Moses (given name)

Moses or Moshe is a male given name, after the biblical figure Moses.

According to the Torah, the name "Moses" comes from the Hebrew verb meaning "to pull/draw out" [of water]. The infant Moses was given this name by Pharaoh's daughter after rescuing him from the Nile (Exodus 2:10). Some scholars have suggested that the name was derived from the Egyptian word for "son" rather than from Hebrew.

Further information: Moses #Names

People with this name

Ancient times:

• Moses, the reputed author of the Pentateuch and protagonist of Exodus

Medieval:

• Moses (bishop) (c. 389), saint, first Arab bishop of the Arabs
• Moses the Black (330-405), saint
• Moses of Chorene (5th century), Armenian historian
• Moses of Kalankatuyk (7th-century), Armenian historian
• Moses the Calm (8th century), Twelver Shī‘ah Imām
• Moses the Hungarian (990s-1045), Russian saint
• Moses ibn Ezra (1070-1138), Jewish, Spanish philosopher
• Moses Kimhi (died c. 1190), medieval rabbi
• Moses Maimonides (1135-1204), Spanish rabbi, physician, and philosopher
• Moses de Leon (c. 1250-1305), Spanish rabbi who is thought to have composed the Zohar

Early Modern to 18th c.:

• Moses Cordovero (1522-1570), rabbi
• Moses Isserles (1530-1572), rabbi and talmudist
• Moses Amayraut (1596-1664), French theologian and metaphysician
• Moses Chaim Luzzatto (1707-1746), Italian rabbi and poet
• Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786), German Jewish philosopher
• Moses Cleaveland (1754-1806), surveyor of the Connecticut Land Company
• Moses Sofer (1762-1839), rabbi
• Moses Montefiore (1784-1885), former Sheriff of London, England

Modern:

• Moses Hess (1812–1875), early Zionist
• Moses Blass (born 1937), Brazilian Olympic basketball medallist
• Moses Bloom (1833–1893), American politician, the first Jewish mayor of a major American city (Iowa City, Iowa)
• Moshe Dayan (1915–81), Israeli military leader and politician
• Moses Ezekiel (1844-1917), American sculptor
• Moses Hurvitz (1844-1910), Galician-born Jewish playwright
• Moses Sherman (1853-1932), land developer in California, USA
• Moses Alexander (1853–1932), former governor of Idaho
• Moses Horwitz (1897-1975), one of the Three Stooges
• Moshe Vilenski (1910-1997), Polish-born Israeli composer
• Moses Rosen (1912-1994), Romanian rabbi
• Moshe Ivgy (born 1953), Israeli actor
• Moses Hogan (1957-2003), American composer and arranger of spirituals
• Moses Malone (born 1955), former NBA basketball player
• Moshe Bejski, Israeli judge
• Moshe Czerniak (1910–1984) Israeli chess master
• Moshe Dayan DSO (1915–1981), Israeli military leader and politician
• Moshe Safdie (born 1938), Israeli-Canadian architect
• Moses Barrett III (born 1973), African-American hip hop artist
• Moisés Alou (born 1966), American baseball player

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