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Gruber is a German surname from Bavaria, referring to a person from a geological depression, mine, or pit. It is the most common surname in Austria (see List of most common surnames).

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Places

  • Gruber, Manitoba, former settlement in the Canadian province of Manitoba
  • Camp Gruber, Oklahoma Army National Guard facility, named for Edmund L. Gruber

    • People whose family name is or was Gruber

  • Andreas Gruber (b. 1954), Austrian screenwriter and director
  • Barbara Gruber (b. 1977), German ski mountaineer
  • Christoph Gruber (b. 1976), Austrian alpine skier
  • Edmund L. Gruber (1879-1941) US Army General, composer of military music, and brother of William R. Gruber
  • Florian Gruber (born 1983), German racing driver
  • Frank Gruber (writer) (1904-1969), writer of Westerns and detective fiction
  • Franz Gruber (actor), actor, played in the Japanese Tokusatsu movie/TV productions
  • Franz Gruber (musician) (1787-1863), Austrian teacher, composer of "Silent Night"
  • Gabriel Gruber (1740-1805), Viennese Jesuit, architect and hydraulics expert
  • Gary Gruber, scientist, educator, author
  • Hans Gruber (conductor) (1925-2001), Canadian conductor
  • Hans Gruber (footballer) (1905-1967), German footballer
  • Heinz Karl Gruber (born 1943) Austrian composer (a descendant of Franz Xavier)
  • Howard Gruber (1922-2005), professor of psychology of creativity
  • Jeremy Gruber (b. 1971), Jewish-American civil rights activist
  • Johann Gottfried Gruber (1774-1851), German literary historian and critic
  • John Gruber (b. 1973), blogger (Daring Fireball)
  • Jonathan Gruber, Economist
  • Karl Gruber (1909–95), foreign minister of Austria from 1945 to 1953
  • Kelly Gruber (born 1962), U.S. Major League Baseball player
  • Lilli Gruber (born 1957), Italian television journalist turned politician
  • Michael Gruber (actor) (born 1964), American actor
  • Michael Gruber (author) (born 1940), American novelist
  • Munyo (Samuel) Gruber (b. 1913), Jewish Resistance Fighter
  • Patrick Gruber (b. 1978), Italian luger
  • Paul Gruber (b. 1965), professional football player for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers (1988-1999)
  • Rony Gruber (b. 1963), movie director and scriptwriter.
  • Ruth Gruber (1911–2016), Jewish-American journalist and author of "I visited the Soviet Arctic"
  • Samuel D. Gruber, architecture historian
  • Samuel H. Gruber, shark biologist
  • Stefan Gruber, performance artist, animator and educator (grandson of William Gruber)
  • Tom Gruber (born 1959), American computer scientist, inventor, and entrepreneur
  • William Gruber, inventor of the View-Master stereoscopic system
  • Juan Manuel G. Grüber (1904 – 1997), Venezuelan economist, financier, writer, philosopher and diplomat.
  • William H. Gruber (b. 1935), American organizational theorist
  • William R. Gruber (1890-1979), United States Army, Brigadier general and brother of Edmund L. Gruber

    • People nicknamed Gruber

    (See also the longer list at de:wiki)

  • Dave "Gruber" Allen (b. 1958), American comedian and actor

    • Fictional entities

  • Hans Gruber, a fictional character and the main antagonist in the film Die Hard (1988)
  • Lieutenant Hubert Gruber, a fictional character from the British sitcom 'Allo 'Allo!
  • Lester Gruber, a fictional Torpedoman's Mate on the American television series McHale's Navy
  • Mr. Gruber, a recurring character in the Paddington Bear series
  • Gruber, Gaster's villainous sidekick in PaRappa the Rapper anime
  • Simon Gruber, a fictional character and the main antagonist in the film Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995)
  • Rolf Gruber, a fictional character in the film The Sound of Music (1965)

    • Other uses

  • Gruber–De Gasperi Agreement (aka the Treaty of Gruber-De Gasperi), named after the Italian Alcide De Gasperi and Austrian Minister of Foreign Affairs Karl Gruber

    • References

    Gruber Wikipedia
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