Prospero (disambiguation)

Prospero is the protagonist of The Tempest, a play by William Shakespeare.

Prospero may also refer to:

Entertainment

• Prospero Productions, an Australian-based television production company
• 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, the home planet of the Thousand Sons traitor legion in Warhammer 40,000
• Prospero, a canceled video game by Valve Corporation

People

• Philip Prospero, Prince of Asturias (1657–1661), Spanish heir apparent and son of Philip IV of Spain and Mariana of Austria
• Pope Benedict XIV (1675–1758), born Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini
• Prospero Alpini (1553–1617), Venetian physician and botanist
• Prospero Amatong (1931–2009), Philippine politician and member of the House of Representatives
• Prospero Caterini (1795–1881), Italian Roman Catholic cardinal
• Prospero Colonna (1452–1523), Italian condottiere
• Prospero Colonna (cardinal) (died 1463), cardinal-nephew of Pope Martin V
• Prospero Colonna (politician), mayor of Rome in 1899–1904
• Prospero Colonna di Sciarra (1707–1765), Italian cardinal
• 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 (1925–2019), Augustinian friar and cardinal
• Prospero Intorcetta (1626–1696), Jesuit missionary in China
• Prospero Nograles (1947–2019), speaker of the House of Representatives of the Philippines
• Prospero Pichay Jr. (born 1950), Philippine politician and former member of the Philippine House of Representatives
• Prospero Rabaglio, late 16th-century Italian painter
• Prospero Santacroce (1514–1589), Italian Roman Catholic bishop and cardinal
• Prospero Spani (1516–1584), Italian sculptor a.k.a. Prospero Clementi, Prospero Clemente or il Clemente
• Prospero Zannichelli (1698–1772), Italian painter
• Próspero Fernández Oreamuno (1834–1885), President of Costa Rica (1882–1885)
• 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
• San Prospero di Reggio Emilia a.k.a. Prosper of Reggio (died 466 AD), Italian saint

Science and technology

• PROX1, which stands for Prospero homeobox protein 1
• Prospero (file system), a global file system based on the Virtual System Model
• 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
• PROSPERO, a database for the prospective registration of studies in medicine, social care, welfare, crime, justice and international development studies

Other

• Prospero (mountain), mountain in Australia
• HMS Prospero
• Prospero, a newspaper for BBC pensioners

See also

• Prosper (disambiguation)
• Prospero Colonna (disambiguation)