# Gruber

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, 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), 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 (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, 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
* 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 (1995), portrayed by Jeremy Irons
* Rolf Gruber, a fictional character in the film The Sound of Music (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