Jasper (surname)

Jasper is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

People

Chris Jasper (1951–2025), American singer, composer and producer, member of the Isley Brothers
David Jasper (born 1951), Scottish theologian
Derrick Jasper (born 1988), American former college basketball player
Dick Jasper, 1950s American drag racer
Ed Jasper (born 1973), American former National Football League player
Heinrich Jasper (1875–1945), German politician
Herbert Jasper (1906–1999), Canadian psychologist, physiologist, anatomist, chemist and neurologist
Hi Jasper (1886–1937), Major League Baseball pitcher
Inez Jasper (born 1981), Canadian singer-songwriter
James M. Jasper (born 1957), American writer and sociologist
John Jasper (1812–1901), American ex-slave, Baptist preacher and public speaker
Josh Jasper (born 1987), All-American college football placekicker
Ken Jasper (born 1938), Australian politician
Kenji Jasper, writer
Lee Jasper (born 1958), British race equality campaigner
Marrit Jasper (born 1996), Dutch volleyball player
Michael Jasper (born 1986), American former National Football League player
Paul Jasper (born 1974), American former race car driver
Paul G. Jasper (1908–2001), Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court
Sam Jasper (born 1986), New Zealand footballer
Shawn Jasper (born 1959), American politician
Star Jasper (born 1966), American actress
Theodore Jasper (1814–1897), portrait painter and photographic colorist
Thomas Chilton Jasper (1844–1924), American Civil War Confederate general
William Jasper (c. 1750–1779), American Revolutionary War sergeant

John Jasper, protagonist of The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Charles Dickens' unfinished last novel