Popper
Not to be confused with Pauper.
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Popper may refer to:
- Jalapeño popper, a type of food
- Poppers, the family of drugs that are a subset of a class of chemicals known as alkyl nitrites
- Poppers, a brand of frozen food owned by Heinz
- Popper (see Popping (dance)), a person dancing in a certain street/funk style
- Popper, a floating fishing popper or fly with a cupped or flat, forward-facing indentation that splashes the surface of the water with a popping sound when tugged
- A hip pop musician
- Popper, a ball that rises sharply from the pitch when bowled ('pops up') in cricket
- Popper, a Juicebox (Australian English)
- Popper buttons, another term for "snap fasteners"
- Poppers, an alternate name for tearaway pants in British English
- Party popper, a small 'toy' filled with confetti streamers and a small explosive charge to release them
- Bang snaps, small novelty fireworks that produce a loud snapping sound when thrown on the ground
- Poppers, a slang term for Papadum, an Indian crisp wafer or cracker
- Poppers, a cartoon strip by Jerry Mills
People
- Albert Popper (1808–1889), Mayor of Vimperk and official doctor of the Schwarzenberg Princes
- Ami Popper (born 1969), convicted murderer
- Catherine Popper (born 1973), rock musician
- David Popper (1843–1913), Bohemian composer and cellist
- David H. Popper (1912–2008), American diplomat
- Erwin Popper (1879–1955), Austrian physician
- Frank Popper (born 1918), art historian
- Frank J. Popper (born 1944), Rutgers urban planner
- Ilona Novák-Popper (born 1925), Hungarian swimmer
- Joachim Edler von Popper (1722–1795), Court Jew and lessee of the Habsburg tobacco monopoly
- John Popper (born 1967), musician and songwriter
- Josef Popper (1838–1921), Austrian engineer and author
- Julius Popper (1857–1893), Romanian explorer
- Karl Popper (1902–1994), philosopher of science, defender of liberal democracy
- Ota Pavel (1930–1973), Czech author (born Otto Popper)
- Robert Popper, comedy producer, writer and actor
- Siegfried Popper (1848–1933), Austrian naval constructor
- Meir ben Judah Leib Poppers (ca 1624–1662), Bohemian rabbi and cabalist
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