grover

Grover is a masculine given name and surname of English origin. It is associated with several notable uses in politics, entertainment, and science.

Notable people with the name include Stephen Grover Cleveland (1837–1908), commonly known as Grover Cleveland, who served as the 22nd and 24th president of the United States, the only president to hold non-consecutive terms.

Grover is also the name of a popular character on the children's television program Sesame Street. Grover, a blue Muppet, first appeared on the show in 1969 and is known for his affectionate, curious, and sometimes clumsy personality. A superhero version called Super Grover has appeared in various episodes and specials.

In science, Grover's algorithm is a quantum search algorithm proposed by Lov Grover in 1996. It can locate a marked item in an unsorted database in roughly the square root of the number of items, offering a quadratic speedup over classical methods. The algorithm is a foundational result in quantum computing and has influenced further work on quantum search and optimization.