Spooner (surname)
Spooner is an English surname of either Anglo-Saxon or Anglo-Danish origin. It may refer to:People
- Arthur Spooner , English painter
- Bathsheba Spooner, the first woman to be executed in the United States by Americans
- Bill Spooner , Australian politician
- Charles Edwin Spooner, British engineer
- Dennis Spooner, English television screenwriter and story editor
- Dick Spooner, cricketer
- Doreen Spooner, English newspaper photographer
- Eric Spooner, Australian politician
- Ernest John Spooner, Rear-Admiral Malaya, commander of UK Naval forces in Singapore
- Frank Spooner, Louisiana Republican politician
- George Spooner, New Zealand politician
- Henry J. Spooner, Rhode Island Congressman
- James Spooner, film director
- John Coit Spooner, U.S. Senator and lawyer from Wisconsin
- Karl Spooner, Major League Baseball pitcher with the Brooklyn Dodgers
- Lloyd Spooner, American sports shooter and Olympic champion
- Lysander Spooner, American individualist anarchist
- Natalie Spooner, Canadian ice hockey player
- Nicky Spooner, English footballer
- Paul Spooner, Vermont Lieutenant Governor and Vermont Supreme Court justice
- Philip Loring Spooner, American tenor
- Reggie Spooner, English cricketer
- Richard Spooner , British Member of Parliament and businessman
- Richard Spooner, American show jumping rider
- Richard T. Spooner, former United States Marine Corps officer
- Richard Spooner,, MP and ecclesiastical writer
- Ryan Spooner, Canadian ice hockey player
- Stanley Spooner, English journalist and editor. Creator of Flight magazine.
- Wilf Spooner, Canadian politician of the 1950s and 1960s
- William Archibald Spooner, English clergyman and scholar, after whom spoonerisms are named
- Winifred Spooner, English aviator
- Wyman Spooner, Wisconsin politician and Lieutenant Governor
- The Spooners of Porthmadog, a family of railway engineers, among them Charles Edwin Spooner
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
- Jim Spooner, on the television show Swift and Shift Couriers
