Casper

Casper is a given name.

Casper or Caspar may also refer to:

People

• 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
• David Gray (snooker player) (born 1979), nicknamed Casper
• Casper (rapper) (born 1982), German musician
• DJ Casper (born 1971), American musician

Places in the United States

• Casper, Wyoming, a city
• Casper Mountain, overlooking Casper, Wyoming
• Fort Caspar, Wyoming, a former US Army military post on the National Register of Historic Places
• Caspar, California, a census-designated place

Entertainment

• Casper the Friendly Ghost in film
• Casper the Friendly Ghost, a Paramount cartoon character owned by Harvey Comics
  • Casper (film), a live-action film based on the Harvey Comics character
  • 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
• "The Day That Never Comes", a song by Metallica, working title "Casper"
• Casper, one of three parts of the biocomputer in the anime series Neon Genesis Evangelion

Organizations

• Casper College, Casper, Wyoming, US
• Caspar-Werke, a defunct German aircraft manufacturer
• Casper Sleep, a mattress manufacturer

Science and technology

• CASPAR digital preservation project
• Casper (persistency), a file used for persistency in Linux
• Casper, the Apollo Command/Service Module of the Apollo 16 spacecraft

Other uses

• USS Casper (PF-12), a World War II frigate
• Casper (cat) (c. 1997-2010), a cat famous for riding on buses
• Casper (skateboarding), a skateboarding trick
• CASPer, a medical school admissions test
• CASPR, a human protein
• Azerbaijan Caspian Shipping Company, abbreviated as Caspar

See also

• Casspir, a South African armored personnel carrier
• Kasper (disambiguation)