Spear (disambiguation)
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A spear is a pole weapon used for hunting and combat.
Spear may also refer to:
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[edit] People
- Albert Spear (1852–1929), justice on the Maine Supreme Judicial Court and President of the Maine Senate
- Allan Spear (1937–2008), American politician and educator from Minnesota
- Bernard Spear (1911–2003), English actor
- Bob Spear, founding director of the Birds of Vermont Museum, a longtime naturalist, birdwatcher and master woodcarver
- Burning Spear (born 1945), Jamaican roots rock reggae artist
- Duston Spear, native of Virginia, is an artist and activist residing in New York City
- Ellis Spear (1834–1917), officer in the 20th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment who rose to the rank of general during the American Civil War
- Eric Spear (1908–1966), English composer of film music
- Frank Spear (born 1953), Founder and Director of Spear Education
- Harry Spear (1921–2006), US child actor
- John Murray Spear (1804–1887), Spiritualist preacher
- John Spear (1848–1921), British Liberal Unionist politician
- Joseph Spear (d. 1837), British naval officer
- Laurinda Hope Spear (born 1950), American architect and landscape architect
- Lawrence York Spear (1870–1950), American naval officer and businessman
- Mary Spear (1913–2006), English cricketer
- Matt Spear (born 1970), American soccer coach
- Mónica Spear (born 1984), Miss Venezuela 2004
- Percival Spear (1901–1982), English historian
- Richard E. Spear (born 1940), American art historian and professor
- Roberta Spear (born 1948), American poet
- Roger Ruskin Spear (born 1943), founding member of the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band
- Ruskin Spear (1911–1990), British artist
- Samuel P. Spear (1815–1875), American soldier in the Seminole, Mexican–American War, and American Civil Wars
- Terry Spear, award-winning American author
- Timothy L. Spear, Democratic member of the North Carolina General Assembly
- Tony Spear, American space exploration project manager
- Walter Eric Spear (1921–2008), German physicist
- William T. Spear (1834–1913), U.S. Republican politician
- Spear Lancaster, 2002 candidate for Governor of Maryland
[edit] Other
- Spear (liturgy), used in the Byzantine-Rite Churches
- SAS Spear, the first submarine of the South African Navy
- Cape Spear, in Newfoundland, Canada
- Operation Spear (2005), US military action in Iraq
- Spear Lúin, Irish mythological treasure
- Spear tackle, head-first thrust into the ground
- Spear (Pokémon), the Japanese name for Beedrill, a Pokémon character
- slang for nuclear weapons
- Spear (wrestling), a professional wrestling attack
- Singapore Prisons Emergency Action Response, a department within the Singapore Prison Service
- Stanford Positron Electron Asymmetric Ring, an electron-positron collider now part of the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource facility
[edit] See also
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