Rover may refer to:

People

Name

• Constance Rover (1910–2005), English historian
• Jolanda de Rover (born 1963), Dutch swimmer
• Rover Thomas (c. 1920–1998), Indigenous Australian artist

Stage name

• Rover (musician), French singer-songwriter and musician, born Timothée Régnier in 1979

Places

• Rover, Arkansas, US
• Rover, Missouri, US
• Rover, West Virginia, US
• Røver Anchorage, Bouvet Island, Norway
• Rover Creek, British Columbia, Canada

Arts and entertainment

Literature

• Rover, the US title of They Came on Viking Ships, a children's novel by Jackie French
• The Rover (story paper), a British boys' story paper which started in 1922

Music

• "Rover" (BlocBoy JB song), 2018
  • "Rover 2.0", a 2018 remake by BlocBoy JB featuring 21 Savage from the mixtape Simi
• "Rover" (S1mba song), 2020 viral hit by S1mba featuring DTG
• "Rover" (UCLA song), a sports cheer at the University of California Los Angeles
• "The Rover" (Led Zeppelin song), a song by Led Zeppelin on their 1975 double album Physical Graffiti
• "The Irish Rover", an Irish folk song about a magnificent sailing ship that reaches an unfortunate end
• Rover (EP), a 2023 extended play by Kai
  • Rover (Kai song)

Fiction

• Rover (robot dog), a character on Lunar Jim always helping on Jim's missions
• Rover (The Prisoner), a fictional balloon device in the 1967 British television program The Prisoner
• Rover, the main character in the novella Roverandom by J.R.R. Tolkien
• Rover, the name of two vehicles with artificial intelligence, built by Marvel Comics' Hank Pym
• The Rovers, an informal name for the Rovers Return Inn, a fictional pub in British soap opera Coronation Street

Television

• Rovers (TV series), a British television show

Science

• Rover (space exploration), a vehicle that explores the surface of an astronomical body
  • Lunar rover, a vehicle designed to move across the surface of the Moon
  • Mars rover, a vehicle designed to explore the surface of Mars
• ROVER, a military system that receives video images from aircraft

Sport

• Rover (ice hockey), a long-defunct ice hockey position
• Rover, a position in Australian rules football

Transport

Automobiles and motorcycles

• Freight Rover (1981–1986), a commercial vehicle manufacturing division of Leyland
• Land Rover Group (1981–1987), a light commercial vehicle division of Leyland
• Land Rover, a brand of 4-wheel drive vehicles by the British manufacturer Jaguar Land Rover
• MG Rover Group (2000–2005), a British mass-production car manufacturer, formerly the Rover Group
• Rover Company (1885–1967), a British car manufacturing company, absorbed into Leyland Motor Corporation
• Rover Group (1986–2000), a British car manufacturer, previously known as British Leyland
• Rover Light Armoured Car, an armoured car produced in Australia during World War II
• Rover (marque), British automotive marque (brand) in use from 1904 to 2005
• Rover (motorcycles), a British bicycle and motorcycle manufacturer before it began the manufacture of motor cars

Business (transport)

• Rover (ticket), a type of bus or train travel card ticket issued in the UK
• Rover Coaches, an Australian bus company operating services in the Hunter Valley

Locomotives

• GWR Rover class, a class of locomotives on the Great Western Railway
• Rover, a GWR 3031 Class locomotive in service on the Great Western Railway between 1891 and 1915

Watercraft

• HMS Rover, the name of seven ships of the Royal Navy
• Rover (barque), the American merchant ship involved in the Rover Incident of 1867
• Rover (log canoe), a Chesapeake Bay log canoe, built about 1886
• Rover (privateering ship), a ship from Nova Scotia, launched in 1800
• Rover (yacht), a luxury steam yacht built for P&O chairman, Lord Inchcape, in 1930
• Rover-class tanker, a class of ships in the Royal Fleet Auxiliary of the UK

Other uses

• Rover (fish), common name for fish in the family Emmelichthyidae
• Rover chair, designed by industrial designer Ron Arad
• Rover Ruckus, the fourteenth FIRST Tech Challenge game
• Rover Scout, a programme within Scouting in some countries for young men and women above the age range for Boy and Girl Scouts
• Rover.com (website), a Seattle-based company selling pet services

See also

• Rovere (disambiguation)
• The Rover (disambiguation)
• Rovers (disambiguation)