Hoover

Hoover is a surname, an Anglicized form of the German Huber, originally designating a landowner or a prosperous small farmer.

Hoover may refer to:

People

• Bob Hoover, airshow and test pilot, author
• Brad Hoover, American football fullback
• Dave Hoover, American comic book artist and animator
• Dave Hoover, American football coach
• Dick Hoover (1925–1981), American Major League Baseball player
• Dick Hoover (1929–2009), American professional bowler
• Erna Schneider Hoover, inventor of the computerized telephone switching system
• Herbert Hoover (1874–1964), 31st President of the United States
• Herbert Hoover, Jr. (1903–1969), the son of President Herbert Hoover; a successful engineer and businessman
• J. Edgar Hoover (1895–1972), longest-serving head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
• John Hoover (born 1962), American Major League Baseball pitcher
• John Howard Hoover, U.S. Navy Admiral who served in World War II
• Lamar Hoover (1887–1944), American college sports coach
• Larry Hoover, leader of the Gangster Disciples street gang
• Lou Henry Hoover, wife of President Herbert Hoover
• M. Herbert Hoover, American politician (who is not related to the 31st President of the United States)
• Margaret Hoover, American political consultant and commentator, great-granddaughter of the former President
• Paul Hoover (born 1946), American poet
• Paul Hoover (born 1976), American Major League Baseball catcher
• Robert Francis Hoover (1913-1970), botanist
• Stevin Hoover, former Boston-based investment manager
• Willis Hoover, country and western performer active in the 1960s and 1970s

Fictional characters

• Robert Hoover, fictional character from the movie Animal House
• Elizabeth Hoover (Miss Hoover), fictional school teacher from the US TV series The Simpsons
• Walter Hoover, fictional character in James Curtis's novel They Drive by Night, played by Ernest Thesiger in the 1938 film adaptation.
• Dwayne Hoover, fictional character in Kurt Vonnegut's novel Breakfast of Champions.
• Bertolt Hoover, fictional character in Hajime Isayama's Manga/Anime Attack on Titan.

Places

• Hoover, Alabama
• Hoover, Indiana
• The Hoover Building in West London, originally a Hoover Company factory
• Hoover Dam, originally named Boulder Dam
• Hoover Dam (Ohio), a dam on the Big Walnut Creek
• Hoover Field, Washington, D.C.'s first airport, located where the Pentagon now stands
• Hoover Tower, a 285-foot structure on the campus of Stanford University

Companies

• Hoover Air League, an aircraft business
• The Hoover Company, a U.S. manufacturer of appliances, especially vacuum cleaners
• Hoover's, Inc., a business information company based in Austin, Texas
• Hoover Institution, a public-policy think tank at Stanford University founded by Herbert Hoover, later US President

Music

• Hoover (band), a post-hardcore band
• Willis Hoover, a Country Western performer active in 1960s and 70s
• Hoover sound, a heavy bass driven drone sound used in electronic music
• The original name of Hooverphonic

Other

• a genericised trademark for any vacuum cleaner
• Hoover (seal), a harbor seal that learned to imitate basic human speech
• Hoover index, Edgar Malone Hoover's inequality measure
• a nickname for the Lockheed S-3 Viking

See also

• Hover (disambiguation)