Jasper (given name)
Jasper is a masculine given name of Persian origin, meaning "treasurer". The etymology of the given name Jasper is unrelated to that of the gemstone jasper.
Jasper may refer to:
People
Arts
- Jasper van den Bos, Dutch marine painter
- Jasper Broers, Flemish painter
- Jasper Conran, British fashion designer
- Jasper Francis Cropsey, American landscape painter
- Jasper Geeraards, Flemish painter
- Jasper Johns, American painter, sculptor and printmaker
- Jasper Morrison, British product and furniture designer
- Jasper Proude, a pseudonym of Brian Howard
Entertainment
- Jasper Carrott, British comedian
- Jasper Dolphin, American actor and rapper
- Jasper Duncombe, 7th Baron Feversham, British adult film director
- Jasper Fforde, British novelist
- Jasper Fisher, English divine and dramatist
- Jasper van 't Hof, Dutch jazz pianist and keyboard player
- Jasper Liiberg, Estonian garmon player
- Jasper Liu, Taiwanese actor, model and musician
- Jasper Maskelyne, British stage magician
- Jasper Pääkkönen, Finnish actor
- Jasper Redd, American comedian
- Jasper Steverlinck, Belgian Flemish pop rock singer and guitarist
- Jasper (actor), Tamil actor
Politics
- Jasper Ewing Brady, American politician
- Jasper Culpeper, English politician and Member of Parliament
- Jasper Martus, American politician from Michigan
- Jasper McLevy, American mayor
- Jasper More, British politician
- Jasper K. Smith, American politician
- Jasper Tsang, Hong Kong politician
- Jasper Wolfe, Irish politician
Religion
- Jasper Heywood, British theologian
- Jasper Mayne, English clergyman
- Jasper Wilson, American Baptist preacher and politician
- Jasper, one of the biblical magi who were said to have visited the infant Jesus bearing gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh
Sports
- Jasper Günther, German basketballer
- Jasper Wiese, South African rugby union player
- Jacobus Jasper Cillessen, Dutch football goalkeeper
- Jasper Collins, Canadian Football League player
- Jasper Harvey, American football player
- Jasper Lindsten, Finnish ice hockey player
- Jasper Pittard, Australian rules footballer
- Jasper Stuyven, Belgian racing cyclist
- Jasper Vinall, English cricketer, first cricketer known to have died from an accident during a game
- Jasper Wilson, American basketball player
Other
- Jasper Tudor, Duke of Bedford, uncle of King Henry VII
- Jasper Adams, American clergyman, college professor and college president
- Jasper Becker, British author, commentator and journalist
- Jasper S. Bilby, American surveyor
- Jasper Blaxland, English consultant surgeon
- Jasper Danckaerts, 17th-century journal writer and founder of an unsuccessful colony in what is now Maryland
- Jasper Jack Daniel, American distiller and founder of Jack Daniel's Tennessee whiskey distillery
- Jasper Griffin, British literary academic
- Jasper Grosvenor, American financier
- Jasper Kirkby, British experimental particle physicist
- Jasper A. Maltby, American Civil War general
- Jasper Morris, Master of Wine, and Burgundy expert
- Jasper Nicolls, British Army officer and commander-in-chief, India
- Jasper O'Farrell, American surveyor
- Jasper Ridley, British barrister and banker
- Jasper Ridley, British writer and historical biographer
- Jasper Rine, American biologist
- Jasper Seagar, a pirate active in the Indian Ocean
- Jasper White, American chef, restaurateur and cookbook author
- Jasper Yeates, lawyer and Pennsylvania Supreme Court judge
Fictional characters
- Jasper, one of Cruella de Vil's henchmen in Disney's 101 Dalmatians
- Jasper, a ghost of a child who haunts Spooky Island from Rooster Teeth's web series Camp Camp
- Jasper, a carriage driver from Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- Jasper (Dr. Stone), a character in the manga series Dr. Stone
- Jasper (Family Guy), a dog and Brian's cousin in the animated TV series Family Guy
- Jasper, a butler from Heaven Can Wait
- Jasper, a controversial black puppet character in George Pal's 1930s–1940s short film series Jasper and the Beanstalk
- Jasper, a female character and villain on the Cartoon Network show Steven Universe
- Jasper, original name of Tom Cat from MGM's Tom and Jerry cartoons
- Jasper Batt, Jr., the main antagonist of the video game No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle
- Jasper the Bear, a Canadian cartoon character
- Jasper Beardsley, a recurring character from the animated TV series The Simpsons
- Jasper the Cat, a recurring character from the British TV series Numberjacks
- Jasper Dale, character on Canadian Series Road to Avonlea
- Jasper Dunlop, a main character from the Nickelodeon show Henry Danger
- Jasper Hale, of the Cullen family in Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series
- Jasper Jacks, in the American soap opera General Hospital
- The title character of the 2009 novel Jasper Jones and its 2017 film adaptation
- Jasper Jordan, one of the original 100 juvenile prisoners from the TV series The 100
- Jasper Lamar Crabb, a character spoken of – but not seen – in the 1974 neo-noir film Chinatown, and whose name becomes a pivotal clue in solving a mystery
- Jasper Sitwell, a Marvel Comics spy
- Jasper T. Jowls, a member of Chuck E. Cheese's animatronic band
- Jasper Tempest, the full name of Professor T.
- Jasper de Zoet, a rockstar guitarist and principal character in David Mitchell's novel Utopia Avenue
- Jasper, an antagonist from the video game Dragon Quest XI