Biography Casper

Casper may mean:
People
- Casper , information on name and alternate forms
- Caspar del Bufalo, priest, founder of a religious order, and saint
- Drew Casper, an award-winning Professor of Critical Studies in the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California.
- Caspar Badrutt, Swiss businessman who virtually invented and popularized winter alpine resorts and consequently several winter sports.
- Casper Van Dien, an American actor, notable for appearing in the film version of Starship Troopers.
- Caspar Weinberger, an American politician and 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.
- A king of the Mayan city of Palenque.
Software
- 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
- 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
Place names
- Casper, Wyoming, a city.
- Caspar, California, a village.
Other
- Casper the Friendly Ghost, a Paramount cartoon character owned by Harvey Comics
- Casper , a 1995 movie featuring Casper the Friendly Ghost
- Casper , a series of video games based on the movie.
- Casper , 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 also
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