CASPER

'Casper' may mean:

Contents

People

Software

Other

See also

People

★ Casper (name)

★ Caspar del Bufalo, priest, founder of a religious order, and saint

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

★ Caspar Badrutt, Swiss businessman who virtually invented and popularized winter alpine resorts and consequently several winter sports.

★ Casper Van Dien, an American actor, notable for appearing in the film version of Starship Troopers.

★ Caspar Weinberger, an American politician and Secretary of Defense under President Ronald Reagan.

★ 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 ciy of Palenque.

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 (https://launchpad.net/products/casper)

Other

★ Casper the Friendly Ghost, a 20th-century cartoon character

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★ ''Casper'' (video game), a 1996 video game for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System and the Super Famicom featuring ''Casper the Friendly Ghost''

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★ ''Casper'' (film), a 1995 movie featuring ''Casper the Friendly Ghost''

★ Casper (skateboarding trick), a freestyle skateboarding trick ostensibly named in honor of its creator.

★ Casper, Wyoming, a city.

★ Center for Astronomy Signal Processing and Electronics Research (CASPER), an astronomy research group at the University of California, Berkeley

★ Caspar, California, a village.

See also

★ Kasper