Sparks
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The word sparks can refer to a number of things:
- Small airborne embers from a fire.
- The Los Angeles Sparks, a WNBA team
- Sparks Street, in Ottawa
- Sparks (band) a rock band led by Ron Mael and his brother Russell Mael. They have continued to use that name since then for their various musical projects, some of which had great success in the early 1980s and 1990s. The band is known for its quirky sense of humor. Sparks fanzines :- http://www.sparks-fanatics.com/ & http://www.geocities.com/jenniferbrown4/index.html
- Sparks, a canned alcoholic beverage sold in the United States, consisting of vitamin-enriched and caffeinated vodka.
A number of towns in the United States are named Sparks:
A number of people have the last name Sparks:
- Chauncey Sparks, a governor of Alabama
- Hal Sparks, an actor
- Jared Sparks, a president of Harvard University
- Ned Sparks, also an actor
- Nicholas Sparks (author), an American author.
- Nicholas Sparks (Ottawa), a prominent early citizen of Ottawa, Canada
- Steve Sparks, a Major League Baseball pitcher born in Tulsa, Oklahoma
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
A song by Coldplay.