People
- Albert Spalding (1850–1915), American baseball player and sporting goods manufacturer
- Albert Spalding (violinist) (1888–1953), American composer and leading concert violinist
- Baird Thomas Spalding (1857–1953), English-American author
- Brian Spalding (born 1923), English professor, physics
- Burleigh Folsom Spalding (1853–1934), Chief Justice of North Dakota
- Mother Catherine Spalding (1793–1858) was an influential American Roman Catholic nun
- Dick Spalding, American soccer player
- Douglas Spalding (1840–1877), English biologist
- Esperanza Spalding (born 1984) American jazz bassist and singer
- Esta Spalding (born 1966), a Canadian author and poet
- Georg Ludwig Spalding (1762-1811), German philologist
- George Spalding (1836–1915), U.S. Representative from Michigan
- Henry H. Spalding (1803–1843), U.S. Presbyterian missionary, established the Lapwai Mission in 1836 in what is now Idaho
- Johann Joachim Spalding (1714-1804), German Protestant theologian
- John Spalding (disambiguation), the name of several people
- Kim Spalding, American actor (1950-1961), date of birth unknown
- Linda Spalding (born 1943), a Canadian writer and editor
- Martin John Spalding (1810–1872), bishop of Baltimore
- Phil Spalding (born 1957) is an English bass player
- Solomon Spalding (1761–1816), American clergyman, businessman, and author
- Thomas Spalding (1774–1851), a United States Representative from Georgia
- William Spalding (1809–1859), Scottish author
- Spalding Gray (1941–2004), American actor, screenwriter, and playwright
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