title: Spooner (surname)
text: # 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
  * 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
  