Prospero (disambiguation)
Prospero may refer to:
Literature and culture
- Prospero, the protagonist of William Shakespeare’s play The Tempest
- Prince Prospero, the protagonist of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Masque of the Red Death"
- Prospero, the wizard protagonist of John Bellairs' novel The Face in the Frost
- Prospero, former homeworld to the Thousand Sons Legion of Space Marines in Warhammer 40,000
- Prospero (band), a Canadian Industrial/Noise band
- Prospero, the name of a young alien in the comic book series PS238, named for the character in The Tempest
- A cancelled vaporware videogame by the Valve Corporation
Science and nature
- Prospero (moon), a moon of the planet Uranus
- Prospero (plant), a genus of plants in the family Asparagaceae
- Prospero (satellite), launched by the United Kingdom in 1971
Technology
- Prospero (file system), a global file system based on the Virtual System Model, and the protocol used to implement the file system
- Prospero Pascal, a Pascal compiler produced by Prospero Software of England
People
- Janus Prospero from the Resident Evil film series
- Pope Benedict XIV (1675–1758), born Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini
- San Prospero di Reggio Emilia, an Italian saint (see Prosper of Reggio)
- San Prospero martire, a martyr and saint in Rome at the time of Diocletian, his remains were translated to Catenanuova in Sicily in the eighteenth century
- Prospero Alpini (1553-1617), Venetian physician and botanist
- Prospero Amatong (1931-2009), Governor of the Province of Davao del Norte and Congressman in the House of Representatives of the Philippines
- Prospero Caterini (1795–1881), Italian Roman Catholic cardinal
- Prospero Colonna (1452–1523), Italian condottiere
- Prospero Colonna (cardinal) (c. 1410–1463), cardinal-nephew of Pope Martin V
- Prospero Colonna di Sciarra (1707-1765), Italian cardinal
- Prospero Colonna (politician), mayor of Rome in 1899-1904
- Prospero Fagnani (died 1678), Italian canon lawyer
- Prospero Farinacci (1554–1618), Italian lawyer and judge, noted for his harsh sentencing
- Prospero Fontana (1512–1597), Italian painter of the late Renaissance
- Prospero Gallinari (1951-2013), Italian terrorist and member of the Red Brigades
- Prospero Grech (born 1925), Augustinian friar and cardinal
- Prospero Intorcetta (1626–1696), Jesuit missionary in China
- Prospero Nograles (born 1947), Speaker of the House of the Republic of the Philippines
- Próspero Fernández Oreamuno, President of Costa Rica from 1882 to 1885
- Próspero París (1846-1931), French Roman Catholic prelate and Apostolic Vicar of Nanking
- Próspero Penados del Barrio (1925–2005), Guatemalan Roman Catholic prelate and Archbishop of Guatemala City
- Prospero Pichay, Jr. (born 1950), Philippine politician
- Prospero Rabaglio, late 16th-century Italian painter
- Prospero Santacroce (1514–1589), Italian Roman Catholic bishop and cardinal
- Prospero Spani (1516-1584), Italian sculptor also known as Prospero Clementi, Prospero Clemente or il Clemente
- Prospero Zannichelli (1698-1772), Italian painter
Places
- Prospero, California, an unincorporated community
See also
- San Prospero, a town in the Italian region of Emilia-Romagna
- Prosper (disambiguation)
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