Spooner (surname)
# 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
* 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
