Star (disambiguation)

Template:Sister project A star is a luminous astronomical object.

Star, The Star or STAR may also refer to:

Shapes and symbols

• Star polygon, a geometric shape with acute points arranged radially
• Star (grapheme) (star symbol), a typographical symbol
• Star (heraldry), star-like shapes used in heraldry
• Star (classification), a rating system for hotels, movies, or other products
• Star (sport badge), on a team uniform, representing titles won

Arts and entertainment

• Celebrity
  • Movie star, a person famous for performing in films
• Leading actor, or the star of a production

Fictional entities

• S.T.A.R. Labs, an organization in the DC Comics fictional universe
• Star, the name of Nina’s star companion in the Sprout program block, The Good Night Show and its animated spin-off Nina's World
• Star (Marvel Comics), the name of three fictional characters in Marvel Comics
• Star Butterfly, a character in the Disney animated series Star vs. the Forces of Evil
• Patrick Star, a character in the animated series SpongeBob SquarePants

Films

• The Star (1952 film), an American film
• The Star (1953 film), a Russian film
• Star! (film), a 1968 American musical
• Star (1982 film), an Indian Hindi film
• Danielle Steel's Star, a 1993 American television film
• Star (2001 film), an Indian Tamil film
• The Star (2002 film), a Russian remake of the 1953 film
• Star (2014 film), a Russian comedy
• Star (2015 film), a Canadian short drama film
• The Star (2017 film), an American animated film
• Star (2024 Indian film), an Indian Tamil film

Gaming

• Star (board game)
• *Star, board game

Music

Albums

• Star (2hollis album)
• Star (702 album)
• Star (Belly album)
• StAR (Jan Garbarek album)
• Star (Milky album)
• Star (Murk album)
• Star (Mika Nakashima album)
• Star (Super Junior album)
• Star/Boom Boom, the soundtrack album to the 1982 film Star
• The Star (album), by JO1

Songs

• "Star" (Brockhampton song)
• "Star" (Bryan Adams song)
• "Star" (Kevin Ayers song)
• "Star" (Earth, Wind & Fire song)
• "Star" (Erasure song)
• "Star" (Extreme song)
• "Star" (Heavy Moss song)
• "Star" (Loona song)
• "Star" (Primal Scream song)
• "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 Stela Cole
• "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
• "The Star" (Mariah Carey song)
• "The Star" (Ross D. Wyllie song)
• "The Star", by Kikki Danielsson from Midnight Sunshine

Television

• Star (TV series), a musical drama series broadcast by Fox
• The Star (TV series), a Thai singing competition reality show
• "The Star" (Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake), an episode of the animated series
• "The Star" (Homeland), the season 3 finale of the series
• "The Star" (The Twilight Zone), an episode based on Arthur C. Clarke's short story

Writing

• 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"

Other uses in arts and entertainment

• Star (guitar), a guitar body shape
• Star (Disney+), a hub within the Disney+ streaming service for an adult audience
• Star Cinema, a television production and film distributor company in the Philippines
• Star Cinema Circuit, an historic Australian cinema chain, proprietors D. Clifford Theatres
• Star Distribution, a Latin American and Brazilian film distributor
• Star Theatre (disambiguation), several cinemas and theatres
• The Star Performing Arts Centre, Singapore

Businesses

Media

• Star (newspaper), various newspapers called either Star or The Star
• Star (magazine), an American celebrity tabloid
• St. Austin Review (StAR), a Catholic magazine
• The Star (Bangladesh), a current affairs magazine
• Star, a historical bookseller, founded by Henry Denham in Paternoster Row, London
• List of radio stations named Star; see also Star FM (disambiguation)
• Star Comics, an imprint of Marvel Comics (1984–1988)
• Star Film (Dutch East Indies company), a Dutch East Indies former film production company
• Star FM (disambiguation), the name of several radio broadcasters
• Star Magic, a talent agency in the Philippines
• Star Music, a recording company in the Philippines
• Star TV (disambiguation), the name of several TV broadcasters and streaming services

Transport companies

Air

• 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

Land

• 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
• Service des transports en commun de l'agglomération rennaise [fr], a public transport operator in Rennes, France
• STAR Transit, a transit agency in Texas

Sea

• Star Cruises, a cruise line
• Star Ferry, a Hong Kong ferryboat service
• Star Line (shipping company), a defunct Irish shipping company

Other businesses

• STAR (interbank network), the largest American interbank network
• Star Bonifacio Echeverria, a defunct Spanish firearms manufacturer
• Star Entertainment Group, an Australian gambling and entertainment company
  • The Star, Sydney, a casino
  • The Star Gold Coast, a casino and hotel
• STAR Lager, a Nigerian beer brand
• Star Market, a chain of supermarkets based in Boston, US
• Star Micronics, a Japanese printer manufacturer

Education

• California Standardized Testing and Reporting Program, a school assessment program
• New York State School Tax Relief Program, or STAR Program
• Sekolah Tuanku Abdul Rahman, a Malaysian public school

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

Navy-related

• , several Royal Navy ships
• , a US Navy wooden screw-steamer briefly named Star
• , a reserve unit of the Canadian Maritime Command

Private organizations

• STAR (student association)
• Society of Ticket Agents and Retailers, a British organization
• Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries, a former American organization
• Synagogues: Transformation and Renewal, an American Jewish organisation

People

• Star (name), a list of people with either the given name or surname
• 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, Somerset, a hamlet in the civil parish of Shipham, England
• Star, a small settlement near the village of Gaerwen, Wales

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 (Wyoming), valley in western Wyoming and eastern Idaho

Elsewhere

• Star, Alberta, a hamlet in Canada
• Star, Bryansk Oblast, Russia
• Star, Novgorod Oblast, Russia
• Star Mountains, Papua New Guinea
• The Star, Singapore, a shopping mall and performing arts centre in Singapore

Science and technology

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
• Xerox Star, a 1981 computer workstation
• Kleene star, a wildcard symbol used in computer science

Mathematics

• Star (game theory), a position in combinatorial game theory
• Star (graph theory), a graph with a structure that resembles a star
• Star (simplicial complex), the set of simplices containing a given vertex in a simplicial complex
• Kleene star, which can refer to one of two related unary operations, that can be applied either to an alphabet of symbols or to a formal language, a set of strings (finite sequences of symbols)

Other uses in science and technology

• STAR detector, a particle physics experiment
• Synthetically thinned aperture radar, an interferometric radar method
• Star Bus, a satellite platform

Sport

• KK Star, a basketball club in Serbia
• Supporters' Trust at Reading, a Reading Football Club supporters' organization
• Manglerud Star Ishockey, a Norwegian hockey team
• Single-Handed Trans-Atlantic Race, a yacht race
• Star (keelboat), a one-design racing keelboat
• The Star (stadium), an indoor stadium in Frisco, Texas

Transportation

Aerospace

• Standard terminal arrival route, a flight procedure
• Star (rocket stage), a family of American solid-fuel rocket motors

Land

• Star (automobile), a marque assembled by the Durant Motors Company between 1922 and 1928
• American Star Bicycle, an early type of bicycle
• Southern Tagalog Arterial Road, or STAR Tollway, an expressway in the Philippines
• 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

• 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
• Star (keelboat), a one-design racing keelboat

Other uses

• Barn star
• Star (Chinese constellation)
• The Star (Ketchikan, Alaska), a historic commercial building in Ketchikan, Alaska
• 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
• Pyrotechnic star, in fireworks displays
• Situation, task, action, result, an interview technique
• STAR voting (Score Then Automatic Runoff), a cardinal electoral system
• The Star (Tarot card), a Major Arcana tarot card
• Star Scout (Boy Scouts of America), the third-highest rank attainable in the Boy Scouts of America

See also

• * (disambiguation)
• All pages with titles beginning with Star
• Template:In title
• Asterisk, typographical symbol (*), sometimes vocalised as 'star'
• Asterisk (disambiguation)
• Die Sterne (disambiguation)
• Starchild (disambiguation)
• Stardust (disambiguation)
• Starfish (disambiguation)
• Starlight (disambiguation)
• Starman (disambiguation)
• Starr (disambiguation)
• Stars (disambiguation)
• Starz (disambiguation)
• State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR). a standardized test in Texas