Prospero (disambiguation)

There are a number of things named Prospero:

Literature and culture

* Prospero, the protagonist of William Shakespeare’s play "The Tempest"
* Prospero, the name of characters in several other stage plays of the English Renaissance and Restoration eras, including "The Devil's Law Case" by John Webster (printed 1623) and "Flora's Vagaries" by Richard Rhodes (1663)
* A Prince Prospero, the protagonist of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Masque of the Red Death"
* Prospero, the name of the wizard protagonist of John Bellairs' novel The Face in the Frost
* The "Prospero", a ship in Lemony Snickets A Series of Unfortunate Events
* Prospero, former homeworld to the Thousand Sons Legion of Space Marines in "Warhammer 40,000"
* Prospero (band), a Canadian Industrial/Noise band
* Prospero (newspaper), the in-house magazine for retired BBC staff, named after the statue of Shakespeare's Prospero at Broadcasting House
* "Prospero's Cell", a book by Lawrence Durrell
* "Prospero's Books", a film written and directed by Peter Greenaway adapting the Shakespeare’s "The Tempest"
* "Prospero's Books (store)", a bookstore in Kansas City, Missouri that garnered national headlines
* Prospero, the name of a young alien in the comic book series PS238, named for the character in The Tempest

cience and nature

* Prospero (moon), the name of a moon of the planet Uranus
* "Prospero" (plant), a genus of plants in the family Hyacinthaceae
* The Prospero X-3, a satellite launched by the United Kingdom in 1971
* Prospero, a protein regulating the cell fate in the development of the fruit fly "Drosophila melanogaster" neuroblasts. It interacts with an adaptor protein that has been dubbed Miranda (Wodarz A. 2005 in Curr. Opin. Cell Biol. 17, 475-481)

Technology

* Prospero (file system), a global file system based on the Virtual System Model, and the protocol used to implement the file system
* Prospero Pascal, a Pascal compiler produced by Prospero Software of England
* Prospero (protocol), a directory protocol utilized by archie servers and clients in later years

People

* Two Italian saints:
* "San Prospero di Reggio Emilia" is an Italian saint (see Prosper of Reggio)
* "San Prospero martire", a martyr in Rome at the time Diocletian, his remains were translated to Catenanuova in Sicily in the eighteenth century
* Prospero Colonna (1452-1523), Italian condottiere
* Prospero Fagnani (died 1678), Italian canon lawyer
* Prospero Farinacci (1554-1618), Italian lawyer and judge, noted for his harsh sentencing
* Prospero Fontana (1512-1597), Italian painter of the late Renaissance
* Próspero Fernández Oreamuno, President of Costa Rica from 1882 to 1885
* Prospero Pichay, Jr. (born 1950), Philippine politician

Places

*San Prospero, a town in the Italian region Emilia-Romagna

ee also

*Prosper