Casper may refer to:
People
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Casper (given name)
Casper (with the same sounding Kasper) is a family and personal name derived from Aramaic that means "Treasurer". The origins of the name have been traced as far back as the Old Testament and variations of the name have been adopted by a variety ...
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Casper (surname)
Casper is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
*Anne Casper (born 1965), American diplomat and ambassador
*Billy Casper (1931–2015), American golfer
*Chris Casper (born 1975), English former footballer and football manager
*Dave ...
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Casper (Maya ruler)
"Casper",The real name of the ruler has not been deciphered. He was given the nickname Casper by Mayanist scholar Floyd Lounsbury because his name glyph is said to resemble the cartoon character Casper the Friendly Ghost. Incomplete transcription ...
(422–487?), ruler of the Mayan city of Palenque
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Tok Casper, first known king of Maya city-state Quiriguá in Guatemala, ruling beginning in 426
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David Gray (snooker player) (born 1979), nicknamed Casper
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Casper (rapper) (born 1982), German musician
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DJ Casper
Willie Perry Jr. (born May 31, 1971), best known as DJ Casper, is an American DJ and songwriter. Perry Jr. was raised in Englewood, Chicago, and is known as Casper because he almost always wears white clothing on stage. He is also known as Mr. C ...
(born 1971), American musician
Places in the United States
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Casper, Wyoming
Casper is a city in, and the county seat of, Natrona County, Wyoming, United States. Casper is the second-largest city in the state, with the population at 59,038 as of the 2020 census. Only Cheyenne, the state capital, is larger. Casper is nic ...
, a city
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Casper Mountain
Casper Mountain, an anticline, is located at the north end of the Laramie Mountains overlooking Casper, Wyoming along the North Platte River. At a top elevation of , the geological feature rises approximately above Casper.
Recreation
Ca ...
, overlooking Casper, Wyoming
Entertainment
* Casper Gutman, the primary antagonist of ''
The Maltese Falcon.''
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Casper the Friendly Ghost, a Paramount cartoon character owned by Harvey Comics
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Casper the Friendly Ghost in film, a series of films based on the Harvey Comics character
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''Casper'' (film), a 1995 live-action film featuring Casper the Friendly Ghost
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Casper: A Spirited Beginning'', a direct-to-video prequel of the 1995 film
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Casper Meets Wendy
''Casper Meets Wendy'' is a 1998 American fantasy comedy film based on the Harvey Comics cartoon characters Casper the Friendly Ghost and Wendy the Good Little Witch. The film is a sequel to '' Casper: A Spirited Beginning'', and is the second s ...
'', a direct-to-video sequel to ''Casper: A Spirited Beginning''
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Casper's Haunted Christmas
''Casper's Haunted Christmas'' is a 2000 computer-animated Christmas supernatural dark comedy film produced by Harvey Comics and Mainframe Entertainment, based on the character Casper the Friendly Ghost, and was released by Universal Studios Home V ...
'', a direct-to-video animated feature set in Christmas Time
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Casper's Scare School
''Casper's Scare School'' (also known as ''Casper's Scare School: The Movie'') is a 2006 computer animated television film based on the Harvey Comics cartoon character Casper the Friendly Ghost. The film premiered on Cartoon Network on October 2 ...
'', second direct-to-video animated film
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Casper and the Spectrals
''Casper and the Spectrals'' is a three-issue comic book miniseries published by Ardden Entertainment, celebrating the 60th anniversary of Casper the Friendly Ghost.
The series gives the characters a modernized look and design while living in a gr ...
'', a 2009-2010 three issued comic book miniseries that revamped Casper the Friendly Ghost
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''Casper'' (video game), a series of video games based on the 1995 film
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"Casper" (song), by Takeoff
* "
The Day That Never Comes", a song by Metallica with the working title "Casper"
* Casper, one of three parts of the biocomputer in the anime series ''
Neon Genesis Evangelion
, also known simply as ''Evangelion'' or ''Eva'', is a Japanese mecha anime television series produced by Gainax and animated by Tatsunoko, directed by Hideaki Anno and broadcast on TV Tokyo from October 1995 to March 1996. ''Evangelion' ...
''
Science and technology
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Casper (persistency)
In Linux systems, initrd (''initial ramdisk'') is a scheme for loading a temporary root file system into memory, to be used as part of the Linux startup process. initrd and initramfs refer to two different methods of achieving this. Both are comm ...
, a file used for persistency in Linux
* Casper, the
Apollo Command/Service Module
The Apollo command and service module (CSM) was one of two principal components of the United States Apollo spacecraft, used for the Apollo program, which landed astronauts on the Moon between 1969 and 1972. The CSM functioned as a mother ship ...
of the Apollo 16 spacecraft
Transportation
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Hyundai Casper
The Hyundai Casper ( ko, 현대 캐스퍼) is a crossover city car produced by the South Korean automobile manufacturer Hyundai. It is the smallest crossover SUV ever offered by the brand, and also the smallest automobile of any kind that is curr ...
, a sport utility vehicle
Other uses
* , a World War II frigate
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Casper (cat)
Casper ( 1997 – 14 January 2010) was a male domestic cat who attracted worldwide media attention in 2009 when it was reported that he was a regular bus commuter in Plymouth in Devon, England. He appeared on BBC News, was the subject of a news ...
(c. 1997–2010), a cat famous for riding on buses
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CASPer
Casper may refer to:
People
* Casper (given name)
* 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 ...
, a medical school admissions test
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Casper College
Casper College is a public community college in Casper, Wyoming. It is one of the largest and most comprehensive community colleges in the region. Established in 1945 as Wyoming's first junior college and initially located on the third floor o ...
, Casper, Wyoming, US
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Casper (skateboarding)
Casper is a freestyle skateboarding trick that was invented by Bobby "Casper" Boyden in the late 1970s. Bo removes his back foot from the board and uses his front foot to turn the board back to its normal position with a motion that resembles an ...
, a skateboarding trick
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Casper Sleep
Casper Sleep (also known as Casper) is an e-commerce company that sells sleep products online and in retail locations. Headquartered in New York City, the company has showrooms in New York City, Chicago, and elsewhere. Its mattresses are manufact ...
, a mattress manufacturer
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Casper's
Casper's Famous Hot Dogs is a San Francisco Bay Area-based chain of hot dog restaurants established in 1934. They currently have 7 locations including Dublin, 2 in Hayward, Oakland, Pleasant Hill, Richmond, and Walnut Creek
A walnut is ...
, a hot dog restaurant chain in Northern California
* a line of Swedish boardgames published by
Target Games
Target Games was a Swedish publisher of role-playing games active from 1980 until the year 1999 when they went into bankruptcy proceedings. Until the mid-1990s they published their Swedish roleplaying games under the brand name Äventyrsspel (me ...
See also
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Caspar (disambiguation) Caspar is a masculine given name.
Caspar may also refer to:
* Caspar, California, a census-designated place
* Fort Caspar, Wyoming, a former US Army military post on the National Register of Historic Places
* CASPAR digital preservation project
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CASPR
CASPR also known as Contactin associated protein 1, Paranodin and CASPR1 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the CNTNAP1 gene.
CASPR is a part of the neurexin family of proteins, hence its another name "Neurexin IV". CASPR is a membrane pr ...
, a human protein
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Casspir, a South African armored personnel carrier
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Gasper (disambiguation)
Gasper may refer to:
Places
* Gasper, Kentucky, U.S.
* Gasper River, a river in southwestern Kentucky, U.S.
* Gasper Township, Ohio, U.S.
* Gasper, Wiltshire, England, UK
People
* Gasper (name)
* Gasper (Gondophares), Indo-Parthian king, traditi ...
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Kasper (disambiguation) Kasper may refer to:
* Kasper (surname), a list of people with the surname
* Kasper (given name), a list of people with the given name
* Käsper (surname), an Estonian surname
* Kasper (singer), Korean rapper
* Kasperle or Kasper, a traditional pu ...
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