Ruth (or its variants) may refer to:

Places

France

* Château de Ruthie, castle in the commune of Aussurucq in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques département of France

Switzerland

* Ruth, a hamlet in

Cologny Cologny () is a Municipalities of Switzerland, municipality in the Canton of Geneva, Switzerland. History Cologny is first mentioned in 1208 as ''Colognier''. The oldest trace of a settlement in the area is a Neolithic lake side village which ...

United States

* Ruth, Alabama *

Ruth, Arkansas Ruth is an unincorporated community in Fulton County, Arkansas, United States. The community is located on a county road just south of the U.S. Route 62- U.S. Route 412 concurrency and east of Henderson and Norfork Lake Norfork Dam is a large ...

Ruth, California Ruth is a census-designated place (CDP) in Trinity County, California. Ruth is located in the southern portion of the county. The community - and adjacent Ruth Lake - was named after Ruth McKnight, daughter of settlers. The ZIP code is 95526. Th ...

Ruth, Louisiana Ruth is an unincorporated community and locality in St. Martin Parish, Louisiana, United States. The community is located at . The village is east of Lafayette on the Bayou Teche Bayou Teche ( Louisiana French: ''Bayou Têche'') is a U.S. Geolo ...

Ruth, Pulaski County, Kentucky Ruth is an unincorporated community in Pulaski County, in the U.S. state of Kentucky Kentucky ( , ), officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States and one of the states of the Upper Sou ...

* Ruth, Michigan *

Ruth, Mississippi Ruth is an unincorporated community in Lincoln County, Mississippi Mississippi () is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States, bordered to the north by Tennessee; to the east by Alabama; to the south by the Gulf of Mexico; ...

* Ruth, Nevada *

Ruth, North Carolina Ruth is a town in Rutherford County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 440 at the 2010 census. Geography Ruth is located at 35°22'60" North, 81°56'36" West (35.383224, -81.943365). The town is concentrated around the intersecti ...

Ruth, Virginia Ruth is an unincorporated community located in Madison County, Virginia Madison County is a county located in the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 13,837. Its county seat is Madison. History Madison County ...

Ruth, Washington Ruth, also known as Ruth Station, is a place located in Lewis County, Washington. The area is located on Washington State Route 6 between the towns of Adna and Ceres, near the confluence of the Chehalis River and the South Fork Chehalis Rive ...

Ruth, West Virginia Ruth is an unincorporated community in Kanawha County, West Virginia, United States. Ruth is located along U.S. Route 119 and West Virginia Route 214, southwest of Charleston Charleston most commonly refers to: * Charleston, South Carolina * Ch ...

In space

Ruth (lunar crater) Krieger is a lunar impact crater on the eastern part of the Oceanus Procellarum. It is located to the north-northwest of the flooded crater Prinz, and north-northeast of the prominent ray crater Aristarchus. To the northwest lies the small Woll ...

, crater on the Moon *

Ruth (Venusian crater) Ruth is an impact crater on Venus. The crater, based on data provided by the ''Magellan'' spacecraft, has an estimated diameter of and an elevation The elevation of a geographic location is its height above or below a fixed reference point, ...

, crater on Venus *

798 Ruth 798 Ruth is a minor planet orbiting the Sun that was discovered by the German astronomer Max Wolf on 21 November 1914. It may have been named after the biblical character Ruth. This main belt asteroid has an orbital period of and is orbiting at a ...

, asteroid

People

* Ruth (biblical figure) * Ruth (given name) contains list of namesakes including fictional * Princess Ruth or Keʻelikōlani, (1826–1883), Hawaiian princess

Surname

A. S. Ruth Alfred S. Ruth (December 18, 1865 – June 30, 1915) was an American politician in the state of Washington. He served in the Washington State Senate The Washington State Senate is the upper house of the Washington State Legislature. The b ...

, American politician * Babe Ruth (1895–1948), American baseball player * Connie Ruth, American politician *

Earl B. Ruth Earl Baker Ruth (February 7, 1916 – August 15, 1989) was a three-term U.S. Representative from North Carolina and subsequently served as governor of American Samoa. Born in Spencer, North Carolina, Ruth graduated from Central High School in ...

(1916–1989), American politician * Elizabeth Ruth, Canadian novelist * Kristin Ruth, American judge * Nancy Ruth, Canadian politician * Hampton Del Ruth (1879-1958), American film actor and producer *

Roy Del Ruth Roy Del Ruth (October 18, 1893, Delaware – April 27, 1961) was an American filmmaker. Early career Beginning his Hollywood career as a writer for Mack Sennett in 1915, Del Ruth later directed his first short film ''Hungry Lions'' (1919) ...

(1893−1961), American film director * Thomas Del Ruth (born 1942), American cinematographer

Code name

* Ruth, code name of Pridi Banomyong, former Prime Minister and leader of the Thai underground against the Japanese occupation during World War II

Art, entertainment, and media

Films

* '' Citizen Ruth'' (1996), a movie about abortion in the United States

Literature

* ''Ruth'' (novel), an 1853 novel by Elizabeth Gaskell * ''The Book of Ruth'' (novel), a 1988 novel by Jane Hamilton

Music

Ruth (band) Ruth is a four-piece Christian indie band from Battle Ground, Washington. Ruth's debut album, ''Secondhand Dreaming'', was released June 26, 2007. History Formation Dustin Ruth moved to Los Angeles to find band members to join him in forming a ...

, American band out of Vancouver, Washington *

Ruth Ruth Ruth Ruth is a pop punk band formed in New York City in 1993, with the original lineup consisting of Chris Kennedy on bass/lead vocals and songwriter, Mike Lustig on guitar, and drummer Dave Snyder. Band history and the American Recordings era ...

, American pop punk band * ''Ruth'' (album), by American indie folk group Nana Grizol (2010)

Television

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Ruthie on the Telephone ''Ruthie on the Telephone'' is an American Comedy television, comedy television series that was broadcast on the CBS Television network at 7:55pm ET from August 7 to November 5, 1949. The show was written by Goodman Ace and sponsored by Phillip M ...

'', a series aired on the CBS Television network during 1949 * "Ruthie" (''BoJack Horseman'')

Bible

Book of Ruth The Book of Ruth ( he, מגילת רות, ''Megilath Ruth'', "the Scroll of Ruth", one of the Five Megillot) is included in the third division, or the Writings (Ketuvim), of the Hebrew Bible. In most Christian canons it is treated as one of the ...

, a book of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament

Brands and enterprises

* Baby Ruth, candy bar * Ruth–Aaron pair, two consecutive integers for which the sums of the prime factors of each integer are equal * Ruth's Chris Steak House, an American restaurant chain

Other uses

Typhoon Ruth The name Ruth has been used for 16 tropical cyclones worldwide, 15 in the Western Pacific Ocean and 1 in the Australian region tropical cyclone, Australian region of the South Pacific Ocean. The name has also been used for 1 European windstorm. In ...

, name of several tropical cyclones worldwide *

Rolandas Kalinauskas RK-5 Ruth The Rolandas Kalinauskas RK-5 Ruth, also called the Viltis ( en, hope), is a Lithuanian light aircraft, designed and produced by Rolandas Kalinauskas, of Prienai. The aircraft is supplied as a complete ready-to-fly-aircraft.Bayerl, Robby; Mar ...

, a Lithuanian light aircraft design * Ruth, one of the unsuccessful tests of the

Uranium hydride bomb The uranium hydride bomb was a variant design of the atomic bomb first suggested by Robert Oppenheimer in 1939 and advocated and tested by Edward Teller. It used deuterium, an isotope of hydrogen, as a neutron moderator in a uranium-deuterium cera ...