Sprout (surname)
Sprout is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Bob Sprout (born 1941), American baseball pitcher * Jonathan Sprout (born 1952), American singer-songwriter * Pomona Sprout, fictional character in the Harry Potter franchise * Tobin Sprout Tobin Sprout (born April 28, 1955) is an American visual artist, musician, songwriter, and children's author. He is best known as a former member of the indie rock band Guided by Voices. He served as a secondary major songwriter and guitarist o ...

Bob Sprout
Robert Samuel Sprout (born December 5, 1941) is a retired American professional baseball player who appeared in one Major League game for 1961 Los Angeles Angels. A left-handed pitcher, he stood tall and weighed . Biography Sprout was acquired by the Angels from the Detroit Tigers with the ninth selection in the 1960 Major League Baseball expansion draft. During the 1960 minor league season, Sprout won 15 of 22 decisions as a member of the Decatur Commodores of the Class D Midwest League. The eighteen-year-old, in his first year of professional ball, led his league in strikeouts (264) in 190 innings pitched, compiled a low earned run average (2.61) and was elected the league's Rookie of the Year and a member of the all-star team. On August 18, he set (and still holds) the Midwest League's single-game strikeout record, when he struck out 22 batters against the Waterloo Hawks. The Commodores won by a score of 3–0. Sprout spent most of with the Angels' Triple-A farm team, t ...
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Jonathan Sprout
Jonathan Sprout (born John Wells Sprout, Jr. on April 12, 1952 in Hightstown, New Jersey, United States) is an American songwriter, performer and recording artist from Pennsylvania, US. He has released twelve albums, many of which feature children's music. Sprout has performed more than 6,500 concerts and taught more than 800 songwriting workshops throughout the United States. In 1994, Sprout began a 20-year stint researching, writing, and recording songs about American heroes. This resulted in four albums that received 26 national awards including a GRAMMY® nomination in the Best Children’s Album category. In 2010 his ninth album, ''American Heroes #3'', was nominated for a Grammy Award in the "Best Music for Children" category. Biography Sprout grew up in Hightstown, New Jersey. His high school years were spent at the Peddie School in Hightstown; Sprout developed his interest in music while attending Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. He was a member of t ...
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Pomona Sprout
The following fictional characters are staff members and denizens of Hogwarts in the ''Harry Potter'' books written by J. K. Rowling. The staff and their positions Teachers and staff members The following teachers and staff members do not have their own articles or are not listed in other articles. Argus Filch Argus Filch is the caretaker of Hogwarts. While he is not an evil character, he is ill-tempered, which makes him unpopular with the student body, and occasionally causes tension or exasperation with teachers and other staff. His knowledge of the secrets and short-cuts of the castle is almost unparalleled, except perhaps by the users of the Marauder's Map (the Weasley twins, Harry, Ron and Hermione), and Voldemort himself. He tends to favour almost sadistically harsh punishments, and gleefully allies himself with Umbridge when she prescribes such punishments on students. He has an obsessive dislike of mud, animate toys, and all other things that might interfere with ...
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