title: Spade (disambiguation)
text: # Spade (disambiguation)
  
  A spade is a digging and gardening tool.
  
  Spade or Spades may also refer to:
  
  ## Cards
  
  * Spades (card game), a trick-taking card game
  * Spades (suit), one of the four French suits commonly used in playing cards
  
  ## Music
  
  * The Spade, a 2011 studio album by Butch Walker
  * "Spade", a song from The Golden Age of Grotesque by Marilyn Manson
  * The Spades, first notable band of Roky Erickson
  
  ## Places
  
  * Spades, Indiana, an unincorporated community
  * Spade Township, Knox County, Nebraska, United States
  * Spade, Texas, a census designated place
  * Spade Ranch (Nebraska), a cattle ranch
  * Spade Ranch (Texas), two ranches
  
  ## Software
  
  * SPAdes (software), a set of tools for genomic sequence assembly
  * SMART Process Acceleration Development Environment
  
  ## Other uses
  
  * Toyota Spade, a variant of the Toyota Porte mini multi-purpose vehicle
  * Spade, a character from Freedom Planet
  * Spade, an otter in Tarka the Otter
  * Spade, a form of ancient Chinese coinage
  * Spade, an aircraft aileron component
  * Spade, an ethnic slur for a black person
  
  ## People with the name
  
  * Andy Spade, American entrepreneur, brother of David Spade
  * Bob Spade (1877–1924), American Major League Baseball pitcher
  * David Spade (born 1964), American comedian and actor
  * Dean Spade (born 1977), American lawyer, writer and academic
  * Doug Spade (born 1951), American politician
  * Dudley Spade (born 1956), American politician
  * Henri Spade (1921–2008), French journalist, television producer and novelist
  * Kate Spade (1962–2018), American designer, co-founder of Kate Spade New York
  * Mark Spade, pseudonym of Nigel Balchin (1908–1970), English psychologist, novelist and screenwriter
  * Sam Spade, a fictional detective
  * Spade Cooley (1910–1969), American Western swing musician, big band leader, actor, and television personality, convicted of murdering his second wife
  