Jasper (name)
| Jasper | |
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| Gender | male |
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| Related names | Casper, Gasper, Jesper |
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Jasper is a given name. Gaspare (Italian), Kaspar (German), Jasper or Kasper (Dutch), Jasper or Casper (English), Jesper (Scandinavian languages), Kacper (Polish), Gáspár (Hungarian) etc.
Famous people with the name Jasper or variants include:
Art
- Jasper Johns, US artist
- Jasper Francis Cropsey, 19th century US artist
Business
- Jasper (Jack) Daniel, US distiller and the founder of Jack Daniel's Tennessee whiskey distillery.
Design and fashion
- Jasper Conran, British fashion designer
- Jasper Morrison, British product and furniture designer
Entertainment
- Jasper Carrott, British comedian
- Jesper Christensen, Danish actor
- Jasper Duncombe, 7th Baron Feversham, adult film director
- Jasper Maskelyne, British stage magician
- Jasper Pääkkönen, Finnish actor
- Jasper Redd, US comedian
Finance
- Jasper Grosvenor, US financier
Literature
- Jasper Fforde, British novelist
- Jasper Griffin, British literary academic
- Jesper Harding, US publisher
- Jasper Ridley, British historical biographer
Music
- Jesper Kyd, Danish video game and film score composer
- Jesper Strömblad, Swedish musician
- Jezper Söderlund, also known as Airbase, a Swedish musician specialising in electronic music
Politics
- Jasper Ewing Brady, 18th century US politician
- Jasper K. Smith, American politician
- Sir Jasper More, British politician
- Jasper Wolfe, Irish politician
- Jesper Mattson Cruus af Edeby, Swedish soldier and politician
- Jasper Tsang Yok-sing, Hong Kong politician
Religion and theology
- Jasper Heywood, 16th century British theologian
- Jasper Mayne, 17th century English clergyman
- Jesper Swedberg, Swedish bishop, father of Emanuel Swedenborg
- Jasper Wilson, US Baptist preacher
Science
- Jasper Rine, US biologist
Sports
- Jasper Cillessen, Dutch football (soccer) goalkeeper
- Jasper Harvey, US football player
- Jasper Vinall, cricketer
- Jesper Appel, Swedish ice hockey player
- Jesper Blomqvist, Swedish football (soccer) player
- Jesper Christiansen, Danish football (soccer) goalkeeper
- Jesper Garnell, Danish boxer
- Jesper Grønkjær, Danish football (soccer) player
- Jesper Jansson, Swedish football (soccer) player
- Jesper Olsen, Danish football (soccer) player
- Jesper Parnevik, Swedish golfer
Other
- Jasper O'Farrell, US surveyor
- Jasper Tudor, 1st Duke of Bedford, half-brother of King Henry VI
Fictional characters
- Jasper Beardley, a character from the cartoon show, The Simpsons
- Jasper, another name for Tom from MGM's Tom and Jerry cartoons
- Jasper T. Jowls, a Chuck E. Cheese's character
- Jasper, a white dog from Family Guy
- Jasper, one of Cruella de Vil's henchmen in Disney's One Hundred and One Dalmatians
- Jasper Hale, of the Cullen family in Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series
- Jasper, young Ged's peer & antagonist at the wizardry school on the Island of Roke in Ursula K. Le Guin's novel A Wizard of Earthsea
- Jasper Morello, the protagonist of the short film The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello
- Jasper Jordan, character from The 100, one of 100 prisoners sent to Earth from the Arc in space in the year 2162.
- Jasper, one of the Homeworld gems in Steven Universe
- Jasper Milvain, an unsympathetic major character in New Grub Street, a novel by George Gissing
See also
All Wikipedia article titles beginning with:
- Jasper
- Jesper
References
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