Clifton Albert Frederick "Ziggy" Sprague (January 8, 1896 – April 11, 1955) was a World War II–era officer in the United States Navy.

Due to the American involvement in World War I he graduated and received his commission as an ensign one year early, on June 28, 1917, finishing forty-third out of 199.

On December 3, 1920, Sprague joined 33 other classmates at Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida, as a student pilot.

From March 1922 to November 1923, Sprague was assigned to Aircraft Squadron VS-1 with the Atlantic Fleet based on the seaplane tender Wright.

From March 1926 to February 1928 he assisted inventor Carl Norden in the laboratory and as a test pilot at Naval Air Station Hampton Roads, Virginia, resulting in improvements to the Mark 1 carrier arresting gear system for Lexington (CV-2) and Saratoga (CV-3).

In January 1929 Lexington along with Langley and Saratoga participated in Fleet Problem IX, a simulated aerial attack on the Panama Canal.

At Oakland, California, Sprague took command of the cargo ship Tangier (AV-8), which was being converted into a seaplane tender in July 1940.

His duties involved improving defenses, keeping the sea lanes open, and countering the German U-boats on the Southeast coast of the United States.

This duty ended abruptly when he was assigned as the commanding officer of the newly constructed fast fleet carrier Wasp (CV-18) in October 1943.

Arriving at Bethlehem Steel's Fore River Yard near Boston, Massachusetts, Sprague took command of Wasp where she was commissioned on November 24, 1943.

Her first combat missions were to destroy enemy aircraft, installations, and surface craft on Marcus and Wake Islands in May 1944.

Sprague was designated as commander of Carrier Division 25 on July 23, 1944, with his flag in Fanshaw Bay (CVE-70), replacing Rear Admiral Gerald F. Bogan.

On February 19, 1945, Sprague assumed command of Carrier Division 26 embarked on Natoma Bay (CVE-62) for the invasion of Iwo Jima where his unit provided close air support for the Marines ashore.

Sprague received the notification of the end of hostilities while steaming 151 miles off the eastern coast of Honshū on August 15, 1945.

In February 1946, Sprague was given command of Navy Air Group 1.6 of Joint Task Force 1 with his flag in Shangri-La (CV-38) at San Diego, California.

During the next six months he supported the naval aviation forces in the Operation Crossroads nuclear tests on Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands.

In March 1955, Sprague fell ill of a weak heart and was moved to the Naval Hospital, San Diego, California.

Two days later he was buried at Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery at Point Loma, San Diego, California.