Isayev (surname)

Isayev, Isaev (Russian: Иса́ев; masculine) or Isayeva, Isaeva (Иса́ева; feminine) is a Russian language family name which means "(son) of Isai", with Isai (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
• Aleksey Isayev (born 1995), Russian association football player
• Ali Isayev (born 1983), Azerbaijani wrestler
• Anatoli Isayev (1932–2016), Soviet/Russian soccer player and coach
• Andrey Isayev (born 1971), Russian politician
• Arif İsayev (born 1985), Azerbaijani association football player
• Daria Isaeva (born 1990), Russian volleyball player
• Dimitri Isayev (1905–1930), Chuvash writer and critic
• Dimitri Isayev (born 1973), Russian actor
• Grigory Isayev (born 1943), Russian politician
• Hasan Isaev (born 1952), Bulgarian freestyle wrestler
• Ivan Isayev (born 1927), Russian Olympic shooter
• Magomet Isayev (1928–2011), 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
• Shamil Isayev (1964–2019), Russian association football player