Isayev (surname)

Isayev, Isaev (Russian: Иса́ев; masculine) or Isayeva, Isaeva (Иса́ева; feminine) is a Russian language family name which means "(son) of Isay", with Isay (Иса́й) being the Russian given name that corresponds to "Isaiah". Notable people with the surname include:

• Aiday Isaeva (born 1989), Kazakh beauty pageant titleholder
• Aleksei Isaev (engineer) (1908–1971), Russian rocket engineer
• Aleksei Isaev (born 1995), Russian association football player
• Ali Isayev (born 1983), Azerbaijani wrestler
• Anatoli Isayev (born 1932), Soviet/Russian soccer player and coach
• Arif İsayev (born 1985), Azerbaijani association football player
• Daria Isaeva (born 1990), Russian volleyball player
• Dimitri Vladimirovich Isayev (1905–1930), Chuvash writer and critic
• Grigory Isayev (born 1943), Russian politician
• Hasan Isaev (born 1952), Bulgarian freestyle wrestler
• Ivan Isayev (born 1927), Russian Olympic shooter
• Magomet Isayev (born 1928), Russian Esperantist
• Maksim Isayev, fictional Russian spy in Nazi Germany working under his undercover name of Max Otto von Stierlitz
• Mansur Isaev (born 1986), Russian Olympic judoka
• Nadira Isayeva, Russian journalist
• Pyotr Isayev, better known as Petka, the aide-de-camp of Vasily Chapayev
• Sergei Isayev (born 1983), Russian association football player
• Shamil Isayev (born 1964), Russian association football player
• Vladimir Ruslanovich Isayev (born 1989), Russian association football player