List of Famous people named Prospero

Prospero Castillo Nograles was a Filipino politician who served as a Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Philippines from 2008 to 2010. He was elected as the Speaker of the House on February 5, 2008, the first ever elected Speaker from Mindanao in a hundred years of Philippine legislative history. Beginning in 1989, Nograles was elected to five terms as a member of the House of Representatives, representing the 1st District of Davao City.

Prospero Gallinari, also known as "Gallo", was an Italian terrorist, a member of the Red Brigades (BR) in the 1970s and 1980s.

Prospero Colonna di Sciarra was an Italian cardinal of the family of the dukes of Carbognano. He was the brother of cardinal Girolamo Colonna di Sciarra.

Prospero Colonna was a cardinal-nephew of Pope Martin V, whose election ended the Western Schism. Colonna was excommunicated for a period due to his rebellion against Martin V's successor, Pope Eugene IV, becoming one of the few excommunicated cardinals. Despite this, Colonna was the leading candidate to succeed Eugene IV in the papal conclave, 1447, where he was two votes away from election for the first three days.

Prospero Pubblicola Santacroce was an Italian Roman Catholic bishop and cardinal.

Prospero Caffarelli was an Italian cardinal.

Prospero Colonna (1662–1743) was a Roman Catholic cardinal. He is also known as Prospero II Colonna to differentiate him from his elder relative cardinal Prospero I Colonna (1410–1463).

Prospero Fontana (1512–1597) was a Bolognese painter of late Renaissance and Mannerist art. He is perhaps best known for his frescoes and architectural detailing. The speed in which he completed paintings earned him commissions where he worked with other prominent artists of the period. He was a prominent figure in the city of Bologna, whose roles included art instructor and consultant on the reformation of religious art.

Prospero Alpini was a Venetian physician and botanist. He travelled around Egypt and served as the fourth prefect in charge of the botanical garden of Padua. He wrote several botanical treatises which covered exotic plants of economic and medicinal value. His description of coffee and banana plants are considered the oldest in European literature. The ginger-family genus Alpinia was named in his honour by Carolus Linnaeus.