Starr may refer to:

People and fictional characters

Starr (surname) Starr is a family name, originating from the pre- Modern English word starre or sterre, meaning "star". People * Allison Starr (born 1977), American collegiate basketball player and coach * Antony Starr (born 1975), New Zealand television actor ...

, a list of people and fictional characters * Starr (given name), a list of people and fictional characters

Places

United States

* Starr, Ohio, an unincorporated community * Starr, South Carolina, a town * Starr County, Texas * Starr Township, Cloud County, Kansas *

Starr Township, Hocking County, Ohio Starr Township is one of the eleven townships of Hocking County, Ohio, United States. As of the 2010 census the population was 1,560. Geography Located in the southeastern corner of the county, it borders the following townships: * Green Townsh ...

Starr Historic District The Starr Historic District is a neighborhood of historic buildings and national historic district located at Richmond, Wayne County, Indiana. The district encompasses 102 contributing buildings in a predominantly residential section of Richmon ...

, Richmond, Indiana *

Mount Starr Mount Starr, elevation , is a mountain summit located on the crest of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in northern California, United States. It is situated in the John Muir Wilderness on the common boundary shared by Sierra National Forest with ...

, a mountain in California

Antarctica

Starr Peninsula Starr Peninsula () is an ice-covered peninsula about 10 nautical miles (18 km) long, between Wagoner and Potaka Inlets on the north side of Thurston Island. It was delineated from aerial photographs taken by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump in ...

, Ellsworth Land * Starr Lake (McMurdo Station), Ross Island *

Starr Nunatak Starr Nunatak () is a nunatak marking the north side of the mouth of Harbord Glacier, on the coast of Victoria Land, Antarctica. Mapped by United States Geological Survey (USGS) from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1957–62. Named by Advisory ...

, Victoria Land

Elsewhere

Starr Gate Starr Gate is a suburb in the South Shore district of Blackpool in the county of Lancashire, England. It is located at the southwest end of Blackpool on the Fylde coast, adjacent to the Squires Gate district of Blackpool. The place is named a ...

, a location in Blackpool, Lancashire, England *

4150 Starr 4150 Starr, provisional designation , is a stony Florian asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 7 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered by American astronomer Brian Skiff at Lowell's Anderson Mesa Station on 31 Au ...

, a minor planet

Buildings

* Starr House (disambiguation), various houses on the United States National Register of Historic Places *

Starr Mill Two 19th century factory buildings are sited on a bank beside Starr Mill pond on Beverly Heights just off Middlefield Street. Each building is 3½ stories tall, and overlooks a picturesque pond and woods to the west; a parking lot packed with truc ...

, Middletown, Connecticut, on the National Register of Historic Places *

Starr Arena J. Howard Starr Rink is a 2,000-seat arena in Hamilton, New York. It opened in 1959 and was the home of the Colgate Raiders men's and women's ice hockey teams until 2016. The arena was dedicated in honor of former head coach John Howard Starr on D ...

, a sports facility in Hamilton, New York, United States

Ships

* HMS ''Starr'', various Royal Navy ships * George E. Starr, as steamboat of the Puget Sound Mosquito Fleet * USS ''Starr'' (AKA-67), an attack cargo ship

Firearms

Starr carbine The Starr carbine was a breechloading single-shot rifle used by the United States Army. Designed in 1858, the Starr was primarily used by cavalry soldiers in the American Civil War. History In January 1858, Ebenzer Starr submitted his design for ...

, a single-shot United States Army rifle *

Starr revolver A Starr revolver (Starr DA) is a double-action revolver which was used in the western theater of the American Civil War until the United States Army Ordnance Department persuaded the Starr Arms Co. to create a single-action variant after disconti ...

, a 19th-century double-action revolver designed by E. T. Starr

Organizations and companies

Starr Foundation The Starr Foundation was established in 1955 by Cornelius Vander Starr, an insurance entrepreneur who founded C.V. Starr & Co. and other companies later combined by his successor, Maurice R. Greenberg, into what became the American International ...

, providing grants in education and healthcare *

Starr Companies Starr Insurance Companies (or Starr) is a marketing name for the operating insurance and travel assistance companies and subsidiaries of Starr International Company, Inc. and for the investment business of C. V. Starr & Co., Inc. and its subsidia ...

, an insurance company *

Starr Records Starr Records was a record label founded by the Starr Piano Company of Richmond, Indiana. Gennett Records was also owned by Starr Piano. Starr's first discs were vertical-cut records in the mid 1910s based on Edison Records standard found in th ...

, a defunct American record label * STARR Restaurants, an American restaurant company * Starr Labs, a musical equipment manufacturer

Other uses

Starr (law) Starr, or starra, was a term used in pre-fourteenth century England for the contract or obligation of a Jew. It derives from the Hebrew (''shtar'', "document").Henry C. Black, ''Black's Law Dictionary'', rev. 4th ed. 19681578 By an ordinance o ...

or ''starra'', an old term for the contract or obligation of a Jew *

Stapled trans-anal rectal resection A rectal prolapse occurs when walls of the rectum have prolapsed to such a degree that they protrude out of the anus and are visible outside the body. However, most researchers agree that there are 3 to 5 different types of rectal prolapse, depen ...

(STARR), a surgical procedure