Spooner (surname)

Spooner is an English surname of either Anglo-Saxon or Anglo-Danish origin (Spøner). It may refer to:

People

• Arthur Spooner (painter) (1873–1962), English painter
• Bathsheba Spooner (1746–1778), the first woman to be executed in the United States by Americans
• Bill Spooner (politician) (1897–1966), Australian politician
• Charles Edwin Spooner (1853–1909), British engineer
• David Brainard Spooner (1879–1925), American archeologist and linguist
• Dennis Spooner (1932–1986), English television screenwriter and story editor
• Dick Spooner (1919–1997), cricketer
• Doreen Spooner (1928–2019), English newspaper photographer
• Eric Spooner (1891–1952), Australian politician
• Ernest John Spooner (1887–1942), Rear-Admiral Malaya, commander of UK Naval forces in Singapore
• Frank Spooner (born 1937), Louisiana Republican politician
• George Spooner (1893–1975), New Zealand politician
• Henry J. Spooner (1839–1918), Rhode Island Congressman
• Ian S. Spooner Professor, television personality
• James Spooner, film director
• John Coit Spooner (1843–1919), U.S. Senator and lawyer from Wisconsin
• Karl Spooner (1931–1984), Major League Baseball pitcher with the Brooklyn Dodgers
• Lloyd Spooner (1884–1966), American sports shooter and Olympic champion
• Lysander Spooner (1808–1887), American individualist anarchist
• Natalie Spooner (born 1990), Canadian ice hockey player
• Nicky Spooner (born 1971), English footballer
• Paul Spooner (1746–1789), Vermont Lieutenant Governor and Vermont Supreme Court justice
• Philip Loring Spooner (1879–1945), American tenor
• Philip L. Spooner Jr. (1847–1918), American businessman and politician in Wisconsin.
• Reggie Spooner (1880–1961), English cricketer
• Richard Spooner (MP) (1783–1864), British Member of Parliament and businessman
• Richard Spooner (equestrian), American show jumping rider
• Richard T. Spooner (born 1925), former United States Marine Corps officer
• Richard Spooner (MP), (1783–1864), MP and ecclesiastical writer
• Ryan Spooner (born 1992), Canadian ice hockey player
• Stanley Spooner (1856–1940), English journalist and editor. Creator of Flight magazine.
• Wilf Spooner, Canadian politician of the 1950s and 1960s
• William Archibald Spooner (1844-1930), English clergyman and scholar, after whom spoonerisms are named
• Winifred Spooner (1900-1933), English aviator
• Wyman Spooner (1795–1877), 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