Spartan

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Spartan may refer to:

• pertaining to Sparta
  • Spartan hoplite, heavy infantryman in the Spartan army
  • Spartan Army
• Spartan (apple), apple cultivar developed in 1926
• Spartan Alphabet, fingerspelling
• Metaphorical meanings:
  • Very self-disciplined or self-restricted, ascetic.
  • Overly simple, frugal, or stern: a Spartan lifestyle, Spartan living-conditions.
  • (Rather rare) Concise, terse, laconic.
  • (Rather rare) Courageous in the face of adversity, danger, hardship etc.

Contents 1 Popular culture 2 Sports 3 Technology 4 Vehicles 5 See also

[edit] Popular culture

• John Spartan, male lead character in the 1990s movie Demolition Man
• Spartan (comics), Wildstorm comic book character
• Spartan (film), written and directed by David Mamet and starring Val Kilmer
• Go Tell the Spartans (film), written and directed by Wendell Mayes and starring Burt Lancaster
• The Spartan Cheerleaders, a comedy sketch from Saturday Night Live.
• The SPARTAN Project, a story element in the Halo series of games
• Roderick Bradley, who competes as a Gladiator in Gladiators (2008 UK TV series) as Spartan.

[edit] Sports

• Adlai E. Stevenson High School (Livonia, Michigan)
• Athens Academy Spartans
• Bishop Stang High School
• Boardman High School
• Camelback High School
• Case Western Reserve University
• Campbell High School
• Central Davidson High School
• Connersville High School
• Conneaut High School
• Damien High School
• De Smet Jesuit High School
• East Nicolaus High School
• East Longmeadow High School
• Fargo North High School
• Greenbrier East Spartans
• Ħamrun Spartans
• Hannover Spartans
• Holy Spirit High School
• Homestead High School (Fort Wayne, Indiana)
• Laurel High School (Laurel, Md)
• Manchester College
• Marist Catholic High School Spartans
• McFarland High School (Wisconsin)
• Miami Country Day School Spartans][miamicountryday.org]
• Michigan State Spartans
• Mountain Brook High School
• Norfolk State Spartans
• North Newton High School
• Ocean Township High School
• Queensbury High School
• Pinole Valley High School
• Protein Cookie Spartans
• Riverdale High School (Quebec)
• Romeoville High School
• San Jose State Spartans
• Scott Park High School, Hamilton, Ontario Canada
• Seven Lakes High School Katy, Texas
• South Knox High School
• Southwestern High School (Shelbyville, Indiana)
• Spalding Catholic High School (Granville, Iowa)
• Sparta High School (Sparta Township, New Jersey)
• Sparta High School (Sparta, Michigan)
• Sparta High School (Sparta, Wisconsin)
• Spartans F.C.
• Stoneham High School Spartans
• St. Thomas Aquinas College Spartans
• Sun Valley High School (North Carolina)
• University of North Carolina at Greensboro
• University of South Carolina Upstate
• University of Tampa
• White Station High School Spartans
• Wyoming Valley West Spartans

[edit] Technology

• Spartan (software), molecular modelling and computational chemistry application from Wavefunction, Inc.
• Spartan (FPGA), family of FPGAs from Xilinx
• The SPARTAN kernel, the core of the HelenOS computer operating system

Moberly High School

[edit] Vehicles

• FV103 Spartan, British armoured personnel carrier
• LIM-49A Spartan, American anti-ballistic missile
• Simmonds Spartan, 1920s British biplane
• Alenia Aeronautica C-27J Spartan, military tactical transport aircraft
• Spartan Aircraft Ltd
• Spartan Aircraft Company
• HMS Spartan British naval ships of this name
• Spartan cars, a British kit car maker

[edit] See also

• Sparta (disambiguation)

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