Star (disambiguation)

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A star is a luminous cosmic body.

Star or stars may also refer to:

Places

Russia

• Star, Bryansk Oblast, an urban-type settlement
• Star, Novgorod Oblast, a rural locality (village)

United Kingdom

• Star, Anglesey, Wales
• Star, Fife, Scotland
• Star, Pembrokeshire, Wales
• Star, Somerset, England

United States

• Star, Idaho
• Star, Michigan
• Star, Mississippi
• Star, North Carolina
• Star, Texas

Elsewhere

• Star, Alberta
• Star Mountains, Papua New Guinea

Music

Bands

• Stars (Australian band), from the 1970s
• Stars (Canadian band), an indie rock group formed in 2000
• Stars (British band), a 1972 supergroup
• The Stars, a Japanese psychedelic rock group

Albums

• Star (702 album), 2003
• Star (Belly album)
• Stars (Cher album), 1975
• Stars (Makai album), 2008
• Stars (Simply Red album), 1991
• Star (Mika Nakashima album)
• Star (Murk album)
• Stars: The Best of 1992–2002, by The Cranberries
• Star/Boom Boom, the soundtrack album to the 1982 film Star, by Biddu, Nazia Hassan, and Zohaib Hassan

Songs

• "Star" (Bryan Adams song), 1996
• "Star" (Kevin Ayers song), 1976
• "Star" (David Bowie song), 1972
• "Stars" (Chloe song)
• "Stars" (The Cranberries song), 2002
• "Star" (Erasure song), 1990
• "Star" (Extreme song)
• "Stars" (Hum song), 1995
• "Stars" (Mika Nakashima song)
• "Stars" (Roxette song), 1999
• "Stars" (Simply Red song), 1991
• "Stars" (Dan Fogelberg song), 1972
• "Star" (Stellar* song)
• "Stars" (Switchfoot song)
• "Stars" (Destine song)
• "Star", by Biddu and Zohaib Hassan from Star/Boom Boom
• "Stars", by China Black
• "Star", by The Crash from Wildlife
• "Star", by The Cult from The Cult
• "Stars", by Dubstar from Disgraceful
• "Star", by The Hollies from Write On
• "Stars", by Janis Ian
• "Star", by Kiki Dee
• "Stars", by Kylie Minogue from X
• "Stars", by Mark Gormley
• "Star", by Primal Scream from Vanishing Point
• "Star", by Silverbullit
• "Star", by Stealers Wheel
• "Stars", by t.A.T.u. from 200 km/h in the Wrong Lane
• "Star", by Terri Walker from L.O.V.E
• "Star (*)", by Project 86 from Drawing Black Lines
• "Stars", from the musical Les Misérables
• "Stars", 1986, by the hard rock/heavy metal collaboration Hear_'n_Aid
• "The Stars", by Patrick Wolf from The Magic Position

Films

• Star (2001 film), a 2001 Tamil film
• Star (1982 film), a 1982 Hindi film
• Star! (film), a 1968 musical starring Julie Andrews
• Danielle Steel's Star, a 1993 television film starring Jennie Garth

Broadcasting

• Star!, a Canadian cable channel
• Star Channel, a Greek television channel
• STAR TV (Asia), a broadcasting corporation
• Star TV (Turkey) a Turkish television channel
• Star (radio), the name of several radio stations
• STAR (Greater China), an Asian TV service
• STAR (India), an Asian TV service

Sports

Association football (soccer)

• NSC Minnesota Stars, an American soccer team in the NASL
• Star (football badge)
• Supporters' Trust At Reading, a Reading Football Club supporters' organization

Baseball

• Hollywood Stars, an American minor-league baseball team that operated from 1926–1935 and 1938–1957
• Huntsville Stars, a current American minor-league baseball team

Basketball

• Los Angeles Stars, a basketball team from 1968–1970 in the original American Basketball Association
• Los Angeles Stars (2000–2001), a basketball team from 2000–2001 in the newer American Basketball Association
• Los Angeles Stars (2004–2005), a basketball team from 2004–2005 in the newer American Basketball Association
• Utah Stars, a 1970–1976 American basketball team, formerly the Los Angeles Stars
• Utah Starzz, a Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) team

Hockey

• Dallas Stars, an American hockey team in the NHL
• Manglerud Star Ishockey, an Norwegian hockey team in the GET-ligaen
• Minnesota North Stars, the 1967–1993 incarnation of the Dallas Stars NHL franchise
• Texas Stars, an American hockey team in the AHL

Games

• Stars (shader effect), a computer graphics effect used by computer games
• Star, fictional character in Yie Ar Kung-Fu game
• STARS, fictional group, in Resident Evil & elsewhere in its franchise
• "Star" (board game)
• "*Star", board game
• Stars (game), a 1970s game in BASIC
• Stars (series), soccer-simulation games
• Stars!, a 1995 game for Windows

Mathematics

• Star (game theory)
• Star (graph theory)
• Star-algebra, an associative algebra
• Star domain, a concept in set theory
• Kleene star, a unary operation
• Star refinement, a concept in topology
• Star polygon, a non-convex shape
• A set of simplices in a simplicial complex
• Hodge star operator, a map related to differential forms

Transportation

Land

• Star (automobile), a 1920s American car
• Star class locomotive
• Star Motor Company, an 1898–1932 British car manufacturer
• FSC Star, a Polish truck manufacturer
• Southern Tagalog Arterial Road, an expressway in the Philippines

Water

• Star (sailboat)
• Star Cruises
• Star Ferry, a Hong Kong ferryboat service
• MS Star, an Estonian ferry
• Single-Handed Trans-Atlantic Race, a yacht race

Air

• Star Airlines, former name of XL Airways France
• Star Air (disambiguation), the name of several airlines
• Star Alliance, an alliance of airlines
• Shock Trauma Air Rescue Society, an air ambulance service
• Standard Terminal Arrival Route (STAR), a flight procedure
• Fulton surface-to-air recovery system (STARS)

Academic

• STAR (software), an educational software series
• STAR (student association)
• California Standardized Testing and Reporting (STAR) Program, a school assessment program
• Sekolah Tuanku Abdul Rahman, a Malaysian public school
• New York State School Tax Relief Program

Science and technology

• Star network, a computer network topology
• Star schema, a data warehousing model
• STAR Bus, a satellite platform
• STAR detector, a particle physics experiment
• Pyrotechnic star
• Xerox Star, a 1981 computer workstation
• Steroidogenic acute regulatory protein, a transport protein
• Synthetically thinned aperture radar, a interferometric radar method
• Stars, an unofficial codename for AMD's K10 microarchitecture

Military and law enforcement

• Special Tasks and Rescue, a division of the South Australia police
• Special Task And Rescue, a division of the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency
• Special Tactics and Rescue (Singapore), a division of the Singapore Police Force
• HMCS Star, a reserve unit of the Canadian Maritime Command
• A star ranking, as in a five-star rank

Graphic devices

• Star (glyph), a depiction of a star in typography
• Star (polygon)
• Star (heraldry)
• * (disambiguation)

Other acronyms and initialisms

• St. Austin Review (StAR), a Catholic magazine
• STAR (interbank network)
• S.T.A.R. Labs, an organization in the DC Comics fictional universe
• Situation, Task, Action, Result, an interview technique
• The Society of Ticket Agents and Retailers, a UK organization
• Stolen Asset Recovery
• School Tax Relief Program in New York State
• Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries, a transgender organization
• STAR Events, a leadership program of the Family, Career and Community Leaders of America
• Synagogues: Transformation and Renewal, American Jewish organisation
• Special Tactics and Rescue Service (S.T.A.R.S.), a fictional police force in the Resident Evil series.

Other uses

• Star (Unix), an implementation of the tar file archiver
• Stars virus, computer virus that was discovered by Iran in 2011
• Star (classification), used to rank restaurants, films, etc
• Star (guitar), a guitar body shape
• Star (magazine)
• Stars (restaurant)
• Star routes, a US Postal Service term
• Celebrity, a famous person
• Movie star, a celebrity famous for performing in films
• Stars (newspaper), a regional newspaper published in Latvia
• Stars (M. C. Escher), a wood engraving print by M. C. Escher
• Star (Chinese constellation)
• Star Bonifacio Echeverria, S.A., a Spanish firearms company
• Star Records, a recording company in the Philippines
• Star, a novel by Pamela Anderson
• Star (novel), a novel by Danielle Steel
• An equine coat marking

See also

• The Star (disambiguation)
• List of symbolic stars
• Asterisk (disambiguation)
• * (disambiguation)
• Starr (disambiguation)
• Starz (disambiguation)