Gruber
Gruber is a German surname from Bavaria, referring to a person from a geological depression, mine, or pit. It is the most common surname in Austria.Places
People whose family name is or was Gruber
- Andreas Gruber, Austrian screenwriter and director
- Barbara Gruber, German ski mountaineer
- Christoph Gruber, Austrian alpine skier
- Edmund L. Gruber US Army general, composer of military music, and brother of William R. Gruber
- Ferry Gruber, Austrian-German tenor in opera and operetta
- Florian Gruber, German racing driver
- Frank Gruber , writer of Westerns and detective fiction
- Franz Gruber, actor, played in the Japanese Tokusatsu movie/TV productions
- Franz Gruber , Austrian teacher, composer of "Silent Night"
- Gabriel Gruber, Viennese Jesuit, architect and hydraulics expert
- Gary Gruber, scientist, educator, author
- Gerhard Gruber, Austrian pianist
- Gilli Gruber, Israeli kid, famous world traveller
- Hans Gruber , Canadian conductor
- Hans Gruber , German footballer
- Heinz Karl Gruber Austrian composer
- Howard Gruber, professor of psychology of creativity
- Jeremy Gruber, Jewish-American civil rights activist
- Johann Gottfried Gruber, German literary historian and critic
- John Gruber, blogger
- Jonathan Gruber, Economist
- Karl Gruber, foreign minister of Austria from 1945 to 1953
- Kelly Gruber, U.S. Major League Baseball player
- Lilli Gruber, Italian television journalist turned politician
- Martin Gruber, an Italian luger
- Michael Gruber , American actor
- Michael Gruber , American novelist
- Munyo Gruber, Jewish resistance fighter
- Patrick Gruber, Italian luger
- Paul Gruber, professional football player for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers
- Rony Gruber, movie director and scriptwriter.
- Ruth Gruber, Jewish-American journalist and author of "I visited the Soviet Arctic"
- Samuel D. Gruber, architecture historian
- Samuel H. Gruber, shark biologist
- Scarlet Gruber, actress
- Stefan Gruber, performance artist, animator and educator, American computer scientist, inventor, and entrepreneur
- William Gruber, inventor of the View-Master stereoscopic system
- Juan Manuel G. Grüber, Venezuelan economist, financier, writer, philosopher and diplomat.
- William H. Gruber, American organizational theorist
- William R. Gruber, United States Army brigadier general and brother of Edmund L. Gruber
- 2nd Lt. Clint Gruber, Beaverton, Oregon, Co-Pilot 93rd Bomb Group - 329th Squadron
People nicknamed Gruber
- Dave "Gruber" Allen, American comedian and actor
Fictional entities
- Hans Gruber, a fictional character and the main antagonist in the film Die Hard, portrayed by Alan Rickman
- 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 anime
- Simon Gruber, a fictional character and the main antagonist in the film Die Hard with a Vengeance, portrayed by Jeremy Irons
- Rolf Gruber, a fictional character in the film The Sound of Music
- 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
Other uses
- Gruber–De Gasperi Agreement, named after the Italian Alcide De Gasperi and Austrian Minister of Foreign Affairs Karl Gruber
