Grover (disambiguation)

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Grover is a Muppet character on the popular television show Sesame Street.

Grover may also refer to:

People

• Grover (surname), found in India and the West
• Grover (given name)
  • Stephen Grover Cleveland (1837–1908), 22nd and 24th President of the United States
  • Grover Cleveland Alexander (1887–1950), U.S. baseball pitcher
  • Grover Cleveland Bergdoll (1893-1966), American heir and draft dodger (WW1)
  • Grover Covington (b. 1956), Canadian Football League defensive end
  • Grover Krantz (1931–2002), U.S. professor
  • Grover L. Broadfoot, American jurist
  • Grover Loening (1888-1976), American aviation pioneer and aircraft designer
  • Grover Lowdermilk (1885–1968), U.S. baseball pitcher
  • Grover Norquist, lobbyist
  • Grover Simcox, naturalist illustrator
  • Grover Washington, Jr. (1943–1999) U.S. jazz saxophonist
  • Grover Whalen (1886-1962), American politician

In fiction

• Grover's Corners, fictional setting of the play Our Town, by Thornton Wilder
• Grover Underwood (Percy Jackson), fictional character from the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series

Place names

In the United States:

• Grover, Colorado, town
• Grover, Kansas, unincorporated community
• Grover, Minnesota, abandoned town
• Grover, Nebraska, unincorporated community
• Grover, North Carolina, town
• Grover, South Carolina, unincorporated community
• Grover, South Dakota, unincorporated community
• Grover, Utah, unincorporated community
• Grover, Wisconsin (disambiguation), several places
• Grover, Wyoming, a census designated place
• Grover's Mill, New Jersey, part of West Windsor Township, New Jersey, and site of the fictitious Martian landing of Orson Welles's 1938 War of the Worlds radio program
• Grovertown, Indiana, unincorporated community

Other uses

• GROVER, a rover prototype of NASA used for Earth-bound projects
• Grover's algorithm, quantum search of an unsorted database invented by Lov Grover
• Grover's disease, common skin disease
• Grover Shoe Factory disaster, 1905 boiler explosion and fire that killed 58
• Grover Musical Products, Inc., manufacturer of accessories for guitars, banjos and other stringed instruments