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
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 Aircraft Ltd, British firm
- 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
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