Casper may refer to:

People

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 ...

* Casper (surname) *

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 transcriptio ...

(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 *

Caspar David Friedrich Caspar David Friedrich (; 5 September 1774 – 7 May 1840) was a German Romanticism, German Romantic Landscape painting, landscape painter, generally considered the most important German artist of his generation, whose often symbolic, and anti ...

(born 1774), German Romantic painter * David Gray (snooker player) (born 1979), nicknamed Casper *

Casper (rapper) Benjamin Griffey (born 25 September 1982), better known by his stage name Casper, is a German rapper and singer with US roots signed to Sony Music.

(born 1982), German musician *

DJ Casper William Perry Jr. (May 31, 1965 – August 7, 2023), better known as DJ Casper (also known as Mr. C the Slide Man), was an American disc jockey. Born and raised in Chicago, he was known as "Casper the Friendly Ghost, Casper" due to frequently be ...

(1965–2023), American musician

Places in the United States

Casper, Wyoming Casper is a city in and the county seat of Natrona County, Wyoming, United States. Casper is the List of municipalities in Wyoming, second-most populous city in the state after Cheyenne, Wyoming, Cheyenne, with the population at 59,038 as of th ...

, a city * Casper Mountain, overlooking Casper, Wyoming

Entertainment

* Casper Gutman, the primary antagonist of '' The Maltese Falcon'' *

Casper the Friendly Ghost Casper the Friendly Ghost is a fictional character who serves as the protagonist of the Famous Studios theatrical animated cartoon series of the same name. He is a translucent ghost who is pleasant and personable, but often criticized by his thr ...

, a Paramount cartoon character owned by Harvey Comics ** Casper the Friendly Ghost in film, a series of films based on the Harvey Comics character *** ''Casper'' (film), a 1995 live-action film featuring Casper the Friendly Ghost *** '' Casper: A Spirited Beginning'', a direct-to-video prequel of the 1995 film *** '' Casper Meets Wendy'', a direct-to-video sequel to ''Casper: A Spirited Beginning'' *** ''

Casper's Haunted Christmas ''Casper's Haunted Christmas'' is a 2000 animated Christmas supernatural black comedy film produced by The Harvey Entertainment Company and Mainframe Entertainment, based on the character Casper the Friendly Ghost, and was released in the United ...

'', a direct-to-video animated feature set in Christmas Time *** '' Casper's Scare School'', second direct-to-video animated film ** ''

Casper and the Spectrals ''Casper and the Spectrals'' is a three-issue comic book miniseries published by Arden Entertainment, celebrating the 60th anniversary of Casper the Friendly Ghost. The series, which is a reimagining, gives the characters a modernized look and d ...

'', a 2009–2010 three-issue comic book miniseries that revamped Casper the Friendly Ghost ** ''Casper'' (video game), a series of video games based on the 1995 film * "Casper" (song), by Takeoff * "

The Day That Never Comes "The Day That Never Comes" is a song by heavy metal band Metallica, and the lead single from their ninth studio album, '' Death Magnetic''. The song was released to the radio and for digital download on August 21, 2008. The working title of th ...

", 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 as ''Evangelion'' or ''Eva'', is a Japanese mecha anime television series produced by Gainax and Tatsunoko Production, and directed by Hideaki Anno. It was broadcast on TV Tokyo and its affiliates from October 1995 to March 1 ...

Science and technology

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 (from INITial RAM File System) refer to two different methods o ...

, 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), Apollo spacecraft, used for the Apollo program, which landed astronauts on the Moon between 1969 and 1972. The CSM functi ...

of the Apollo 16 spacecraft

Transportation

Hyundai Casper The Hyundai Casper () 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 currently sold by Hyund ...

, a sport utility vehicle

Other uses

* , a World War II frigate *

Casper (admissions test) Casper (Computer-Based Assessment for Sampling Personal Characteristics, earlier CASPer or "CMSENS") is an admissions test developed by Harold Reiter and Kelly Dore. It was made for the McMaster University's Program for Educational Research and De ...

, a medical school admissions test *

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 *

Casper College Casper College is a Public college, 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 ...

, Casper, Wyoming, US *

Casper (skateboarding) Casper is a freestyle skateboarding trick that was invented by Bobby "Casper" Boyden in the late 1970s. Boyden had a very pale skin and he was nicknamed after the cartoon ghost. The modern casper was invented by Rodney Mullen in the late 1980s. ...

, a skateboarding trick *

Casper Sleep Casper Sleep Inc. (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 man ...

, a mattress manufacturer *

Casper's Casper's Famous Hot Dogs is a San Francisco Bay Area-based chain of hot dog restaurants established in 1934. The local chain was founded by Armenian American co-founders Kasper Koojoolian, Paul Agajan and Stephen Beklian who moved to California f ...