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