Grubb is a family name and may refer to the following:
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Armstead Otey Grubb
Armstead Otey Grubb (March 14, 1903 – December 5, 1968) was an American educator who served as professor of French and Spanish and as head librarian at Lincoln University in Oxford, Pennsylvania. From 1957 to 1960, Grubb served as acting pres ...
(1903–1968), American educator and acting president of
Lincoln University
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Catharina Elisabet Grubb Catharina Elisabet Grubb (February 8, 1721 – March 31, 1788) was a Finnish industrialist.
She was the daughter of merchant Nils Grubb from Stockholm and Gunnila Grubb and sister of Michael Grubb and married to merchant, industrialist and shipowne ...
(1721–1788), Finnish industrialist
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Curtis Grubb
Curtis Grubb (17301789), Patriot and oldest son of Peter and Martha Bates Grubb, was a second-generation member of the Grubb Family Iron Dynasty along with his younger brother Peter Jr. The brothers operated the Cornwall Ironworks, making si ...
(c. 1730 – 1789), American patriot and politician, majority owner and operator of the Cornwall Iron Works, son of Peter Grubb, the Works' founder
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Dale Grubb
Floyd Dale Grubb is a former member of the Indiana House of Representatives, representing the 42nd District since 1988. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
Born on June 26, 1949 in Fountain County, Indiana, Dale is the son of William H. Gr ...
(born 1949), member of the Indiana House of Representatives
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Davis Grubb
Davis Alexander Grubb (July 23, 1919 – July 24, 1980) was an American novelist and short story writer, best known for his 1953 novel '' The Night of the Hunter'', which was
adapted as a film in 1955 by Charles Laughton.
Biography
Born in M ...
(1919–1980), American writer
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Edward Grubb (Quaker)
Edward Grubb (19 October 1854 – 23 January 1939) was an influential English Quaker who made significant contributions to revitalizing pacifism and a concern for social issues in the Religious Society of Friends in the late 19th century as a lead ...
(1854–1939), English Quaker
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Edward Burd Grubb, Jr.
Edward Burd Grubb Jr. (known as E. Burd Grubb) (November 13, 1841 – July 7, 1913) was a Union Army colonel and regimental commander in the American Civil War. He served in three regiments and commanded two of them. In recognition of his ser ...
(1841–1913), American Civil War commander, businessman and politician
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Evelyn Grubb Evelyn Fowler Grubb (August 9, 1931 – December 28, 2005) was the wife of an American Vietnam War Air Force pilot who became a prisoner of war, she was also a co-founder and then later served as the national coordinator of the National League o ...
, American human rights and veterans' rights activist
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Freddie Grubb
Frederick Henry Grubb (27 May 1887 – 6 March 1949) was a British road racing cyclist who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics. He won silver medals in the individual road race and the team road race. In 1914, after he retired from racing, he ...
(1887–1949), British road racing cyclist and businessman
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Gerd Grubb
Gerd Grubb (born 1939) is a Danish mathematician known for her research on pseudo-differential operators. She is a professor emerita in the
Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Copenhagen, where she was the first female profes ...
(born 1939), Danish mathematician
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George Grubb
George Darlington Wilson Grubb (5 December 1935 – 10 June 2018) was a Scottish politician who served as the Lord Provost and ex officio Lord-Lieutenant of Edinburgh from May 2007 until May 2012. He was also a Liberal Democrat councillor of th ...
, Lord Provost and ex officio Lord-Lieutenant of Edinburgh
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Gunnila Grubb Gunnila Grubb (13 January 1692, Stockholm – 20 August 1729, Stockholm) was a Swedish writer. She wrote spiritual songs inspired by Pietism and Mysticism.Ann Öhrberg (2001). Vittra fruntimmer. Författarroll och retorik hos frihetstidens kvinnliga ...
(1692–1729), was a Swedish composer
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Henry Bates Grubb
Henry Bates Grubb (February 6, 1774 – March 9, 1823) was a third-generation member of the Grubb Family Iron Dynasty, the founder of the family's enterprises headquartered at Mount Hope near Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and perhaps the family's ...
(1774–1823), founder of the Grubb iron empire, son of Peter Grubb, Jr.
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Howard Grubb
Sir Howard Grubb (28 July 1844 – 16 September 1931) was an optical designer from Dublin, Ireland. He was head of a family firm that made large optical telescopes, telescope drive controls, and other optical instruments. He is also noted for h ...
(1844–1931), Irish telescope maker
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Ignatius Cooper Grubb
Ignatius Cooper Grubb (April 12, 1841 – June 20, 1927) was a Delaware politician, jurist and historian who served as an associate justice of the Court of Errors and Appeals from 1886 to 1897 and as the Associate Justice at large of the Delaware ...
(1841–1927), American politician, jurist and historian
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James Grubb
James Grubb was a delegate to the convention that wrote the first constitution for the U.S. state of Ohio in 1802. He was a Democratic-Republican, who opposed allowing slavery in the new state.
Biography
James Grubb was born in 1771 at Little Br ...
(1771–1806), American politician
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Jeff Grubb
Jeff Grubb (born August 27, 1957) is an author who writes novels, short stories, and comics and a computer and role-playing game designer in the fantasy genre. Grubb worked on the ''Dragonlance'' campaign setting under Tracy Hickman, and the ' ...
(born 1957), author and game designer
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Jehu Grubb
Jehu Grubb (a.k.a. John Grubb) ( – 1854), unacknowledged son of the prominent ironmaster Curtis Grubb, was an early settler who became a leading citizen in Plain Township, Stark County, Ohio. Grubb served in the War of 1812, was a justice of ...
(c. 1781 – 1854), American settler and member of the Ohio House of Representatives, unacknowledged son of Curtis Grubb
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Jennifer Grubb
Jennifer Leigh Grubb (born July 20, 1978) is an American former women's soccer player.
Career
Grubb was the only WUSA player to participate in every minute of every game for her team. She was the number two pick in the 2001 WUSA Supplemental Dra ...
, American professional soccer player and coach
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John Grubb
John Grubb (1652–1708) was a two-term member of the Pennsylvania Provincial Assembly and was one of the original settlers in a portion of Brandywine Hundred that became Claymont, Delaware. He founded a large tannery that continued in oper ...
(1652–1708), early Delaware settler and member of the Pennsylvania Provincial Assembly
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Johnny Grubb
John Maywood Grubb, Jr. (born August 4, 1948 in Richmond, Virginia) is a former Major League Baseball outfielder and designated hitter, who also occasionally played at first base. He played with the San Diego Padres (1972–1976), Cleveland In ...
(born 1948), former Major League Baseball player
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Kenneth Philip Grubb
Kenneth Philip Grubb (September 14, 1895 – March 11, 1976) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin.
Education and career
Born in Mauston, Wisconsin, Grubb was a United ...
(1895–1976), United States District Court judge
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Kevin Grubb
Kevin Grubb (April 19, 1978 – May 6, 2009) was an American race car driver from Mechanicsville, Virginia. He was the younger brother of former race car driver Wayne Grubb. He was under suspension from NASCAR competition due to two violatio ...
(1978–2009), NASCAR driver
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Lillian Metge
Lillian Margaret Metge (née Grubb; 22 June 1871 – 10 May 1954) was an Anglo-Irish suffragette and women's rights campaigner. She founded the Lisburn Suffrage Society, which she left to become a militant activist, leading on an explosion at th ...
née Grubb (1871– 1954), Anglo-Irish suffragette and women's rights campaigner
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Margaret Grubb
Margaret Louise "Polly" Grubb (September 22, 1907 – November 17, 1963) was the first wife of pulp fiction author and Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, to whom she was married between 1933 and 1947. She was the mother of Hubbard's first son, L ...
(1907–1963), first wife of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard
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Nathaniel Grubb
Nathaniel Grubb (1693–1760) was a Willistown mill owner who served ten years in the Pennsylvania Colonial Assembly from 1749 to 1758. A member of the Quaker religious sect, he broke with the Society during the conservative reform movement an ...
(c. 1693 – 1760), mill owner and member of the Pennsylvania Colonial Assembly from 1749 to 1758
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Norman Grubb
Norman Percy Grubb MC (2 August 1895 – 15 December 1993) was a British Christian missionary and Evangelist, writer, and theological teacher.
Biography
Early life
Grubb was born in Hampstead, England, the son of an Anglican vicar ...
(1895–1993), missionary and General Secretary of the Worldwide Evangelization Crusade
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Ole W. Grubb (1891–1981), American politician
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Peter Grubb (mason)
Peter Grubb (17021754), the founder of the Grubb Family Iron Dynasty, discovered Cornwall Iron Mines and established Cornwall Iron Furnace, together one of the largest ironworks in Colonial Pennsylvania. The Cornwall Iron Mines are the largest ...
(c. 1702 – 1754), founder of the Cornwall Iron Works and builder of the Cornwall Furnace in colonial Pennsylvania
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Peter Grubb, Jr.
Peter Grubb Jr. (1740–1786), Patriot and second son of Peter and Martha Bates Grubb, was a second-generation member of the Grubb Family Iron Dynasty along with his older brother Curtis Grubb. They operated the Cornwall Ironworks, making signi ...
(1740–1786), American patriot, operator of the Cornwall Iron Works, and son of the above Peter Grubb
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Peter Grubb (zoologist)
Peter Grubb (1942 - 23 December 2006) was an English zoologist. He often collaborated with Colin Groves and described several new mammal taxa including ''Felis margarita harrisoni'' (a subspecies of the sand cat), the Bornean yellow muntjac, the ...
(1942–2006), British zoologist
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Peter J. Grubb
Peter John Grubb (born 9 August 1935 in Ilford, London) is a British ecologist and emeritus professor of botany at Cambridge University.
Early life
Grubb was born on 9 August 1935 to Harold Amos Grubb and Phyllis Gertrude ''née'' Hook. He atte ...
(born 1936), British ecologist
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Robert Grubb
Robert Grubb (born 31 January 1950) is an Australian actor. He studied acting at National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA), where he graduated in 1978. There he was a fellow student of actor Mel Gibson.
Grubb played the role of Dr. Geoffrey St ...
(born 1950), Australian actor
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Sarah Tuke Grubb
Sarah Tuke Grubb (20 June 1756 – 8 December 1790), Quaker minister, writer and founder of a girls' school in Ireland.
Life
Born to businessman William Tuke and his first wife Elizabeth Hoyland, Grubb was about 9 when her father married his se ...
(1756–1790), Quaker minister, writer and founder of a girls' school in Ireland
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Sarah Pim Grubb
Sarah Pim Grubb (11 December 1746 – 1832) was a businesswoman and Quaker benefactor in Clonmel, County Tipperary, Ireland. She married a miller and corn dealer named John Grubb in 1778. After her husband's death six years later, she ran his succ ...
(1746–1832), Irish businesswoman and Quaker benefactor
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Sophronia Farrington Naylor Grubb
Sophie Naylor Grubb (, Naylor; November 28, 1834 – November 5, 1902) was a 19th-century American activist. During the civil war, she began to manifest the ability, energy and enthusiasm for activism that distinguished her through life. She publi ...
(1834–1902), American activist
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Thomas Grubb
Thomas Grubb (4 August 1800 – 19 September 1878) was an Irish optician and founder of the Grubb Telescope Company.
He was born near Portlaw, County Waterford, Ireland, the son of William Grubb Junior, a prosperous Quaker farmer and his seco ...
(1800–1878), Irish optician
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Warner Norton Grubb
Warner Norton Grubb (April 29, 1900 – February 13, 1947) was an American petroleum executive who served as a senior petroleum distribution officer with the U.S. Navy during World War II. He was assigned as Head of the Latin American section of ...
(1900–1947), American petroleum executive and senior petroleum distribution officer with the U.S. Navy during World War II
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Wayne Grubb
Wayne Grubb (born July 19, 1976) is a former NASCAR driver and now a crew chief for GC Motorsports International. He ran 52 NASCAR Busch Series races and 7 Craftsman Truck Series races before he retired late in the 2000 season. He is the older b ...
(born 1976), former NASCAR driver
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William Irwin Grubb
William Irwin Grubb (March 8, 1862 – October 27, 1935) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama.
Education and career
Born on March 8, 1862, in Cincinnati, Ohio, Grubb receive ...
(1862–1935), U.S. federal judge who struck down key portions of President Roosevelt's New Deal
See also
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Grubb Street (disambiguation) Grubb Street may refer to:
*Grubb Street, an earlier name for Fleet Street
Fleet Street is a major street mostly in the City of London. It runs west to east from Temple Bar at the boundary with the City of Westminster to Ludgate Circus at ...
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Grubb Glacier
Grubb Glacier () is a glacier flowing into Lester Cove, Andvord Bay, to the west of Bagshawe Glacier, on the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica. The glacier appears on an Argentine government chart of 1952. It was named by the UK Antarctic Plac ...
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Grub (disambiguation)
Grub can refer to Grub (larva), of the beetle superfamily Scarabaeoidea, or as a slang term for food. It can also refer to:
Places
* Grub, Appenzell Ausserrhoden, Switzerland
* Grub, St. Gallen, Switzerland
* Grub (Amerang), a hamlet in Bavaria ...
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Grubbe Grubbe is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
*Eiler Grubbe (1532–1585), Danish statesman
*Emil Grubbe (1875—1960), American radiologist
*Evert Grubbe (died after 1492), Danish nobleman
*Marie Grubbe (1643–1718), Danish noble
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Grubbs (disambiguation)
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