Sparky

Sparky is a common nickname for people and animals. In the British Commonwealth, it can also be used to refer to an electrician.

People

• Sparky Adams (1894–1989), American Major League Baseball player
• Sparky Anderson (1934–2010), American Major League Baseball manager
• Sparky McEwen (born 1968), American football player
• H. F. Gierke III (1943–2016), North Dakota Supreme Court justice
• Mark Hughes (born 1963), former Welsh international football player and manager
• Eddie Lake (1916–1995), American Major League Baseball player
• Shelly Liddelow (born 1984), Australian field hockey player
• Sparky Lyle (born 1944), American Major League Baseball pitcher
• Sparky Marcus (born Marcus Issoglio in 1967), American child actor
• Mark Matejka, American Southern rock guitarist
• Marv Olson (1907–1998), American Major League Baseball player
• Mark Phillips, vocalist of the British band Demented Are Go
• Charles M. Schulz (1922–2000), American cartoonist, creator of the Peanuts comic strip
• Ronald Speirs (1920–2007), United States Army officer
• Wilbur Stalcup (1910–1972), American college basketball coach
• Melville Vail (1906–1983), Canadian hockey player
• Sparky Woods (born 1953), American football college football player and coach

Fictional characters

• Sparky the Fire Dog, official mascot of the National Fire Protection Association
• Sparky, Richie's Pikachu in the Pokémon anime
• Sparky, hero of the nicknames given by Drawn of Life series of video games.
• Sparky, one of the nicknames given to Rygel XVI by John Crichton in the science fiction television series Farscape
• Sparky, a gay dog on the animated television series South Park
• Sparky, nickname for radio operator Sgt. Pryor on the television series M*A*S*H
• Sparky, mechanic in the animated television series Speed Racer
• Sparky, a firefly in the 1970s children's show The Bugaloos
• Sparky, a mechanic in the adventure game Flight of the Amazon Queen
• Sparky, an enemy type encountered in Super Mario World
• Sparky the Wonder Penguin, character from the comic strip This Modern World
• Sparky, nickname for Clark Wilhelm Griswold, Jr. in the National Lampoon's Vacation movies
• Sparky, protagonist of the children's audio story Sparky's Magic Piano
• Sparky (Atomic Betty), an alien starship pilot on the animated television series Atomic Betty
• Sparky, the dog in the 1984 Tim Burton short film Frankenweenie and its 2012 feature-length stop-motion remake
• Sparky (Lilo & Stitch), an alien experiment from the Lilo & Stitch franchise, also known as Experiment 221
• Sparky, super hero from the cartoon Static Shock
• Sparky (The Fairly OddParents), a fairy dog featured in season 9 of The Fairly OddParents
• Sparky, the electric siege machine as a legendary card found in the real-time strategy Clash Royale
• Sparky, a translated version of a nickname for Mikoto Misaka
• Sparky (Marvel Comics), a synthezoid dog in Marvel Comics

Brands

• Sparky, an Indian jeans brand by company JK Jain Sparky (India) LLP founded in 1998.

Other uses

• Sparky, nickname of a robot dog on MythBusters
• Sparky the Sun Devil, Arizona State University mascot
• Sparky the Eagle, Liberty University's team mascot
• Sparky (comic), British comic book
• "Sparky", a song from Images (Brotherhood of Man album) (1977)
• "Sparky", a song by Lights from Pep (2022)
• Sparky, a performing sea lion at the Como Zoo
• Sparky's, a nickname for South Park Hospital, the setting for children's TV show Children's Ward

See also

• Old Sparky, nickname for the electric chair in several U.S. states
• Sparkie (disambiguation)
• SparkyLinux, a desktop-oriented Linux distribution based on Debian