Baruch

Baruch College, part of the City University of New York
Bernard Baruch, an American financier, stock market speculator, statesman, and presidential adviser.
Book of Baruch or 1 Baruch, a deuterocanonical book, considered by Jews and most Protestants to be apocryphal
2 Baruch, also called the Syriac Apocalypse of Baruch
3 Baruch, also called the Greek Apocalypse of Baruch
4 Baruch, also known as the Paraleipomena of Jeremiah when combined with the Epistle of Jeremy
Baruch ben Neriah, aide to the prophet Jeremiah
Baruch (His Dark Materials), a fictional angel in the His Dark Materials series
Baruch Plan, a proposed U.S. atomic energy plan following WWII
Also related to "berakhah" or bracha (Hebrew: ברכה; plural ברכות, berakhot), which is a blessing. See also: Baraka and Barakah.

Baruch may also be used for:

Baruch, son of Zabbai; one of Nehemiah's helpers in repairing the walls of Jerusalem ()
Baruch, son of Col-Hozeh; a member of the Tribe of Judah who settled in Jerusalem ()
The Baruch of Baghdad, the king of the Saracens in Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival

People with the surname Baruch

Baruch Spinoza, Dutch rationalist philosopher
Baruch Blumberg, American Nobel-prize winning physician, developed Hepatitis B vaccine
Baruch Goldstein, American-Israeli physician who murdered 29 Muslim worshippers in 1994