Glover (surname)
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Glover, which means a maker or seller of glove
s, is a surname
and may refer to:
Glove
A glove is a garment covering the hand. Gloves have separate sheaths or openings for each finger and the thumb; if there is an opening but no covering sheath for each finger they are called "fingerless gloves". Fingerless gloves with one large opening rather than individual openings for each...
s, is a surname
Surname
A surname is a name added to a given name and is part of a personal name. In many cases, a surname is a family name. Many dictionaries define "surname" as a synonym of "family name"...
and may refer to:
- Anne GloverAnne GloverAnne Glover is CEO and co-founder of Amadeus Capital Partners, a venture capital firm that invests in European high-technology companies. Prior to founding Amadeus in 1997, she was with Apax Partners & Company Ventures, where she was a member of the investment team. She also has experience as a...
, British venture capitalist - Annie GloverAnn GloverGoodwife "Goody" Glover was the last person to be hanged in Boston as a witch.-Background:Ann Glover was born in Ireland as a Roman Catholic. Oliver Cromwell sold her into slavery and sent her off to Barbados in the 1650s...
, Irish washerwoman - the last woman hanged as a witch in Boston - Bill GloverBill GloverWilliam Glover is a Christian drummer and musician.Glover moved to Fort Wayne in the 60s when he was still a kid. When he was 13, he had taken up drumming...
, Christian drummer and musician - Boyer GloverBoyer GloverBoyer Glover , Muggletonian, was a watch and clock maker in Leadenhall Street, London.Glover was a strong Muggletonian, but the notices of him in the records of the sect are very scanty...
- Brian GloverBrian GloverBrian Glover was an English character actor, writer and wrestler. Glover was a professional wrestler, teacher, and finally a film, television and stage actor. He once said, "You play to your strengths in this game. My strength is as a bald-headed, rough-looking Yorkshireman".-Early life:Glover was...
, British actor - Broc GloverBroc GloverBroc Glover was a leading motocross racer in the 1970s and early 1980s. Glover earned six AMA National Motocross Championships, a record which stood for nearly 20 years until 2003, when Ricky Carmichael finally eclipsed the mark...
, American motocross racer - Bruce GloverBruce GloverBruce Herbert Glover is an American character actor, perhaps best known for his portrayal of homosexual assassin Mr. Wint in the 1971 James Bond film Diamonds Are Forever. He is also the father of actor Crispin Glover.-Life and career:...
, American actor - Cat GloverCat GloverCatherine Vernice Glover born in Chicago, IL is a professional choreographer, dancer and singer.She originally hit the mainstream in television alongside her dance partner Patrick Allen in the duo known simply as "Pat & Cat" on the hit major talent show Star Search hosted by Ed McMahon...
, choreographer and dancer - Charles Glover BarklaCharles Glover BarklaCharles Glover Barkla was a British physicist, and the winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1917 for his work in X-ray spectroscopy and related areas in the study of X-rays .-Biography:...
, British physicist - Charles Richmond GloverCharles Richmond GloverCharles Richmond John Glover was the Mayor of Adelaide from 1917 to 1919. He was in office when the City of Adelaide became a Lord Mayoralty in 1919, and so became Adelaide's first Lord Mayor...
, Australian mayor - Corey GloverCorey GloverCorey Glover is an American singer, guitarist and actor. He is best known as the lead singer of the hard rock band Living Colour.-Career:...
, American singer - Crispin GloverCrispin GloverCrispin Hellion Glover is an American film actor, director and screenwriter, recording artist, publisher, and author. Glover is known for portraying eccentric people on screen such as George McFly in Back to the Future, Layne in River's Edge, unfriendly recluse Rubin Farr in Rubin and Ed, the...
, American actor and painter - Crispin J GloverCrispin J GloverCrispin J. Glover is a British DJ, dance music producer and recording engineer who has worked for various labels, including his own Matrix Records...
, British DJ - Dana Karl GloverDana Karl GloverDana Karl Glover is an American trumpet player and music composer for video games. He is also stated as Dr. Dana or Karl James. Glover wrote the music to video games like Wing Commander II: Vengeance of the Kilrathi, Ultima VII: The Black Gate, or Ultima VII Part Two: Serpent Isle...
, musician and composer - Dana Glover (singer), singer and songwriter
- Danny GloverDanny GloverDanny Lebern Glover is an American actor, film director, and political activist. Glover is perhaps best known for his role as Detective Roger Murtaugh in the Lethal Weapon film franchise.-Early life:...
, American actor - Danny Glover (footballer)Danny Glover (footballer)Daniel "Danny" Glover is an English football striker who plays for Conference North club Nuneaton Town....
, English footballer - Dean GloverDean GloverDean Victor Glover is an English former footballer and football manager. A cultured and stylish defender, he had the ball control skills of a midfielder. He played 457 league games in a seventeen year career in the Football League.He started his career at Aston Villa in 1980, before he moved on to...
, English football manager and former player - Denis GloverDenis GloverLieutenant Commander Denis James Matthews Glover DSC was a New Zealand poet and publisher.Well-known for radical leftist opinions, he was often in trouble with authorities. In 1935 he founded the Caxton Press, which he used to encourage a less sentimental style of poetry in New Zealand than was...
, New Zealand poet - Dion GloverDion GloverMicaiah Diondae "Dion" Glover is an American professional basketball player, formerly in the NBA.-Basketball career:...
, American basketball player - Donald GloverDonald GloverDonald McKinley Glover is an American actor, writer, comedian, and musician. Glover first came to attention for his work in the sketch group Derrick Comedy, and is best known for his role as community college student Troy Barnes on the NBC comedy series Community...
, American actor - Edward Glover (athlete), American athlete
- Edward Glover (psychoanalyst)Edward Glover (psychoanalyst)Edward George Glover was a British psychoanalyst. He first studied medicine and surgery, and it was his elder brother, James Glover who attracted him towards psychoanalysis...
, English psychoanalyst - Fi GloverFi GloverFiona "Fi" Glover is a BBC journalist and presenter and, until March 2011, the host of BBC Radio 4's Saturday Live.-Career:...
, BBC journalist - Frank GloverFrank GloverFrank Glover is a contemporary jazz musician and composer from Indianapolis, Indiana. Although he plays saxophone as well, Glover's primary instrument is the clarinet.* Mosaic * Something Old, Something New * Siamese Twins ...
, American jazz musician - Fred W. GloverFred W. GloverFred W. Glover is a professor of computer science at the University of Colorado, and the Chief Technology Officer at OptTek. He is best known as the inventor of the tabu search method, and coined the term "metaheuristic".. Fred Glover was born on March 8, 1937 in Kansas City,...
, mathematician - Gary GloverGary GloverJohn Gary Glover was a Major League Baseball pitcher who currently plays for the SK Wyverns of the Korean Baseball League...
, baseball player - George Glover (disambiguation)
- Jane GloverJane GloverJane Glover CBE is a British-born conductor and music scholar.-Early life:Glover attended Haberdashers' Monmouth School for Girls. Her father, Robert Finlay Glover MA TD,was headmaster of Monmouth School and it was through this connection that she was able to meet Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears...
, British conductor - Jean GloverJean GloverJean Glover , was a Scottish poet.Glover was born in Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, 31 October 1758. Her father was a hand-loom weaver. While very young she joined a band of strolling players and married their leader...
, Scottish poet, actress and singer - Jennifer Glover [Jennifer Glover], American chef
- Jim GloverJim GloverJim R. Glover is a long-time peace activist and folk singer from Cleveland, Ohio, who currently lives in Brandon, Florida.-Relationship with Phil Ochs:...
, American folk musician - John Glover, one of several people including
- John Glover (actor)John Glover (actor)John Soursby Glover Jr. is an American actor, perhaps best known for a range of villainous roles in films and television, including Lionel Luthor on the Superman-inspired television series Smallville.-Personal life:...
, American actor - John Glover (artist)John Glover (artist)John Glover was an English/Australian artist in what is known as the early colonial period of Australian art. In Australia he has been dubbed the father of Australian landscape painting.-Life in Europe:...
, Australian artist - John Glover (general), American Army general
- John Glover (footballer)John Glover (footballer)John William Glover , also known as Jack Glover, was an English professional footballer who played as a right back....
, or Jack Glover, English footballer - John Hawley GloverJohn Hawley GloverSir John Hawley Glover , captain in the British Royal Navy, entered the service in 1841 and passed his examination as lieutenant in 1849, but did not receive a commission till May 1851....
, captain in the British navy - John Wayne GloverJohn Wayne GloverJohn Wayne Glover was a British-born Australian serial killer convicted for the murders of six elderly women on Sydney's North Shore....
, Australian serial killer
- John Glover (actor)
- Jon GloverJon GloverJon Glover is a British actor. He has appeared in various television programmes including Play School, Survivors, the Management consultant in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Casualty, Bodger and Badger and Peak Practice....
, British actor - Jonathan GloverJonathan GloverJonathan Glover is a British philosopher known for his studies on ethics. He was educated at Tonbridge School, later going on to Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He was a fellow and tutor in philosophy at New College, Oxford. He currently teaches ethics at King's College London...
, British philosopher - Joshua GloverJoshua GloverJoshua Glover was a runaway slave from St. Louis, Missouri who sought asylum in Racine, Wisconsin in 1852. Upon learning his whereabouts in 1854, slave owner Bennami Garland attempted to use the Fugitive Slave Act to recover him. Glover was captured and taken to a Milwaukee jail...
, runaway slave whose plight led to Wisconsin becoming the only state to declare the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 unconstitutional. - Juleanna Glover WeissJuleanna Glover Weiss-Early career:Glover received her B.A. from Marymount University and received an MPA from George Mason University. She is a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations and studied at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, DC.Early in her career,...
, White House Press Secretary - Julian GloverJulian GloverJulian Wyatt Glover is a British actor best known for such roles as General Maximilian Veers in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, the Bond villain Aristotle Kristatos in For Your Eyes Only, and Walter Donovan in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.-Personal life:Glover was born in...
, British actor - Kim GloverKim GloverKim Glover is an English music manager best known for overseeing the careers of New Kids on The Block, Let Loose and B*witched, as well as helping to manage and develop the careers of Whitney Houston, Aretha Franklin, David Essex and others...
, manager of New Kids on the Block - La'Roi GloverLa'Roi GloverLa'Roi Damon Glover ; born July 4, 1974) is a former American football defensive tackle in the National Football League who ended his career with the St. Louis Rams. Glover retired from the NFL on June 22, 2009...
, American football player - Louise GloverLouise GloverLouise Glover is an English model and photographer. She is well known for her work as a glamour model, with appearances in British lad mags, including FHM, Bizarre, Maxim, Loaded, and tabloids such as the News of the World, The Sun and Daily Star...
, British model - Lucas GloverLucas GloverLucas Hendley Glover is an American professional golfer who currently plays on the PGA Tour. He is best known for winning the 2009 U.S. Open.-Amateur career:...
, American professional golfer - Martin GloverMartin GloverMartin Glover, also known as Youth, is a record producer and a founding member and bassist of the UK band Killing Joke. He is a member of The Fireman along with Paul McCartney. Glover was born in Africa.-Early career:...
, record producer - Mary Glover, first married name of Mary Baker Eddy
- Melvin Glover, hip hop artist Melle Mel
- Moses GloverMoses GloverMoses Glover , was an English cartographer. He described himself as "paynter And Architectur", although very little is known about him apart from his maps and the church records. Glover's marriage licence, issued in 1622, described him as "painter-stainer of Isleworth"...
, English cartographer - Nat Glover, American sheriff
- Nate Glover, the singer Kid Creole
- Neville GloverNeville GloverNeville Glover is an Australian former rugby league footballer of the 1970s and 80s. A New South Wales interstate and Australian international representative winger, he played his club football career in the NSWRL Premiership with the Parramatta Eels and Penrith Panthers.A Seven Hills junior,...
, Australian rugby league footballer - Paul GloverPaul GloverPaul Glover is a community organizer currently based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He has been adjunct faculty at Temple University and founder of the Philly Orchard Project and editor of Green Jobs Philly News....
, American politician - Richard Glover (disambiguation)Richard Glover (disambiguation)Richard Glover may refer to:* Richard Glover , English poet and MP* Richard Glover , Australian radio announcer* Rich Glover, American football player...
- Roger GloverRoger GloverRoger David Glover is a Welsh bassist, songwriter, and record producer. Glover is best known as the bassist and lyricist for the hard rock band, Deep Purple.-Early career:...
, Welsh bass player and songwriter - Sandra GloverSandra GloverSandra Glover is an African American athlete competing in the 400 metres hurdles.-Achievements:*Four-time U.S...
, African-American athlete - Savion GloverSavion GloverSavion Glover is an American tap dancer, actor, and choreographer. As a learning prodigy, he was taught by notable dancers from previous generations. Glover is currently interested in restoring African roots to tap...
, American actor, tap dancer and choreographer - Steven Gilchrist Glover, TY performer Steve-O
- Thomas Blake GloverThomas Blake GloverThomas Blake Glover, Order of the Rising Sun was a Scottish merchant in Bakumatsu and Meiji period Japan.-Early life :...
, key figure in the industrialisation of Japan - Townend GloverTownend GloverTownend Glover was an American entomologist, and the first such to hold a Federal office; he was followed by...
, American entomologist