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Hoover may refer to:

Music

* Hoover (band), an American post-hardcore band
* Hooverphonic, a Belgian band originally named Hoover
* Hoover (singer), Willis Hoover, a country and western performer active in 1960s and '70s
* Hoover (song), "Hoover" (song), a 2016 song by Swedish rapper Yung Lean
* Hoover sound, a heavy bass driven drone sound used in electronic music
* Katherine Hoover, Hoover (composer), Katherine Hoover an American contemporary classical music and chamber music composer.

People

* Hoover (surname)
** Herbert Hoover, 31st president of the United States
** J. Edgar Hoover (1895–1972), first director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
* Hoover Orsi (born 1978), Brazilian race car driver
* Hoover J. Wright (1928–2003), American football and track and field coach

Places in the United States

* Hoover, Alabama
* Hoover, Indiana
* Hoover, Missouri
* Hoover, Oklahoma
* Hoover, South Dakota
* Hoover, Texas
* Hoover Dam, on the Colorado River, Nevada and Arizona
* Hoover Dam (Ohio), on the Big Walnut Creek
* Hoover Field, Washington, D.C.'s first airport, located where the Pentagon now stands
* Hoover Tower, an structure on the campus of Stanford University

Schools

* Hoover High School (disambiguation)
* Hoover Elementary School (disambiguation)

Other uses

* The Hoover Company, a manufacturer of appliances, especially vacuum cleaners
* Vacuum cleaner, called by the generic term ''hoover'' in some countries
* D&B Hoovers, a business information company based in Austin, Texas, US
* Hoover (film), ''Hoover'' (film), a 2000 American drama film
* Hoover (seal), a harbor seal that learned to imitate basic human speech
* Hoover index, Edgar Malone Hoover's inequality measure
* Lockheed S-3 Viking, nicknamed Hoover
* Operation Hoover
* Hoover Institution, a public-policy think tank at Stanford University founded by Herbert Hoover, later US president
* Hoover League, created by the Republican Party to campaign for the re-election of U.S. president Herbert Hoover

See also

* Hoover Building, in London, England originally a Hoover Company factory
* Hoover House (disambiguation)
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* Hover (disambiguation)
* Huber, a German surname (Anglicized form is Hoover)

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