Ruth

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Ruth (given name, Hebrew: רוּת‎ Rut - in modern Hebrew accent) is a common female given name. It comes from Ruth the Moabite in the Book of Ruth, from the Hebrew for "compassion". Ruth can also refer to:

[edit] People

[edit] Surname

• Babe Ruth (1895-1948), American baseball player
• Earl B. Ruth (1916-1989), American politician
• Elizabeth Ruth, Canadian novelist
• Kristin Ruth, American judge
• Nancy Ruth, Canadian politician
• Roy Del Ruth (1893−1961), American film director
• Thomas Del Ruth (1942-), American cinematographer

[edit] Known by their given name

• Princess Ruth (1826-1883), Hawaiian princess
• Ruth Buzzi, comedian and entertainer
• Ruth Carter Stapleton, American Christian author and sister of US President Jimmy Carter
• Ruth Ginsburg, American Supreme Court Justice
• Ruth Holzhausen, West German volleyball player
• Ruth Langsford, British television presenter
• Ruth Nortje, South African-American canoeist
• Ruth Westheimer, American author and sex therapist

[edit] Places

• Ruth, Nevada
• Ruth, North Carolina
• Ruth Island, artificial island off Saint Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands
• Ruth Lake Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada
• Ruth Lake, California - the reservoir for population centers located adjacent to Humboldt Bay

[edit] Fictional characters

• Ruth (comics), archangel in the Ghost Rider comic book
• Ruth (dragon), dragon in Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern novels

[edit] Other

• Book of Ruth, one of the books of the Hebrew Bible
• The Book of Ruth (novel)
• 798 Ruth, asteroid
• Ruth (band), American band out of Vancouver, Washington
• "What Ruthy said", a song by Cockney Rebel from the album The Human Menagerie
• Ruth Ruth, American pop punk band
• Ruth (lunar crater), crater on the Moon
• Ruth (crater on Venus), crater on Venus
• Ruth (novel), novel by Elizabeth Gaskell
• Baby Ruth, candy bar
• Citizen Ruth, 1996 movie about abortion in the United States
• Ruth's Chris Steak House, an American restaurant chain
• Ruth-Aaron pair, two consecutive integers for which the sums of the prime factors of each integer are equal

[edit] References

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