Baruch (name)
Baruch ( Hebrew בָּרוּךְ'Blessed') is a Hebrew given name that comes from the Bible and is also used as a family name . The first name means something like "the blessed". The Arabic name has the same root (radix) and meaningبارك / Bārak and its English variant Barack .
Biblical persons
- Baruch , son of Neriah, scribe of the prophet Jeremiah
- Baruch, son of Sabbai, helper in the reconstruction of Jerusalem ( Neh 3.20 EU )
- Baruch, father or ancestor of Maaseja ( Neh 11.5 EU )
First name
- Baruch Ashlag (1907–1991), Israeli rabbi, Kabbalist and author
- Baruch Auerbach (1793–1864), German-Jewish educator
- Baruch Berliner (* 1942), Israeli composer, economist and poet
- Baruch Samuel Blumberg (1925–2011), American physician and biochemist
- Baruch Bendit Goitein (* around 1770; † 1839), rabbi
- Baruch Goldstein (1956–1994), Israeli officer, killed 29 Palestinians in an assassination attempt in 1994
- Baruch Jeitteles (1762-1813), enlightened rabbi, Talmud scholar, writer and doctor from Bohemia
- Baruch Kimmerling (1939–2007), an Israeli sociologist from Romania
- Baruch Isaak Lipschütz (1812–1877), German rabbi
- Baruch Marzel (* 1959), Israeli politician
- Baruch Ophir (1910-2004), German-Jewish historian
- Baruch Placzek (1834–1922), Czech rabbi
- Baruch de Spinoza (1632–1677), Portuguese-Dutch philosopher of Jewish descent
family name
- Bernard Baruch (1870–1965), American financier and presidential advisor
- Franziska Baruch (1901–1989), calligrapher and designer of Hebrew scripts
- Friedl Baruch (Siegfried "Friedl" Baruch; 1905–1995), German politician (KPD, CPN)
- Hugo Baruch (1848–1905), founder of a family company with headquarters in Berlin
- Hugo Cyrill Kulp Baruch (known as Jack Bilbo ; 1907–1967), German writer, painter, draftsman, gallery owner, casual worker, cabin boy, captain, adventurer, bon vivant and bohemian
- Hermann Baruch (1896–1942), German wrestler, victim of the Holocaust (brother of Julius Baruch)
- Juda Löb Baruch , maiden name of Ludwig Börne (1786–1837)
- Julius Baruch (1892–1945), German wrestler and weightlifter, victim of the Holocaust (brother of Hermann Baruch)
- Leslie Baruch Brent (1925-2019), British immunologist and zoologist of German origin
- Lili Baruch (* 1895; † after 1931), German photographer
- Marion Baruch (* 1929), Romanian artist
- Max Baruch (1883–1938), German-American surgeon
- Meir ben Baruch (1215–1293), Rabbi Meir von Rothenburg
- Ovadia Baruch (1922-2010), Greek survivor of the Holocaust
- Ruth-Marion Baruch (1922–1997), American photographer
- Sasha Noam Baruch Cohen (* 1971), English comedian and actor, best known by his pseudonyms Ali G and Borat
- Simon Baruch (1840–1921), physician and hydrotherapy pioneer in the United States
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