Jasper (name)
This article is about the given name. For other uses, see Jasper (disambiguation).
| Jasper | |
|---|---|
| Gender | male |
| Origin | |
| Word/name | Persian |
| Meaning | Treasurer |
| Other names | |
| Related names | Caspar, Gasparo, Jesper, Kacper |
Jasper is a given name commonly believed to be of ancient Persian origin, meaning "Treasurer".[1]
Famous people with the name Jasper or variants include:
Art
- Jasper Johns, US artist
- Jasper Francis Cropsey, 19th century US artist
Business
- Jasper (Jack) Daniel, US distiller and the founder of Jack Daniel's Tennessee whiskey distillery.
Design and fashion
- Jasper Conran, British fashion designer
- Jasper Morrison, British product and furniture designer
Entertainment
- Jasper Carrott, British comedian
- Jesper Christensen, Danish actor
- Jasper Duncombe, 7th Baron Feversham, adult film director
- Jasper Maskelyne, British stage magician
- Jasper Pääkkönen, Finnish actor
- Jasper Redd, US comedian
- Jasper (actor), Tamil actor
Finance
- Jasper Grosvenor, US financier
Literature
- Jasper Fforde, British novelist
- Jasper Griffin, British literary academic
- Jesper Harding, US publisher
- Jasper Ridley, British historical biographer
Music
- Jesper Koch, Danish composer.
- Jesper Kyd, Danish video game and film score composer
- Jesper Strömblad, Swedish musician
- Jezper Söderlund, also known as Airbase, a Swedish musician specialising in electronic music
Politics
- Jasper Ewing Brady, 19th century US politician
- Jasper K. Smith, American politician
- Sir Jasper More, British politician
- Jasper Wolfe, Irish politician
- Jesper Mattson Cruus af Edeby, Swedish soldier and politician
- Jasper Tsang Yok-sing, Hong Kong politician
Religion and theology
- Jasper Heywood, 16th century British theologian
- Jasper Mayne, 17th century English clergyman
- Jesper Swedberg, Swedish bishop, father of Emanuel Swedenborg
- Jasper Wilson, US Baptist preacher
Science
- Jasper Rine, US biologist
Sports
- Jasper Cillessen, Dutch football (soccer) goalkeeper
- Jasper Harvey, US football player
- Jasper Vinall, cricketer
- Jesper Appel, Swedish ice hockey player
- Jesper Blomqvist, Swedish football (soccer) player
- Jesper Christiansen, Danish football (soccer) goalkeeper
- Jesper Garnell, Danish boxer
- Jesper Grønkjær, Danish football (soccer) player
- Jesper Jansson, Swedish football (soccer) player
- Jesper Olsen, Danish football (soccer) player
- Jesper Parnevik, Swedish golfer
- Jesper, Norwegian cat that can skijor
Other
- Jasper O'Farrell, US surveyor
- Jasper Tudor, 1st Duke of Bedford, half-brother of King Henry VI
Fictional characters
- Jasper Beardley, a character from the cartoon show, The Simpsons
- Jasper, another name for Tom from MGM's Tom and Jerry cartoons
- Jasper T. Jowls, a Chuck E. Cheese's character
- Jasper, a white dog from Family Guy
- Jasper, one of Cruella de Vil's henchmen in Disney's One Hundred and One Dalmatians
- Jasper Hale, of the Cullen family in Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series
- Jasper, young Ged's peer & antagonist at the wizardry school on the Island of Roke in Ursula K. Le Guin's novel A Wizard of Earthsea
- Jasper Morello, the protagonist of the short film The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello
- Jasper Jordan, character from The 100, one of 100 prisoners sent to Earth from the Arc in space in the year 2162.
- Jasper, one of the Homeworld gems in Steven Universe
- Jasper Milvain, an unsympathetic major character in New Grub Street, a novel by George Gissing
See also
All Wikipedia article titles beginning with:
- Jasper
- Jesper
References
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