Casper

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Casper is a given name. Traditionally, one of the Biblical Magi is named Casper, also spelled Caspar and Gaspar.

Casper may refer to:

People

Given name

• Casper (Maya ruler) (422–487?), ruler of the Mayan city of Palenque
• Caspar Badrutt (1848-1904), Swiss businessman and pioneer of alpine resorts
• Casper ten Boom (1859-1944), Dutch watchmaker who aided Jews during the Holocaust
• Caspar Buberl (1834-1899), American sculptor
• Caspar del Bufalo (1786-1837), Italian priest and saint
• Caspar de Robles, (1527-1585), ruler of two provinces of the Netherlands
• Caspar Einem (born 1948), Austrian politician
• Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840), German painter
• Caspar John (1903-1984), Dutch commander
• Caspar Netscher (1639-1684), Dutch painter
• Casper Van Dien (born 1968), American actor
• Caspar Weinberger (1917-2006), American politician and U.S. Secretary of Defense
• Caspar Weinberger Jr. (born 1947), American writer
• Casper Wells (born 1984), Major League Baseball player
• Casper (rapper) (born 1982), German musician
• DJ Casper, American musician
• Nickname of David Gray (snooker player) (born 1979)

Surname

• Billy Casper (born 1931), American golfer
• Chris Casper (born 1975), English former footballer and football manager
• Dave Casper (born 1951), American professional football player
• Donald Caspar (born 1927), American scientist
• Drew Casper, American film historian and theorist
• Gerhard Casper (born 1937), ninth president of Stanford University
• John Casper (born 1943), astronaut and U.S. Air Force colonel
• Joseph Caspar (1799-1847), Swiss painter
• Siegfried Jost Casper (born 1929), German biologist
• Tok Casper, first known king of Maya city-state Quiriguá in Guatemala, ruling beginning in 426

Places

• Casper, Wyoming, a city
• Casper Mountain, overlooking Casper, Wyoming
• Caspar, California, a census-designated place

Entertainment

• Casper the Friendly Ghost, Paramount cartoon character owned by Harvey Comics
  • Casper (film), 1995 film featuring Casper the Friendly Ghost
  • Casper (video game), series of video games based on the film
  • Casper (handheld video game), Game Boy game based on the film
• "Casper", the working title of the song "The Day That Never Comes" by Metallica
• Casper, one of three parts of the biocomputer in the anime series Neon Genesis Evangelion

Other uses

• USS Casper (PF-12), a World War II frigate
• Casper (cat), a cat famous for riding on buses
• Casper (skateboarding), a skateboarding trick
• The command module of the Apollo 16 spacecraft
• CASPAR digital preservation project
• Caspar-Werke, a defunct German aircraft manufacturer

See also

• Casspir, South African armored personnel carrier
• Kasper (disambiguation)

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