Spalding
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Spalding may refer to:
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[edit] Place names
[edit] In Australia
- Spalding, South Australia, a town north of the Clare Valley
- Spalding, Western Australia, a suburb of Geraldton.
[edit] In England
- Spalding, Lincolnshire
- Spalding Rural District, a rural district in Holland in Lincolnshire, England from 1894 to 1974
- Holme-on-Spalding-Moor, East Riding of Yorkshire
[edit] In the United States
- Spalding, Idaho
- Spalding, Nebraska
- Spalding County, Georgia
- Spalding Township, Michigan
- Spalding Township, Minnesota
[edit] Persons
- Albert Spalding (1850–1915), American baseball player and sporting goods manufacturer
- Albert Spalding (violinist) (1888–1953), American composer and leading concert violinist
- Baird Thomas Spalding (1857–1953), English-American author
- Mother Catherine Spalding (1793-1858) was an influential American Roman Catholic nun
- Charles H. "Dick" Spalding, American soccer player
- Douglas Spalding (1840–1877), English biologist
- Esta Spalding (1966-present), a Canadian author and poet
- George Spalding (1836–1915), U.S. Representative from Michigan
- Henry H. Spalding (1803–1843), U.S. Presbyterian missionary, established the Lapwai Mission in 1836 in what is now Idaho
- John Lancaster Spalding (1840–1916), first bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Peoria (1877–1908)
- John M. Spalding (20th century), American soldier, decorated for actions during D-Day
- Linda Spalding (born 25 June 1943), a Canadian writer and editor
- Peter Spalding (14th century), helped followers of Robert the Bruce enter and seize the town of Berwick from the English.
- Phil Spalding (born 19 November 1957 in London) is an English bass player
- Phinizy Spalding (1930-1994), American Historian
- Solomon Spalding (1761–1816), American clergyman, businessman, and author
- Thomas Spalding (U.S. Rep) (1774-1851), a United States Representative from Georgia
- William Spalding (1809–1859), Scottish author
- Spalding Gray (1941–2004), American actor, screenwriter, and playwright
[edit] Other
- Clan Spalding, Scottish Sept of Clan Murray
- Spalding (sports equipment), American manufacturer of sports equipment
- Spalding railway station serves the town of Spalding, Lincolnshire, England
- Spalding College, a private, non-profit career university in Louisville, Kentucky
- Spalding Elementary School in Collegedale, Tennessee, USA
- Spalding Grammar School, a selective school on Priory Road in Spalding, Linconshire, England
- Spalding Harriers Football Club, a football club based in Monkshouse Lane in Spalding, Lincolnshire, England
- Spalding High School, the name of several high schools
- Spalding Method, a program for teaching students to read by first teaching them to write
- Spalding Rockwell is a punk/electro/pop band
- Spalding Priory, a small Benedictine house founded as a cell of Croyland Abbey in 1052
- Spalding United F.C., a football club based in Spalding, Linconshire, England
- Spalding v Gamage is a leading decision of the House of Lords on the tort of passing off
- King & Spalding, American law firm in Atlanta, Georgia, USA
- Spalding rubber ball A pink rubber ball, a tennis ball without the fuzz, that was ubiquitously available to children in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s, and has recently been re-introduced. (a/k/a 'Spaldeen')
