Spooner
Spooner is an English surname of either Anglo-Saxon or Anglo-Danish origin (Spøner).
Spooner may refer to:
People
- Arthur Spooner (painter) (1873–1962), English painter
- Bathsheba Spooner (1746-1778), the first woman to be executed in the United States by Americans
- Bill Spooner (politician) (1897-1966), Australian politician
- Dennis Spooner (1932–1986), English television screenwriter and story editor
- Dick Spooner (1919-1997), cricketer
- Doreen Spooner (born 1928), English newspaper photographer
- Eric Spooner (1891-1952), Australian politician
- Ernest John Spooner (1887-1942), Rear-Admiral Malaya, commander of UK Naval forces in Singapore
- Frank Spooner (born 1937), Louisiana Republican politician
- George Spooner (1893–1975), New Zealand politician
- Henry J. Spooner (1839-1918), Rhode Island Congressman
- James Spooner, film director
- John Coit Spooner (1843-1919), U.S. Senator and lawyer from Wisconsin
- Karl Spooner (1931-1984), Major League Baseball pitcher with the Brooklyn Dodgers
- Lloyd Spooner (1884-1966), American sports shooter and Olympic champion
- Lysander Spooner (1808-1887), American individualist anarchist
- Natalie Spooner (born 1990), Canadian ice hockey player
- Nicky Spooner (born 1971), English footballer
- Paul Spooner (1746-1789), Vermont Lieutenant Governor and Vermont Supreme Court justice
- Philip Loring Spooner (1879-1945), American tenor
- Reggie Spooner (1880-1961), English cricketer
- Richard Spooner (MP) (1783–1864), British Member of Parliament and businessman
- Richard Spooner (equestrian), American show jumping rider
- Richard T. Spooner (born 1925), former United States Marine Corps officer
- Richard Spooner (MP), (1783–1864), MP and ecclesiastical writer
- Ryan Spooner (born 1992), Canadian ice hockey player
- Wilf Spooner, Canadian politician of the 1950s and 1960s
- William Archibald Spooner (1844-1930), English clergyman and scholar, after whom spoonerisms are named
- Winifred Spooner (1900-1933), English aviator
- Wyman Spooner (1795–1877), Wisconsin politician and Lieutenant Governor
- The Spooners of Porthmadog, railway engineers
- James Spooner (1790-1856)
- James Swinton Spooner (1816-1884)
- Charles Easton Spooner (1818-1889)
- George Percival Spooner (1850-1917)
- Charles Edwin Spooner (1853-1909)
- James Spooner (1790-1856)
- Spooner Oldham (born 1943), American songwriter and musician
Fictional characters
- Arthur Spooner, on the television show The King of Queens
- Bert Spooner, on the television show Are You Being Served?
- Del Spooner, hero of the 2004 film I, Robot
Places
- Spooner, Wisconsin, a city
- Spooner (town), Wisconsin
- Spooner Township, Lake of the Woods County, Minnesota
- Spooner Lake, a reservoir on North Canyon Creek in Nevada
- Spooner Bay, Enderby Land, Antarctica
Entertainment
- Spooner (band), an American midwestern rock band
- Spooner (2009 film), a 2009 US movie directed by Drake Doremus
- Spooner (1989 film), a 1989 US made-for-TV movie starring Robert Urich
See also
- Spooner Act of 1902, authored by John Coit Spooner and authorizing President Theodore Roosevelt to purchase rights to build the Panama Canal
- Spon (disambiguation)
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