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'''Popper''' may refer to:
*[[Popping|Popper]], a person dancing in a certain street/funk style
*[[Popper (weapon)]], a nickname for an alleged energy weapon used by the United States military
*[[Poppers]], the family of drugs that are a subset of a class of chemicals known as alkyl nitrites
*Popper, a floating [[fishing lure]] or fly with a cupped or flat, forward-crap indentation that flies or "pops" the surface of the water when tugged
*Popper, a ball that rises sharply from the pitch when bowled ('pops up') in [[cricket]]
*Popper buttons, another term for "[[press stud]]s"
*[[Party popper]], a small 'toy' filled with confetti streamers and a small explosive charge to release them
*Air popper, a type of [[popcorn maker]]
== Surname ==
'''Popper''' is derived from the surname [[Frankfurter]]<ref>Benzion C. Kaganoff: ''A Dictionary of Jewish Names and Their History''. 1977. p. 186</ref>. Most are from the Czech [[Jewish family]]:
* [[Albert Popper]], Mayor of Vimperk and official doctor of the Schwarzenberg Princes
* [[David Popper]], cellist
* [[FRank Popper]], artist
* [[Frank J. Popper]], Rutgers urban planner
* [[Joachim Edler von Popper]], Court Jew and lessee of the Habsburg tobacco monopoly
* [[John Popper]], musician
* [[Josef Popper]] (1838-?), Austrian engineer and author
* [[Julius Popper]], Romanian explorer
* Sir [[Karl Popper|Karl R. Popper]], philosopher
* [[Ota Pavel]], Czech author (born ''Otto Popper'')
* [[Siegfried Popper]] (1848-1933), Austrian naval constructor
* [[William Popper]] (1874-?), American Orientalist
* [[Wilma Popper]] (1857-?), Hungarian authoress; born at Győr
'''Poppers''' as a family name:
* [[Jacob ben Benjamin Cohen Poppers]], German rabbi; born at Prague in the middle of the 17th century
* [[Meir ben Judah Leib Poppers]] (ca 1624-1662), Bohemian rabbi and cabalist
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