Popper

Popper may refer to:

• Jalapeño popper, a type of food
• Poppers, the family of drugs that are a subset of a class of chemicals known as alkyl nitrites
• Poppers, a brand of frozen food owned by Heinz
• Popper (see Popping), a person dancing in a certain street/funk style
• Popper, a floating fishing lure or fly with a cupped or flat, forward-facing indentation that splashes the surface of the water with a popping sound when tugged
• A hip pop musician
• Popper, a ball that rises sharply from the pitch when bowled ('pops up') in cricket
• Popper, a Juicebox (Australian English)
• Popper buttons, another term for "snap fasteners"
• Poppers, an alternate name for tearaway pants in British English.
• Party popper, a small 'toy' filled with confetti streamers and a small explosive charge to release them
• Poppers, a slang term for Papadum, an Indian crisp wafer or cracker

Popper as a family name

• Albert Popper, Mayor of Vimperk and official doctor of the Schwarzenberg Princes
• Ami Popper, convicted murderer
• Catherine Popper, rock musician
• David Popper, composer and cellist
• David H. Popper, American diplomat
• Erwin Popper, Austrian physician
• Frank Popper, art historian
• Frank James Popper, Rutgers urban planner
• Joachim Edler von Popper, Court Jew and lessee of the Habsburg tobacco monopoly
• John Popper, musician and songwriter
• Josef Popper (1838–1921), Austrian engineer and author
• Julius Popper, Romanian explorer
• Karl Popper (1902–1994), philosopher of science, defender of liberal democracy
• Ota Pavel, Czech author (born Otto Popper)
• Robert Popper, comedy producer, writer and actor
• Siegfried Popper (1848–1933), Austrian naval constructor
• William Popper (1874–1963), American Orientalist

Poppers as a family name

• Jacob ben Benjamin Cohen Poppers, German rabbi; born at Prague in the middle of the 17th century
• Meir ben Judah Leib Poppers (ca 1624-1662), Bohemian rabbi and cabalist