Popper

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Popper may refer to:

• Jalapeño popper, a type of food
• Poppers, the family of drugs that are a subset of a class of chemicals known as alkyl nitrites
• Poppers, a brand of frozen food owned by Heinz
• Popper (see Popping), a person dancing in a certain street/funk style
• Popper, a floating Sea Fishing Poppers or fly with a cupped or flat, forward-facing indentation that splashes the surface of the water with a popping sound when tugged
• A hip pop musician
• Popper, a ball that rises sharply from the pitch when bowled ('pops up') in cricket
• Popper, a Juicebox (Australian English)
• Popper buttons, another term for "snap fasteners"
• Poppers, an alternate name for tearaway pants in British English
• Party popper, a small 'toy' filled with confetti streamers and a small explosive charge to release them
• Bang snaps, small novelty fireworks that produce a loud snapping sound when thrown on the ground
• Poppers, a slang term for Papadum, an Indian crisp wafer or cracker
• Poppers, a cartoon strip by Jerry Mills

People

• Albert Popper (1808-1889), Mayor of Vimperk and official doctor of the Schwarzenberg Princes
• Ami Popper (born 1969), convicted murderer
• Catherine Popper (born 1973), rock musician
• David Popper (1843-1913), Bohemian composer and cellist
• David H. Popper (1912-2008), American diplomat
• Erwin Popper (1879-1955), Austrian physician
• Frank Popper (born 1918), art historian
• Frank J. Popper (born 1944), Rutgers urban planner
• Ilona Novák-Popper (born 1925), Hungarian swimmer
• Joachim Edler von Popper (1722-1795), Court Jew and lessee of the Habsburg tobacco monopoly
• John Popper (born 1967), musician and songwriter
• Josef Popper (1838–1921), Austrian engineer and author
• Julius Popper (1857-1893), Romanian explorer
• Karl Popper (1902–1994), philosopher of science, defender of liberal democracy
• Ota Pavel (1930-1973), Czech author (born Otto Popper)
• Robert Popper, comedy producer, writer and actor
• Siegfried Popper (1848–1933), Austrian naval constructor
• Meir ben Judah Leib Poppers (ca 1624-1662), Bohemian rabbi and cabalist