Gaspar
Encyclopedia
Gaspar is a given
and/or surname
of Italian
, Portuguese
, and Spanish
, and also Philippines
origin that could refer to:
Given name
A given name, in Western contexts often referred to as a first name, is a personal name that specifies and differentiates between members of a group of individuals, especially in a family, all of whose members usually share the same family name...
and/or surname
Surname
A surname is a name added to a given name and is part of a personal name. In many cases, a surname is a family name. Many dictionaries define "surname" as a synonym of "family name"...
of Italian
Italian language
Italian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia...
, Portuguese
Portuguese language
Portuguese is a Romance language that arose in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia, nowadays Galicia and Northern Portugal. The southern part of the Kingdom of Galicia became independent as the County of Portugal in 1095...
, and Spanish
Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
, and also Philippines
Filipino language
This move has drawn much criticism from other regional groups.In 1987, a new constitution introduced many provisions for the language.Article XIV, Section 6, omits any mention of Tagalog as the basis for Filipino, and states that:...
origin that could refer to:
Names
- Roberto Luís Gaspar de Deus SeveroBeto (Portuguese footballer born 1976)Roberto Luís Gaspar de Deus Severo, OIH , aka Beto , is a retired Portuguese footballer who played mainly as a central defender....
, Portuguese footballer commonly known as Beto - Álvaro GasparÁlvaro Gaspar PintoÁlvaro Gaspar Pinto was a Portuguese footballer who played as a midfielder.- Football career :Gaspar Pinto gained 7 caps for Portugal and made his debut 11 March 1934 in Madrid against Spain, in 0-9 defeat....
, former Portuguese footballer - Alexandre-Pierre GasparAlexandre-Pierre GasparAlexandre-Pierre Gaspar is a French Internet pioneer best known as the founder of which makes medical knowledge easy understandable and usable by the public via the Internet.-University:...
, French information architect - Alfredo Rodrigues GasparAlfredo Rodrigues GasparAlfredo Rodrigues Gaspar was Portuguese military officer and politician. Rodrigues Gaspar was President of the Ministry of one of the many governments of the Portuguese First Republic....
, Portuguese military officer and politician - Boom GasparBoom GasparKenneth E. Gaspar , more commonly known as Boom Gaspar, is an American musician who has performed with the American rock band Pearl Jam as a piano/keyboard/organ player since 2002.-Early life:...
, American piano/keyboard/organ player - Eduardo César Gaspar, Brazilian footballer commonly known as Edu
- Hugo GasparHugo GasparHugo Gaspar is a volleyball player from Portugal, who plays for the Men's National Team. He became Best Scorer at the second 2008 Olympic Qualification Tournament in Espinho, where Portugal ended up in second place and missed qualification for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, PR China...
, Portuguese volleyball player - André Gaspar, Portuguese cardiology student
- José GasparJose GasparJosé Gaspar, known by his nickname Gasparilla , was a purported Spanish pirate, the "last of the Buccaneers," who is claimed to have raided the west coast of Florida during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Though he is a popular figure in Florida folklore, no evidence of his existence...
, 18th Century to 19th century pirate who terrorized Spanish Florida - Odirlei de Souza GasparOdirlei de Souza GasparOdirlei de Souza Gaspar is a Brazilian football player. He plays for FC Lausanne.-External links:* *...
, Brazilian footballer - Rod GasparRod GasparRodney Earl Gaspar is a former Major League Baseball outfielder.A switch hitter, Gaspar played for the New York Mets and San Diego Padres ....
, former baseball player - Gaspar AraújoGaspar AraújoGaspar Araújo is a Portuguese long jumper.His personal best is 8.10 metres, achieved in June 2004 in Istanbul.-Achievements:-References:...
, Portuguese long jumper - Gaspar AzevedoGaspar AzevedoJosé Gaspar da Silva Azevedo, known as Gaspar , is a Portuguese footballer who plays for Rio Ave F.C. in the Portuguese first division, as a central defender.-Football career:...
, Portuguese footballer - Gaspar BergmanGaspar BergmanGaspar Bergman is a Canadian film director and screenwriter known for his distinctive approach to narrative film making. While Bergman's subject matter is highly varied, many of his films feature stories of Holocaust survivors....
, Canadian film director - Gaspar CassadóGaspar CassadóGaspar Cassadó i Moreu was a Spanish cellist and composer of the early 20th century. He was born in Barcelona to a church musician father and began taking cello lessons at age seven. When he was nine, he played in a recital where Pablo Casals was in the audience; Casals immediately offered to...
, Spanish cellist and musical composer - Gaspar Corte-RealGaspar Corte-RealGaspar Corte-Real was a Portuguese explorer.He was the youngest of three sons of João Vaz Corte-Real, also a Portuguese explorer, and had accompanied his father on his expeditions to North America...
, Portuguese explorer - Gaspar Flores de AbregoGaspar Flores de AbregoJosé Gaspar Flores de Abrego was a political figure of Texas, Tejano land commissioner and associate of the colonists of Austin and a mayor of San Antonio, Texas.- Early life and family :...
(1781–1836), Texan who fought alongside the colonists of Austin; and San Antonio ruled four times (1819, 1824, 1829 and 1834). - Gaspar DiGregorioGaspar DiGregorioGaspar or Gaspare DiGregorio was a New York mobster and a high-ranking member of the Bonanno crime family who was a key figure in the so-called "Banana War"....
, Italian-American organized-crime figure - Gaspar FagelGaspar FagelGaspar Fagel was a Dutch statesman, writer and quasi-diplomat who authored correspondence from and on behalf of William III, Prince of Orange during the English Revolution of 1688.-Biography:...
, 17th century Dutch statesman - Gaspar FernandesGaspar FernandesGaspar Fernandes was a Portuguese composer and organist active in the cathedrals of Santiago de Guatemala and Puebla de los Ángeles, New Spain .-Life:Most scholars agree that the Gaspar Fernandes listed as a singer in the cathedral of Évora,...
, 16th century Portuguese musical composer - Gaspar Gálvez BurgosGaspar Gálvez BurgosGaspar Gálvez Burgos , simply Gaspar, is a Spanish professional footballer who plays for Córdoba CF as a defender.-Football career:...
, Spanish footballer known simply as Gaspar - Gaspar Lyngini, Sicilian wartime hero
- Gaspar Méndez de Haro, 7th Marquis of Carpio, 17th century Spanish political figure
- Gaspar MilazzoGaspar MilazzoGaspar Milazo was a major organized-crime figure in Detroit, Michigan, during the Prohibition era. He is also credited with helping establish one of the early Brooklyn-based crime families in New York City, the Castellammarese Clan, better known today as the Bonanno crime family.-Early life:Born...
, Italian-American organized-crime figure - Gaspar NoéGaspar NoéGaspar Noé is an Argentine filmmaker and the son of Argentine painter and intellectual Luis Felipe Noé. He graduated from Louis Lumière College and is the visiting professor of film at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland...
, French filmmaker - Gaspar de PortolàGaspar de PortolàGaspar de Portolà i Rovira was a soldier, governor of Baja and Alta California , explorer and founder of San Diego and Monterey. He was born in Os de Balaguer, province of Lleida, in Catalonia, Spain, of Catalan nobility. Don Gaspar served as a soldier in the Spanish army in Italy and Portugal...
, Spanish soldier then governor - Gaspar SaladinoGaspar SaladinoGaspar Saladino is an award-winning letterer and logo designer who worked for over 50 years in the comic book industry, mostly for DC Comics. He has over 3,000 credits on the Grand Comics Database. Eventually Saladino went by one name, "Gaspar," which he wrote in his trademark calligraphy...
, longtime comic book letterer and logo designer - Manuel Gaspar HaroManuel Gaspar HaroManuel Gaspar Haro, aka Manolo , is a Spanish footballer who plays for FC Cartagena in Segunda División, as a right defender.His main asset is a long throw-in delivery.-Club career:...
, Spanish footballer - The original spelling of CasperCasperCaspar, one of the Three Biblical MagiCasper may refer to:-Given name:*Casper , 5th Century ruler of the Mayan city of Palenque*Caspar Badrutt , Swiss businessman and pioneer of alpine resorts...
; a male's given name - One of the traditional names assigned by folklore to the anonymous Wise MenBiblical MagiThe Magi Greek: μάγοι, magoi), also referred to as the Wise Men, Kings, Astrologers, or Kings from the East, were a group of distinguished foreigners who were said to have visited Jesus after his birth, bearing gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh...
in the Gospel of MatthewGospel of MatthewThe Gospel According to Matthew is one of the four canonical gospels, one of the three synoptic gospels, and the first book of the New Testament. It tells of the life, ministry, death, and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth...
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Places
- Frei GasparFrei GasparFrei Gaspar is a Brazilian municipality located in the northeast of the state of Minas Gerais. Its population as of 2007 was estimated to be 6,343 people living in a total area of 628 km². The city belongs to the mesoregion of Vale do Mucuri and to the microregion of Teófilo Otoni. It became a...
, Minas GeraisMinas GeraisMinas Gerais is one of the 26 states of Brazil, of which it is the second most populous, the third richest, and the fourth largest in area. Minas Gerais is the Brazilian state with the largest number of Presidents of Brazil, the current one, Dilma Rousseff, being one of them. The capital is the...
, a municipality in BrazilBrazilBrazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people... - Gaspar, Santa CatarinaGaspar, Santa CatarinaGaspar, Santa Catarina is a town and municipality in the state of Santa Catarina in the South region of Brazil.-References:...
, a town in BrazilBrazilBrazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people... - Gaspar, CubaGaspar, CubaGaspar, Cuba is located in the central region of Cuba in the province of Ciego de Ávila. Gaspar is located west of the city of Ciego de Ávila and east of the Province of Camagüey border, at an elevation of ....
- GaşparGaşparGaşpar is a commune in Edineţ district, Moldova. It is composed of a single village, Gaşpar....
, Edineţ district, MoldovaMoldovaMoldova , officially the Republic of Moldova is a landlocked state in Eastern Europe, located between Romania to the West and Ukraine to the North, East and South. It declared itself an independent state with the same boundaries as the preceding Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1991, as part... - Gaspar GrandeGaspar GrandeGaspar Grande or Gasparee is an island in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago named for Gaspar de Percín. The island is 1.29 km² in area and lies west of Port of Spain...
, an island in Trinidad and TobagoTrinidad and TobagoTrinidad and Tobago officially the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago is an archipelagic state in the southern Caribbean, lying just off the coast of northeastern Venezuela and south of Grenada in the Lesser Antilles... - Gaspar , GaspraGaspraGaspra is a spa town in Crimea, Ukraine. It is located on the Black Sea coast, west of Yalta, and is a popular holiday resort. Leo Tolstoy lived in Gaspra in 1901 and 1902.The asteroid 951 Gaspra is named after Gaspra.-Places to see:...
or Gasparalı
In fiction
- Gaspar, a character in Chrono Trigger
- a Muppet character in Barrio SesamoBarrio SésamoBarrio Sésamo was the Spanish version of the popular U.S. children's program Sesame Street. The show premièred in 1979...
- one of the spells in the "ZorkZorkZork was one of the first interactive fiction computer games and an early descendant of Colossal Cave Adventure. The first version of Zork was written in 1977–1979 on a DEC PDP-10 computer by Tim Anderson, Marc Blank, Bruce Daniels, and Dave Lebling, and implemented in the MDL programming language...
" series - the name of a Buddhist monk who Joshua (Jesus Christ) visits in his quest to learn the Divine sparkDivine SparkThe idea, most common to Gnosticism but also present in most Western Mystical Traditions such as Kabbalah and Sufism that all of mankind contains within itself the Divine Spark of God which is contained or imprisoned in the body....
in the book Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood PalLamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood PalLamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal is the sixth novel by absurdist author Christopher Moore, published in 2002. In this work the author seeks to fill in the "lost" years of Jesus through the point of view of Jesus' childhood pal, "Levi bar Alphaeus who is called Biff".The...
by Christopher Moore. - one of three components of the MAGI supercomputer from the anime Neon Genesis EvangelionNeon Genesis Evangelion franchiseThe franchise is an umbrella of Japanese media properties generally owned by the anime studio Gainax. It has grossed over 150 billion yen since 1995. The central works of the franchise feature an apocalyptic mecha action story which revolves around the efforts by the paramilitary organization...
- A planet in the Ratchet and Clank series, normally the first Ratchet and Clank game
- Gaspar one of the three MagiMagiMagi is a term, used since at least the 4th century BC, to denote a follower of Zoroaster, or rather, a follower of what the Hellenistic world associated Zoroaster with, which...
mentioned in the famous novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ by Lew WallaceLew WallaceLewis "Lew" Wallace was an American lawyer, Union general in the American Civil War, territorial governor and statesman, politician and author...
. - One of the The Simpsons' cartoon characters name in the spanish version of The Simpsons - Jasper.
