Enoch (Man living at the time before the Flood)

Named once, in passing, in Luke's genealogy, the same figure who narrates an entire other book. All of 1 Enoch is framed as his own testimony, starting with the Watchers calling him ‘scribe of righteousness’ and sending him to confront the fallen angels.

Enoch was the seventh generation from Adam, and Genesis says simply that he walked with God, and he was not, for God took him, the only patriarch in the genealogy who doesn't get a death notice, understood ever since as a bodily removal to heaven without dying. Jude quotes a prophecy attributed to Enoch condemning the ungodly, and Enoch became the namesake of an extensive body of later Jewish apocalyptic literature, though that literature was not written by him and dates many centuries after his lifetime. A different Enoch was Cain's son, for whom Cain named the first city built after his exile.