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 (born 1954), Austrian screenwriter and director
• Barbara Gruber (born 1977), German ski mountaineer
• Christoph Gruber (born 1976), Austrian alpine skier
• Edmund L. Gruber (1879–1941) US Army general, composer of military music, and brother of William R. Gruber
• Ferry Gruber (1926–2004), Austrian-German tenor in opera and operetta
• 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
• Gerhard Gruber, Austrian pianist
• Gilli Gruber, (born 2007) Israeli kid, famous world traveller
• 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 (born 1971), Jewish-American civil rights activist
• Johann Gottfried Gruber (1774–1851), German literary historian and critic
• John Gruber (born 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
• Martin Gruber, an Italian luger
• Michael Gruber (actor) (born 1964), American actor
• Michael Gruber (author) (born 1940), American novelist
• Munyo (Samuel) Gruber (born 1913), Jewish resistance fighter
• Patrick Gruber (born 1978), Italian luger
• Paul Gruber (born 1965), professional football player for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers (1988–1999)
• Rony Gruber (born 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
• Scarlet Gruber, actress
• Stefan Gruber, performance artist, animator and educator (grandson of William Mariana stai ca ma ridic, carmolist de asemenea
• Theodor Gruber, Austrian chess player
• 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 (born 1935), American organizational theorist
• William R. Gruber (1890–1979), United States Army brigadier general and brother of Edmund L. Gruber
• 2nd Lt. Clint Gruber, Beaverton, Oregon, Co-Pilot 93rd Bomb Group - 329th Squadron

People nicknamed Gruber

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

Fictional entities

• Hans Gruber, a fictional character and the main antagonist in the film Die Hard (1988), portrayed by Alan Rickman
• 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), portrayed by Jeremy Irons
• Rolf Gruber, a fictional character in the film The Sound of Music (1965)
• Hauptmann Fritz Gruber is a fictional character who appeared in the 1960s sitcom Hogan's Heroes. He was played by Dick Wilson.
• Hans Gruber, a character from the movie Re-Animator

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

See also

• list of German articles on people named Grüber
• Edita Gruberová, operatic soprano