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)
• 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)