Spurlin on Wikidata
The Spurlin items in Wikidata, the free knowledge base: the family-name item, places, cemeteries and notable people.
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Wikidata is the structured-data sister project of Wikipedia. A full-text search there for "Spurlin" returned 98 results. Most were scholarly articles and patents with a Spurlin author; the rest were items about the name itself, places and people.[1]
The surname item
The family name has its own item, Spurlin (Q37163931). It records the name as written in Latin script and cites the 2010 U.S. Census surname index as its source. It also gives phonetic codes: Soundex S164, Cologne phonetics 81756 and Caverphone SPLN11. It links to a Geneanet surname ID.[2] A separate item (Q2314590) is the Wikipedia disambiguation page for "Spurlin".[1]
Places
- Spurlin (Q122569865): a hamlet in Hamilton County, Texas. See Spurlin, Texas.[1]
- Spurlin Mesa (Q49076981): a mountain in Colorado. See Spurlin Mesa.[1]
- Spurlin Cemetery: three items, for cemeteries in Garland County, Arkansas (Q117620668), Fentress County, Tennessee (Q117627363) and Shelby County, Indiana (Q117619638).[1]
People
- Tommy Spurlin (Q2441076): an American singer (1928–2005). See Tommy Spurlin.[1]
- Mary Jane Spurlin (Q6779900): a judge (1883–1970). See Mary Jane Spurlin.[1]
- William J. Spurlin (Q90730423): a queer-studies scholar. See William J. Spurlin.[1]
- Paul Merrill Spurlin (Q2061263): an American university teacher (1902–1994). See Paul Merrill Spurlin.[3]
- Ethel Spurlin (Q75609181): an item imported from The Peerage genealogy database.[1]
- Emily E. Spurlin (Q96617391): an item for a researcher, created from scholarly-publication metadata.[1]
See also
- Spurlin (surname) · The Surname strong
Spurlin is an English-origin surname, treated by modern surname dictionaries as a variant of Spurling/Sparling; today it is found almost entirely in the United States, where about 2,600 people bore it in the 2020 Census. - Spurlin on Wikimedia Commons · Culture strong
Freely licensed images on Wikimedia Commons that relate to the Spurlin name, including portraits of Ashley Spurlin and Mary Jane Spurlin. - Paul Merrill Spurlin · People strong
Paul Merrill Spurlin (1902–1994) was an American scholar of French literature who taught at the University of Michigan and wrote on how the French Enlightenment was received in America, including Montesquieu in America (1940) and Rousseau in America (1969). - Spurlin on GitHub · Culture mixed
A snapshot of the Spurlin name on GitHub, the code-hosting platform: dozens of user accounts and repositories, mostly personal and student projects.
References
- ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ Search results for "Spurlin" — Wikidata Reference
- ↑ Spurlin (Q37163931) — Wikidata Reference
- ↑ Paul Merrill Spurlin (Q2061263) — Wikidata Reference
Last reviewed 2026-09-24.