List of Famous people with last name Hoover

Larry Hoover

First Name Larry
Born on November 30, 1950 (age 73)

Larry Hoover is an American gang leader, a founder of the Chicago street gang called the Gangster Disciples. Hoover is currently serving six life sentences at the ADX Florence prison in Florence, Colorado. His sentences include a 150–200 year sentence for a 1973 murder; and in 1997, after a 17–year investigation of conspiracy, extortion, money laundering, and running a continuing criminal enterprise for leading the gang from state prison, he received a life sentence.

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J. Edgar Hoover

John Edgar Hoover
First Name J.
Last Name Hoover
Born on January 1, 1895
Died on May 2, 1972 (aged 77)

John Edgar Hoover was an American law enforcement administrator who served as the first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of the United States. He was appointed director of the Bureau of Investigation – the FBI's predecessor – in 1924 and was instrumental in founding the FBI in 1935, where he remained director for another 37 years until his death in 1972 at the age of 77. Hoover has been credited with building the FBI into a larger crime-fighting agency than it was at its inception and with instituting a number of modernizations to police technology, such as a centralized fingerprint file and forensic laboratories. Hoover is also credited with establishing and expanding a national blacklist, referred to as the FBI Index or Index List, renamed in 2001 as the Terrorist Screening Database which the FBI still compiles and manages.

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Herbert Hoover

Herbert Clark Hoover
First Name Herbert
Last Name Hoover
Born on August 10, 1874
Died on October 20, 1964 (aged 90)
Height 180 cm | 5'11

Herbert Clark Hoover was an American politician, businessman, and engineer, who was the 31st president of the United States from 1929 to 1933. A member of the Republican Party, he held office during the onset of the Great Depression. Before serving as president, Hoover led the Commission for Relief in Belgium, served as the director of the U.S. Food Administration, and served as the third U.S. Secretary of Commerce.

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Lou Henry Hoover

Lou Henry
First Name Lou
Last Name Hoover
Born on March 29, 1874
Died on January 7, 1944 (aged 69)

Lou Hoover was the wife of President Herbert Hoover and served as the First Lady of the United States from 1929 to 1933.

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Bob Hoover

First Name Bob
Last Name Hoover
Born on January 24, 1922
Died on October 25, 2016 (aged 94)

Robert Anderson "Bob" Hoover was an American fighter pilot, test pilot, flight instructor, and record-setting air show aviator.

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Margaret Hoover

First Name Margaret
Last Name Hoover
Born on December 11, 1977 (age 46)

Margaret Claire Hoover is an American conservative political commentator, political strategist, media personality, author, and great-granddaughter of Herbert Hoover, the 31st U.S. President. She is the author of the book American Individualism: How A New Generation of Conservatives Can Save the Republican Party, published by Crown Forum in 2011. Hoover hosts PBS's reboot of the conservative interview show Firing Line.

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Allan Hoover

First Name Allan
Last Name Hoover
Born on July 17, 1907
Died on November 4, 1993 (aged 86)

Allan Henry Hoover was a British-born American mining engineer, rancher, financier, and the younger son of President Herbert Hoover and First Lady Lou Henry.

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Nan Hoover

Nancy Dodge Browne
First Name Nan
Last Name Hoover
Born on May 12, 1931
Died on June 9, 2008 (aged 77)

Nan Hoover was a Dutch/American-expatriate artist who is known for her pioneering work in video art, photography and performance art. She spent almost four decades living and working in the Netherlands. She also used the mediums of drawing, painting, photography and film and created art objects and sculptures. One of the main themes of her art was light and motion. The rigorous, minimalist handling of her means as well as the intense concentration with which she performed within spaces of light and shadow are the most salient characteristics of her artistic work.

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Jesse Hoover

Jesse Clark Hoover
First Name Jesse
Last Name Hoover
Died on November 30, 1879

Herbert Clark Hoover was an American politician and engineer who served as the 31st president of the United States from 1929 to 1933 and a member of the Republican Party, holding office during the onset of the Great Depression. Before serving as president, Hoover led the Commission for Relief in Belgium, served as the director of the U.S. Food Administration, and served as the third U.S. secretary of commerce.

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Theodore Jesse Hoover

First Name Theodore
Last Name Hoover
Born on January 28, 1871
Died on February 4, 1955 (aged 84)
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