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'''Baruch''' ({{Hebrew Name|בָּרוּךְ|Baruḫ|Bārûḵ|"Blessed"}}) may refer to:
* [[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)|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]]''
The root B-R-K meaning "blessing" is also present in other Semitic languages. The most common [[Arabic language|Arabic]] form is the passive form [[Mubarak]], but the form [[Barack]] is also used.
==People with the surname Baruch==
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* [[Bernard Baruch]], American financier
==People with the given name 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
* [[Baruch Cohen]], American artist and entrepreneur
* [[Baruch Lev]], Accounting professor who is known for research on immaterial property
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