Greaves
Greaves means:
- a by-product of the extraction of sebum and fat from animal products, see lard # greaves or greaves lard
- Grieben-Verlag , travel guide publisher (1886–2005), see Grieben travel guide
Greaves is the name of the following places:
- Grieben (Mecklenburg) , municipality of Grieben in the district of Northwest Mecklenburg in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
- Greaves, part of the municipality of Insel Hiddensee in the district of Vorpommern-Rügen in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
- Grieben (Löwenberger Land) , part of the municipality of Löwenberger Land in the Oberhavel district in Brandenburg
- Greaves (Tangerhütte) , part of the town of Tangerhütte in the Stendal district in Saxony-Anhalt
- Greaves (Groß-Grieben), formerly in the Osterode district in East Prussia, Polish: Grzybiny in the powiat Działdowski, Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship / Poland
- Greaves , formerly in the Darkehmen (Angerapp) district in East Prussia, Russian: Oljochowo (Kaliningrad) in the Osjorsk district, Kaliningrad Oblast / Russia
- Greaves , formerly in the Stallupönen (Ebenrode) district in East Prussia, Russian: Gribanowo in Krasnosnamensk Rajon, Kaliningrad Oblast / Russia [the place no longer exists]
Greaves is the family name of the following people:
- Eduard Grieben (1813–1870), German landscape painter and etcher
- Hermann Grieben (1822–1890), German journalist and poet
- Theobald Grieben , founder of the Griebens travel library named after him .
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