Prosper (name)
Prosper is both a given male name and a surname. Notable people with the name include:People with the given name
- Prosper of Aquitaine, also known as Prosper Tiro, Christian saint, writer and disciple of St Augustine
- Prosper of Reggio, bishop of Reggio Emilia and saint
- Prosper or Prospero Alpini, Venetian physician and botanist
- Prosper Arsenault, Canadian educator and politician
- Prosper Avril, President of Haiti from 1988 to 1990
- Prosper Boulanger, Canadian politician and businessman
- Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, French poet and tragedian
- Prosper Dérivis, French operatic bass
- Prosper Garnot, French surgeon and naturalist
- Prosper Giquel, French naval officer and mercenary in China
- Prosper Guéranger, French Benedictine priest, abbot and founder of the French Benedictine Congregation
- Prosper Henry, French optician and astronomer
- Prosper Higiro, Rwandan politician
- Prosper L'Orange, German engineer and inventor
- Prosper de Mestre, businessman in Sydney, Australia
- Prosper Mérimée, French writer
- Prosper Montagné, French chef and author
- Prosper Poullet, Belgian politician
- Prosper Sainton, French violinist and conductor
- Prosper Utseya, Zimbabwean cricketer
- Prosper Lanchantin-Valmore, French stage actor and second husband of poet Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
- Prosper Weil, French lawyer
- "Prosper", codename of Francis Suttill, Special Operations Executive agent in World War II Occupied France
People with the surname
- Peter Prosper, Trinidadian footballer
- Pierre-Richard Prosper, American lawyer
- Prosper, fictional orphaned protagonist of the children's novel The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke
