Sparky (robot)

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''

See also

* Old Sparky, nickname for the electric chair in several U.S. states
* Sparkie (disambiguation)
* SparkyLinux, a desktop-oriented Linux distribution based on Debian

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