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The Name Prospero - Origin and Meaning of Prospero
  



The Name Prospero - Origin and Meaning of Prospero


Gender

Masculine

Origin of the Name Prospero

Latin

Usage of the Name Prospero

Italian, Spanish

Meaning of the Name Prospero

The name Prospero is an Italian and Spanish form of Prosper.

Famous Bearers

Bearers of the name include Prospero Fontana (1512 - 1597), an Italian painter; Prospero Alpini (1553 - 1617), an Italian physician and botanist; Prospero Pichay (born 1950), a Filipino politician.

Interesting Facts about Prospero

- Prospero is the protagonist in The Tempest, a play by William Shakespeare.
- Prospero was also the protagonist of Edgar Allan Poe's The Masque of the Red Death.
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