Spartan

A Spartan is a person from the Greek city Sparta.

The word may also refer to the following:

Aircraft

• Alenia C-27J Spartan
• 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

Media content

• Spartan (comics), Wildstorm comic book character
• Spartan (film), written and directed by David Mamet
• Spartan (book), the historical novel by Valerio Massimo Manfredi
• The SPARTAN Program, a story element in the Halo series of games
• Roderick Bradley, who competes as "Spartan", a gladiator in the UK TV series Gladiators

Sports teams

Teams referred as the Spartans:

Non-scholastic teams

• Blyth Spartans A.F.C., Northumberland, England
• Ħamrun Spartans F.C., Malta
• Hutt Valley Spartans, Avalon, New Zealand
• La Crosse Spartans, Wisconsin
• Manchester Village Spartans RUFC, Manchester, England
• Spartan Cricket Club, Barbados
• Spartans F.C., Edinburgh, Scotland

University teams

• Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio
• Manchester University (Indiana), North Manchester, Indiana
• Michigan State Spartans, East Lansing, Michigan
• Norfolk State Spartans, Norfolk, Virginia
• San Jose State Spartans, San Jose, California
• St. Thomas Aquinas College, Rockland County, New York
• Trinity Western University, Langley, British Columbia
• Universities at Medway, Kent, United Kingdom
• University of Dubuque, Dubuque, Iowa
• University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, North Carolina
• University of South Carolina Upstate, Spartanburg, South Carolina
• University of Tampa, Tampa, Florida
• University of Cape Town Men's C Crew Rowing Team, Cape Town, South Africa
• University of Southampton Korfball Team, Southampton, United Kingdom

High school teams

• Adlai E. Stevenson High School (Livonia, Michigan)
• Amity Regional High School, Woodbridge, Connecticut
• Athens Academy (school), Georgia
• Bernalillo High School, Bernalillo, New Mexico
• Bishop Stang High School, North Dartmouth, Massachusetts
• Bishop Walsh School, Cumberland, Maryland
• Bixby High School, Bixby, Oklahoma, List of schools in Tulsa, Oklahoma
• Boardman High School (Mahoning County, Ohio)
• Border Central High School, Calvin, North Dakota
• Broad Run High School, Loudoun County, Virginia
• Brookfield East High School, Wisconsin
• Burnt Hills-Ballston Lake High School Ballston, New York
• Camelback High School, Phoenix, Arizona
• Campbell High School (Smyrna, Georgia)
• Centennial Collegiate Vocational Institute, Guelph, Ontario
• Central Davidson High School, Lexington, North Carolina
• Central Union High School (El Centro, California)
• Cimarron-Memorial High School (Las Vegas, Nevada)
• Claremont Secondary School, Saanich, British Columbia
• Clark Road High School, London, Ontario
• Connersville High School
• Conneaut High School, Ohio
• Damien High School, La Verne, California
• De La Salle High School (Concord, California)
• De Smet Jesuit High School, Creve Coeur, Missouri
• Deptford High School, Deptford, New Jersey
• Dunbarton High School, Pickering, Ontario
• East Longmeadow High School, Massachusetts
• East Syracuse-Minoa High School, New York
• Emporia High School, Kansas
• Fargo North High School, North Dakota
• Framingham North High School (1963–1991), Massachusetts
• Garden Spot High School, New Holland, Pennsylvania
• Glenbrook North High School, Northbrook, Illinois
• Greenbrier East High School, Fairlea, West Virginia
• Greater Atlanta Christian School, Norcross, Georgia
• Hazelton Secondary School, Hazelton, British Columbia, School District 82 Coast Mountains
• Holy Spirit High School (New Jersey)
• Homestead High School (Fort Wayne, Indiana)
• Laurel High School (Laurel, Maryland)
• Lewis S. Mills High School, Burlington, Connecticut
• Lorne Park Secondary School, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
• Marist Catholic High School (Eugene, Oregon)
• Mason County Central High School (Scottville, Michigan)
• McFarland High School (Wisconsin)
• Miami Country Day School, Florida
• Miami Southridge High School, Florida
• Milne Valley Middle School, Toronto, Ontario
• Moberly High School, Moberly, Missouri
• Montour High School, Robinson Township, Pennsylvania
• Mountain Brook High School, Alabama
• Mountain View High School (Mountain View, California)
• Murray High School (Utah), Murray, Utah
• North Newton High School
• North Springs Charter High School
• Ocean Township High School, New Jersey
• Ohio School for the Deaf, Columbus, Ohio
• Orcutt Academy High School, Orcutt, California
• Oshkosh North High School, Wisconsin
• Pinole Valley High School, California
• Pleasant Valley High School (Iowa)
• Queensbury High School, New York
• Richmond Heights High School, Richmond Heights, Ohio
• Richfield High School (Minnesota), Minnesota
• Ridgemont High School (Ottawa), Ontario
• Riverdale High School (Pierrefonds, Quebec)
• Roger Bacon High School, Cincinnati, Ohio
• Romeoville High School, Illinois
• Salem High School (Salem, Virginia)
• Salmen High School, Slidell, Louisiana
• Sanford High School, Sanford, Maine
• Schurr High School, Montebello, California
• Scott Park High School, Hamilton, Ontario
• Sentinel High School, Missoula, Montana
• Seven Lakes High School, Fort Bend County, Texas
• Shinglehouse High School, Shinglehouse, Pennsylvania
• Sisler High School, Winnipeg, Manitoba
• Skyline High School (Washington), Sammamish, Washington
• Smithfield-Selma High School, Smithfield, North Carolina
• Solon High School, Solon,Iowa
• South Knox High School, Indiana
• South Warren High School, Bowling Green, Kentucky
• Southwestern High School (Shelbyville, Indiana)
• Souris Regional High School (Souris, Prince Edward Island, Canada)
• South Jefferson Central School, Jefferson County, New York
• Spalding Catholic High School, Granville, Iowa
• Sparta High School (Michigan)
• Sparta High School (New Jersey)
• Sparta High School (Wisconsin)
• Start High School (Toledo, Ohio)
• Stoneham High School
• St. Johns Country Day School, Florida
• St.Jago High School,Jamaica
• St. Marks High School, Newark, Delaware
• St. Mary's High School (Lynn, Massachusetts)
• Sumner High School (Washington), Sumner, Washington
• Sun Valley High School (North Carolina)
• Superior High School (Superior, Wisconsin)
• Sylmar High School Sylmar, California
• Walter Johnson High School, Bethesda, Maryland
• Waynesville High School, Waynesville, Ohio
• Webb School of Knoxville, Tennessee
• West Springfield High School (Virginia), Springfield, Virginia
• Westlane Secondary School, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada
• White Station High School, Memphis, Tennessee
• Williamsville North High School, Williamsville, New York
• W. W. Samuell High School, Dallas, Texas
• Wyoming Valley West High School (Wyoming Valley West School District), Pennsylvania

People

• Andrey Koreshkov (born 1990), Russian mixed martial artist nicknamed "Spartan"
• Vinicius Queiroz (born 1983), Brazilian mixed martial artist nicknamed "Spartan"

Vehicles

• Alenia C-27J Spartan, military tactical transport aircraft
• FV103 Spartan, British armoured personnel carrier
• LIM-49 Spartan, American anti-ballistic missile
• Simmonds Spartan, 1920s British biplane
• Streit Group Spartan APC, light armoured vehicle, built in Canada and Ukraine
• Spartan Cars, a British kit car maker
• HMS Spartan, various British Royal Navy ships
• USS Spartan (SP-336), a United States Navy minesweeper in commission from 1917 to 1919

Other meanings

• Spartan (software), a molecular modeling and computational chemistry application
• Spartan (apple), apple cultivar developed in 1926
• Project Spartan (or simply Spartan), the code name of the Microsoft Edge web browser
• Spartan Alphabet, in fingerspelling
• The Spartans Drum and Bugle Corps, an Open Class drum and bugle corps from Nashua, New Ha* Spartan Motors, manufacturer of fire fighting vehicles
• Spartan race, a type of obstacle-based race
• Spartans, runners who have completed 10 Melbourne Marathons
• Spartan Communications, a company based in Spartanburg, South Carolina, that was purchased by Medi

See also

• Sparta (disambiguation)