Grover (disambiguation)
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Grover is a common occupational surname in people, someone who tends trees for a living.
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 Covington (b. 1956), Canadian Football League defensive end
- Grover Krantz (1931–2002), U.S. professor
- Grover L. Broadfoot, American jurist
- Grover Lowdermilk (1885–1968), U.S. baseball pitcher
- Grover Norquist, lobbyist
- Grover Simcox, naturalist illustrator
- Grover Washington, Jr. (1943–1999) U.S. jazz saxophonist
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
- Grover the Monster, Sesame Street character
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
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