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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.

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

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), a Hindi film
  • Danielle Steel's Star, a 1993 television film starring Jennie Garth
  • Star (2001 film), a Tamil film
  • The Star (2002 film), a Russian remake of the 1953 film
  • Star (2014 film), a Russian comedy film directed by Anna Melikian
  • The Star (2017 film), an American animated film

Gaming

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, 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

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

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

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

Sports teams

Baseball

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

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 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

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

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

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

See also

  • All pages with titles beginning with Star
  • All pages with titles containing star
  • * (disambiguation)
  • 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
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