Gruber

Gruber is a German surname from Austria and Bavaria, referring to a person from a geological depression, mine, or pit. It may refer to:

Places

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

People

Surname

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 (1904–1969), writer of Westerns and detective fiction
Franz Gruber (actor) (born 1930), actor, played in the Japanese Tokusatsu movie/TV productions
Franz Xaver Gruber (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 García Gruber (1904–1997), Venezuelan economist, financier, writer, philosopher and diplomat
Juliette Gruber (born 1965), British actress
Karl Gruber (1909–1995), foreign minister of Austria from 1945 to 1953
Kelly Gruber (born 1962), U.S. Major League Baseball player
Kurt Gruber (1904—1943), Nazi politician
Kurt Gruber (aviator) (1896—1918), Austro-Hungarian flying ace
Lilli Gruber (born 1957), Italian television journalist and politician
Malvina Gruber (born 1900), Czech Jewish Comintern agent
Martin Gruber (disambiguation), multiple people
Michael Gruber (actor) (born 1964), American actor
Michael Gruber (author) (born 1940), American novelist
Mieczyslaw 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

Nickname

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

Fictional characters

Hans Gruber (character)
, 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
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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