Gröning or Groening is a Dutch surname meaning one who wears Green, or a variant of the German Grüning. and may refer to: Amy Groening, actress Bruno Gröning (1906–1959), was a healer from Germany Matt Groening (born 1954), American cartoonist, screenwriter and producer Oskar Gröning (1921–2018), German SS-Unterscharführer and Auschwitz concentration camp worker Peter Gröning (born 1939), former East German track cyclist Philip Gröning (born 1959), German director, documentary film maker, and screenwriter Torrie Groening (born 1961), Canadian artist German-language surnames Russian Mennonite surnames Dutch-language surnames