# Sparky

Sparky is a common nickname for people and animals. In the British Commonwealth, it can also be used to refer to an electrician.

## People

* Sparky Adams (1894–1989), American Major League Baseball player
* Sparky Anderson (1934–2010), American Major League Baseball manager
* Sparky McEwen (born 1968), American football player
* H. F. Gierke III (1943–2016), North Dakota Supreme Court justice
* Mark Hughes (born 1963), former Welsh international football player and manager
* Eddie Lake (1916–1995), American Major League Baseball player
* Shelly Liddelow (born 1984), Australian field hockey player
* Sparky Lyle (born 1944), American Major League Baseball pitcher
* Sparky Marcus (born Marcus Issoglio in 1967), American child actor
* Mark Matejka, American Southern rock guitarist
* Marv Olson (1907–1998), American Major League Baseball player
* Mark Phillips, vocalist of the British band Demented Are Go
* Charles M. Schulz (1922–2000), American cartoonist, creator of the Peanuts comic strip
* Ronald Speirs (1920–2007), United States Army officer
* Wilbur Stalcup (1910–1972), American college basketball coach
* Melville Vail (1906–1983), Canadian hockey player
* Sparky Woods (born 1953), American football college football player and coach

## Fictional characters

* Sparky the Fire Dog, official mascot of the National Fire Protection Association
* Sparky, Richie's Pikachu in the Pokémon anime
* Sparky, hero of the nicknames given by Drawn of Life series of video games.
* Sparky, one of the nicknames given to Rygel XVI by John Crichton in the science fiction television series Farscape
* Sparky, a gay dog on the animated television series South Park
* Sparky, nickname for radio operator Sgt. Pryor on the television series M*A*S*H
* Sparky, mechanic in the animated television series Speed Racer
* Sparky, a firefly in the 1970s children's show The Bugaloos
* Sparky, a mechanic in the adventure game Flight of the Amazon Queen
* Sparky, an enemy type encountered in Super Mario World
* Sparky the Wonder Penguin, character from the comic strip This Modern World
* Sparky, nickname for Clark Wilhelm Griswold, Jr. in the National Lampoon's Vacation movies
* Sparky, protagonist of the children's audio story Sparky's Magic Piano
* Sparky (Atomic Betty), an alien starship pilot on the animated television series Atomic Betty
* Sparky, the dog in the 1984 Tim Burton short film Frankenweenie and its 2012 feature-length stop-motion remake
* Sparky (Lilo & Stitch), an alien experiment from the Lilo & Stitch franchise, also known as Experiment 221
* Sparky, super hero from the cartoon Static Shock
* Sparky (The Fairly OddParents), a fairy dog featured in season 9 of The Fairly OddParents
* Sparky, the electric siege machine as a legendary card found in the real-time strategy Clash Royale
* Sparky, a translated version of a nickname for Mikoto Misaka
* Sparky (Marvel Comics), a synthezoid dog in Marvel Comics
* Sparky (DC Comics), two different characters from DC Comics

## Brands

* Sparky, an Indian jeans brand by company JK Jain Sparky (India) LLP founded in 1998.

## Other uses

* Sparky, nickname of a robot dog on MythBusters
* Sparky the Sun Devil, Arizona State University mascot
* Sparky the Eagle, Liberty University's team mascot
* Sparky (comic), British comic book
* "Sparky", a song from Images (Brotherhood of Man album) (1977)
* "Sparky", a song by Lights from Pep (2022)
* Sparky, a performing sea lion at the Como Zoo
* Sparky's, a nickname for South Park Hospital, the setting for children's TV show Children's Ward