List of Famous people named Ismail

Ismail Youssef Awadallah Mohamed is a former Egyptian football player. He is currently the assistant manager of the Egyptian Premier League giants; Zamalek. Ismail is the youngest brother of two football players; El Sayed and Ibrahim.

İsmail Acar is a leading Turkish painter. He graduated with honors in 1991 from the Finer Arts School of Marmara University. In 1993, Acar received his Master of Arts degree in "Technology and Art", as well as in "Postmodernism".

Ismail Ould Bedde Ould Cheikh Sidiya is a Mauritanian politician who served as the 15th Prime Minister of Mauritania from 5 August 2019 to 6 August 2020. He headed the Ministry of Housing, Town Planning and Regional Development from 2009 to 2014, as well as once being president of the Nouadhibou Free Zone. He was one of the founding members of the Union for the Republic party.

İsmail Özden, aka Mam Zêki Shingali, was a Yazidi Kurdish member of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, famous for the leading role he played in the resistance to the genocide of Yazidis by ISIL. He was assassinated on 15 August 2018 in a Turkish Air Force airstrike.

Muallim İsmail Hakkı Bey was a Turkish composer and musician during the Ottoman Empire.

Ismail Diriye Gamadiid was a Somali politician, teacher, environmentalist and community leader.