Casper facts for kids

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 Gray (snooker player) (born 1979), nicknamed Casper
• Casper (rapper) (born 1982), German musician
• DJ Casper (born 1971), American musician

Places in the United States

• Casper, Wyoming, a city
• Casper Mountain, overlooking Casper, Wyoming

Entertainment

• Casper the Friendly Ghost, a Paramount cartoon character owned by Harvey Comics
  • Casper (film), a live-action film based on the Harvey Comics character
    • Casper the Friendly Ghost in film
  • Casper (video game), a series of video games based on the 1995 film
• "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

Science and technology

• Casper (persistency), a file used for persistency in Linux
• Casper, the Apollo Command/Service Module of the Apollo 16 spacecraft

Other uses

• USS Casper (PF-12), a World War II frigate
• Casper (cat) (c. 1997–2010), a cat famous for riding on buses
• CASPer, a medical school admissions test
• Casper College, Casper, Wyoming, US
• Casper (skateboarding), a skateboarding trick
• Casper Sleep, a mattress manufacturer
• a line of Swedish boardgames published by Target Games

See also

In Spanish: Casper para niños

• Caspar (disambiguation)
• CASPR, a human protein
• Casspir, a South African armored personnel carrier
• Gasper (disambiguation)
• Kasper (disambiguation)