Spaarndam (Dutch pronunciation: [ˌspaːr(ə)nˈdɑm]) is a village in the province of North Holland, the Netherlands, on the Spaarne river and the IJ lake.

Spaarndam was created around a dam where the river Spaarne flows into the IJ.

The village collected tolls at this dam, and people made their living from fishing.

Besides the river and the fishing, it is also famous because of a story within the 1865 American novel, Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates, about a Dutch boy, "The Hero of Haarlem," who stuck his finger in a dike to prevent the town from flooding.

The story became a popular legend in America, and in 1950 the local tourist bureau put a statue of this character in Spaarndam.