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German surname Personal names in German-speaking Europe consist of one or several given names (''Vorname'', plural ''Vornamen'') and a surname (''Nachname, Familienname''). The ''Vorname'' is usually gender-specific. A name is usually cited in the " Western orde ...

from

Austria Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine states, one of which is the capital, Vienna, the most populous ...

and

Bavaria Bavaria ( ; ), officially the Free State of Bavaria (german: Freistaat Bayern, link=no ), is a state in the south-east of Germany. With an area of , Bavaria is the largest German state by land area, comprising roughly a fifth of the total l ...

, referring to a person from a geological depression, mine, or pit. It is the most common surname in

(see List of most common surnames).

Places

* Gruber Mountains, Antarctica * Gruber, Manitoba, former settlement in the Canadian province of Manitoba *

Camp Gruber Camp Gruber is an Oklahoma Army National Guard (OKARNG) training facility. It covers a total of . The base is named after Brigadier General Edmund L. Gruber, a noted artillery officer and the original composer of the U.S. Field Artillery Marc ...

, 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 *

David Gruber David Gruber is an American marine biologist, a Presidential Professor of Biology and Environmental Sciences at Baruch College, City University of New York, and a National Geographic Explorer. Early life Gruber was born in Paterson, New Jersey ...

, American Marine Biologist * Edmund L. Gruber (1879–1941) US Army general, composer of military music, and brother of William R. Gruber *

Ferry Gruber Ferry Gruber (28 September 1926 – 23 July 2004) was an Austrian-German tenor in opera and operetta. A member of both the Bavarian State Opera and Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich for half a century, he focused on roles of the buffo gen ...

(1926–2004), Austrian-German tenor in opera and operetta *

Florian Gruber Florian Gruber (born 26 January 1983 in Vilsbiburg, Lower Bavaria) is a German auto racing driver. Career Gruber won Division 2 of the German Touring Car Challenge in 2003, in a Volkswagen Lupo.http://www.driverdb.com/drivers/6192/career/ Career ...

(born 1983), German racing driver *

Frank Gruber (writer) Frank Gruber (born February 2, 1904, Elmer, Minnesota, died December 9, 1969, Santa Monica, California) was an American writer. He was a writer of stories for pulp fiction magazines. He also wrote dozens of novels, mostly Westerns and detec ...

(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 Gary R. Gruber (November 19, 1940 - August 27, 2019) was an American theoretical physicist, educator, and author who wrote books and software programs for test preparation. His work focused on test-taking and critical thinking skills. His writings ...

, (1940-2019) scientist, educator, author * Gerhard Gruber (born 1951), Austrian pianist *

Hans Gruber (conductor) Hans Gruber (11 July 1925 – 6 August 2001) was a Canadian conductor of Austrian birth. Born in Vienna, Gruber became a naturalised Canadian citizen in 1944. He entered The Royal Conservatory of Music in 1939 where he was a conducting student o ...

(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 * Lucy Gruber (Born 1998), British ice hockey player / goalie *

Jeremy Gruber Jeremy Gruber is a lawyer, writer, and public policy advocate and is the senior vice president at Open Primaries. He is the former President and Executive Director of the Council for Responsible Genetics. He has testified before the United States ...

(born 1971), Jewish-American civil rights activist *

Johann Gottfried Gruber Johann Gottfried Gruber (29 November 1774 – 7 August 1851) was a German critic and literary historian. Biography Gruber was born at Naumburg on the Saale, in the Electorate of Saxony. He received his education at the town school of Naumburg a ...

(1774–1851), German literary historian and critic *

John Gruber John Gruber (born 1973) is a technology blogger, UI designer, and one of the inventors of the Markdown markup language. History Gruber is from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He received his Bachelor of Science in computer science from Drexel ...

(born 1973), blogger (

Daring Fireball John Gruber (born 1973) is a technology blogger, UI designer, and one of the inventors of the Markdown markup language. History Gruber is from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He received his Bachelor of Science in computer science from Drexel Uni ...

) * Jonathan Gruber (born 1965), American economist * Jordan Gruber (born 1983), American-Israeli soccer player *

Karl Gruber Karl Gruber (3 May 1909 in Innsbruck – 1 February 1995 in Innsbruck) was an Austrian politician and diplomat. During World War II, he was working for a German firm in Berlin. After the war, in 1945 he became Landeshauptmann of Tyrol for a short t ...

(1909–1995), foreign minister of Austria from 1945 to 1953 *

Kelly Gruber Kelly Wayne Gruber (born February 26, 1962) is a former Major League Baseball (MLB) third baseman. Early life Gruber was born on February 26, 1962. Gruber played baseball at Westlake High School in Austin, Texas, where his number was later retir ...

(born 1962), U.S. Major League Baseball player * Lilli Gruber (born 1957), Italian television journalist and politician * Malvina Gruber (born 1900), Czech Jewish

Comintern The Communist International (Comintern), also known as the Third International, was a Soviet-controlled international organization founded in 1919 that advocated world communism. The Comintern resolved at its Second Congress to "struggle by ...

agent * Martin Gruber (born 1975), an Italian luger *

Michael Gruber (actor) Michael Thomas Gruber (born November 1, 1964) is an American actor. He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, the youngest of four children, two sisters and one brother. At an early age, Michael showed great interest in gymnastics and diving. He becam ...

(born 1964), American actor * Michael Gruber (author) (born 1940), American novelist * Munyo (Samuel) Gruber (born 1913), Jewish resistance fighter *

Patrick Gruber Patrick Gruber (born 31 January 1978 in Bruneck) is an Italian luger who has competed since 1997. He won seven medals at the FIL World Luge Championships with two silvers (Men's doubles: 2011, Mixed team: 2007) and five bronz ...

(born 1978), Italian luger *

Paul Gruber Paul Blake Gruber (born February 24, 1965) is an American former football offensive tackle in the National Football League. He was drafted by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers fourth overall in the 1988 NFL Draft. He played college football at Wiscons ...

(born 1965), professional football player for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers (1988–1999) *

Rony Gruber Rony Gruber ( he, רוני גרובר; born January 15, 1963) is an Israeli film director and screenwriter. He is best known as the director and co-producer of ''Are You This Able?'', nominated for best documentary at the Ophir Award. Biography R ...

(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 Scarlet Gruber (born Caracas, Venezuela), is a Venezuelan actress An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media suc ...

(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 Gruber, inventor of the

View-Master View-Master is the trademark name of a line of special-format stereoscopes and corresponding View-Master "reels", which are thin cardboard disks containing seven stereoscopy, Stereoscopic 3-D pairs of small transparent color photographs on film.M ...

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

People nicknamed Gruber

(See also the longer list at de:wiki) * Dave "Gruber" Allen (born 1958), American comedian and actor

Fictional entities

Hans Gruber Hans Gruber is a fictional character and the main antagonist of the 1988 action film ''Die Hard'' portrayed by Alan Rickman. Gruber is a cunning thief and criminal mastermind from East Germany who holds the Nakatomi Plaza hostage to steal $640 ...

, a fictional character and the main antagonist in the film '' Die Hard'' (1988), portrayed by Alan Rickman *

Lieutenant Hubert Gruber This is a list of all main and recurring characters of BBC television's sitcom Allo 'Allo!'' that ran from 1982 until 1992 and 85 episodes. Overview René Artois René Francois Artois (Gorden Kaye) – The local café proprietor who, whil ...

, 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 Paddington Bear is a fictional character in children's literature. He first appeared on 13 October 1958 in the children's book ''A Bear Called Paddington'' and has been featured in more than twenty books written by British author Michael Bond, a ...

series * Gruber, Gaster's villainous sidekick in ''

PaRappa the Rapper is a rhythm video game developed by NanaOn-Sha and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation in Japan in 1996 and worldwide in 1997. Created by music producer Masaya Matsuura in collaboration with artist Rodney Greenblat, t ...

'' 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 ''The Sound of Music'' is a musical with music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, and a book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse. It is based on the 1949 memoir of Maria von Trapp, ''The Story of the Trapp Family Singers''. S ...

'' (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 ''Re-Animator'' (also known as ''H. P. Lovecraft's Re-Animator'') is a 1985 American comedy horror film loosely based on the 1922 H. P. Lovecraft serial novelette " Herbert West–Reanimator". Directed by Stuart Gordon and produced by Brian Yuz ...

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

References

{{Reflist German-language surnames