Gruber is a
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surname, referring to a person from a
pit-Technology:* Pressure Indicator Transmitter, abbreviation used in piping and instrumentation diagrams* Programmable Interval Timer, a computing device* Pulsed inductive thruster, a device used in spacecraft propulsion* The core of a nuclear weapon...
,
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or
depressionDepression in geology is a landform sunken or depressed below the surrounding area. Depressions may be formed by various mechanisms, and may be referred to by a variety of technical terms.*A basin may be any large sediment filled depression...
. It is the most common surname in
AustriaAustria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.3 million people in Central Europe. It borders both Germany and the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west...
(see List of most common surnames).
People whose
family nameA family name is a type of surname and part of a person's name indicating the family to which the person belongs. The use of family names is widespread in cultures around the world...
is or was
Gruber:
- Andreas Gruber
Andreas Gruber is an Austrian screenwriter and director of both television and film.From 1974 to 1982 he studied screenwriting and directing at the Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna....
(b1954), Austrian screenwriter and director
- Barbara Gruber
Barbara Gruber is a German ski mountaineer and mountain biker.Gruber was born in Bad Reichenhall. Like her parents and siblings, she passed the framer training. She started with sports after the birth of her son Johannes, at first with mountain biking...
(b. 1977), German ski mountaineer
- Gabriel Gruber
Gabriel Gruber was the second Superior General of the Society of Jesus in Russia.-Early years and education:...
(1740-1805), Viennese Jesuit, architect and hydraulics expert
- Frank Gruber
Frank Gruber was an American writer, best known for his Westerns and his detective stories. He sometimes wrote under the pen names Stephen Acre, Charles K. Boston and John K...
(1904-1969), writer of Westerns and detective fiction
- Franz Gruber (actor)
----Franz Gruber was an actor who played in the Japanese Tokusatsu movie/TV productions .See also:*Peggy Neal - actress*Terror Beneath the Sea - 1966 film....
, actor, played in the Japanese Tokusatsu movie/TV productions
- Franz Xaver Gruber (1787-1863), Austrian teacher, composer of "Silent Night"
- Heinz Karl Gruber
Heinz Karl Gruber is an Austrian composer, bass player and singer, born in Vienna on 3 January 1943 and a leading figure of the so-called 'Third Viennese School'.-Career:...
(born 1943) Austrian composer (a descendant of Franz Xavier)
- Howard Gruber
Howard E. Gruber, , an American psychologist, was a pioneer of the psychological study of creativity. Howard E. Gruber earned his Ph.D. from Cornell University and went on to a distinguished academic career. He worked with Jean Piaget in Geneva and later co-founded the Institute for Cognitive...
(1922-2005), professor of psychology of creativity
- Johann Gottfried Gruber
Johann Gottfried Gruber was a German critic and literary historian.-Biography:Gruber was born at Naumburg on the Saale....
(1774-1851), German literary historian and critic
- John Gruber
John Gruber is a technical writer and technology pundit from the greater Philadelphia, Pennsylvania area of the USA. Gruber received his Bachelor of Science in computer science from Drexel University. He worked for Bare Bones Software from 2000 to 2002 and Joyent from 2005 to 2006...
(b1973), author of Daring FireballDaring Fireball is the web site of John Gruber, an Apple enthusiast, technology pundit, and writer. Daring Fireball hosts Gruber's opinions in the form of a blog, and also some of Gruber's software...
.
- Karl Gruber
Karl Gruber was an Austrian politician and diplomat. During World War II, he was a resistance fighter. After the war, in 1945 he became Landeshauptmann of Tyrol for a short time...
(1909-95), foreign minister of Austria from 1945 to 1953
- Kelly Gruber
Kelly Wayne Gruber was a Major League Baseball third baseman.-Early career:Gruber played baseball at Westlake High School in Austin, Texas where his number was later retired. He was drafted by the Cleveland Indians in the 1st round of the 1980 amateur draft but did not see time with the team...
(born 1962), U.S.
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Gruber is a
GermanGerman is a West Germanic language, thus related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. It is one of the world's major languages and the most widely spoken first language in the European Union. Around the world, German is spoken by approximately 105 million native speakers and also by...
surname, referring to a person from a
pit-Technology:* Pressure Indicator Transmitter, abbreviation used in piping and instrumentation diagrams* Programmable Interval Timer, a computing device* Pulsed inductive thruster, a device used in spacecraft propulsion* The core of a nuclear weapon...
,
mineMining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the earth, usually from an ore body, vein or seam. Materials recovered by mining include base metals, precious metals, iron, uranium, coal, diamonds, limestone, oil shale, rock salt and potash...
or
depressionDepression in geology is a landform sunken or depressed below the surrounding area. Depressions may be formed by various mechanisms, and may be referred to by a variety of technical terms.*A basin may be any large sediment filled depression...
. It is the most common surname in
AustriaAustria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.3 million people in Central Europe. It borders both Germany and the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west...
(see List of most common surnames).
People
People whose
family nameA family name is a type of surname and part of a person's name indicating the family to which the person belongs. The use of family names is widespread in cultures around the world...
is or was
Gruber:
- Andreas Gruber
Andreas Gruber is an Austrian screenwriter and director of both television and film.From 1974 to 1982 he studied screenwriting and directing at the Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna....
(b1954), Austrian screenwriter and director
- Barbara Gruber
Barbara Gruber is a German ski mountaineer and mountain biker.Gruber was born in Bad Reichenhall. Like her parents and siblings, she passed the framer training. She started with sports after the birth of her son Johannes, at first with mountain biking...
(b. 1977), German ski mountaineer
- Gabriel Gruber
Gabriel Gruber was the second Superior General of the Society of Jesus in Russia.-Early years and education:...
(1740-1805), Viennese Jesuit, architect and hydraulics expert
- Frank Gruber
Frank Gruber was an American writer, best known for his Westerns and his detective stories. He sometimes wrote under the pen names Stephen Acre, Charles K. Boston and John K...
(1904-1969), writer of Westerns and detective fiction
- Franz Gruber (actor)
----Franz Gruber was an actor who played in the Japanese Tokusatsu movie/TV productions .See also:*Peggy Neal - actress*Terror Beneath the Sea - 1966 film....
, actor, played in the Japanese Tokusatsu movie/TV productions
- Franz Xaver Gruber (1787-1863), Austrian teacher, composer of "Silent Night"
- Heinz Karl Gruber
Heinz Karl Gruber is an Austrian composer, bass player and singer, born in Vienna on 3 January 1943 and a leading figure of the so-called 'Third Viennese School'.-Career:...
(born 1943) Austrian composer (a descendant of Franz Xavier)
- Howard Gruber
Howard E. Gruber, , an American psychologist, was a pioneer of the psychological study of creativity. Howard E. Gruber earned his Ph.D. from Cornell University and went on to a distinguished academic career. He worked with Jean Piaget in Geneva and later co-founded the Institute for Cognitive...
(1922-2005), professor of psychology of creativity
- Johann Gottfried Gruber
Johann Gottfried Gruber was a German critic and literary historian.-Biography:Gruber was born at Naumburg on the Saale....
(1774-1851), German literary historian and critic
- John Gruber
John Gruber is a technical writer and technology pundit from the greater Philadelphia, Pennsylvania area of the USA. Gruber received his Bachelor of Science in computer science from Drexel University. He worked for Bare Bones Software from 2000 to 2002 and Joyent from 2005 to 2006...
(b1973), author of Daring FireballDaring Fireball is the web site of John Gruber, an Apple enthusiast, technology pundit, and writer. Daring Fireball hosts Gruber's opinions in the form of a blog, and also some of Gruber's software...
.
- Karl Gruber
Karl Gruber was an Austrian politician and diplomat. During World War II, he was a resistance fighter. After the war, in 1945 he became Landeshauptmann of Tyrol for a short time...
(1909-95), foreign minister of Austria from 1945 to 1953
- Kelly Gruber
Kelly Wayne Gruber was a Major League Baseball third baseman.-Early career:Gruber played baseball at Westlake High School in Austin, Texas where his number was later retired. He was drafted by the Cleveland Indians in the 1st round of the 1980 amateur draft but did not see time with the team...
(born 1962), U.S. Major League Baseball player
- Lilli Gruber
Dietlinde Gruber , known as Lilli Gruber, is an Italian politician and journalist from the province of Bolzano-Bozen. Currently she serves as Member of the European Parliament. She was elected on the Olive Tree ticket, and now sits in the Socialist Group...
(born 1957), Italian television journalist turned politician
- Michael Gruber (actor) (born 1964), American actor
- Michael Gruber (author)
Michael Gruber is an author living in Seattle, Washington. He attended Columbia University and received his Ph.D. in biology from the University of Miami...
(born 1940), American novelist
- Munyo (Samuel) Gruber
Samuel Gruber né Munyo Gruber . As a youth, Samuel belonged to the Zionist organizations Ha-Shomer ha-Tza'ir and He-halutz. When he was 14, Samuel went to Lwów, Poland to attend high school. After graduation, Samuel remained in Lwów for about two years...
(b1913), Jewish Resistance Fighter
- Paul Gruber
Paul Blake Gruber is a former American football offensive tackle in the National Football League. He was drafted by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers fourth overall in the 1988 NFL Draft...
(born 1965), Professional football player for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers (1988-1999)
- Ruth Gruber
Ruth Gruber is an American journalist, photographer, writer, humanitarian and a former United States government official.-Early life:...
(born 1911), Jewish-American journalist and author of "I visited the Soviet Arctic"
- Samuel H. Gruber, shark biologist
- Samuel D. Gruber
for the biologist see Samuel H. GruberSamuel D. Gruber is an American art and architectural historian, and expert and activist in the documentation, protection and preservation of historic Jewish sites and monuments....
, architecture historian
- Tom Gruber
Thomas Robert Gruber is an American computer scientist, inventor, and entrepreneur with a focus on systems for knowledge sharing and collective intelligence...
(born 1959), American Computer scientist, inventor, and entrepreneur
- William Gruber, inventor of the ViewMaster stereoscopic system
- Bryce Gruber
-Biography:Bryce Gruber is a New York socialite and the owner of IntenCity Global, a firm which specializes in delivering marketing, public relations and branding services to clients within the beauty and fashion industries....
(b1984), New York socialite and entrepreneur
- See also the longer list at de:wiki
Fictional characters
- Hans Gruber, portrayed by Alan Rickman
Alan Sidney Patrick Rickman is an English actor. Rickman is best known for his performances in film as Hans Gruber in Die Hard and Severus Snape in the Harry Potter film series, as well as extensive stage work...
, is a fictional characterA character is the representation of a person in a narrative or dramatic work of art . Derived from the ancient Greek word kharaktêr through its Latin transcription character, the earliest use in English, in this sense, dates from the Restoration, although it became widely used after its...
and the main antagonistAn antagonist is a character, group of characters, or an institution, who represents the opposition against which the protagonist must contend...
in the film Die HardDie Hard is a 1988 action film and the first in the Die Hard film series. The film was directed by John McTiernan and written by Jeb Stuart and Steven E. de Souza. It is based on a 1979 novel by Roderick Thorp titled Nothing Lasts Forever, itself a sequel to the book The Detective, which was...
.
- Lieutenant Hubert Gruber
Lieutenant Hubert Gruber, generally known only as Lieutenant Gruber, is a fictional character from the British sitcom series Allo 'Allo! and is portrayed by Guy Siner...
, fictional character from the British sitcom 'Allo 'Allo!'Allo 'Allo! is a British sitcom broadcast on BBC1 from 1982 to 1992 comprising eighty-five episodes. It is a parody on Secret Army and was created by David Croft, who also wrote the theme music, and Jeremy Lloyd. Lloyd and Croft wrote the first 6 series. Series 7 onward was...
- Lester Gruber, protrayed by Carl Ballantine
Carl Ballantine — birthname Meyer Kessler — is an American actor, magician and comedian. Billing himself as "Ballantine the Great" or "The Amazing Ballantine," his vaudeville-style comedy routine involves transparent or incompetent stage magic tricks, which tend to flop to the wisecracking...
, was a fictional Torpedoman's MateTorpedoman's Mate is a United States Navy occupational rating.A Torpedoman's Mate:* Performs organizational and intermediate level maintenance on underwater ordnance...
on the American television series McHale's NavyMcHale's Navy is an American television sitcom series which ran for 138 half-hour episodes from October 11, to August 31, on the ABC network...
.
- Simon Gruber, portrayed by Jeremy Irons
Jeremy John Irons is an English film, television, and stage actor. He has won the Academy Award, the Tony Award, two Emmy Awards, two Golden Globes, and a Screen Actors Guild Award, in addition to many other awards and honors....
, is a fictional characterA character is the representation of a person in a narrative or dramatic work of art . Derived from the ancient Greek word kharaktêr through its Latin transcription character, the earliest use in English, in this sense, dates from the Restoration, although it became widely used after its...
and the main antagonistAn antagonist is a character, group of characters, or an institution, who represents the opposition against which the protagonist must contend...
in the film Die Hard with a Vengeance.
Other uses
- the Treaty of Gruber-De Gasperi, named after the Italian (Alcide De Gasperi
Alcide De Gasperi was an Italian statesman and politician and founder of the Christian Democratic Party. From 1945 to 1953 he was the prime minister of eight successive coalition governments. His eight-year rule remains a landmark of political longevity for a leader in modern Italian politics...
) and Austrian Minister of Foreign Affairs (Karl GruberKarl Gruber was an Austrian politician and diplomat. During World War II, he was a resistance fighter. After the war, in 1945 he became Landeshauptmann of Tyrol for a short time...
)
See also
- list of German articles on people named Grüber
- Edita Gruberová
Edita Gruberová is a Slovak soprano who is one of the most acclaimed coloraturas of recent decades. She is noted for her great tonal clarity, agility, dramatic interpretation, and ability to sing high notes with great power, which made her an ideal Queen of the Night in her early years...
operatic soprano