Sparky
Appearance
Sparky is a common nickname for people and animals.
It is often used as a slang term (including military slang) for a radio operator, mechanic, or electrician. It may also reflect a particularly clever person, a sparkling personality, a personal anecdote involving electronic equipment, or other concepts related to the idea of sparks. In aviation a sparky is a pilot that has done a gear-up landing.
People
People nicknamed Sparky include:
- Sparky Adams (Earl John Adams, 1894-1989), American Major League Baseball player
- Sparky Anderson, (George Lee Anderson, born 1934), American Major League Baseball manager
- Sparky Lyle (Albert Walter Lyle, born 1944), American Major League Baseball pitcher
- Mark Hughes, (born 1963), former Welsh international football player and manager
- Charles M. Schulz (1922-2000), American cartoonist, creator of the Peanuts comic strip
- Ronald Speirs, (1920-2007) United States Army officer
- Sasha (DJ) (Alexander Paul Coe, born 1969), Welsh DJ and record producer
- Mark Phillips, vocalist of British band Demented Are Go
- Sparky liid "pow Pow" is possibly the most gayest boy ever!!!
Fictional characters
- Sparky the Fire Dog, official mascot of the National Fire Protection Association
- Sparky, the name of Richie's Pikachu in the Pokémon series
- Sparky, one of the nicknames given to Rygel XVI by John Crichton in the science fiction television series Farscape
- Sparky, the gay dog on the animated television series South Park
- Sparky, the radio operator (Sgt. Pryor) on the television series M*A*S*H
- Sparky, the mechanic in the animated television series Speed Racer
- Sparky, the mechanic in the adventure game Flight of the Amazon Queen
- Sparky, an enemy in Super Mario World
- Sparky the Wonder Penguin, a character from the comic strip This Modern World
- Sparky, the nickname of the character Clark Wilhelm Griswold, Jr. in the National Lampoon's Vacation movies
- Sparky, the protagonist of the children’s audio story Sparky's Magic Piano
- Sparky, the alien starship pilot on the animated television series Atomic Betty
- Sparky, the name of the dog in the Tim Burton movie Frankenweenie
- Sparky, the alien experiment (number 221) from the Lilo & Stitch television series, who can create massive electrical charges
- Sparky (Mascot), Liberty University's team mascot, an eagle
Other
- Old Sparky, a nickname for the electric chair in several U.S. states
- Sparky (Arizona State Mascot), the Arizona State University mascot
- Sparky (comic), a British comic book
- Sparky, a super hero from the cartoon Static Shock
- "Sparky", a song from Images (Brotherhood of Man album) (1977)
- Sparky, a performing sea lion at the Como Zoo.