Grose is a surname of two possible origins. Cornish origin: a toponymic surname for a person who lived near a stone cross, from Cornish "crows" or "crous" for "cross".^{[1] [2]} French origin: from Old French gros: "big, "fat", a variant of surname Gros.^[2]

Notable people with the surname include:

• Brent Grose (born 1979), Australian rugby league player
• Daniel Grose (1903-1971), English cricketer and British Army officer
• David Grose (1944–2004), American archaeologist
• Francis Grose (1731–1791), antiquary and lexicographer
• Francis Grose (Lieutenant-Governor) (circa 1754 – 1814), Lieutenant-Governor of New South Wales
• George Richmond Grose (1869–1953), American Methodist bishop
• Ingebrikt Grose (1862–1939), first president of Concordia College
• Ivan Grose (born 1928), Canadian businessman and politician
• John Henry Grose, British traveller
• Nash Grose (1740-1814), English Judge
• Walter Grose (1862–1940), Australian politician
• William Grose (1812–1900), American lawyer
• Mrs Grose, a fictional character, a housekeeper, in Henry James's novella The Turn of the Screw

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Surname list

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