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