title: Dámaso
text: # 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
  