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Hoover may refer to:

Music

• Hoover (band), an American post-hardcore band
• Hooverphonic, a Belgian band originally named Hoover
• Hoover (singer), Willis Hoover, a country and western performer active in 1960s and '70s
• "Hoover" (song), a 2016 song by Swedish rapper Yung Lean
• Hoover sound, a heavy bass driven drone sound used in electronic music
• Hoover (composer), Katherine Hoover an American contemporary classical music and chamber music composer.

People

• Hoover (surname)
  • Herbert Hoover, (1874–1964) 31st president of the United States
  • J. Edgar Hoover (1895–1972), first director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
• Hoover Orsi (born 1978), Brazilian race car driver
• Hoover J. Wright (1928–2003), American football and track and field coach

Places in the United States

• Hoover, Alabama, the 6th largest city in Alabama
• Hoover, Indiana
• Hoover, Missouri
• Hoover, Oklahoma
• Hoover, South Dakota
• Hoover, Texas
• Hoover Dam, on the Colorado River, Nevada and Arizona
• Hoover Dam (Ohio), on the Big Walnut Creek
• Hoover Field, Washington, D.C.'s first airport, located where the Pentagon now stands
• Hoover Tower, an 87-metre (285 ft) structure on the campus of Stanford University
• Eli Hoover House and Confectionery, historic home and confectionery in Muncie, Indiana

Schools

• Hoover High School (disambiguation)
• Hoover Elementary School (disambiguation)

Other uses

• The Hoover Company, a manufacturer of appliances, especially vacuum cleaners
• Vacuum cleaner, called by the generic term hoover in some countries
  • Also an idiomatic verb named after the vacuum cleaner, meaning to suck in or inhale
• D&B Hoovers, a business information company based in Austin, Texas, US
• Hoover (film), a 2000 American drama film
• Hoover (seal), a harbor seal that learned to imitate basic human speech
• Hoover index, Edgar Malone Hoover's inequality measure
• Lockheed S-3 Viking, nicknamed Hoover
• Operation Hoover
• Hoover Institution, a public-policy think tank at Stanford University founded by Herbert Hoover, later US president
• Hoover League, created by the Republican Party to campaign for the re-election of U.S. president Herbert Hoover

See also

• Hoover Building, in London, England originally a Hoover Company factory
• Hoover House (disambiguation)
• All pages with titles containing Hoover
• Hover (disambiguation)
• Huber, a German surname (Anglicized form is Hoover)