Gruber
Gruber is a German surname from Austria and 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 Mountains, Antarctica
- 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 (director) (born 1954), Austrian film director and screenwriter
- Andreas Gruber (footballer) (born 1996), Austrian footballer
- Barbara Gruber (born 1977), German ski mountaineer
- Christoph Gruber (born 1976), Austrian alpine skier
- David Gruber, American Marine Biologist
- 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) (born 1930), 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 (1940–2019), scientist, educator, author
- Gerhard Gruber (born 1951), Austrian pianist
- 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)
- Hendrik Gruber (born 1986), German pole vaulter
- 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), American software engineer, co-developer of Markdown, and blogger (Daring Fireball)
- Jonathan Gruber (economist), American academic, educator; Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act co-architect
- Jonathan Gruber (filmmaker) (Follow Me: The Yoni Netanyahu Story)
- J. Mackye Gruber, American screenwriter
- Jordan Gruber (born 1983), American-Israeli soccer player
- Juan Manuel G. Grüber (1904–1997), Venezuelan economist, financier, writer, philosopher and diplomat
- Karl Gruber (1909–1995), 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 and politician
- Malvina Gruber (born 1900), Czech Jewish Comintern agent
- Martin Gruber (luger) (born 1975), Italian luger
- Michael Gruber (actor) (born 1964), American actor
- Michael Gruber (author) (born 1940), American novelist
- Munyo (Samuel) Gruber (1913–2006), 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 (born 1956) ,American architecture historian, specialist on Jewish sites
- Samuel H. Gruber (1938–2019), shark biologist
- Scarlet Gruber (born 1989), Venezuelan actress
- Stefan Gruber (born 1975), performance artist, animator and educator
- Theodor Gruber, Austrian chess player
- Tom Gruber (born 1959), American computer scientist, inventor, and entrepreneur
- William H. Gruber (born 1935), American organizational theorist
- William R. Gruber (1890–1979), United States Army brigadier general
- William C. Gruber, American physician-scientist, pediatrician, and business executive
- William Gruber, organ maker and inventor of the View-Master stereoscopic system
People nicknamed Gruber
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- Dave "Gruber" Allen (born 1958), American comedian and actor
Fictional characters
- 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)
- 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
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