# Rover

Rover may refer to:

## People
### Name

* Constance Rover (1910–2005), English historian
* Jolanda de Rover (born 1963), Dutch swimmer
* Rover Thomas (c. 1920–1998), Indigenous Australian artist

### Stage name

* Rover (musician), French singer-songwriter and musician, born Timothée Régnier in 1979

## Places

* Rover, Arkansas, US
* Rover, Missouri, US
* Rover, West Virginia, US
* Røver Anchorage, Bouvet Island, Norway
* Rover Creek, British Columbia, Canada

## Arts and entertainment
### Literature

* Rover, the US title of They Came on Viking Ships, a children's novel by Jackie French
* The Rover (story paper), a British boys' story paper which started in 1922

### Music

* "Rover" (BlocBoy JB song), 2018
** "Rover 2.0", a 2018 remake by BlocBoy JB featuring 21 Savage from the mixtape Simi
* "Rover" (S1mba song), 2020 viral hit by S1mba featuring DTG
* "Rover" (UCLA song), a sports cheer at the University of California Los Angeles
* "The Rover" (Led Zeppelin song), a song by Led Zeppelin on their 1975 double album Physical Graffiti
* "The Irish Rover", an Irish folk song about a magnificent sailing ship that reaches an unfortunate end
* The Wild Rover, an English folk song about a rover
* Rover (EP), a 2023 extended play by Kai
** Rover (Kai song)

### Fiction

* Rover (robot dog), a character on Lunar Jim always helping on Jim's missions
* Rover (The Prisoner), a fictional balloon device in the 1967 British television program The Prisoner
* Rover, the main character in the novella Roverandom by J.R.R. Tolkien
* Rover, the name of two vehicles with artificial intelligence, built by Marvel Comics' Hank Pym
* The Rovers, an informal name for the Rovers Return Inn, a fictional pub in British soap opera Coronation Street

### Television

* Rovers (TV series), a British television show

## Science

* Rover (space exploration), a vehicle that explores the surface of an astronomical body
** Lunar rover, a vehicle designed to move across the surface of the Moon
** Mars rover, a vehicle designed to explore the surface of Mars
* ROVER, a military system that receives video images from aircraft

## Sport

* Rover (ice hockey), a long-defunct ice hockey position
* Rover, a position in Australian rules football

## Transport
### Automobiles and motorcycles

* Freight Rover (1981–1986), a commercial vehicle manufacturing division of Leyland
* Land Rover Group (1981–1987), a light commercial vehicle division of Leyland
* Land Rover, a brand of 4-wheel drive vehicles by the British manufacturer Jaguar Land Rover
* MG Rover Group (2000–2005), a British mass-production car manufacturer, formerly the Rover Group
* Rover Company (1885–1967), a British car manufacturing company, absorbed into Leyland Motor Corporation
* Rover Group (1986–2000), a British car manufacturer, previously known as British Leyland
* Rover Light Armoured Car, an armoured car produced in Australia during World War II
* Rover (marque), British automotive marque (brand) in use from 1904 to 2005
* Rover (motorcycles), a British bicycle and motorcycle manufacturer before it began the manufacture of motor cars

### Business (transport)

* Rover (ticket), a type of bus or train travel card ticket issued in the UK
* Rover Coaches, an Australian bus company operating services in the Hunter Valley

### Locomotives

* GWR Rover class, a class of locomotives on the Great Western Railway
* Rover, a GWR 3031 Class locomotive in service on the Great Western Railway between 1891 and 1915

### Watercraft

* HMS Rover, the name of seven ships of the Royal Navy
* Rover (barque), the American merchant ship involved in the Rover Incident of 1867
* Rover (log canoe), a Chesapeake Bay log canoe, built about 1886
* Rover (privateering ship), a ship from Nova Scotia, launched in 1800
* Rover (yacht), a luxury steam yacht built for P&O chairman, Lord Inchcape, in 1930
* Rover-class tanker, a class of ships in the Royal Fleet Auxiliary of the UK

## Other uses

* Rover, a common name for a dog
* Rover, a person with no fixed abode, see wikt:rover
* Rover (fish), common name for fish in the family Emmelichthyidae
* Rover chair, designed by industrial designer Ron Arad
* Rover Ruckus, the fourteenth FIRST Tech Challenge game
* Rover Scout, a programme within Scouting in some countries for young men and women above the age range for Boy and Girl Scouts
* Rover (company), a company that sells pet care services