Enoch

Rapper Kendrick Lamar’s son is named Enoch.

Enoch Bowen is the founder of the Church of Starry Wisdom in H. P. Lovecraft's short story "The Haunter of the Dark." As an archeologist and occultist, he uncovered the Shining Trapezohedron, a peculiar stone contained in a box, from Nephren-Ka's tomb in Egypt. He later bought the Free-Will Church in Providence, Rhode Island, and founded the aforementioned Starry Wisdom sect at the church.

Enoch zu Guttenberg, a German conductor and co-founder of the BUND, an organisation for the protection of the natural environment, bore this name.

Enoch apparently walked with god (or perhaps he called god El) through a vineyard, grove, or garden and then was taken by god/El to heaven without dying.

The Enoch Pratt Free Library system is the public library system in Baltimore City, Maryland, USA. Enoch Pratt was a Unitarian businessman and philanthropist in Baltimore in the 19th century.

From Wiki: Enoch "Nucky" Johnson was Atlantic City, New Jersey political boss and racketeer. From 1911 until his imprisonment in 1941, he was the undisputed “boss” of the Republican political machine that controlled Atlantic City and the Atlantic County government. Using his political position to his advantage, his rule encompassed the Roaring Twenties when Atlantic City was at the height of its popularity as a temporary refuge from Prohibition, his organization also being involved in bootlegging, gambling and prostitution.

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There is a show (based on a book) loosely based on him wherein Steve Buscemi plays Enoch "Nucky" Thompson.

Enoch was the main character in Flannery O'Connor's short story "Enoch and the Gorilla", which took place in New York City. A troubled youth, he winds up in a violent confrontation with a Hollywood movie star in a gorilla suit.

The Flannery O'Connor story you mentioned was incorporated into her novel Wise Blood. Enoch appears throughout the story.

In the Pearl of Great Price, Enoch (the father of Methusalah) was a great prophet who could move mountains, saw a vision of the entire future of the world, and founded the righteous city of Zion. Very cool hero name. I like it.

A famous bearer was British politician Enoch Powell (June 16, 1912 - February 8, 1998). Known for his controversiality, he was a Conservative Party Member of Parliament between 1950 and 1974, and an Ulster Unionist Member of Parliament between 1974 and 1987. In the 2002 BBC poll "The 100 Greatest Britons", he ranked 55.

Enoch Arden is the titular character of a poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson. It covers the life of a fisherman, Enoch, who is lost at sea while away trying to build wealth for his family. In his absense, his wife remarries relunctantly. Many years later, he returns, but in order not to disrupt her happiness, he remains anonymous until he dies of grief. The poem explores the morals of Enoch's leaving -- should he have stayed and tried to provide for them in other ways, or was he justified in leaving since he did so out of duty to them?