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Granville (1933–??) was an American Hall of Fame Thoroughbred racehorse. He was the leading American colt of his generation, winning the Belmont Stakes and being voted Horse of the Year.

Granville is an American pop band formed in Frederick, Maryland in May, 2005 as the band project of singer songwriter Brian Myers. It was originally made up of Brian Myers (singer-songwriter, vocals, guitar), Zak Mabie (bass, violin), Butch Burrows (lead guitar, pedal steel guitar), and Sam Stillwel (drums). Brian was originally in The Brian Damage Band, Zak was in Magister Ludi, and Butch was in Miller Station. The name is a tribute to Brian's great grandfather Granville Elias Coppersmith. They play Americana roots-influenced music which crosses over in style from rock to pop to blues to country.

They became popular on radio and on the internet. Recording for Jug Bridge Music, they released their debut album Feather and Heart on November 26, 2005. The single from the album "The Brightest Light" was a true cross-over hit charting on Top 40, Adult Contemporary, College and Country radio. The band received two nominations for the 2006 New Music Awards and received the award for the best new band in the College category.

Brian Myers continued writing material for Granville from his home in Orange County, California and later released a sophomore record Golden State performing the tracks as a multi-instrumentalist and without the original band lineup.

Granville is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include:

Granville is a fictional character played by David Jason in the British sitcom Open All Hours and its sequel, Still Open All Hours. Granville is an errand boy to his uncle and employer, Arkwright, who is the proprietor of an old-fashioned Yorkshire corner shop.

Granville was born to Arkwright's sister, who died while Granville was a young child, leaving Arkwright as his sole guardian. Granville's father's identity is not known, as his mother is implied to be a woman of loose morals, and Arkwright considers him to have likely been a Hungarian. Raised alone by Arkwright, Granville is often curious and engrossed in thoughts about who his father was and saddened not to have known his mother.

Although a kind provider (as long as it isn't too stressful on his wallet), Arkwright's miserly and eccentric personality makes him withdraw Granville from school and he starts helping in his uncle's shop at age eleven. The tedious routine weighs heavily on Granville, who hates getting up well before dawn in the morning and not being free until nine at night. He is poorly paid, at three pounds a week, and is made to pay for anything he helps himself to from the shop shelves, even if Arkwright gave it to him. He is curious and anxious to explore the outside world and mingle with his peers, especially girls. Granville spends most of the day dreaming of being somewhere else, or doing something else, a custom which is seen as alien in the working class Yorkshire environment. Granville seems fairly sharp and quick witted, and is often quick to make satirical jokes about Arkwright's stammer or mannerisms whilst he will often flippantly make fun at customers to their faces, all of them seemingly being too unintelligent to realise this.

Unlike his uncle who is a practical man (and a miser), Granville is a carefree man, yet is treated as if he is still a child. Granville's mundane existence is only brightened up by the milkwoman ( Barbara Flynn), the only person other than Arkwright who is awake at the same time as him in the mornings. Despite his attraction to her, she is more worldly wise than he is and likes men of the same calibre as herself, but she is generally sympathetic towards Granville, and they have kissed on several occasions.

By the time of Still Open All Hours, Arkwright has long died and Granville has inherited the shop as promised by Arkwright, and has a young son, Leroy. Despite their radically different personalities and views on life, however, Granville has become much like Arkwright in his old age, such as light-heartedly mocking Leroy over his mother's identity, and attempting to make money out of every customer who walks into the shop, even by telling fibs about certain items such as anchovy paste. At one point, Granville opens a bottle of whisky to pour a drink for a promoter, and then charges him for the whole bottle. As a tribute, Granville keeps a framed photograph of Arkwright in the kitchen. He occasionally speaks to the photo as if speaking to Arkwright, and continues to mock his late uncle's stutter as a joke.

Granville is a music band from Caen, France, consisting of Mélissa Dubourg, Sofian El Gharrafi and Arthur Allizard. The band started in 2011 and is named for the French town Granville. The band is influenced by 1960s music and artists including Serge Gainsbourg, France Gall and Françoise Hardy and other artists including Girl group, Dreamhouse and Best Coast.

French magazine Le Point describes their music as Anglo-Saxon garage rock and yéyé revisited melodies". Another magazine Les Inrockuptibles called their In 2012, Granville performed at Festival Papillons de nuit and Rock en Seine.

The band released their first album entitled Les Voiles in 2013, which magazine Les Inrockuptibles called "disc pop very precisely American charm that brought a West Coast wind, it is a dozen romantic and naive ballads".