Gruber

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[edit] People

People whose family name is or was Gruber:

• Andreas Gruber, Australian screenwriter and director
• Edita Gruberová
• Gabriel Gruber (1740-1805), Viennese Jesuit, architect and hydraulics expert
• Frank Gruber (1904-1969), writer of Westerns and detective fiction
• Franz Gruber (actor), actor, played in the Japanese Tokusatsu movie/TV productions
• Franz Xaver Gruber (1787-1863), Austrian teacher, composer of "Silent Night"
• Johann Gottfried Gruber (1774-1851), German literary historian and critic
• John Gruber, author of Daring Fireball.
• Karl Gruber, foreign minister of Austria from 1945 to 1953
• Kelly Gruber (born 1962), U.S. Major League Baseball player
• Lilli Gruber (born 1957), Italian television journalist turned politician
• Michael Gruber (born 1964), stage actor, singer, and dancer
• Ruth Gruber (born 1911), Jewish-American journalist and author of "I visited the Soviet Arctic"
• William Gruber, inventor of the ViewMaster stereoscopic system 1
• Bryce Gruber, entrepreneur, famed New York business-woman

[edit] Fictional characters

• Lieutenant Hubert Gruber, fictional character from the British sitcom 'Allo 'Allo!
• Hans Gruber, portrayed by Alan Rickman, is a fictional character and the main antagonist in the film Die Hard.
• Simon Gruber, portrayed by Jeremy Irons, is a fictional character and the main antagonist in the film Die Hard: With a Vengeance

[edit] Other uses

• the Treaty of Gruber-De Gasperi, named after the Italian (Alcide De Gasperi) and Austrian Minister of Foreign Affairs (Karl Gruber)