Casper
Casper or Caspar may mean:
People
- Casper (name), information on name and alternate forms
- Caspar Badrutt, Swiss businessman who virtually invented and popularized winter alpine resorts and consequently several winter sports
- Caspar del Bufalo, priest, founder of a religious order, and saint
- Casper Van Dien, an American actor, notable for appearing in the film version of Starship Troopers
- Caspar Weinberger, United States Secretary of Defense under President Ronald Reagan
- DJ Casper, an American disk jockey who released the UK #1 single "Cha Cha Slide"
- Caspar, one of the Three Biblical Magi (or Three Wise Men) derived from the Persian for treasurer, who presents a gift of gold
- "Casper", the nickname of a 5th Century ruler of the Mayan city of Palenque whose real name has not been deciphered.
- Caspar David Friedrich, a German Romantic painter.
Surname
- Drew Casper, an award-winning Professor of Critical Studies in the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California
Software
- CASPAR digital preservation project, a project about digital preservation, full name "Cultural, Artistic and Scientific knowledge for Preservation, Access and Retrieval"
- A software package that allows initramfs-based Linux systems to boot from read-only media
- A tool created by researchers at the University of Oxford to automate the verification of security protocols. [1]
Places in the United States
- Casper, Wyoming, a city
- Caspar, California, a village
Other
- Casper the Friendly Ghost, a Paramount cartoon character owned by Harvey Comics
- Casper (film), a 1995 movie featuring Casper the Friendly Ghost
- Casper (video game), a series of video games based on the movie
- Casper (skateboarding trick), a freestyle skateboarding trick ostensibly named in honor of its creator
- Center for Astronomy Signal Processing and Electronics Research (CASPER), an astronomy research group at the University of California, Berkeley
- The command module of the Apollo 16 spacecraft (see Apollo Command/Service Module)
- One of three parts of the biocomputer located in NERV's First Branch in the anime series Neon Genesis Evangelion — see Neon Genesis Evangelion glossary
See also
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