Grote is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
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Arthur Grote
Arthur Grote (29 November 1814 – 4 December 1886) was an English colonial administrator.
Life
He was born on 29 November 1814 at Beckenham in Kent, England. He was the son of George Grote (1760–1830), a London banker, and Selina Peckwell (17 ...
(1814–1886), English colonial administrator
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Augustus Radcliffe Grote
Augustus Radcliffe Grote (February 7, 1841 – September 12, 1903) was a British entomologist who described over 1,000 species of butterflies and moths.Osborn, H. 1937. Fragments of Entomological History. Columbus, OH: Published by the author ...
(1841–1903), British entomologist
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Byron Grote
Byron Elmer Grote (born March 8, 1948) is an American businessman who served as BP's chief financial officer from 2002 to 2011. He joined the company in 1987 following its acquisition of Standard Oil of Ohio where he had worked since 1979. He ret ...
(born 1948), CFO of BP
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Dennis Grote
Dennis Grote (born 9 August 1986) is a German professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Preußen Münster. In 2009, he won the 2009 UEFA Under-21 Championship with the Germany under-21 national team.
Club career
After starting his c ...
(born 1986), German footballer
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George Grote
George Grote (; 17 November 1794 – 18 June 1871) was an English political radical and classical historian. He is now best known for his major work, the voluminous ''History of Greece''.
Early life
George Grote was born at Clay Hill near B ...
(1794–1871), English classical historian
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Gottfried Grote
Gottfried Grote (15 May 1903 – July 1976) was a German church musician.
Born in Oberfrohna, Grote was from 1926 to 1935 organist and choir director of the Bach-Verein (Bach association) in Wuppertal, which later was named ''Wupperfelder Kantorei ...
(1903–1976), German church musician
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Harriet Grote
Harriet Grote (1792–1878) was an English biographer. She was married to George Grote and was acquatined with many of the English philosophical radicals of the earlier 19th century. A longterm friend described her as "absolutely unconventional" ...
(1792–1878), English biographer and wife to George Grote
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Hermann Grote (ornithologist)
Hermann Grote (7 July 1882 – 12 August 1951) was a German ornithologist known for his studies of African avifauna.
While serving as a director of a sisal plantation in German East Africa, he published papers on the local avifauna (from 1909 to ...
(1882–1951), German ornithologist
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Irvine W. Grote Irvine Walter Grote (July 25, 1899 – August 6, 1972) was an American chemist and scholar. He was born in the Cameron Hill section of Chattanooga, Tennessee on July 25, 1899. He entered the University of Chattanooga, later University of Tennes ...
(1898–1972), American chemist
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Jerry Grote
Gerald Wayne Grote (born October 6, 1942) is an American former professional baseball player. He played the majority of his Major League Baseball career as a catcher for the New York Mets, catching every inning of the franchise's first two World ...
(born 1942), American baseball player
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Jerry Grote (basketball)
Jerry C. Grote (born December 28, 1940) is an American retired basketball player. He played one season for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
College career
Grote, a 6'4 guard from Cantwell High School in Monte ...
(born 1940), American basketball player
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John Grote
John Grote (5 May 1813, Beckenham – 21 August 1866, Trumpington, Cambridgeshire) was an English moral philosopher and Anglican clergyman.
Life and career
The son of a banker, John Grote was younger brother to the historian, philosopher and ...
(1813–1866), English philosopher and clergyman
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Klaus Grote (born 1947), German archaeologist
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Kurt Grote
Kurt David Grote (born August 3, 1973) is an American former competition swimmer and Olympic gold medalist. Grote competed internationally in the breaststroke events during the 1990s.
Grote did not start swimming until the age of fifteen. He be ...
(born 1973), American Olympic swimmer
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Otto Grote zu Schauen Baron Otto Grote zu Schauen (25 December 1636 O.S. / 4 January 1637 N.S. – 5/15 September 1693) was a Hanoverian statesman.
He was born in Sønderborg ( Duchy of Schleswig), and came from a noble lineage. After the Thirty Years' War, he studied ...
(1636–1693), a Hanoverian statesman
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Royal U. Grote, Jr.
Royal Upton Grote Jr. (16 August 1946 – 24 November 2016) was an American Anglican bishop. He served as the Presiding Bishop of the Reformed Episcopal Church (REC), from 2014 to 2016, which was a founding member of the Anglican Church in North Am ...
(born 1946), American Episcopalian bishop
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