A Spartan is a person from the ancient Greek city-state of Sparta.

The word may also refer to the following:

People

  • Roderick Bradley, who competes as "Spartan", a gladiator in the UK TV series Gladiators
  • Andrey Koreshkov (born 1990), Russian mixed martial artist nicknamed "Spartan"
  • Vinicius Queiroz (born 1983), Brazilian mixed martial artist nicknamed "Spartan"

Places

  • Spartan, Kempton Park

Entertainment

Fictional characters

  • SPARTAN Program, supersoldiers in the Halo series of games
  • Spartan (comics), a Wildstorm comic book character
  • John Diggle, a character in the TV series Arrow codenamed "Spartan"

Other uses in entertainment

  • Spartan (book), a 1988 novel by Valerio Massimo Manfredi
  • Spartan (film), 2004 American film written and directed by David Mamet
  • Spartan (video game), a 2004 computer game
  • Spartan: Total Warrior, a 2005 console-based video game
  • Spartan: Ultimate Team Challenge, sports entertainment TV show based on the Spartan race obstacle challenge
  • "Spartan" (Arrow episode), 2019
  • "Spartan", episode 15 of the French 2013 series Code Lyoko: Evolution

Sports

  • Spartan race, a type of obstacle-based race
  • Spartans, runners who have completed 10 Melbourne Marathons

Collegiate varsity teams

  • Case Western Reserve Spartans
  • Castleton Spartans, Vermont State University
  • Dubuque Spartans, University of Dubuque
  • Michigan State Spartans
  • Missouri Baptist Spartans
  • Norfolk State Spartans
  • San Jose State Spartans
  • Tampa Spartans, University of Tampa
  • USC Upstate Spartans, University of South Carolina Upstate
  • UNC Greensboro Spartans, University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Football (soccer) teams

  • Hamrun Spartans F.C.
  • The Spartans F.C.
  • Blyth Spartans A.F.C.
  • Blacktown Spartans FC

Transport and military

Aviation

  • Alenia C-27J Spartan, military tactical transport aircraft
  • Spartan Aircraft Company, American firm
  • Spartan 8W Zeus
  • Spartan 12W Executive
  • Spartan C2
  • Spartan C3
  • Spartan C4
  • Spartan C5
  • Spartan NP
  • Spartan Executive
  • Spartan Aircraft Ltd, British firm
  • Simmonds Spartan
  • Spartan Arrow
  • Spartan Three Seater
  • Spartan Cruiser
  • Spartan Clipper
  • Spartan Microlights, an American aircraft manufacturer
  • Spartan DFD Aerotome, an American ultralight aircraft
  • Spartan DFS Paramotor, an American ultralight aircraft
  • Spartan DFS Trike, an American ultralight aircraft
  • Spartan BP Parawing, an American ultralight aircraft
  • Simmonds Spartan, 1920s British biplane

Land vehicles

  • Spartan Motors, manufacturer of fire fighting vehicles
  • FV103 Spartan, British armoured personnel carrier
  • Streit Group Spartan APC, light armoured vehicle, built in Canada and Ukraine
  • Spartan Cars, a British kit car maker

Ships

  • , various British Royal Navy ships
  • , a United States Navy minesweeper in commission from 1917 to 1919
  • , a railroad car ferry on Lake Michigan formerly operated by the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (C&O)

Ballistics

  • LIM-49 Spartan, American anti-ballistic missile

Other meanings

  • Spartans (Greek political party), an ultranationalist party in Greek politics
  • Spartan (extinct dog breed)
  • Spartan (chemistry software), a molecular modeling and computational chemistry application
  • Spartan (apple), an apple cultivar developed in 1926
  • Spartan (typeface), a geometric sans-serif typeface
  • Spartan or Project Spartan, the codename of the Microsoft Edge Legacy web browser
  • Spartan Alphabet, in fingerspelling
  • The Spartans Drum and Bugle Corps, an Open Class drum and bugle corps from Nashua, New Hampshire
  • Spartan Communications, a company based in Spartanburg, South Carolina, that was purchased by Medi
  • Xilinx Spartan, a family of integrated circuits
  • Station power, articulation, thermal, and analysis (SPARTAN) Flight Controller, for the International Space Station

See also

  • Sparta (disambiguation)