Grover (disambiguation)

Grover (disambiguation)

Grover is a common occupational surname in people, someone who tends trees for a living
* Grover (surname), found in India and the West
* Grover (given name)
** Grover Cleveland, 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 Lowdermilk (1885 - 1968), U.S. baseball pitcher
** Grover Simcox, naturalist illustrator
** Grover Norquist, lobbyist

Grover may also refer to:

In fiction:
* Grover, "Sesame Street" character
* Grover Underwood (Percy Jackson), fictional character from the "Percy Jackson and the Olympians" series
* Grover's Corners, fictional setting of the play "Our Town", by Thornton Wilder

In the United States:
* Grover, Colorado, town
* Grovertown, Indiana, unincorporated community
* Grover, North Carolina, town
* Grover, Wisconsin, several places
* 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

In other uses:
* Grover's algorithm, quantum search of an unsorted database
* Grover's disease, common skin disease
* Grover Shoe Factory disaster, 1905 boiler explosion and fire that killed 58


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