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People

  • Arthur Spooner (painter) (1873–1962), English painter
  • Ernest John Spooner (1887-1942), Rear-Admiral Malaya, commander of UK Naval forces in Singapore
  • Henry J. Spooner, Rhode Island Congressman
  • James Spooner, film director
  • John C. Spooner, U.S. Senator from Wisconsin
  • Karl Spooner, Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher
  • Lysander Spooner, American individualist anarchist
  • Nicky Spooner, English footballer
  • Reggie Spooner, English cricketer
  • Richard Spooner (equestrian), American show jumping rider
  • Richard T. Spooner, former United States Marine Corps officer
  • Richard Spooner (MP), (1783–1864), MP and ecclesiastical writer
  • Dick Spooner, cricketer
  • William Archibald Spooner, English clergyman and scholar, after whom spoonerisms are named
  • Bill Spooner (politician), Australian politician
  • The Spooners of Porthmadog, railway engineers
    • James Spooner (1790-1856)
      • James Swinton Spooner (1816-1884)
      • Charles Easton Spooner (1818-1889)
        • George Percival Spooner (1850-1917)
        • Charles Edwin Spooner (1853-1909)

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