Starr (surname)
Starr is a family name, originating from the pre-Modern English word starre or sterre, meaning "star". Notable people with the surname include:
People
- Allanah Starr, a transsexual American pornographic actress
- Bart Starr (born 1934), a former American football quarterback
- Beau Starr (born 1944), an American actor
- Belle Starr (1848–1889), an American outlaw
- Blaze Starr (1932–2015), an American stripper and burlesque star
- Brenda K. Starr (born 1966), an American singer
- Bruce Starr (born 1969), an American politician in Oregon
- Chauncey Starr (1912–2007), an American nuclear physicist
- Charles Starr (born 1933), an American politician in Oregon
- Chester G. Starr (1914–1999), an American historian
- Cornelius Vander Starr (1892–1968), a founder of the American International Group insurance corporation
- David Starr (born 1967), an American race car driver
- Don Starr (1917–1995), an American actor
- Edwin Starr (1942–2003), an American soul music singer
- Ernest Starr (1890–1981), a Canadian politician
- Freddie Starr (born 1943), an English comedian
- Fredro Starr, born Fred Scruggs (born 1970), an American rapper and actor
- Frederick Starr (1858–1933), an American anthropologist
- S. Frederick Starr (born 1940), a founder and chairman of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute
- Garrison Starr (born 1975), an American singer-songwriter
- George Reginald Starr (1904–1980), an organiser of a resistance network in France during World War II
- Georgina Starr (born 1968), an English artist
- Harry W. Starr (1879–1934), an American politician
- Henry Starr (1873–1921), an American outlaw
- Isaac Starr (1895–1989). an American physician
- Jack Starr (Texas guitarist), an American musician
- Jack Starr, an American metal and blues guitarist and songwriter
- James Harper Starr (1809–1890), a Surgeon General and Secretary of the Treasury of the Republic of Texas
- James Starr (philatelist) (1870–1948), a philatelist of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Jason Starr (born 1966), an American author and screenplay writer
- JoeyStarr (born 1967), a French rapper of Martinican origin
- John Howard Starr (1898–1989), a Colgate University hockey coach
- John Renshaw Starr, an artist and soldier in World War II
- John Robert Starr (1927–2000), an American journalist and newspaper columnist
- Kay Starr (born 1922), an American jazz and popular music singer
- Keith Starr (born 1954), an American professional basketball player for the Chicago Bulls
- Kenneth Starr (born 1946), a special prosecutor in the impeachment investigations of President William Jefferson Clinton
- Kevin Starr (born 1940), a historian and author, State Librarian of California
- Kimberley Starr (born 1970), an Australian author
- Kinnie Starr (born 1970), a Canadian singer-songwriter
- Lucky Starr (singer) (born 1940), an Australian singer
- Lucille Starr (born 1938), a Franco-Manitoban singer, songwriter, and yodeler
- Martin Starr (born 1982), an American television and film actor
- Maurice Starr (born 1953), a Boston-based musician, songwriter, and record producer
- Michael Starr (1910–2000), a Canadian politician
- Mike Starr (actor) (born 1950), an American actor
- Mike Starr (musician) (1966–2011), a bassist in the band Alice in Chains
- Nava Starr (born 1949), a Canadian female chess player
- Patti Starr (born 1943), a Canadian businesswoman
- Pearl Starr (1868–1925), an American prostitute, bordello owner and businesswoman
- Phil Starr (1932–2005), a gay cabaret comedian and singer
- Richard Starr (disambiguation)
- Ringo Starr (born 1940 as Richard Starkey), drummer for The Beatles
- Ruby Starr (1949–1995), an American singer
- Ryan Starr (born 1982), an American Idol contestant
- Samuel H. Starr (1810–1891), an American cavalry commander
- Selig Starr (1893–1989), a Polish-born American Talmudic scholar
- Susan Starr, an American pianist
- Stephen Starr, a Philadelphia restaurateur
- Steven Starr, a filmmaker and media activist
- Stevie Starr, a Scottish performance artist
- Terrell Starr (1925–2009), an American politician
- Walter A. Starr, Jr. (1903–1933), an American lawyer and mountain climber
- William Starr (1821–1879), an American politician
Fictional characters
- Clive Starr, on the soap opera Family Affairs
- Dudley Starr, on the soap opera Family Affairs
- Herr Starr, from the comic book Preacher
- Karen Starr or Power Girl, a DC Comics superheroine
- Brenda Starr, heroine of the Brenda Starr, Reporter comic strip
- David "Lucky" Starr, hero of the Lucky Starr series of science fiction books by Isaac Asimov
See also
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