Sparks
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The word sparks can refer to a number of things:
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[edit] General
- Sparks (band) a rock band led by Ron Mael and his brother Russell Mael
- Sparks, the popularly used nickname of the fictional Premiership football team, Earls Park, featured in the British TV series Footballers' Wives
- Sparks (Coldplay song), a song by British band Coldplay from their debut album Parachutes
- Sparks (The Who), a 1969 song by The Who
- The Los Angeles Sparks, a WNBA team
- Sparks Street, in Ottawa
- Sparks (single) a song by Royksopp
- Sparks (television), a UPN television show starring James Avery, Miguel A. Nunez Jr. and Terrence Dashon Howard
- Sparks (drink), a canned alcoholic beverage sold in the U.S.consisting of vitamin-enriched and caffeinated, carbonated soda and alcohol, self described as a malt beverage
- SPARKS (computing), a programming language, a superset of Fortran, used in Fundamentals of Data Structures, E. Horowitz & S. Sahni, Computer Science Press 1976
[edit] Towns
A number of towns in the United States are named Sparks:
- Sparks, Georgia
- Sparks, Maryland
- Sparks, Nevada (The largest U.S. city of this name)
- Sparks, Oklahoma
- Sparks, Texas
[edit] People
A number of people have the last name Sparks:
- Allister Sparks
- Beatrice Sparks
- Bill Sparks
- Chauncey Sparks, governor of Alabama
- Clinton Sparks
- Craig Sparks, published poet and former pro racquetball player.
- Dana Sparks
- Donita Sparks
- Felix L. Sparks, Lt. Colonel, commanding officer of the first Allied troops to enter Dachau
- Gordon Sparks
- Greg Sparks, Irish politician
- Hal Sparks, actor
- Jared Sparks, former president of Harvard University
- Jeff Sparks
- Joe Sparks
- John Sparks
- Jordin Sparks
- Larry Sparks
- Melvin Sparks, jazz guitarist
- Mike Sparks
- Ned Sparks, actor
- Nicholas Sparks (Ottawa), prominent early citizen of Ottawa, Canada
- Nicholas Sparks (author), American author
- Nicholas Sparks (politician)
- Omillio Sparks
- Oobliette Sparks
- Percy Sparks
- Phillippi Sparks
- Robert Stewart Sparks
- Ron Sparks, Canadian comedian, actor and writer
- Ron E Sparks
- Sam Sparks
- Scott Sparks
- Stephanie Sparks
- Steve Sparks, Major League Baseball pitcher born in Tulsa, Oklahoma
- Theodore Austin-Sparks, British Evangelical Christian
- Tim Sparks
A number of fictional characters have the name Sparks:
- Sparks, a character in Enter the Matrix and The Matrix Revolutions.
- Jenny Sparks, a character in the Wildstorm comic book universe.
- Sparks, a firefly in the Spiro the Dragon video games
- Sparks Dawntreader Summer, a character in Joan Vinge's novel The Snow Queen.