Hoover may refer to:

Music

Hoover (band) Hoover was an American post-hardcore band from Washington, D.C. Formed in 1992, Hoover went on to produce some of the more intense music to appear on the Dischord Records label in the 1990s. Compared to Fugazi, Hoover was more experimental and ...

, an American post-hardcore band *

Hooverphonic Hooverphonic is a Belgian electronic band that was formed in October 1995. Though originally categorized as a trip hop group, they quickly expanded their sound to the point where it could no longer be described as a belonging to a single genre, ...

, a Belgian band originally named Hoover * Hoover (singer), Willis Hoover, a country and western performer active in 1960s and '70s * "Hoover" (song), a 2016 song by Swedish rapper Yung Lean *

Hoover sound Hoover sound refers to a particular synthesizer sound in electronic music, commonly used in rave techno, hardcore techno, gabber, breakbeat hardcore, trance, hard house and hard NRG. Originally called the ''"Mentasm"'', the name that stuck was th ...

, a heavy bass driven drone sound used in electronic music * Hoover (composer), Katherine Hoover an American contemporary classical music and chamber music composer.

People

* Hoover (surname) **

Herbert Hoover Herbert Clark Hoover (August 10, 1874 – October 20, 1964) was the 31st president of the United States, serving from 1929 to 1933. A wealthy mining engineer before his presidency, Hoover led the wartime Commission for Relief in Belgium and ...

, 31st president of the United States **

J. Edgar Hoover John Edgar Hoover (January 1, 1895 – May 2, 1972) was an American attorney and law enforcement administrator who served as the fifth and final director of the Bureau of Investigation (BOI) and the first director of the Federal Bureau o ...

(1895–1972), first director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) *

Hoover Orsi Hoover Orsi Pereira Martins (born May 16, 1978 in Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul) is a Brazilian race car driver. He began his professional career in 1998 in the European Formula Renault series where he captured 4th place. He returned to Sou ...

(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 is a city in the Jefferson County, Alabama, Jefferson and Shelby County, Alabama, Shelby counties in north central Alabama, United States. Hoover is the largest suburban city in Alabama and the sixth largest city in Alabama. The populati ...

, the 6th largest city in Alabama * Hoover, Indiana * Hoover, Missouri * Hoover, Oklahoma *

Hoover, South Dakota Hoover is an unincorporated community in Butte County, in the U.S. state of South Dakota South Dakota (; Sioux language, Sioux: , ) is a U.S. state, state in the West North Central states, North Central region of the United States. It ...

* Hoover, Texas *

Hoover Dam The Hoover Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado, Black Canyon of the Colorado River (U.S.), Colorado River, on the border between the U.S. states of Nevada and Arizona. Constructed between 1931 and 1936, d ...

, on the Colorado River, Nevada and Arizona *

Hoover Dam (Ohio) Hoover Dam, in Blendon Township, near Westerville, Ohio, dams Big Walnut Creek to form the Hoover Memorial Reservoir. This reservoir is a major water source for the city of Columbus, Ohio. It holds of water and has a surface area of , or ab ...

, on the Big Walnut Creek *

Hoover Field Hoover Field was an early airport serving the city of Washington, D.C. It was constructed as a private airfield in 1925, but opened to public commercial use on July 16, 1926. It was located in Arlington, Virginia, near the intersection of the ...

, Washington, D.C.'s first airport, located where the Pentagon now stands *

Hoover Tower Hoover Tower is a structure on the campus of Stanford University in Stanford, California, United States. The tower houses the Hoover Institution Library and Archives, an archive collection founded by Herbert Hoover before he became president of ...

, an structure on the campus of Stanford University

Schools

Hoover High School (disambiguation) Hoover High School may refer to: *Herbert Hoover High School (Fresno, California) *Herbert Hoover High School (Glendale), California *Herbert Hoover High School (San Diego, California) *Herbert Hoover High School (Iowa), in Des Moines, Iowa *Herber ...

Hoover Elementary School (disambiguation) There are a number of elementary school A primary school (in Ireland, India, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, South Africa, and Singapore), elementary school, or grade school (in North America and t ...

Other uses

The Hoover Company The Hoover Company is a home appliance company founded in Ohio, United States, in 1908. It also established a major base in the United Kingdom, where it dominated the electric vacuum cleaner industry during most of the 20th century, to the point ...

, a manufacturer of appliances, especially vacuum cleaners *

Vacuum cleaner A vacuum cleaner, also known simply as a vacuum, is a device that uses suction, and often agitation, in order to remove dirt and other debris from carpets, hard floors, and other surfaces. The dirt is collected into a dust bag or a plastic bin. ...

, called by the generic term ''hoover'' in some countries ** Also an idiomatic verb named after the vacuum cleaner, meaning to suck in or inhale *

D&B Hoovers D&B Hoovers was founded by Gary Hoover and Patrick Spain in 1990 as an American business research company that provided information on companies and industries through their primary product platform named "Hoover's". In 2003, it was acquired by ...

, a business information company based in Austin, Texas, US * ''Hoover'' (film), a 2000 American drama film *

Hoover (seal) Hoover ( – July 25, 1985) was a harbor seal who was able to imitate basic human speech. Cundy’s Harbor On May 5, 1971, Scottie Dunning discovered a tiny male harbor seal pup on the shore of Cundy's Harbor, Maine. After a failed attempt at ...

, a harbor seal that learned to imitate basic human speech *

Hoover index The Hoover index, also known as the Robin Hood index or the Schutz index, is a measure of income inequality. It is equal to the percentage of the total population's income that would have to be redistribution of income and wealth, redistributed to ...

, Edgar Malone Hoover's inequality measure *

Lockheed S-3 Viking The Lockheed S-3 Viking is a four-crew, twin-engine turbofan-powered jet aircraft designed and produced by the American aerospace manufacturer Lockheed Corporation. Because of its characteristic sound, it was nicknamed the "War Hoover" after ...

, nicknamed Hoover *

Operation Hoover Operation Hoover was a 2007 Canadian-led offensive in the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021), War in Afghanistan against the Taliban in the Kandahar Province district of Zhari District, Zhari. The aims of the operation were to root out as many as 30 ...

Hoover Institution The Hoover Institution (officially The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace and formerly The Hoover Institute and Library on War, Revolution, and Peace) is an American public policy think tank which promotes personal and economic ...

, 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

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