Hoover
Hoover denotes:
- a city in the US state of Alabama, Hoover (Alabama)
- a former cleaning equipment company, see Hoover (company)
- Hoover (automobile manufacturer) , former American automobile manufacturer
- a seal that could speak several English words similar to a parrot, see Hoover (seal)
Hoover comes from the German family name Huber and is the family name of the following people:
- Bob Hoover (1922–2016), American test pilot and stunt pilot
- Colleen Hoover (* 1979), American author
- Dick Hoover (1929-2009), American bowler
- Douglas Hoover (* 1972), American summer biathlete
- Edgar Malone Hoover (* 1907), American econometrician ( Hoover inequality )
- Erna Schneider Hoover (* 1926), American inventor
- Gavin Hoover (* 1997), American cyclist
- Herbert Hoover (1874–1964), 31st President of the United States
- Houston Hoover (born 1965), American football player
- J. Edgar Hoover (1895–1972), founder and director of the FBI
- Jeffrey Hoover (* 1959), American composer and painter
- Lou Hoover (1874–1944), US First Lady
- Mikaela Hoover (* 1984), American actress
- Mike Hoover (* 1944), American cameraman, film director, film producer, documentary filmmaker and mountaineer
- Nan Hoover (1931–2008), Dutch media artist
- Peter Hoover (* 1960), Canadian Anabaptist pastor and author
- Richard Edwin Hoover (1915–1986), American ophthalmologist, developed orientation and mobility training with a long stick
- Richard R. Hoover , film technician
See also:
- Hoover Dam , a dam on the border between the US states of Nevada and Arizona
- Hoover sound , synthesizer sound or instrument
- Hoover Institution (Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace), think tank at Stanford University
- J. Edgar Hoover Building in Washington DC, headquarters of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
- Huwer
