Dámaso

Dámaso is a Spanish masculine given name. The name is equivalent to that of Pope Damasus I in English. The name also exists in Italian as Damaso, though it is uncommon.

People

 * Dámaso Alonso (1898–1990), Spanish poet
 * Dámaso Berenguer, 1st Count of Xauen (1873–1953), Spanish soldier and politician
 * Dámaso Blanco (born 1941), Venezuelan baseball third baseman
 * Dámaso Centeno (1850–1892), Argentine politician and orphanage founder
 * Dámaso Espino (born 1983), Panamanian baseball catcher
 * Dámaso García (1957–2020), Dominican baseball player
 * Dámaso González (1948–2017), Spanish bullfighter
 * Dámaso Antonio Larrañaga (1771–1848), Uruguayan priest, naturalist and botanist
 * Dámaso Marte (born 1975), Dominican Major League Baseball relief pitcher
 * Dámaso Pérez Prado (1916–1989), Cuban musician
 * Dámaso Rodríguez Martín "El Brujo" (1945–1991), Spanish serial killer
 * Dámaso Ruiz-Jarabo Colomer (1949–2009), Spanish jurist
 * Dámaso de Toro, Mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico in 1701
 * Father Dámaso, a character in José Rizal's novel Noli Me Tangere

Other

 * San Lorenzo in Damaso, a basilica in Rome
 * Instituto Social Militar Dr. Dámaso Centeno, a charity school in Buenos Aires
 * Mariano Dámaso Beraun District, one of six districts within the Peruvian province of Leoncio Prado
 * Universidad Católica del Uruguay Dámaso Antonio Larrañaga, a Jesuit university in Montevideo