Spartan (disambiguation)

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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:

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"

Entertainment

Fictional characters

  • SPARTAN Program, supersoldiers in the Halo series of games
  • Spartan (comics), a Wildstorm comic book character
  • John Diggle, a character in the TV series Arrow codenamed "Spartan"

Other uses in entertainment

  • Spartan (book), a 1988 novel by Valerio Massimo Manfredi
  • Spartan (film), 2004 American film written and directed by David Mamet
  • Spartan (video game), a 2004 computer game
  • Spartan: Total Warrior, a 2005 console-based video game
  • Spartan: Ultimate Team Challenge, sports entertainment TV show based on the Spartan race obstacle challenge
  • "Spartan" (Arrow episode), 2019
  • "Spartan", episode 15 of the French 2013 series Code Lyoko: Evolution

Sports

  • Spartan race, a type of obstacle-based race
  • Spartans, runners who have completed 10 Melbourne Marathons

Transport and military

Aviation

Land vehicles

Ships

  • HMS Spartan, various British Royal Navy ships
  • USS Spartan (SP-336), a United States Navy minesweeper in commission from 1917 to 1919
  • SS Spartan, a railroad car ferry on Lake Michigan formerly operated by the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (C&O)

Ballistics

Other meanings

  • Spartans (Greek political party), an ultranationalist party in Greek politics
  • Spartan (extinct dog breed)
  • Spartan (chemistry software), a molecular modeling and computational chemistry application
  • Spartan (apple), an apple cultivar developed in 1926
  • Spartan (typeface), a geometric sans-serif typeface
  • 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 Communications, a company based in Spartanburg, South Carolina, that was purchased by Medi
  • Xilinx Spartan, a family of integrated circuits
  • Station power, articulation, thermal, and analysis (SPARTAN) Flight Controller, for the International Space Station

See also

  • Sparta (disambiguation)
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