Pascal

This is a disambiguation page. For other uses, see Pascal (given name) or Pascal (surname)

Pascal or PASCAL may refer to:

People

• Pascal (given name), a French given name
• Pascal (surname), a French and Italian surname
• Blaise Pascal (1623–1662), French mathematician and philosopher
• Adam Pascal (born 1970), American actor and singer, best known for his role of Roger Davis in the Broadway musical Rent
• Cleo Paskal, environmental scientist
• Pascal (musician), stage name of drum and bass musician Pascal Redpath.
• Pascal Etcheber, the author of "Vagabond Earth"

Things named after Blaise Pascal

• Pascal (unit) (Pa), the SI unit of pressure (equivalent to one newton per square meter)
• Pascal (programming language), a programming language developed by Niklaus Wirth between 1968 and 1969
• Pascal distribution, a special case of the negative binomial distribution
• Pascal's triangle, a geometric arrangement of the binomial coefficients in a triangle
• Pascal's law, a physics principle relating pressure at various points in an incompressible fluid
• Pascal (crater), a lunar crater
• Pascal's theorem, also known as the Hexagrammum Mysticum Theorem
• Pascal's Wager, a philosophical argument for belief in God

Fictional characters

• Pascal, the main character in the film The Red Balloon
• Pascal, a character in the television series Beauty and the Beast (TV series), portrayed by Armin Shimerman
• Pascal, a character in the novel Felidae (novel) and in the movie Felidae (film), voiced by Klaus Maria Brandauer
• Pascal (Nintendo), a character from the Nintendo video game series Animal Crossing
• Pascal Curious, a character from The Sims 2
• Pascal, a character from Tales of Graces
• Mattia Pascal, the main character in The Late Mattia Pascal, novel by Luigi Pirandello
• Pascal: the name of the pet chameleon of the main heroine Rapunzel in the film Tangled (2010)

Other uses

• PASCAL (database), a scientific bibliographic database maintained by INIST
• Pascal blanc, a French white wine grape
• Pascal, an alias of Flip & Fill, dance music producers Graham Turner and Mark Hall
• Pascal Photocoagulator, a pattern scan laser used in ophthalmology
• J. Pascal's Furniture and Hardware, a Montreal hardware and furniture store trading under the name “Pascal”
• Pascal College, school in Zaandam, the Netherlands, for pre-university secondary education
• Pattern Analysis, Statistical Modelling and Computational Learning (PASCAL), a Network of Excellence funded by the European Union, which supports collaboration between experts in Machine Learning, Statistics and Optimization
• Pascal (programming language) Programming language intended to encourage good programming practices using structured programming and data structuring

See also

• Paschal (disambiguation)
• Pasqual (disambiguation)
• Pascual (disambiguation)
• Pasquale (disambiguation)
• PAS/CAL, a pop band from Detroit, Michigan
• Royal Malaysian Navy PASKAL, special forces unit