Groff
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Groff is an anglicized form of the surname Graf
Graf
Graf is a historical German noble title equal in rank to a count or a British earl...

 or Graff
Graff
Graff is the surname of:* Anton Graff , German painter* Gerald Graff, American professor* Hyrum Graff, character in Orson Scott Card's Ender books* Ilene Graff , American actress* Kasimir Graff , German astronomer...

 and of predominantly Swiss and sometimes German origin.

Groff may also refer to:

People:
  • Groff family
    Groff family
    Originating in Bäretswil, Switzerland, the Groff family became during the early seventeenth century one of the founding families of both the United States and what was later to become Canada...

    , one of the early 17th century founding families of North America
  • Charles Wister Groff
    Charles Wister Groff
    Charles Wister Groff was a renowned southern California real estate developer and philanthropist....

     (1898–1987), a renowned southern California real estate developer and philanthropist
  • Ulysses Grant Groff
    Ulysses Grant Groff
    Ulysses Grant Groff was a large landowner and philanthropist noted for substantial donations to the City of Amherst, Massachusetts and to Amherst College....

     (1865–1950), a large landowner and philanthropist who lived in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts
  • Jonathan Groff
    Jonathan Groff
    Jonathan Drew Groff is an American singer-songwriter, stage, television and film actor. He originated the role of Melchior Gabor in the stage musical Spring Awakening and appeared as Jesse St...

     (b. 1985), American actor
  • Lauren Groff
    Lauren Groff
    Lauren Groff is an American novelist and short story writer.-Biography:She graduated from Amherst College and from the University of Wisconsin–Madison with an MFA in fiction....

     (b. 1978), Modern Novelist from Cooperstown New York


Miscellaneous:
  • groff (software)
    Groff (software)
    Groff is the GNU replacement for the troff and nroff text formatters. It is an original implementation written primarily in C++ by James Clark and is modeled after ditroff, including many extensions. The first version, 0.3.1, was released June 1990. The first stable version, 1.04, was announced in...

    , a typesetting computer program
  • Groff (lychee), a variety of lychee
    Lychee
    The lychee is the sole member of the genus Litchi in the soapberry family, Sapindaceae. It is a tropical and subtropical fruit tree native to Southern China and Southeast Asia, and now cultivated in many parts of the world...

     fruit tree

See also

  • Graf (disambiguation)
    Graf (disambiguation)
    Graf is a German comital title, which is part of many compound titles.Graf may also refer to:* Graf, Iowa, a US city* GRAF1, a human protein* a slang term for Graffiti* a slang term for the U.S...

  • Graff (disambiguation)
  • Grof (disambiguation)
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