Barak (disambiguation)

Barak or Barack, may refer to:

• Barak, Hebrew for "lightning".

• Barak, a military general in the Book of Judges in the Bible.
• Barak 1, an Israeli naval point-defense missile system.
• Barak 8, an Israeli naval area-defense missile system.
• Barak Armored Brigade, an Israeli brigade under the Northern Command.
• Barak, Israel, a moshav in northern Israel.

• Mubarak (name), an Arabic name meaning "blessed". Variously written Barak or Barack.

• Barakah, Arabic for "blessing".

• Barak River, part of the Surma-Meghna River System in India and Bangladesh.

• Barak Valley, an Indian valley which the river flows through.

• Barak, Lublin Voivodeship, a village in eastern Poland.
• Barak, Masovian Voivodeship, a village in east-central Poland.
• Baraki Barak home of the Baraki/Ormuri of Kurdish descent in Afghanistan's Logar Province, who historically have translated their tribal name "Barak" as "lightning"
• Barak, a character in The Belgariad, a fantasy novel series by David Eddings.
• Zadik Barak Levin syndrome, a human congenital disorder.
• Barakzai, (translation from Pushto: Sons of Barak) a number of different tribes in Afghanistan and western Pakistan.
• Bosnian Coarse-Haired Hound, a dog breed also called Barak.
• Nawa, Afghanistan, a village also known as Barak Khel.
• Operation Barak. a 1948 Haganah military operation north of Gaza.
• Palinka, a Hungarian brandy with an apricot flavor called barack.

People

Note: Names derived from Barak in the Book of Judges and from the name "Mubarak" may be spelled the same or nearly the same. In most cases, if a person is Israeli or Jewish, the name comes from Barak in the Book of Judges, but if the person is named for a person whose religion was Islam, then the name originally came from "Mubarak". There may be exceptions.

Israelis

• Barak Badash (born 1982), Israeli football player.
• Barak Bakhar (born 1979), Israeli football player.
• Aharon Barak (born 1936), former President of the Supreme Court of Israel.
• Daphne Barak, Israeli-American interviewer.
• Ehud Barak (born 1942), former Israeli Prime Minister and current Minister of Defense.
• Barak Moshe (born 1991), Israeli football player.
• Barak Yitzhaki (born 1984), Israeli football player.

Other nationalities

• Josef Barák (1833–1883), Czech politician, journalist, and poet.
• William Barak (1824–1903), the last traditional elder of the Wurundjeri-willam clan in Australia.
• Ze'ev Barak, pseudonym used by Wolf Blitzer (being the Hebrew translation of his name).
• Barak Epstein (born 1979), American film director.
• Barak Longmate (1738-1793), English genealogist and engraver.
• Barack Obama (born 1961), 44th and current President of the United States.
• Barack Obama, Sr. (1936–1982), Kenyan economist and President Barack Obama's father.
• Barak Sopé (born 1955), Vanuatu politician.
• ISN 856 Barak (Guantanamo detainee 856 until 2004-03-14), see Afghan detainees at Guantanamo Bay and Timeline of the release and transfer of Guantanamo Bay detainees#Consolidated list of October 2008

See also

• Baraq (disambiguation)
• Barrack (disambiguation)
• Baraka (disambiguation)
• Buraq (disambiguation)
• Baruch