Sprague may refer to:

Places

;Canada *

Sprague, Manitoba Sprague is a community within the Rural Municipality of Piney in the Canadian province of Manitoba. It is named after D.E. Sprague, a prominent Winnipeg lumber merchant. The community is located in the extreme southeast corner of the province near ...

, a small town near the Minnesota/Manitoba border ;United States * Sprague, Alabama,

Montgomery County, Alabama Montgomery County is located in the State of Alabama. As of the 2020 census, its population was 228,954, making it the fifth-most populous county in Alabama. Its county seat is Montgomery, the state capital. Montgomery County is included in th ...

Sprague, Connecticut Sprague is a town in New London County, Connecticut, United States. The town was named after William Sprague III, who laid out the industrial section. The population was 2,967 at the 2020 census. Sprague includes three villages: Baltic, Hanover, ...

Sprague, Missouri Sprague is an unincorporated community in southwest Bates County, in the U.S. state of Missouri Missouri is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. Ranking 21st in land area, it is bordered by eight states (tied for the mo ...

Sprague, Nebraska Sprague is a village in Lancaster County, Nebraska, United States. It is part of the Lincoln, Nebraska Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 142 at the 2010 census. History In 1865, a settlement called Centerville established a post ...

Sprague, Washington Sprague is a small city in Lincoln County, Washington, United States. The population was 446 at the 2010 census. The city was platted in 1880 and named for former American Civil War Union general John Wilson Sprague. History Sprague was firs ...

* Sprague, West Virginia * Sprague, Wisconsin * Sprague Field, on the campus of Montclair State University in New Jersey * Sprague Lake (Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado) *

Sprague River (Maine) The Sprague River is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map accessed June 30, 2011 river in the town of Phippsburg, Maine. It flows primarily through tidal marsh and empties into the A ...

Sprague River (Oregon) The Sprague River is a tributary of the Williamson River, approximately long, in southwestern Oregon in the United States. It drains an arid volcanic plateau region east of the Cascade Range in the watershed of the Klamath River. It is formed ...

People

First name

Sprague Cleghorn Henry William Sprague "Peg" Cleghorn (March 11, 1890 – July 12, 1956) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player from Westmount, Quebec who played 17 professional seasons between 1911 and 1929 for the Renfrew Creamery Kings and Montreal Wand ...

, former NHL hockey player *

Sprague Grayden Sprague Grayden (born July 21, 1980) is an American actress. She played schoolteacher Heather Lisinski in the television drama ''Jericho'', Karen Kawalski in ''John Doe'', first daughter Olivia Taylor in the television thriller '' 24'', and Kri ...

, American actress (born 1980)

Middle name

L. Sprague de Camp Lyon Sprague de Camp (; November 27, 1907 – November 6, 2000) was an American writer of science fiction, fantasy and non-fiction. In a career spanning 60 years, he wrote over 100 books, including novels and works of non-fiction, including biog ...

, author

Surname

Achsa W. Sprague Achsa W. Sprague (November 17, 1827 – July 6, 1862) was one of the best-known Spiritualists during the 1850s in the United States. Primarily a medium and trance lecturer, she also wrote articles and poetry for Spiritualist publications such as ...

(1827–1862), American spiritualist *

Bud Sprague Mortimer "Bud" Sprague (September 8, 1904 – April 25, 1973) was an American football player. He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1970. He was one of the eight children born to Minna and George Sprague, of the Oak Cliff nei ...

(1904–1973), American football player *

Burr Sprague Burr Sprague (April 30, 1836 – April 17, 1917) was an American lawyer and politician. Born in Perrysburg, New York, Sprague moved to Wisconsin in 1848 and lived in the town of Spring Valley, Rock County, Wisconsin and then Brodhead, Wisco ...

(1836-1917), American politician *

Carl T. Sprague Carl Tyler "Doc" Sprague (May 10, 1896 – February 21, 1979) was an American country musician. He was often dubbed "The Original Singing Cowboy". Sprague was one of the first country musicians on record, recording in 1925. Biography He was bor ...

(1895-1979), American country musician *

Charles Sprague (disambiguation) Charles Sprague may refer to: * Charles Sprague (poet) (1791–1875), American poet * Charles James Sprague (1823–1903), American botanist * Charles Sprague Smith (1853–1910), activist and founder of the People's Institute during the Progressi ...

Clifton Sprague Clifton Albert Frederick "Ziggy" Sprague (January 8, 1896 – April 11, 1955) was a World War II-era officer in the United States Navy. Biography Sprague was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, and attended the Roxbury Latin School. He entere ...

(1896–1955), American admiral during World War II *

David Sprague David Shafer Sprague (August 11, 1910 – February 20, 1968) was a star football player in the Canadian Football League for eleven seasons for the Hamilton Tigers and the Ottawa Rough Riders. He was inducted into the Canadian Football Hall of ...

(1910–1968), Canadian footballer *

E. Carleton Sprague Eben Carleton Sprague (November 28, 1822 – February 14, 1895) was an American lawyer and politician from New York. Life He was born on November 28, 1822, in Bath, Grafton County, New Hampshire, the son of Noah Paul Sprague (1798–1879) and Ab ...

(1822–1895), American lawyer and politician * Ed Sprague Sr. (1945–2020) American baseball pitcher *

Ed Sprague Jr. Edward Nelson Sprague Jr. (born July 25, 1967) is an American former Major League Baseball third baseman. He played 11 seasons in the major leagues from 1991 to 2001, with six different teams. He later served as the head baseball coach of the N ...

(born 1967), American baseball third baseman *

Edward Spragge Sir Edward Spragge (name also written as Spragg or Sprague) (circa 1620 – 21 August 1673) was an Irish-born English admiral of the Royal Navy. He was a fiery, brilliantly accomplished seaman who fought in many great actions after the restoration ...

(AKA Spragg or Sprague, 162073), Irish admiral of the Royal Navy *

Elmer Sprague Elmer Sprague (1924 – April 19, 2019) was a professor at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, where he taught philosophy for 44 years. He obtained a B.A. from the University of Nebraska, and a B.A. and D.Phil. from Oxford. He wa ...

, American philosopher *

Erik Sprague Erik Sprague (born June 12, 1972), known professionally as the Lizardman, is an American freak show and sideshow performer. He is best known for his body modification, including his sharpened teeth, full-body tattoo of green scales, bifurcate ...

(born 1972), American freak show and sideshow performer *

Ernest Sprague Ernest Marshall Sprague (October 20, 1865 – May 10, 1938) was an American football player, public official, and engineer. He was born in 1865 on a farm at Farmington, Michigan. He was the son of Lorenzo Sprague and Laura G. (Meade) Sprague. ...

(1865–1938), American football player, public official, and engineer *

Ernest Headly Sprague Ernest is a given name derived from Germanic word ''ernst'', meaning "serious". Notable people and fictional characters with the name include: People * Archduke Ernest of Austria (1553–1595), son of Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor * Ernest, ...

(1859–1945), English architect, engineer, teacher, author *

Frank J. Sprague Frank Julian Sprague (July 25, 1857 in Milford, Connecticut – October 25, 1934) was an American inventor who contributed to the development of the electric motor, electric railways, and electric elevators. His contributions were especially ...

(1857–1934), American naval officer and inventor, notable for development of electric machinery *

Frank Lee Sprague Frank Lee Sprague (January 8, 1958 – September 2, 2018) was an American guitarist and composer. He wrote both songs and concert pieces, with his catalog numbering over 1000 works, including two string quartets, three symphonies, many chamber mu ...

(1958–2018), American guitarist and composer * Franklin B. Sprague (1825–1895), American military officer, businessman, and judge *

George Sprague George Able Sprague (November 30, 1871 – November 8, 1963), businessman, was mayor of Dallas in 1935–1937. Biography George Able Sprague was born on November 30, 1871, in Preston, Fillmore County, Minnesota, to Isaac Sprague and Anna Jeannet ...

(1871–1963), American businessman and mayor of Dallas *

Homer Sprague Homer Baxter Sprague (October 19, 1829 – March 23, 1918) was an American author, educator, abolitionist, and Lieutenant Colonel of the Union Army. A native of Sutton, Massachusetts, Sprague was a Captain of the 13th Connecticut Infantry Regimen ...

(1829–1918), American military officer, author, and educator *

Dr. Howard Sprague Doctor is an academic title that originates from the Latin word of the same spelling and meaning. The word is originally an agentive noun of the Latin verb 'to teach'. It has been used as an academic title in Europe since the 13th century, w ...

, Boston cardiologist and co-inventor of the Sprague-Rappaport stethoscope *

Isaac Sprague Isaac Sprague (September 5, 1811 – 1895) was a self-taught landscape, botanical, and ornithological painter. He was America's best known botanical illustrator of his day. Sprague was born in Hingham, Massachusetts and apprenticed with his unc ...

(1811–1895), American botanical illustrator *

Isaac W. Sprague Isaac W. Sprague (May 21, 1841 – January 5, 1887) was an entertainer and sideshow performer, billed as the living human skeleton. Biography He was born on May 21, 1841, in East Bridgewater, Massachusetts. Although normal for most of his childh ...

(1841–1887), American sideshow performer * J. Russell Sprague (1886–1969), American politician *

Jack Sprague Jack Sprague (born August 8, 1964) is an American former stock car racing driver who has competed in all of NASCAR's three top divisions, most notably in the Craftsman Truck Series, where he won series championships in 1997, 1999 and 2001. Racin ...

(born 1964), American racing driver *

Jake Sprague Jacob "Jake" Sprague (born December 27, 1984) is an American rugby union player and coach. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts. Sprague began his rugby career with the Babson College rugby union team, and later played at club level with Divis ...

(born 1984), American rugby union player *

Jo Ann Sprague Jo Ann Sprague (born November 3, 1931) is a former Massachusetts State Representative (1993–1998) and State Senator (1999–2004) from Walpole. In the Massachusetts Senate she represented the Norfolk, Bristol, and Plymouth district, but mo ...

(born 1931), former Massachusetts State Representative and State Senator * John Allison Sprague (1844–1907), Ontario farmer and politician *

John W. Sprague John Wilson Sprague (April 4, 1817 – December 27, 1893) was an American soldier and railroad executive. He served as a General officer, general in the Union Army in the Western Theater of the American Civil War, Western Theater of operation ...

(1817–1894), American soldier and railroad executive *

Ken Sprague Kenneth Ray Sprague (born July 14, 1945) is an American bodybuilder, businessman, author and school teacher. He is best known as the owner of the original Gold's Gym in Venice, Los Angeles, which he owned and managed between the years 1972 and ...

(born 1945), American bodybuilder, businessman, and schoolteacher *

Ken Sprague (cartoonist) Ken Sprague (1 January 1927 – 25 July 2004) was an English socialist political cartoonist, journalist and activist, involved in trade union, civil rights and peace movements. In later life he was also a TV presenter and a psychotherapist. Sprag ...

(1927–2004), English political cartoonist *

Lucian Sprague Lucian C. Sprague (1882–1960) was an American railroad executive. Sprague was born in Serena, Illinois, on September 29, 1882, and during his early years held a variety of railroad jobs, including stints at the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy, Gre ...

, American railroad executive * Lucy J. Sprague (1851–1903), American suffragist *

Lucy Sprague Mitchell Lucy Sprague Mitchell (July 2, 1878 – October 15, 1967) was an American educator and children's writer, and the founder of Bank Street College of Education. Early life and education Lucy Sprague was born in Chicago, Illinois, the daughter o ...

(1878–1967), American educator, writer, college dean * Martyn Sprague (born 1949), Welsh former footballer * M. Estella Sprague (1870–1940), American home economist and academic administrator *

Peleg Sprague (Maine politician) Peleg Sprague (April 27, 1793 – October 13, 1880) was a United States representative and a United States senator from Maine and a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. Education an ...

(1793–1880), American politician and judge *

Peleg Sprague (New Hampshire politician) Peleg Sprague (December 10, 1756 – April 20, 1800) was a politician from the U.S. state of New Hampshire. Sprague was born in Rochester in the Province of Massachusetts Bay. He clerked in a store in Littleton, attended Harvard College, and ...

(1756–1800), American politician *

Peter Sprague Peter Tripp Sprague (born October 11, 1955) is an American jazz guitarist, record producer, and audio engineer. He owns SpragueLand Studios and the label SBE Records. He invented a twin-neck guitar with one neck from a classical guitar and one ...

(born 1955), American jazz musician * Richard E. Sprague (1921–1996), American computer technician, researcher and author * Robert C. Sprague (1900–1991), American Air Force Undersecretary, inventor and founder of Sprague Electric *

Roderick Sprague Roderick Sprague III (February 18, 1933 – August 20, 2012) was an American anthropologist, ethnohistorian and historical archaeologist, and the Emeritus Director of the Laboratory of Anthropology at the University of Idaho in Moscow, where ...

(born 1933), American anthropologist, ethnohistorian and historical archaeologist * R. B. Sprague (1937–2010), American artist *

Roland Sprague Roland Percival Sprague (11 July 1894, Unterliederbach – 1 August 1967) was a German mathematician, known for the Sprague–Grundy theorem and for being the first mathematician to find a perfect squared square. Biography With two mathematicians ...

(1894–1967), German mathematician *

Royal Sprague Royal Tyler Sprague (January 23, 1814 – February 24, 1872) was the 11th Chief Justice of California. Biography Sprague taught elementary school in Potsdam, New York and later opened a school in Zanesville, Ohio. In 1838 he began to study la ...

, 11th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of California *

Thomas Archibald Sprague Thomas Archibald Sprague (7 October 1877, Edinburgh – 22 October 1958, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England) was a Scottish botanist. In 1938 he married botanist Mary Letitia Green, and together they authored several supplements to the ''Index ...

(1877–1958), Scottish botanist *

Thomas Bond Sprague Thomas Bond Sprague FRSE FFA FIA LLD (29 March 1830 – 29 November 1920) was a British actuary, barrister and amateur mathematician who was the only person to have been President of both the Institute of Actuaries (1882–1886) in London a ...

(1830–1920), British actuary *

Thomas L. Sprague Thomas Lamison Sprague (October 2, 1894 – September 17, 1972) was a Vice admiral (United States), vice admiral of the United States Navy, who served during World War II as commander of the aircraft carrier and took part in the battles of Batt ...

, American vice admiral in World War II *

William Sprague (disambiguation) William Sprague may refer to: * William Sprague (1609–1675), original American settler * William Buell Sprague (1795–1876), American clergyman and compiler of ''Annals of the American Pulpit'' * William Sprague III (1799–1856), American politi ...

W. G. R. Sprague William George Robert Sprague (1863 – 4 December 1933) was a theatre architect. Biography He was born in Australia in 1863 the son of actress Dolores Drummond who returned with acclaim to London in 1874. Sprague was an articled clerk ...

, London theatre designer

Other uses

* ''Sprague'' (towboat), a former steamwheeler towboat *

Howard Sprague Howard Sprague is a fictional character on the CBS television sitcom ''The Andy Griffith Show'', and its spin-off ''Mayberry R.F.D.''. He was played by Jack Dodson from 1966-71. He was characterized by his milquetoast demeanor, moustache, bow tie ...

, a fictional character in the television series ''The Andy Griffith Show'' and ''Mayberry R.F.D.'' *

Ted Sprague This is a list of fictional characters in the television series ''Heroes (American TV series), Heroes'', the List of Heroes graphic novels, ''Heroes'' graphic novels, and the ''Heroes'' webisodes. Main characters Character duration In i ...

, a fictional character in the television series ''Heroes'' *

Sprague Electric Sprague Electric Company was an electronic component maker founded by Robert C. Sprague in 1926. Sprague was best known for making a large line of capacitors used in a wide variety of electrical and electronic in commercial, industrial and milit ...