1979), American comedian


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  Moshe Katsav (born 1945), Israeli-Iranian president of Israel


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  Moshe Kotlarsky, Chabad rabbi and spokesman


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  Moses Malone (1955–2015), NBA basketball player


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  Moses Mbye (born 1993), Australian Rugby League player of Gambian descent


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  Moshe Mizrahi (basketball) (born 1980), Israeli basketball player


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  Moshe Ponte (born 1956), Israeli Olympic judoka and President of the Israel Judo Association


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  Moses Regular (born 1971), American football player


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  Moses Rosen (1912–1994), Romanian rabbi


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  Moses Josef Rubin, (1892–1980), Hasidic Jewish cleric in Romania and later in the United States (New York City)


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  Moses Russell, (1888–1946)) Welsh footballer


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  Moshe Safdie (born 1938), Israeli–Canadian architect


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  Moshe Sharett (1894-1965), Israeli Prime Minister (1954–55)


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  Moshe Sharon (born 1937), Israeli historian of Islam


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  Moses Sherman (1853–1932), land developer in California, USA


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  Moshe Y. Vardi (born 1954), Israeli computer scientist and professor of Computer Science at Rice University


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  Moshe Vilenski (1910–1997), Polish–born Israeli composer


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  Moshe Wallach (1866–1957), founder and director of Shaare Zedek Hospital, Jerusalem


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  Moshe Weinberg (1939–1972), Israeli Olympic wrestling coach killed in the Munich massacre
  


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  Moses M. Weinstein (1912–2007), New York politician


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  Moshe Ya'alon (born 1950), Israeli general and politician

Fictional characters

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  Moses the raven in Animal Farm
  

Animals

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  Moses (horse), a 19th-century British Thoroughbred

Other

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  Moshe's, a chain of restaurants and cafés in Mumbai, India


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  Moishe's, a steakhouse and supermarket food product brand from Montreal, Canada

Notes

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   ^ from Latin and Greek
   


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   ^ from Yiddish
   


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   ^ from Modern Hebrew
   

References

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   ^ Exodus 2:10
   

See also

• Moises (disambiguation)

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