Gruber

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).

Places

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

People

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 (b. 1911), 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

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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