Star (disambiguation)

A star is a luminous astronomical object.

Star, Stars, The Star or STAR may also refer to:

Shapes and symbols

• Star (classification), a rating system for hotels, movies, or other products
• Star (football badge), a symbol of awards worn on an association football uniform
• Star (glyph), a typographical symbol
• Star (heraldry), star-like shapes, including stars, mullets and estoiles, used in heraldry
• Star polygon, a geometric shape with acute points arranged radially
• Star of Life, a symbol of Emergency Medical Services in multiple countries.
• Star of David, the six-pointed Jewish star
• Red star, associated with communism
• Five-pointed star, a common ideogram

Arts, entertainment, and media

For media companies, see § Media companies.

For people in arts and entertainment, see § People.

• Star (person) or celebrity
  • Movie star, a person famous for performing in films

Fictional entities

• Star (unicorn), the mate of Swift Wind in She-Ra, Princess of Power
• Star, a star-shaped puppet and co-host of The Good Night Show and its animated spin-off, Nina's World
• Star, a fictional character in the game Yie Ar Kung-Fu
• Patrick Star, a major character in the animated series SpongeBob SquarePants
• S.T.A.R. Labs, an organization in the DC Comics fictional universe
• Star Butterfly, the main protagonist of the Disney animated series Star vs. the Forces of Evil
• S.T.A.R.S. (Special Tactics and Rescue Service), a fictional police group in the Resident Evil series
• S.T.A.R.S., the Superhuman Tactical Activities Response Squad; see Features of the Marvel Universe#Government agencies

Films

• The Star (1952 film), a Bette Davis film
• The Star (1953 film), a Russian film
• Star! (film), a 1968 musical starring Julie Andrews
• Star (1982 film), an Indian Hindi film
• Danielle Steel's Star, a 1993 television film starring Jennie Garth
• Star (2001 film), an Indian Tamil film
• The Star (2002 film), a Russian remake of the 1953 film
• Star (2014 film), a Russian comedy film directed by Anna Melikian
• Star (2015 film), a Canadian short drama film
• The Star (2017 film), an American animated film

Gaming

• Star (board game)
• *Star, board game
• Stars!, a 1995 game for Windows
• Star, an item that grants invincibility in the Mario franchise of games

Music

Groups and labels

• Star Music, a recording company in the Philippines
• Star of Indiana Drum and Bugle Corps, a defunct drum and bugle corps based in Bloomington, Indiana
• Stars (Australian band), from the 1970s
• Stars (British band), a 1972 supergroup
• Stars (Canadian band), an indie rock group formed in 2000
• The Stars (band), a Japanese psychedelic rock group

Albums

• Star (702 album)
• Star (Belly album)
• Stars (Cher album)
• Stars (Collabro album)
• StAR (Jan Garbarek album)
• Stars (Janis Ian album)
• Stars, an album by Lala Karmela
• Stars (Makai album)
• Star (Milky album)
• Star (Murk album)
• Star (Mika Nakashima album)
• Stars (Simply Red album)
• Star (Super Junior album)
• Stars: The Best of 1992–2002, by The Cranberries
• Star/Boom Boom, the soundtrack album to the 1982 film Star

Songs

• "Star" (Bryan Adams song)
• "Star" (Kevin Ayers song)
• "Star" (Earth, Wind & Fire song) from I Am
• "Star" (Erasure song)
• "Star" (Extreme song)
• "Star" (Loona song)
• "Star" (Primal Scream song) from Vanishing Point
• "Star" (Stealers Wheel song)
• "Star" (Stellar song)
• "Star", by Bazzi from Cosmic
• "Star", by Biddu and Zohaib Hassan from Star/Boom Boom
• "Star", by David Bowie from The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
• "Star", by Brotherhood of Man from Images
• "Star", by Estelle
• "Star", by Kiki Dee
• "Star", by Rebecca Ferguson from Superwoman
• "Star", by Terri Walker from L.O.V.E
• "Star", by The Crash from Wildlife
• "Star", by The Cult from The Cult
• "Star", by Hellyeah from their eponymous album
• "Star", by The Hollies from Write On
• "Star", by Savoy from Mountains of Time
• "Star", by Silverbullit
• "Star (*)", by Project 86 from Drawing Black Lines
• "Stars" (Chloë song)
• "Stars" (Dan Fogelberg song), also covered by Amy Holland on Amy Holland
• "Stars" (Destine song)
• "Stars" (Grace Potter and the Nocturnals song)
• "Stars" (Hum song)
• "Stars" (Erika Jayne song)
• "Stars" (Mika Nakashima song)
• "Stars" (Roxette song)
• "Stars" (Simply Red song)
• "Stars" (Switchfoot song)
• "Stars", by Alessia Cara from Know-It-All
• "Stars", by Angel Olsen from Burn Your Fire for No Witness
• "Stars", by China Black
• "Stars", by The Cranberries from Stars: The Best of 1992–2002
• "Stars", by Kat DeLuna
• "Stars", by Dubstar from Disgraceful
• "Stars", by fun. from Some Nights
• "Stars", by Mark Gormley
• "Stars", by Hear 'n Aid
• "Stars", by Janis Ian
• "Stars", by Javert from the musical Les Misérables
• "Stars", by Lala Karmela from Stars
• "Stars", by Demi Lovato from Confident
• "Stars", by Kylie Minogue from X
• "Stars", by Mark Owen from The Art of Doing Nothing'
• "Stars", by Sixx:A.M. from Modern Vintage
• "Stars", by Superfly and Tortoise Matsumoto
• "Stars", by t.A.T.u. from 200 km/h in the Wrong Lane
• "The Star" (Mariah Carey song)
• "The Star", by Kikki Danielsson from Midnight Sunshine
• "The Stars", by Moby from Last Night
• "The Stars", by Patrick Wolf from The Magic Position

Television

Series

• Star (TV series), a musical drama series broadcast by Fox
• The Star (TV series), a Thai singing competition reality show
• The Stars (TV series), 1988 UK astronomy programme

Episodes

• "The Star" (Homeland), the season 3 finale of Homeland
• "The Star" (The Twilight Zone), an episode of The New Twilight Zone based on Arthur C. Clarke's short story

Written media

For publishers, see § Media companies.

Periodicals

• Star (magazine), an American celebrity tabloid
• Star (newspaper), various publications
• St. Austin Review (StAR), a Catholic magazine
• The Star (Bangladesh), a current affairs magazine
• The Star (Kenya), a daily newspaper based in Nairobi, Kenya
• The Star (Malaysia), an English-language newspaper in Malaysia

Other written media

• Star, a novel by Pamela Anderson
• Star, a novel by Danielle Steel
• "Star" (short story), by Yukio Mishima
• "The Star" (Clarke short story), by Arthur C. Clarke
• "The Star" (Wells short story), by H. G. Wells, written in 1897
• "The Star", a poem by Jane Taylor, the first line of which is "Twinkle, twinkle, little star"
• "The Stars", a story about a shepherd by Alphonse Daudet

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

• Star (Disney+), a hub within the Disney+ streaming service for television and film content intended for an adult audience
• Star (guitar), a guitar body shape
• Stars (M. C. Escher), a 1948 wood engraving print by M. C. Escher
• Star+, a video-on-demand service from The Walt Disney Company in Latin America
• The Stars Art Group, a Chinese group of artists in the late 1970s and early 1980s
• The Star Performing Arts Centre, Singapore

Organizations

Businesses

Media companies

For publications, see § Periodicals.

• Star (St. Paul's Churchyard), a historical bookseller in London
• List of radio stations named Star
• Star Comics, an imprint of Marvel Comics (1984–1988)
• Star Entertainment Group, an Australian gaming and entertainment company
  • The Star, Sydney
  • The Star Gold Coast
• Star Film (Dutch East Indies company), a former Dutch East Indies film production company
• Star FM, an Australian radio network
• Star Media Group, a division of Toronto Star Newspapers Ltd.
• Star TV (disambiguation) (including "Star" streaming services)

Transport carriers

• Star Air (disambiguation), several airlines
• Star Airlines, a former name of XL Airways France
• Star Alliance, an alliance of airlines
• Star Aviation, an Algerian airline
• Star Cruises, a cruise line
• Star Ferry, a Hong Kong ferryboat service
• Star Line (shipping company), a defunct Irish shipping company

Vehicle manufacturers

• Star (automobile), a marque assembled by the Durant Motors Company between 1922 and 1928
• FSC Star, a Polish truck manufacturer
• Società Torinese Automobili Rapid an Italian automobile manufacturer from 1904 to 1921
• Star Motor Company, an 1898–1932 British car manufacturer
• Star Motorcycles, a division of Yamaha Motor Corporation, US

Other businesses

• STAR (interbank network), the largest American interbank network
• Star Bonifacio Echeverria, a defunct Spanish firearms manufacturer
• Star Market, a chain of supermarkets based in Boston, US
• Star Micronics, a Japanese printer manufacturer
• Stars (restaurant), a defunct restaurant in San Francisco, California, US

Law enforcement

• Special Tactics and Rescue (Singapore), a division of the Singapore Police Force
• Special Task and Rescue, a division of the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency
• Special Tasks and Rescue, (STAR Group) a police unit of the South Australia police

Sports teams

Baseball

• Cleveland Stars (baseball), a defunct Negro league baseball team
• Cuban Stars (East), a defunct Negro league baseball team
• Cuban Stars (West), a defunct Negro league baseball team
• Detroit Stars, a defunct Negro league baseball team
• Hollywood Stars, an American minor league baseball team that operated from 1926–1935 and 1938–1957
• Huntsville Stars, a current American minor league baseball team
• Lincoln Stars (baseball), a defunct Negro league baseball team
• Newark Stars, a defunct Negro league baseball team
• Philadelphia Stars (baseball), a defunct Negro league baseball team
• St. Louis Stars (baseball), a defunct Negro league baseball team

Basketball

• Los Angeles Stars, a basketball team from 1968–1970 in the original American Basketball Association
• Los Angeles Stars (2000–2001), a basketball team from 2000–2001 in the newer American Basketball Association
• Los Angeles Stars (2004–2005), a basketball team from 2004–2005 in the newer American Basketball Association
• Utah Stars, a 1970–1976 American basketball team, formerly the Los Angeles Stars
• KK Star, a basketball club in Serbia

Hockey

• Dallas Stars, an American National Hockey League team
• Manglerud Star Ishockey, a Norwegian hockey team
• Texas Stars, a team in the American Hockey League

Other uses in sports

• Melbourne Stars, an Australian Big Bash League cricket team
• Minnesota Stars FC, an American soccer (football) team
• Red Star F.C., a French soccer (football) team
• South East Stars, an English women's cricket team
• Supporters' Trust at Reading, a Reading Football Club supporters' organization
• Surrey Stars, an English women's cricket team

Other organizations

• STAR (student association)
• HMCS Star, a reserve unit of the Canadian Maritime Command
• Sekolah Tuanku Abdul Rahman, a Malaysian public school
• Shock Trauma Air Rescue Society, a Canadian air ambulance service
• Society of Ticket Agents and Retailers, a British organization
• Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries, a former American organization
• Student Action For Refugees (STAR)
• Synagogues: Transformation and Renewal, an American Jewish organisation

People

Surname

• Darren Star (born 1961), American producer, director and writer
• Jeffree Star (born 1985), American CEO of Jeffree Star Cosmetics
• Ryan Star (born 1978), American singer-songwriter
• Susan Leigh Star (1954–2010), American sociologist

Given name

• Star Jones (born 1962), American co-host of the television show The View, lawyer, journalist and writer
• Star Lotulelei (born 1989), National Football League player
• Star Simpson, American engineer and inventor
• Star Stowe (1956–1997), American model and Playboy Playmate of the Month

Nickname or stage name

• Star, a female professional wrestler from the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling
• Star Jr. (born 1994), the ring name of a Mexican professional wrestler
• Zonnique "Star" Pullins, member of the teenage girl group OMG Girlz

Places

United Kingdom

• Star, Fife, a village in Scotland
• Star, Pembrokeshire, a hamlet in Wales
• Star, a small settlement near the village of Gaerwen, Wales
• Star, a hamlet in the civil parish of Shipham, Somerset, England

United States

• Star, Idaho, a city
• Star, Munising Township, Michigan, an unincorporated community
• Star, Mississippi, an unincorporated community
• Star, Nebraska, an unincorporated community
• Star, North Carolina, a town
• Star, Texas, an unincorporated community
• Star Island (disambiguation)
• Star Lake (Cook County, Minnesota)
• Star Lake (Otter Tail County, Minnesota), a lake in central Minnesota
• Star Lake (Vilas County, Wisconsin)
• Star Township (disambiguation), various townships
• Star Valley, in western Wyoming and eastern Idaho
• The Star (Ketchikan, Alaska), a historic commercial building in Ketchikan, Alaska
• The Star (stadium), an indoor stadium in Frisco, Texas

Elsewhere

• Star, Alberta, a hamlet in Canada
• Star, Bryansk Oblast, Russia
• Star, Novgorod Oblast, Russia
• Star Mountains, Papua New Guinea

Science, technology, and mathematics

For transportation technology and vehicles, see § Transportation.

Biology

• STAR (gene), the gene that encodes steroidogenic acute regulatory protein
• Steroidogenic acute regulatory protein (StAR), a transport protein
• Ulmus americana 'Star', an elm cultivar

Computing

• STAR (software), an educational software series
• Star (Unix), an implementation of the tar file archiver
• Stars (shader effect), a computer graphics effect used by computer games
• AMD 10h (unofficial code name: Stars), a microarchitecture
• Stars virus, a computer virus
• Xerox Star, a 1981 computer workstation

Mathematics

• Star (game theory), a position in combinatorial game theory
• Star (graph theory), a bipartite graph in graph theory
• Star, a set of simplices in a simplicial complex

Other uses in science, technology, and mathematics

For transportation technology and vehicles, see § Transportation.

• STAR detector, a particle physics experiment
• Synthetically thinned aperture radar, an interferometric radar method

Transportation

For transportation companies and vehicle manufacturers, see § Companies.

Air

• Diamond DA40 Star, an Austrian single-engine light aircraft
• Fulton surface-to-air recovery system, used to retrieve persons on the ground using an aircraft
• Shock Trauma Air Rescue Service (STARS), Canadian air ambulance service
• Standard terminal arrival route, a flight procedure
• Standard Terminal Automation Replacement System, an air traffic control system

Land

• Star (automobile), a marque assembled by the Durant Motors Company between 1922 and 1928
• FSC Star, Polish truck maker between 1948 and 2009 located in the city of Starachowice, Poland
• American Star Bicycle, an early type of bicycle
• Southern Tagalog Arterial Road, or STAR Tollway, an expressway in the Philippines

Rail

• GWR 4000 Class, or Star, a type of steam locomotive
• GWR Star Class, a type of steam locomotive
• Suburban Transit Access Route, or STAR Line, a defunct rail proposal in Chicago, US

Sea

• Star (keelboat), a one-design racing keelboat
• HMS Star, several Royal Navy ships
• MS Star (1978), originally Merzario Hispania and later MS Nordic Ferry, a car ferry
• MS Star (2006), a Ro-Pax ferry operated by the Estonian ferry company Tallink
• Single-Handed Trans-Atlantic Race, a yacht race
• USS Monticello (1859), a US Navy wooden screw-steamer briefly named Star

Space

• Star (rocket stage), a family of American solid-fuel rocket motors
• Space Tethered Autonomous Robotic Satellite, a satellite built by Kagawa University
  • STARS-II, a follow-on project
• Star Bus, a satellite platform

Other uses

• Star (Chinese constellation)
• Star (dog), a dog who was shot by the New York City Police
• Star, a horse coat facial marking
• An-Najm ("The Star"), the 53rd sura of the Qur'an
• California Standardized Testing and Reporting Program, a school assessment program
• New York State School Tax Relief Program, or STAR Program
• Pyrotechnic star, in fireworks displays
• Situation, task, action, result, an interview technique
• Star routes, a US Postal Service term
• STAR voting, a cardinal electoral system
• The Star (Tarot card), a Major Arcana tarot card

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Star
• All pages with titles containing star
• * (disambiguation)
• Asterisk
• Asterisk (disambiguation)
• Die Sterne (disambiguation)
• Star Cinema (disambiguation)
• Starr (disambiguation)
• Starz (disambiguation)
• State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR), a standardized test in Texas
• Utah Starzz, a Women's National Basketball Association team
• Utah Starzz (WPSL), women's soccer team