Issa
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 Sanamahism (traditional Meitei religion) of Kangleipak
- 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 Strategic Studies Association
- Interscholastic Sailing Association
- Irish Seed Savers Association
People
- El-Issa family
- Issa (clan), a Somali clan that mainly inhabits Djibouti
- Issa (name), a given name and surname
- Kobayashi Issa (1763–1828), a Japanese poet
- 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
- Issa or Isa, the Arabic name for Jesus in Islam
- Issa, another name for the Native American Catawba people
Places
- Issa (Lesbos) (Ἴσσα), ancient town of Lesbos, Greece, formerly applied to the island as well
- Issa (polis), the Ancient Greek and Roman name for both the town of Vis and the Adriatic island of Vis, in modern-day Croatia
- Siege of Issa, 230 BC to 229 BC
- Issa (inhabited locality) (Исса), several inhabited localities in Russia
- Issa, Penza Oblast
- Issa, Pskov Oblast
- Issa, Polish spelling of Isa (river) (Belarusian: Іса
- The Issa Valley (Dolina Issy, 1955) memoir by Czesław Miłosz and its 1982 film adaptation, The Issa Valley (film)
Other uses
- Issa (moth), a moth genus
- Issa and Gurgura Liberation Front (IGLF), political faction in eastern Ethiopia, based amongst the Issa and Gurgura clans in northern Hararghe
- Issa Album, 2017 album by 21 Savage
- Siege of Issa, siege that took place from 230 BC to 229 BC between the forces of the Ancient Greek colony of Issa, aided by the Roman Republic, and the Ardiaean Kingdom of Illyria
- Issa, a divine character in David Eddings's fantasy series The Belgariad and The Malloreon
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