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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

• Alenia C-27J Spartan, military tactical transport aircraft
• Spartan Aircraft Company, American firm
  • Spartan 8W Zeus
  • Spartan 12W Executive
  • Spartan C2
  • Spartan C3
  • Spartan C4
  • Spartan C5
  • Spartan NP
  • Spartan Executive
• Spartan Aircraft Ltd, British firm
  • Simmonds Spartan
  • Spartan Arrow
  • Spartan Three Seater
  • Spartan Cruiser
  • Spartan Clipper
• Spartan Microlights, an American aircraft manufacturer
  • Spartan DFD Aerotome, an American ultralight aircraft
  • Spartan DFS Paramotor, an American ultralight aircraft
  • Spartan DFS Trike, an American ultralight aircraft
  • Spartan BP Parawing, an American ultralight aircraft
• Simmonds Spartan, 1920s British biplane

Land vehicles

• Spartan Motors, manufacturer of fire fighting vehicles
• FV103 Spartan, British armoured personnel carrier
• Streit Group Spartan APC, light armoured vehicle, built in Canada and Ukraine
• Spartan Cars, a British kit car maker

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

• LIM-49 Spartan, American anti-ballistic missile

Other meanings

• Spartans (Greek political party), an ultranationalist party in Greek politics
• 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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