Spooner (surname)
Spooner is a surname. It may refer to:
- The Spooners of Porthmadog, a family of railway engineers, among them Charles Edwin Spooner
A
- Archibald Spooner, English cricketer
- Arthur Spooner (painter), English painter
B
- Barbara Spooner, married name Barbara Wilberforce, spouse of the abolitionist William Wilberforce
- Bathsheba Spooner, the first woman to be executed in the United States by Americans
- Bill Spooner, American musician
- Bill Spooner (politician), Australian politician
- Brian Spooner (anthropologist), British anthropologist
- Brian Spooner (mycologist), English mycologist
C
- Casey Spooner, American musician and artist
- Catharine Spooner, married name Catharine Tait, British philanthropist, daughter of Archdeacon William Spooner
- Cecil Spooner, American actress, screenwriter and film director
- Charles Spooner (engraver), Irish mezzotinter
- Charles Spooner (veterinary surgeon), English veterinary surgeon
- Charles Spooner (cricketer) Barbadian cricketer
- Charles Edwin Spooner, British engineer
- Clifford Spooner, British water polo player
D
- Danny Spooner, Australian singer and social historian
- David Brainerd Spooner, American archeologist and linguist
- Dennis Spooner, English television screenwriter and story editor
- Dick Spooner, English cricketer
- Doreen Spooner, English newspaper photographer
E
- Edna May Spooner, American actress, playwright and vaudeville performer
- Eric Spooner, Australian politician
- Ernest John Spooner, Rear-Admiral Malaya, commander of UK Naval forces in Singapore
F
- Florence Garrettson Spooner, American social reformer
- Frank Spooner, Louisiana Republican politician
G
- George Spooner, New Zealand politician
- Glenda Spooner, British journalist and author on horses
- Graham Spooner, Australian rules footballer
H
- Hardwicke Spooner, English Anglican priest and author
- Henry Spooner (priest), English cleric, Archdeacon of Maidstone
- Henry J. Spooner, Rhode Island Congressman
- Hugh Spooner, Canadian sprinter
I
- Isaac Spooner, English ironmaster and banker
J
- James Spooner, American film director
- Joe Spooner, New Zealand competitive sailor
- John Spooner, Australian editorial cartoonist
- John Coit Spooner, U.S. Senator and lawyer from Wisconsin
K
- Karl Spooner, Major League Baseball pitcher with the Brooklyn Dodgers
- Kenneth Spooner, British Aircraftman posthumously awarded the George Cross
L
- Lloyd Spooner, American sports shooter and Olympic champion
- Louisa M. Spooner, pseudonym, was a Welsh novelist
- Lysander Spooner, American individualist anarchist
M
- Mark Spooner, New Zealand weightlifter
- Meagan Spooner, American author
- Minnie Dibdin Spooner, British artist and illustrator
N
- Natalie Spooner, Canadian ice hockey player
- Nathan Spooner, Australian rugby union player
- Nicholas Spooner (field hockey), South African field hockey player
- Nicky Spooner, English footballer
P
- Paul Spooner, Vermont Lieutenant Governor and Vermont Supreme Court justice
- Peter Spooner, English footballer
- Philip Loring Spooner, American tenor
- Philip L. Spooner Jr., American businessman and politician in Wisconsin, brother of John Coit Spooner
Q
- Qadr Spooner, Canadian football player
R
- Red Spooner, Canadian ice hockey goaltender
- Reggie Spooner, English cricketer
- Richard Spooner (MP), British Member of Parliament and businessman
- Richard Spooner (equestrian), American show jumping rider
- Richard T. Spooner, United States Marine Corps officer
- Richard Spooner (MP),, MP and ecclesiastical writer
- Ryan Spooner, Canadian ice hockey player
S
- Shearjashub Spooner, American physician and writer
- Stanley Spooner, English journalist and editor, creator of Flight magazine
- Steve Spooner, English footballer
- Steven Spooner, American pianist
W
- Wilf Spooner, Canadian politician
- William Archibald Spooner, English clergyman and scholar, after whom spoonerisms are named
- William Spooner (priest), archdeacon of Coventry
- William Charles Spooner, English veterinary surgeon
- William Wycliffe Spooner, founded the Spooner Dryer and Engineering Company
- Winifred Spooner, English aviator
- Wyman Spooner, Wisconsin politician and Lieutenant Governor
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''