People
- Eric Ober, an American broadcasting executive
- Frederick Albion Ober (1849 - 1913), an American writer and naturalist
- Harold Ober (1881–1959), an American literary agent
- Henry Kulp Ober, a former President of Elizabethtown College
- Josiah Ober, an American classicist and political scientist
- Ken Ober (1957 – 2009), an American TV host
- Margarethe Arndt-Ober (1885–1971), an American opera singer
- Philip Ober (1902 – 1982), an American actor.
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