Sparks

The word sparks can refer to a number of things:

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• Small airborne embers from a fire.
• Visible electric discharge on a small scale.
• 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
• 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 United States, consisting of vitamin-enriched and caffeinated carbonated soda-and-alcohol. It is self described as a "malt beverage."

A number of towns in the United States are named Sparks:

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• Sparks, Georgia
• Sparks, Maryland
• Sparks, Nevada
• Sparks, Oklahoma
• Sparks, Texas

A number of people have the last name Sparks:

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• 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:

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• Sparks, a character in Enter the Matrix and The Matrix Revolutions
• Jenny Sparks, a character in the Wildstorm comic book universe