# Spartan (disambiguation)

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

* Case Western Reserve Spartans
* Castleton Spartans, Vermont State University
* Dubuque Spartans, University of Dubuque
* Michigan State Spartans
* Missouri Baptist Spartans
* Norfolk State Spartans
* San Jose State Spartans
* Tampa Spartans, University of Tampa
* USC Upstate Spartans, University of South Carolina Upstate
* UNC Greensboro Spartans, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
* 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 (extinct dog breed)
* 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 codename of the Microsoft Edge Legacy 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