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