Granger (surname)
Granger is a surname of English and French origin. It is an occupational name for a farm bailiff. The farm bailiff oversaw the collection of rent and taxes from the barns and storehouses of the lord of the manor. This officer's Anglo-Norman title was grainger, and Old French grangier, both from French grange with the suffix -er / -ier, grange "barn" is from unattested Vulgar Latin *grānica, meaning "granary".
People
- A. O. Granger, American industrialist and soldier
- Amos P. Granger, U.S. Representative from New York
- Ann Granger, British author
- Betty Granger, Canadian education figure
- Bill Granger, Australian chef
- Bradley F. Granger, U.S. Representative from Michigan
- Charles Granger (politician), Canadian politician
- Charles Henry Granger, American artist
- Charles T. Granger, judge of the Iowa Supreme Court
- Clive Granger, British economist
- Christophe Granger, contemporary French historian
- Daniel L. D. Granger, U.S. Representative from Rhode Island
- Danny Granger, American basketball player
- David A. Granger, Guyanese soldier
- David M. Granger, editor-in-chief of Esquire Magazine
- David Granger (bobsleigh), American Olympic bobsledder
- David Granger (footballer), Australian rules footballer
- Dorothy Granger, American actress
- Édouard Rosset-Granger, French painter
- Ernest Granger, French politician
- Farley Granger, American actor
- Flavel K. Granger, American politician and farmer
- Francis Granger, U.S. Representative from New York
- Geddes Granger, Trinidad and Tobago politician
- Gideon Granger, American politician and lawyer
- Gilles-Gaston Granger, French philosopher
- Gordon Granger, U.S. soldier during the Civil War
- Hoyle Granger, American football player
- James Granger, English author and clergyman
- Jean-Pierre Granger, French painter
- Jedediah W. Granger, American politician in Wisconsin
- Jeff Granger, American baseball player
- John Granger, American author
- Kate Granger, English doctor who started the #hellomynameis campaign
- Kay Granger, U.S. Representative from Texas
- Keith Granger, English footballer
- Laurence Granger, French paintress
- Kenneth Granger, New Zealand rugby player
- Lester Granger, American civic leader
- Mademoiselle Granger, French actress
- Michael Granger, American actor
- Michael Granger (politician), American politician
- Michel Granger, French chemist and writer
- Michel Granger, French painter
- Michel Granger, teacher of American literature
- Michel Granger, French mathematician
- Mick Granger, English footballer
- Mike Granger, American sprinter
- Miles T. Granger, U.S. Representative from Connecticut
- Oliver Granger, U.S. Latter Day Saint figure
- Robert S. Granger, U.S. Army officer
- Scotty Granger, American singer, songwriter, music producer
- Stewart Granger, English actor
- Stewart Granger (basketball), Canadian professional basketball player
- Tasmeen Granger Zimbabwean cricketer
- Thomas Granger, first person hanged in the Massachusetts Bay Colony
- Thomas Colpitts Granger, British Radical politician and barrister
- Ursula Granger, enslaved cook of Thomas Jefferson
- W. R. Granger, American-born Canadian sports administrator
- Walter K. Granger, U.S. politician
- Walter W. Granger, American vertebrate paleontologist
- Wayne Granger, American professional baseball player
Fictional characters
- Becky Granger, on the ITV1 soap opera Coronation Street
- Colby Granger, in the television show Numb3rs
- Dawn Granger, one of the characters who were Dove, a DC Comics superhero
- Emmet Granger, in Red Dead Redemption 2
- Granger, Montag's guide outside the city in Fahrenheit 451
- Geraldine Granger, in the British sitcom The Vicar of Dibley
- Hermione Granger, in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series
- Hiro Granger, in the anime and manga series of Beyblade
- Jack Granger, in the video game Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars
- Lorelei Granger, in the book Frindle
- Terry Granger, in the 2014 film No Good Deed
- Tex Granger, in the 1948 Tex Granger movie serial
- Tyson Granger, in the anime and manga series of ''Beyblade''