Hoover
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Hoover is a surname: Hoover is a variant spelling of the German Huber, a status name for a landowner or a prosperous small farmer.
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People
- Herbert HooverHerbert HooverHerbert Clark Hoover was the 31st President of the United States . Hoover was originally a professional mining engineer and author. As the United States Secretary of Commerce in the 1920s under Presidents Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge, he promoted partnerships between government and business...
, 31st President of the United States - Bob HooverBob HooverRobert A. "Bob" Hoover is a former air show pilot and United States Air Force test pilot, known for his wide-brimmed straw hat and wide smile. In aviation circles, he is often referred to as "The pilots' pilot."-Aviation career:...
, legendary airshow and test pilot, author - Brad HooverBrad HooverBradley R. Hoover is an American football fullback who is currently a free agent. He was signed by the Carolina Panthers as an undrafted free agent in 2000...
, American football fullback - Dave HooverDave HooverDave Hoover was an American comic book artist and animator, most notable for his art on DC Comics' The Wanderers limited series, as well as lengthy runs on DC's Starman and Marvel Comics' Captain America.-Early life:Hoover received his B.S...
, American comic book artist and animator - Dave HooverDave Hoover (football coach)Dave Hoover was the 16th head football coach for Emporia State University in Emporia, Kansas and he held that position for five seasons, from 1974 until 1978. His overall coaching record at ESU was 9 wins, 40 losses, and 0 ties. This ranks him 12th at ESU in terms of total wins and 20th at ESU in...
, American football coach - Dick HooverDick Hoover (baseball)Richard Lloyd Hoover was an American relief pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Boston Braves during the 1952 season. Listed at 6' 0", 170 lb., he batted and threw left-handed....
(1925-1981), American Major League Baseball player - Dick HooverDick HooverDick Hoover was an American professional bowler. He won two American Bowling Congress Masters titles in 1956 and 1957, and helped start the PBA in 1958 with founder Eddie Elias....
(1929-2009), American professional bowler - Erna Schneider HooverErna Schneider HooverDr. Erna Schneider Hoover is an American mathematician famous for inventing a method for prioritizing processes within stored program control switching systems while working at Bell Laboratories....
, inventor of the computerized telephone switching system - Herbert Hoover, Jr.Herbert Hoover, Jr.Herbert Charles Hoover was the son of President of the United States Herbert Hoover; a successful engineer and businessman; a special envoy of the American government; and served as United States Under Secretary of State from 1954 to 1957.-Early years, 1903—1928:Herbert Hoover, Jr...
, the son of President of Herbert Hoover; a successful engineer and businessman - J. Edgar HooverJ. Edgar HooverJohn Edgar Hoover was the first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation of the United States. Appointed director of the Bureau of Investigation—predecessor to the FBI—in 1924, he was instrumental in founding the FBI in 1935, where he remained director until his death in 1972...
(1895-1972), longest-reigning head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (48 years) - John Howard Hoover, U.S. Navy Admiral who served in World War II.
- Larry HooverLarry HooverLarry Hoover was the leader of the Chicago street gang called Gangster Disciples.-Early life:...
, leader of the Gangster Disciples street gang - Lou Henry HooverLou Henry HooverLou Henry Hoover was the wife of President of the United States Herbert Hoover and First Lady of the United States, 1929-1933. Mrs. Hoover was president of the Girl Scouts of the USA for two terms, 1922-1925 and 1935-1937....
, wife of President Herbert Hoover - M. Herbert HooverM. Herbert HooverMarion Herbert Hoover of Akron, Ohio, was an American politician of the Republican party who ran unsuccessfully for a number of elective offices in Ohio...
, American politician (who is not related to the 31st President of the United States) - Margaret HooverMargaret HooverMargaret Claire Hoover is an American political commentator, political strategist, and blogger. She is a great-granddaughter of former President Herbert Hoover...
, conservative feminist political commentator - Paul HooverPaul HooverPaul Hoover is an American poet and editor born in Harrisonburg, Virginia.His work has been associated with the New York School poets and innovative practices such as New York School and language poetry....
(b. 1946), American poet - Paul HooverPaul Hoover (baseball)Paul Chester Hoover is an American professional baseball catcher in the Boston Red Sox organization. He is officially listed as standing 6 feet 1 inch tall, and weighing 220 pounds.-Professional career:...
(b. 1976), American Major League Baseball catcher - Stevin HooverStevin HooverStevin Ray Hoover is an American businessman, writer, philosopher, and former investment manager who wrote a Young Adult/Middle Grade novel entitled THE HANNAH CHRONICLES that was published in 2010...
, former Boston-based investment manager - Willis HooverHoover (singer)Willis Hoover was born in Jackson County, Missouri and raised in Lamoni, Iowa and Shenandoah, Iowa. After starting out as a coffee house folk singer as a teenager, Hoover moved to Nashville in the 1960s and became a songwriter. His songs were recorded by Tina Turner, Eddy Arnold and country...
, country and western performer active in the 1960s and 1970s
Fictional characters
- Robert Hoover, fictional character from the movie Animal House
- Elizabeth Hoover (Miss Hoover), fictional school teacher from the US TV series The SimpsonsThe SimpsonsThe Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series is a satirical parody of a middle class American lifestyle epitomized by its family of the same name, which consists of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie...
Places
- Hoover, AlabamaHoover, AlabamaHoover is a city in Jefferson and Shelby Counties in north central Alabama, in the United States. The largest suburb of Birmingham, the population of the city was 62,742 as of the 2000 census and 81,619 in the 2010 census. Hoover is part of the Birmingham-Hoover, AL MSA and is also included in the...
- Hoover, IndianaHoover, IndianaHoover is an unincorporated town in Adams Township, Cass County, Indiana....
- Hoover DamHoover DamHoover Dam, once known as Boulder Dam, is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border between the US states of Arizona and Nevada. It was constructed between 1931 and 1936 during the Great Depression and was dedicated on September 30, 1935, by President...
, originally named Boulder Dam - Hoover Dam (Ohio)Hoover Dam (Ohio)Hoover Dam, in Blendon Township, near Westerville, Ohio, dams the 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 about five square miles. The dam was dedicated in...
, a dam on the Big Walnut Creek - Hoover FieldHoover FieldHoover Field was the first airport to serve 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...
, Washington, D.C.'s first airport, located where the Pentagon now stands - Hoover TowerHoover TowerHoover Tower is a structure on the campus of Stanford University in Stanford, California. The tower is part of the Hoover Institution, a research center founded by then-future U.S. president Herbert Hoover. Hoover Tower, inspired by the cathedral tower at Salamanca, was finished in 1941, the year...
, a 285-foot structure on the campus of Stanford University
Companies
- Hoover Air League, aircraft business
- The Hoover CompanyThe Hoover CompanyThe Hoover Company started out as an American floor care manufacturer based in North Canton, Ohio. It also established a major base in the United Kingdom and for most of the early-and-mid-20th century, it dominated the electric vacuum cleaner industry, to the point where the "hoover" brand name...
, vacuum cleaner manufacturer and floor care company - Hoover's, Inc., a business information company based in Austin TX, now owned by Dun & Bradstreet
- Hoover InstitutionHoover InstitutionThe Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace is a public policy think tank and library founded in 1919 by then future U.S. president, Herbert Hoover, an early alumnus of Stanford....
, a public-policy think tank at Stanford University founded by the 31st President of the United States
Music
- Hoover (band)Hoover (band)Hoover was an American post-hardcore band from Washington, DC. Formed in 1992, Hoover went on to produce some of the more intense music to appear on the Dischord Records label in the 1990s...
, a post-hardcore band - Hoover, original name of the music group now known as HooverphonicHooverphonicHooverphonic are a Belgian rock/pop group, formed in 1995. Though early on categorized as a trip hop group, they quickly expanded their sound to the point where they could no longer be described as a lone genre, but rather encompass alternative, electronica, electropop, rock, and mixture of others...
- Willis HooverHoover (singer)Willis Hoover was born in Jackson County, Missouri and raised in Lamoni, Iowa and Shenandoah, Iowa. After starting out as a coffee house folk singer as a teenager, Hoover moved to Nashville in the 1960s and became a songwriter. His songs were recorded by Tina Turner, Eddy Arnold and country...
, a Country Western performer active in 1960s and 70s - Hoover soundHoover soundHoover sound refers to a particular synthesizer sound in electronic music, commonly used in Hard House music and other styles. Originally called the "Mentasm" or "Dominator", the name that stuck was the one likening the sound to that of a vacuum cleaner.-The sound:The Hoover is a complex waveform...
, a heavy bass driven drone sound used in electronic music
Other
- A genericised trademark for any vacuum cleanerVacuum cleanerA vacuum cleaner, commonly referred to as a "vacuum," is a device that uses an air pump to create a partial vacuum to suck up dust and dirt, usually from floors, and optionally from other surfaces as well. The dirt is collected by either a dustbag or a cyclone for later disposal...
- Hoover (seal)Hoover (seal)Hoover was a harbor seal who was able to imitate basic human speech.He was an orphan when he was found by George and Alice Swallow in Maine in 1971. George and Alice decided to take him home. At first the baby seal didn't want to eat, but soon he ate at the pace of a vacuum cleaner...
, a harbor seal that learned to imitate basic human speech - Hoover index, Edgar Malone Hoover's inequality measure