Sparky

Sparky is a common nickname for people and animals. In the British Commonwealth, it can also be used to refer to an electrician.

People

 * Sparky Adams (1894–1989), American Major League Baseball player
 * Sparky Anderson (1934–2010), American Major League Baseball manager
 * Sparky McEwen (born 1968), American football player
 * H. F. Gierke III (1943–2016), North Dakota Supreme Court justice
 * Mark Hughes (born 1963), former Welsh international football player and manager
 * Eddie Lake (1916–1995), American Major League Baseball player
 * Shelly Liddelow (born 1984), Australian field hockey player
 * Sparky Lyle (born 1944), American Major League Baseball pitcher
 * Sparky Marcus (born Marcus Issoglio in 1967), American child actor
 * Mark Matejka, American Southern rock guitarist
 * Marv Olson (1907–1998), American Major League Baseball player
 * Mark Phillips, vocalist of the British band Demented Are Go
 * Charles M. Schulz (1922–2000), American cartoonist, creator of the Peanuts comic strip
 * Ronald Speirs (1920–2007), United States Army officer
 * Wilbur Stalcup (1910–1972), American college basketball coach
 * Melville Vail (1906–1983), Canadian hockey player
 * Sparky Woods (born 1953), American football college football player and coach

Fictional characters

 * Sparky the Fire Dog, official mascot of the National Fire Protection Association
 * Sparky, Richie's Pikachu in the Pokémon anime
 * Sparky, hero of the nicknames given by Drawn of Life series of video games.
 * Sparky, one of the nicknames given to Rygel XVI by John Crichton in the science fiction television series Farscape
 * Sparky, a gay dog on the animated television series South Park
 * Sparky, nickname for radio operator Sgt. Pryor on the television series M*A*S*H
 * Sparky, mechanic in the animated television series Speed Racer
 * Sparky, a firefly in the 1970s children's show The Bugaloos
 * Sparky, a mechanic in the adventure game Flight of the Amazon Queen
 * Sparky, an enemy type encountered in Super Mario World
 * Sparky the Wonder Penguin, character from the comic strip This Modern World
 * Sparky, nickname for Clark Wilhelm Griswold, Jr. in the National Lampoon's Vacation movies
 * Sparky, protagonist of the children's audio story Sparky's Magic Piano
 * Sparky (Atomic Betty), an alien starship pilot on the animated television series Atomic Betty
 * Sparky, the dog in the 1984 Tim Burton short film Frankenweenie and its 2012 feature-length stop-motion remake
 * Sparky (Lilo & Stitch), an alien experiment from the Lilo & Stitch franchise, also known as Experiment 221
 * Sparky, super hero from the cartoon Static Shock
 * Sparky (The Fairly OddParents), a fairy dog featured in season 9 of The Fairly OddParents
 * Sparky, the electric siege machine as a legendary card found in the real-time strategy Clash Royale
 * Sparky, a translated version of a nickname for Mikoto Misaka
 * Sparky (Marvel Comics), a synthezoid dog in Marvel Comics

Brands

 * Sparky, an Indian jeans brand by company JK Jain Sparky (India) LLP founded in 1998.

Other uses

 * Sparky, nickname of a robot dog on MythBusters
 * Sparky the Sun Devil, Arizona State University mascot
 * Sparky the Eagle, Liberty University's team mascot
 * Sparky (comic), British comic book
 * "Sparky", a song from Images (Brotherhood of Man album) (1977)
 * "Sparky", a song by Lights from Pep (2022)
 * Sparky, a performing sea lion at the Como Zoo
 * Sparky's, a nickname for South Park Hospital, the setting for children's TV show Children's Ward