Prospero (disambiguation)

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

Prospero may also refer to:

Entertainment

 * Prospero (band), a Canadian industrial rock/noise band
 * 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 former 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, California, an unincorporated community
 * Prospero (mountain), mountain in Australia
 * HMS Prospero
 * Prospero, a newspaper for BBC pensioners