Dámaso
# 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
