Casper

Casper or Caspar may mean:

People

* Casper (name), information on name and alternate forms
* Caspar Badrutt, Swiss businessman who virtually invented and popularized winter alpine resorts and consequently several winter sports
* Caspar del Bufalo, priest, founder of a religious order, and saint
* Casper Van Dien, an American actor, notable for appearing in the film version of "Starship Troopers"
* Caspar Weinberger, United States Secretary of Defense under President Ronald Reagan
* DJ Casper, an American disk jockey who released the UK #1 single "Cha Cha Slide"
* Caspar, one of the Three Biblical Magi (or Three Wise Men) derived from the Persian for "treasurer", who presents a gift of gold
* "Casper", the nickname of a 5th Century ruler of the Mayan city of Palenque whose real name has not been deciphered.
*Caspar David Friedrich, a German Romantic painter.

urname

* Drew Casper, an award-winning Professor of Critical Studies in the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California

oftware

* CASPAR digital preservation project, a project about digital preservation, full name "Cultural, Artistic and Scientific knowledge for Preservation, Access and Retrieval"
* A software package that allows initramfs-based Linux systems to boot from read-only media
* A tool created by researchers at the University of Oxford to automate the verification of security protocols. [http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/people/gavin.lowe/Security/Casper/index.html]

Places in the United States

* Casper, Wyoming, a city
* Caspar, California, a village

Other

* Casper the Friendly Ghost, a Paramount cartoon character owned by Harvey Comics
** "Casper" (film), a 1995 movie featuring Casper the Friendly Ghost
** "Casper" (video game), a series of video games based on the movie
* Casper (skateboarding trick), a freestyle skateboarding trick ostensibly named in honor of its creator
* Center for Astronomy Signal Processing and Electronics Research (CASPER), an astronomy research group at the University of California, Berkeley
* The command module of the Apollo 16 spacecraft (see Apollo Command/Service Module)
* One of three parts of the biocomputer located in NERV's First Branch in the anime series "Neon Genesis Evangelion" — see Neon Genesis Evangelion glossary

ee also

*Kasper