Hoover (surname)

Hoover is the Anglicized version of the German and Dutch surname Huber, originally designating a landowner or a prosperous small farmer. Notable people with the surname include:
 * Richard Bachynsky Hoover Screenwriter Executive producer Bitter Harvest feature film 2017
 * Alice Hoover (1928–2014), All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player
 * Bob Hoover (1922–2016), airshow and test pilot, author
 * Brad Hoover (born 1976), American football fullback
 * Charles Franklin Hoover (1865–1927), American physician
 * Colleen Hoover (born 1979), American author
 * Dave Hoover (1955–2011), American comic book artist and animator
 * Dave Hoover (American football), American football coach
 * Dick Hoover (baseball) (1925–1981), American Major League Baseball player
 * Dick Hoover (1929–2009), American professional bowler
 * Dorothy Haines Hoover (1904–1995), Canadian artist
 * Erna Schneider Hoover (born 1926), inventor of the computerized telephone switching system
 * Helen Hoover, American nature writer
 * 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
 * Herb Hoover (1912–1952), American test pilot
 * J. Edgar Hoover (1895–1972), longest-serving head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
 * John Hoover (baseball) (1962–2014), American Major League Baseball pitcher
 * John H. Hoover (1887–1970), U.S. Navy Admiral who served in World War II
 * Katherine Hoover (1937–2018), US composer and flutist
 * Lamar Hoover (1887–1944), American college sports coach
 * Larry Hoover (born 1950), leader of the Gangster Disciples street gang
 * Lou Henry Hoover (1874–1944), wife of President Herbert Hoover
 * M. Herbert Hoover (died 1952), American politician (who is not related to the 31st president of the United States)
 * Margaret Hoover (born 1977), American political consultant and commentator, great-granddaughter of the former president
 * Natalie Hoover (born 1989), voice actress
 * Nathan Hoover (born 1997), American basketball player
 * Paul Hoover (poet) (born 1946), American poet
 * Paul Hoover (baseball) (born 1976), American Major League Baseball catcher
 * Quinton Kyle Hoover (born 1996), American YouTuber, known for the channel Quinton Reviews
 * Robert Francis Hoover (1913–1970), botanist; see Brodiaea appendiculata
 * Stevin Hoover (born 1948), former Boston-based investment manager
 * William Henry "Boss" Hoover (1849–1932), founder of The Hoover Company

Characters

 * Robert Hoover, from the movie Animal House
 * Elizabeth Hoover (Miss Hoover), fictional school teacher from the US TV series The Simpsons; See List of recurring The Simpsons characters
 * Walter Hoover, in James Curtis's novel They Drive by Night
 * Walter Hoover, played by Ernest Thesiger in the film adaptation They Drive by Night
 * Dwayne Hoover, in Kurt Vonnegut's novel Breakfast of Champions
 * Bertolt Hoover (also spelled as Bertholdt Hoover), in Hajime Isayama's Manga/Anime Attack on Titan
 * Hoover, an agent of the Grail in Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon's comic series Preacher