Spartan

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Spartan may refer to:

• An inhabitant of Sparta, a city in ancient (and modern) Greece.
• The supposed qualities of those inhabitants: ascetic, simple, and self-disciplined.
• A student, athlete, or fan of the following universities in the United States:

• Case Western Reserve University
• Michigan State University
• Norfolk State University
• San Jose State University
• The University of Tampa

• A type of apple.
• Spartan, a Scottish football (soccer) team.
• Spartan Health Sciences University, a medical school in St. Lucia [1].

In technology:

• C-27 Spartan, the United States service designation for the Italian Alenia G.222 tactical transport aircraft.
• FV103 Spartan, a British armoured personnel carrier.
• LIM-49A Spartan, an American anti-ballistic missile.
• Spartan, a molecular modelling software from Wavefunction, Inc.
• Spartan, a family of FPGAs from Xilinx.
• "SPARTAN" is also the name of a scientific platform carried on Space Shuttle missions STS-64, STS-69 and STS-77 in the mid-1990s.

In written and visual media:

• Spartan, a Wildstorm comic book character.
• Spartan, a 2004 movie written and directed by David Mamet and starring Val Kilmer.
• Spartan, a faction in the PC game Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri.
• Spartan, a Freeverse Software game.
• Spartan, a PC game by Matrix Games and Slitherine Soft, released in 2004.
• SPARTAN-II Project, a supersoldier project in the Halo video game series

[edit] See also

Sparta (disambiguation).