Casper

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Casper or Caspar may mean:

Contents 1 People 1.1 Surname 2 Software 3 Places in the United States 4 Other 5 See also

[edit] 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
• A king of the Mayan city of Palenque

[edit] Surname

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

[edit] Software

• 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
• 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. [1]

[edit] Places in the United States

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

[edit] 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)

[edit] See also

• Kasper