We prove topological sphere theorems for RCD(n − 1, n) spaces which generalize Colding's results and Petersen's result to the RCD setting. We also get an improved sphere theorem in the case of Einstein stratified spaces.the singular space associated to a static triple [A17]; in Kähler geometry, Kähler-Einstein manifolds with edge singularities of cone angle smaller than 2π along a smooth divisor [JMR16].We are now in a position to state the main result of the paper:Theorem A (Topological sphere theorem for RCD spaces, I). For all n ∈ N ≥2 there exists a positive constant ǫ n > 0 such that if a compact metric space (X, d) satisfies that rad(X, d) ≥ π − ǫ n and that (X, d, m) is a RCD(n − 1, n) space for some Borel measure m on X with full support, then X is homeomorphic to the n-dimensional sphere.This seems the first topological sphere theorem in the RCD theory. We emphasize again that the theorem states that although there is a flexibility on the choice of m, the topological structure is uniquely determined. Note that in the previous theorem one cannot replace the radius by the diameter of the space. Indeed, for any ε > 0 Anderson constructed in [A90] manifolds of even dimension n ≥ 4, with Ricci tensor bounded below by n − 1 and diameter larger than π − ǫ, which are not homeomorphic to the sphere. Similar examples can be found in [O91] by Otsu.In order to introduce an application, let us recall a result of Petersen [Pet99]; for a closed n-dimensional Riemannian manifold (M n , g) with Ric g M n ≥ n − 1 the following two conditions are equivalent quantitatively:(1) The (n + 1)-th eigenvalue of the Laplacian is close to n (2) The radius is close to π.In particular if the one of them above holds, then M n is diffeomorphic to S n .Note that even in the RCD-setting, the above equivalence is justified by the spectral convergence result of Gigli-Mondino-Savaré [GMS13] and the rigidity results of Ketterer [K15b]. In particular we have the following;