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A Spartan is a person from the ancient Greek city-state of Sparta.
The word may also refer to the following:
Aircraft
- Alenia C-27J Spartan
- Spartan Aircraft Company, American firm
- Spartan Aircraft Ltd, British firm
- 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
Sports teams
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 Spartans football, 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
- University of Dubuque, Dubuque, Iowa
- UNC Greensboro Spartans, Greensboro, North Carolina
- USC Upstate Spartans, Spartanburg, South Carolina
- Tampa Spartans and Tampa Spartans football, Tampa, Florida
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
- Boardman High School (Mahoning County, Ohio)
- Broad Run High School, Loudoun County, Virginia
- Brookfield East High School, Wisconsin
- 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)
- Claremont Secondary School, Saanich, British Columbia
- 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
- 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)
- Mayo High School, Rochester, Minnesota
- McFarland High School (Wisconsin)
- Miami Country Day School, Florida
- Miami Southridge High School, Florida
- Milne Valley Middle School, Toronto, Ontario
- 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 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
- Quigley Preparatory Seminary South, Chicago
- 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
- Sentinel High School, Missoula, Montana
- Seven Lakes High School, Fort Bend County, Texas
- 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)
- 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. Mary's High School (Lynn, Massachusetts)
- Sun Valley High School (North Carolina)
- Sylmar High School Sylmar, California
- Villa Park High School Villa Park, 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
Characters
- Diggle's codename in the TV series Arrow
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"
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
- Spartan or Project 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 Hampshire
- 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
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