Gruber is a German surname from Austria and Bavaria, referring to a person from a geological depression, mine, or pit. It may refer to:

Places

* Gruber, Manitoba, former settlement in the Canadian province of Manitoba, Canada * Gruber Mountains, Antarctica * Camp Gruber, Oklahoma Army National Guard facility, named for Edmund L. Gruber

People

Surname

* Andreas Gruber (director) (born 1954), Austrian film director and screenwriter * Andreas Gruber (footballer) (born 1996), Austrian footballer * 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 science, Environmental Sciences at Baruch College, City University of New York, and a National Geographic Explorer. Early life Gruber was born i ...

, American marine biologist * Edmund L. Gruber (1879–1941) US Army general, composer of military music, and brother of William R. Gruber * Ferry Gruber (1926–2004), Austrian-German tenor in opera and operetta * Florian Gruber (born 1983), German racing driver * Frank Gruber (1904–1969), writer of Westerns and detective fiction * Franz Gruber (actor) (born 1930), actor, played in the Japanese Tokusatsu movie/TV productions * Franz Xaver Gruber (1787–1863), Austrian teacher, composer of "Silent Night" * Gabriel Gruber (1740–1805), Viennese Jesuit, architect and hydraulics expert * Gary Gruber (1940–2019), scientist, educator, author * Gerhard Gruber (born 1951), Austrian pianist * Hans Gruber (conductor) (1925–2001), Canadian conductor * Hans Gruber (footballer) (1905–1967), German footballer * Heinz Karl Gruber (born 1943), Austrian composer (a descendant of Franz Xavier) * Hendrik Gruber (born 1986), German pole vaulter * Howard Gruber (1922–2005), professor of psychology of creativity * Jeremy Gruber (born 1971), Jewish-American civil rights activist * Johann Gottfried Gruber (1774–1851), German literary historian and critic * John Gruber (born 1973), American software engineer, co-developer of Markdown, and blogger (Daring Fireball) *

Jonathan Gruber (economist) Jonathan Holmes Gruber (born September 30, 1965) is an American professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he has taught since 1992. He is also the director of the Health Care Program at the National Bureau of Econ ...

, American academic, educator; Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act co-architect * Jonathan Gruber (filmmaker) (''Follow Me: The Yoni Netanyahu Story'') * J. Mackye Gruber, American screenwriter * Jordan Gruber (born 1983), American-Israeli soccer player * Juan García Gruber (1904–1997), Venezuelan economist, financier, writer, philosopher and diplomat * Juliette Gruber (born 1965), British actress * Karl Gruber (1909–1995), foreign minister of Austria from 1945 to 1953 * Kelly Gruber (born 1962), U.S. Major League Baseball player * Kurt Gruber (1904–1943), Nazi politician * Kurt Gruber (aviator) (1896–1918), Austro-Hungarian flying ace * Lilli Gruber (born 1957), Italian television journalist and politician * Malvina Gruber (born 1900), Czech Jewish Comintern agent * Martin Gruber (disambiguation), multiple people * Michael Gruber (actor) (born 1964), American actor * Michael Gruber (author) (born 1940), American novelist * Mieczyslaw Gruber (1913–2006), Jewish resistance fighter * Patrick Gruber (born 1978), Italian luger * Paul Gruber (born 1965), professional football player for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers (1988–1999) * Rony Gruber (born 1963), movie director and scriptwriter. *

Ruth Gruber Ruth Gruber (; September 30, 1911 – November 17, 2016) was an American journalist, photographer, writer, humanitarian, and United States government official. Born in Brooklyn to Russian Jewish immigrants, she was encouraged to pursue her dr ...

(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 (born 1989), Venezuelan actress * Stefan Gruber (born 1975), performance artist, animator and educator *

Theodor Gruber Theodor Gruber, was an Austrian chess player. In 1921, Theodor Gruber took the 2nd place in the Vienna Amateur Chess Championship. In 1922, in Bad Oeynhausen he participated in German Chess Championship, German Chess Congress and shared 8th - 10 ...

, Austrian chess player * Tom Gruber (born 1959), American computer scientist, inventor, and entrepreneur * William H. Gruber (born 1935), American organizational theorist * William R. Gruber (1890–1979), United States Army brigadier general * William C. Gruber, American physician-scientist, pediatrician, and business executive * William Gruber, organ maker and inventor of the View-Master stereoscopic system

Nickname

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

Fictional characters

* Hans Gruber (character), a fictional character and the main antagonist in the film ''Die Hard'' (1988) * 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 ''McHale's Navy'' is an American sitcom starring Ernest Borgnine that aired 138 half-hour episodes over four seasons, from October 11, 1962, to April 12, 1966, on the American Broadcasting Company, ABC television network. The series was filmed i ...

'' * Mr. Gruber, a recurring character in the

Paddington Bear Paddington Bear (though his name is just Paddington; the "Bear" simply serves to confirm his species; and also known as Paddington Brown for some sources) is a fictional character in British children's literature. He first appeared on 13 October ...

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'' (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''. ...

'' (1965) * Hans Gruber, a character from the movie '' Re-Animator''

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 * Gruber Foundation, a philanthropic foundation