Issa

Issa or ISSA may refer to:

People

• Issa (name), a given name and surname
• Kobayashi Issa (1763–1828), a Japanese poet
• Issa or Isa, the Arabic name for Jesus in Islam
• Issa, another name for the Native American Catawba people
• El-Issa family
• Issa (clan), a Somali clan that mainly inhabits Djibouti
• Jane Siberry (born 1955), Canadian singer who released several albums under the name Issa
• Issa, the nickname of Luttif Afif, a leader of the Black September terror squad at the 1972 Olympic Games

Places

• Issa (polis), the Ancient Greek and Roman name for both the town of Vis and the Adriatic island of Vis, in modern-day Croatia
• Issa (Lesbos) (Ἴσσα), ancient town of Lesbos, Greece, formerly applied to the island as well
• Issa (inhabited locality) (Исса), several inhabited localities in Russia
  • Issa, Penza Oblast
  • Issa, Pskov Oblast
• Issa, Polish spelling of Isa (river) (Belarusian: Іса)
• Issa (Ghana), town in Ghana

Acronyms and abbreviations

• Independent Schools Sports Association, now known as the Sports Association for Adelaide Schools
• Information Systems Security Association
• Instituto Superior de Secretariado y Administracion (ISSA), a center of the University of Navarra that trains elite management assistants
• International Sailing Schools Association, an international association of sailing schools
• International Sanamahism Students' Association, Kangleipak, an international association of the students of a traditional Meitei religion
• International Securities Services Association, an association of securities services providers; see Borsa Istanbul
• International Social Security Association, headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland
• International Sports Sciences Association, an international organization of fitness experts which certifies personal fitness trainers
• International Ship Suppliers Association
• International Strategic Studies Association
• Interscholastic Sailing Association
• Irish Seed Savers Association

Other uses

• Issa (moth), a moth genus
• Issa Album, 2017 album by 21 Savage
• Issa (Belgariad), a divine character in David Eddings's fantasy series The Belgariad and The Malloreon

See also

• Isa (disambiguation)
• ISSE (disambiguation)
• Issei