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Starling (disambiguation)

Starling is a family of birds.

Starling may also refer to:

Finance

  • Starling Bank, commonly referred to as 'Starling'.

People

  • Starling (name)

Places

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional characters

  • Starling, a member of the Birds of Prey in DC Comics
  • Starling, a fictional character in the animated television show Storm Hawks
  • Clarice Starling, the heroine of the novel Silence of the Lambs, and of the films The Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal
  • Juliet, Cordelia, and Rosalind Starling, from Suda 51's hack-and-slash zombie game Lollipop Chainsaw

Music

  • The Starlings, 1990s alternative rock band
  • The Starlings, a coloratura soprano duo from the 1930–40s

Other arts, entertainment, and media

  • Starlings (1988 film), a British television film by Andy Armitage in the anthology series ScreenPlay
  • Starlings (TV series), a British comedy drama airing on Sky1
  • Jim Starling, a series of novels for children written by Edmund Wallace Hildick

Computing and technology

  • Starling (software), a light-weight persistent queue server that speaks the MemCache protocol
  • STARLING, a macrocomparativistical etymological online database established by Sergei Starostin, now managed by Georgiy Starostin
  • Starling Framework, an open source framework for ActionScript development

Watercraft

  • Starling (dinghy), a popular New Zealand sailing dinghy
  • HMS Starling, several ships in the British Royal Navy

Other uses

  • Starling (architecture), a defensive bulwark, usually built with pilings or bricks, surrounding the supports (or piers) of a bridge or similar construction; can also be spelt sterling
  • Starling (structure), the supports (or piers) of a bridge
  • Armstrong Whitworth Starling, a 1920s British fighter aircraft
  • Frank–Starling law of the heart, identified by British physiologist Ernest Starling
  • Starling Equation, an equation that illustrates the role of hydrostatic and oncotic forces (the so-called Starling forces) in the movement of fluid across capillary membranes
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