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