Ruth
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Ruth (Hebrew: רות rut) is a common female given name, from Ruth the Moabite in the Book of Ruth, possibly from the Hebrew for "companion". 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
- Ted Ruth, American hockey player
- Thomas Del Ruth (1942-), American cinematographer
[edit] Known by their given name
- Ruth Westheimer, American author and sex therapist
- Princess Ruth (1826-1883), Hawaiian princess
- Ruth Buzzi, Comedienne and entertainer
[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
[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
- 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