Caspar is a masculine given name. It may refer to:
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Caspar (magus), a name traditionally given to one of the Three Magi in the Bible who brought the baby Jesus gifts
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Caspar Austa
Caspar Austa (born 28 January 1982) is an Estonian cyclist. He competes in road racing, mountain biking
Mountain biking is a sport of riding bicycles off-road, often over rough terrain, usually using specially designed mountain bikes. Mountai ...
(born 1982), Estonian cyclist
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Caspar Badrutt
Swiss hotelier and tourism entrepreneur Caspar Badrutt (1848–1904) was almost singlehandedly responsible for the origin of several modern winter sporting activities. These began when he sought to provide opportunities fun and frolic on the pictur ...
(1848–1904), Swiss businessman and pioneer of alpine resorts
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Caspar Barlaeus (1584–1648), Dutch polymath, Renaissance humanist, theologian, poet and historian
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Caspar Bartholin the Elder
Caspar Bartholin the Elder (; 12 February 1585 – 13 July 1629) was a Danish physician, scientist and theologian.
Biography
Caspar Berthelsen Bartholin was born at Malmø, Denmark (modern Sweden). His precocity was extraordinary; at three year ...
(1585–1629), Danish theologian and medical professor
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Caspar Bartholin the Younger (1655–1738), Danish anatomist
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Caspar Buberl
Caspar Buberl (1834 – August 22, 1899) was an American sculptor. He is best known for his Civil War monuments, for the terra cotta relief panels on the Garfield Memorial in Cleveland, Ohio (depicting the various stages of James Garfield' ...
(1834–1899), American sculptor
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Caspar del Bufalo (1786–1837), Italian priest and saint
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Caspar Commelijn (1668–1731), Dutch botanist
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Caspar de Crayer (1582–1669), Flemish painter
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Caspar Cruciger the Younger Caspar Cruciger the Younger (19 March 1525 – 16 April 1597) was a German theologian and Protestant reformer.
Born in Wittenberg, he was the son of Caspar Cruciger the Elder and his wife, the hymnwriter and former nun Elisabeth von Meseritz. He ...
(1525–1597), German theologian, son of Caspar Creuziger
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Caspar Creuziger
Caspar Creuziger, also known as Caspar Cruciger the Elder (1 January 1504 – 16 November 1548), was a German Renaissance humanist and Protestant reformer. He was professor of Theology at the University of Wittenberg, preacher at the Castle Chur ...
or Caspar Cruciger the Elder (1504–1548), German humanist, professor of theology and preacher
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Caspar Einem (born 1948), Austrian politician
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Caspar Ett
Caspar Ett (5 January 1788, Eresing – 16 May 1847, München) was a German composer and organist
An organist is a musician who plays any type of organ. An organist may play solo organ works, play with an ensemble or orchestra, or accompany ...
(1788–1847), German composer and organist
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Caspar David Friedrich (1774–1840), German painter
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Caspar F. Goodrich (1847–1925), US Navy rear admiral
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Caspar René Gregory (1846–1917), American-born German theologian
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Caspar Frederik Harsdorff (1735–1799), Danish architect
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Caspar Hennenberger (1529–1600), German Lutheran pastor, historian and cartographer
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Caspar John
Admiral of the Fleet Sir Caspar John (22 March 1903 – 11 July 1984) was a senior Royal Navy officer who served as First Sea Lord from 1960 to 1963. He was a pioneer in the Fleet Air Arm and fought in the Second World War in a cruiser taking ...
(1903–1984), British First Sea Lord and admiral of the fleet
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Caspar Lee
Caspar Richard George Lee (born 24 April 1994) is a British-South African YouTuber turned investor and serial entrepreneur. He was featured in ''Forbes'' 30 Under 30 in 2020 for his work in media and advertising.
Career
Lee started his YouTube ...
(1994), South African YouTuber and actor
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Caspar Memering (born 1953), German former footballer
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Caspar Neher Caspar Neher (born Rudolf Ludwig Caspar Neher; 11 April 1897 – 30 June 1962) was an Austrian-German scenographer and librettist, known principally for his career-long working relationship with Bertolt Brecht.
Neher was born in Augsburg. He a ...
(1897–1962), Austrian-German scenographer and librettist, best known for his work with Bertolt Brecht
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Caspar Netscher
Caspar (or Gaspar) Netscher (1639 – January 15, 1684) was a Dutch portrait and genre painter. He was a master in depicting oriental rugs, silk and brocade and introduced an international style to the Northern Netherlands.
Life
According to Ar ...
(1639–1684), Dutch painter
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Caspar Olevian (1536–1587), German theologian
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Caspar Peucer (1525–1602), German reformer, physician and scholar
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Caspar Georg Carl Reinwardt
Caspar Georg Carl Reinwardt (5 June 1773 in Lüttringhausen – 6 March 1854 in Leiden) was a Prussian-born Dutch botanist. He is considered to be the founding father of Bogor Botanical Garden in Indonesia.
Biography
In 1787 he was ap ...
(1773–1854), Prussian-born Dutch botanist
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Caspar de Robles, (1527–1585), ruler of two provinces of the Netherlands
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Caspar Schoppe (1576–1649), German controversialist and scholar
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Caspar Schütz (c. 1540–1594), German historian
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Caspar Schwenckfeld (1489 or 1490–1561), German theologian, writer, preacher, Protestant Reformer and spiritualist
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Caspar Stoll
Caspar Stoll (Hesse-Kassel, probably between 1725 and 1730 – Amsterdam, December 1791) was a naturalist and entomologist, best known for the completion of ''De Uitlandsche Kapellen'', a work on butterflies begun by Pieter Cramer. He also publi ...
(probably between 1725 and 1730–1791), Dutch entomologist
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Caspar Voght (1752–1839), German merchant and social reformer
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Caspar Weinberger
Caspar Willard Weinberger (August 18, 1917 – March 28, 2006) was an American statesman and businessman. As a prominent Republican, he served in a variety of state and federal positions for three decades, including chairman of the Californ ...
(1917–2006), American politician and U.S. Secretary of Defense
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Caspar Wessel
Caspar Wessel (8 June 1745, Vestby – 25 March 1818, Copenhagen) was a Danish– Norwegian mathematician and cartographer. In 1799, Wessel was the first person to describe the geometrical interpretation of complex numbers as points in the comp ...
(1745–1818), Norwegian-Danish mathematician and cartographer
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Caspar Wistar (glassmaker)
Caspar Wistar (born Caspar Wüster) (February 3, 1696March 21, 1752) was a German-born glassmaker and landowner in Pennsylvania.
One of the first German colonists in Pennsylvania, he became a leader of that community and prospered in land transac ...
(1696–1752), German-born glassmaker and landowner in Pennsylvania
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Caspar Wistar (physician)
Caspar Wistar (September 13, 1761January 22, 1818) was an American physician and anatomist. He is sometimes referred to as Caspar Wistar the Younger, to distinguish him from his grandfather of the same name.
Biography
He was born at Philadelph ...
(1761–1818), American physician and anatomist, grandson of the above
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Caspar van Wittel
Caspar van Wittel or Gaspar van Wittel (born Jasper Adriaensz van Wittel; 1652 or 1653 – September 13, 1736), known in Italian as Gaspar Vanvitelli () or (), was a Dutch painter and draughtsman who had a long career in Rome. He played a p ...
(1652 or 1653–1736), Dutch painter
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Caspar Whitney
Caspar William Whitney (September 2, 1864 – January 18, 1929) was an American author, editor, explorer, outdoorsman and war correspondent. He originated the concept of the All-American team in college football in 1889 when he worked for '' Harp ...
(1864–1929), American author, editor, explorer and war correspondent
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Caspar Friedrich Wolff
Caspar Friedrich Wolff (18 January 1733 – 22 February 1794) was a German physiologist and one of the founders of embryology.
Life
Wolff was born in Berlin, Brandenburg. In 1759 he graduated as an M.D. from the University of Halle with his diss ...
(1735–1794), German physiologist and one of the founders of embryology
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Caspar Wrede
Baron Casper Gustaf Kenneth Wrede af Elimä, known as Caspar Wrede (8 February 1929 in Viipuri, Finland – 25 September 1998 in Helsinki, Finland), was a Finnish theatre and film director. He was long active in the English theatre, co-founding t ...
(1929–1998), Finnish film and theatre director
Places
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Caspar, California
Caspar is a unincorporated community in Mendocino County, California, Mendocino County, California, United States. It is located on the Pacific Ocean, north of Mendocino, California, Mendocino, at an elevation of . It is bounded on three sides by ...
Fictional characters
*Caspar von Bergliez, a fictional character from the video game ''
Fire Emblem: Three Houses''
See also
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Casper (given name)
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