Star (disambiguation)

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
• STARS (Special Tactics and Rescue Service), a fictional group in the video game Resident Evil and elsewhere in the franchise

Films

In chronological order:

• 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

• Star (board game)
• *Star, board game
• Stars!, a 1995 game for Windows

Music

Print media

Series

• Star (TV series), a musical drama series broadcast by Fox
• The Star (reality show), 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

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

• Star (guitar), a guitar body shape
• Stars (M. C. Escher), a 1948 wood engraving print by M. C. Escher
• The Star Performing Arts Centre, Singapore

Businesses

Law enforcement agencies

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

Sports teams

Other organizations

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

United Kingdom

• Star, Fife, Scotland, a village
• Star, Pembrokeshire, Wales, a hamlet
• 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

Elsewhere

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

Biology

• STAR (gene), the gene that encodes steroidogenic acute regulatory protein
• Steroidogenic acute regulatory protein, or 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
• Stars, an unofficial code name for AMD's K10 microarchitecture
• Stars virus, a computer virus that was discovered by Iran in 2011
• Xerox Star, a 1981 computer workstation

Mathematics

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

Other uses in science, technology, and mathematics

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

Air

• Diamond DA40 Star, an Austrian single-engine light aircraft
• Standard terminal arrival route, or STAR, a flight procedure
• Standard Terminal Automation Replacement System, or STARS, an air traffic control system
• Fulton surface-to-air recovery system, or STARS, used to retrieve persons on the ground using an aircraft

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

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, U.S.

Sea

• Star (keelboat), a one-design racing keelboat for two people designed by Francis Sweisguth
• HMS Star, various Royal Navy ships
• MS Star, a 2006 Estonian ferry
• Single-Handed Trans-Atlantic Race, or STAR, 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 (STARS), a satellite built by Kagawa University
  • STARS-II, a follow-on project
• Star Bus, a satellite platform