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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

  • Kasper


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