Isa may refer to:

• Isa (name), a common Arabic name

• Jesus, called Isa in Arabic

• the Islamic view of Jesus in particular

  • Mount Isa, Queensland

• Isa (album), a 2004 album by Enslaved
• Isa (dance), a local variation of a Jota

ISA may stand for:

• ISA platform, an operating system software for Nokia mobile telephones, commonly known by the acronym NOS
• International Standards on Auditing, professional standards for the performance of financial audit of financial information
• Independent Schools Association, a group of schools in New South Wales, Australia
• Infectious salmon anemia, a viral disease of salmon
• Individual Savings Account (in the UK)
• Industry Standard(s) Architecture (an obsolescent personal computer I/O bus standard for IBM compatible PC motherboards that came out with the IBM AT class of computers)
• Institut de Sélection Animale, a poultry breeding company based in Saint–Brieuc, France
• Instruction Set Architecture, The complete specification of the interface between computer programs that have been written and the underlying computer hardware that carries out the actual work
• Instrumentation, Systems, and Automation Society (formerly Instrument Society of America, a professional organization for instrument engineers)
• Intelligence Support Activity, special-forces operations unit of the U.S. Army
• Internal Security Act (implemented in Malaysia and Singapore)
• International Seabed Authority, an intergovernmental body based in Kingston, Jamaica, that was established to organize and control all mineral-related activities in the international seabed area beyond the limits of national jurisdiction
• International Sociological Association
• International Searching Authority (in patent law)
• International Security Alliance, a fictional spy agency on the television soap opera Days of our Lives
• International Sign Association
• International Society of Arboriculture (non-profit organization)
• International Sociological Association, a non-profit organization dedicated to scientific purposes in the field of sociology and social sciences
• International Space Agency, a common device in near-future and quasi-modern science fiction, where it usually serves as a stand-in for NASA while also representing the potential of a truly international consortium dedicated to space science and exploration
• International Standard Atmosphere, a tabulation with altitude of the standard variation of pressure, temperature, density, viscosity, temperature, etc, appropriate to mid latitudes, released by the ICAO
• International Standards on Auditing, professional standards for the performance of financial audit of financial information
• International School Amsterdam, an international school in the Netherlands
• International Symbol of Accessibility
• Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server, a Microsoft server product
• Israel Space Agency
• Irish Sailing Association (National governing body for sailing in Ireland)
• Italian Space Agency

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