Casper
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Casper may refer to:
People
[edit]- Casper (given name)
- Casper (surname)
- Casper (Maya ruler) (422–487?), ruler of the Mayan city of Palenque
- Tok Casper, first known king of Maya city-state Quiriguá in Guatemala, ruling beginning in 426
- Caspar David Friedrich (born 1774), German Romantic painter
- David Gray (snooker player) (born 1979), nicknamed Casper
- Casper (rapper) (born 1982), German musician
- DJ Casper (1965–2023), American musician
Places in the United States
[edit]- Casper, Wyoming, a city
- Casper Mountain, overlooking Casper, Wyoming
Entertainment
[edit]- Casper Gutman, the primary antagonist of The Maltese Falcon
- Casper the Friendly Ghost, a Paramount cartoon character owned by Harvey Comics
- Casper the Friendly Ghost in film, a series of films based on the Harvey Comics character
- Casper (film), a 1995 live-action film featuring Casper the Friendly Ghost
- Casper: A Spirited Beginning, a direct-to-video prequel of the 1995 film
- Casper Meets Wendy, a direct-to-video sequel to Casper: A Spirited Beginning
- Casper's Haunted Christmas, a direct-to-video animated feature set in Christmas Time
- Casper's Scare School, second direct-to-video animated film
- Casper and the Spectrals, a 2009-2010 three issued comic book miniseries that revamped Casper the Friendly Ghost
- Casper (video game), a series of video games based on the 1995 film
- Casper the Friendly Ghost in film, a series of films based on the Harvey Comics character
- "Casper" (song), by Takeoff
- "The Day That Never Comes", a song by Metallica with the working title "Casper"
- Casper, one of three parts of the biocomputer in the anime series Neon Genesis Evangelion
Science and technology
[edit]- Casper (persistency), a file used for persistency in Linux
- Casper, the Apollo Command/Service Module of the Apollo 16 spacecraft
Transportation
[edit]- Hyundai Casper, a sport utility vehicle
Other uses
[edit]- USS Casper (PF-12), a World War II frigate
- Casper (admissions test), a medical school admissions test
- Casper (cat) (c. 1997–2010), a cat famous for riding on buses
- Casper College, Casper, Wyoming, US
- Casper (skateboarding), a skateboarding trick
- Casper Sleep, a mattress manufacturer
- Casper's, a hot dog restaurant chain in Northern California
- a line of Swedish boardgames published by Target Games
See also
[edit]- Caspar (disambiguation)
- CASPR, a human protein
- Casspir, a South African armored personnel carrier
- Gasper (disambiguation)
- Kasper (disambiguation)