Starchild

Starchild or Star Child may refer to:

• A common Plains Cree name
• Starchild Abraham Cherrix, a juvenile cancer patient in the USA
• Starchild Shoes Ltd, an English soft leather baby shoe manufacturer and distributor
• An intergalactic messiah figure in P-Funk mythology
• Any extraterrestial/human hybrid
• Starchild Productions, a Sydney based production company
• Starchild skull, a 900-year-old skull that some believe is of extraterrestrial origin

In music:

• Starchild (band), a Canadian band
• StarChild, the anime production and soundtrack imprint of King Records
• Mothership Connection (Star Child), a song originally released as "Star Child"
• Star Child, a musical sequel to Saturday's Warrior created by the same creative team
• Star Child, a piece by 20th-century composer George Crumb using circular musical notation.
• Starchild (album), 2005 O.C. album
• Starchild (song) , a song by Level 42
• Starchild (Teena Marie album), 1984
• Starchild is the nickname of funk musician Garry Shider
• Starchild is the alter-ego of rocker Paul Stanley of the band Kiss
• Starchild, a song by Wintersun from Wintersun (album)

In fiction:

• Starchild (comics), a comic book series and character
• Starchild Trilogy by Frederik Pohl and Jack Williamson
• The Star-Child, a story in the A House of Pomegranates collection by Oscar Wilde
• David Bowman's final state in Arthur C. Clarke's 2001: A Space Odyssey (novel)
• The English translation of Kal-El, Superman's Kryptonian name
• The soul of the Emperor of Mankind awaiting rebirth, in the fictional Warhammer 40,000 universe.
• A novel by Fred Mustard Stewart about a would-be Messiah (called The Star-Child) whose religion proves to be destructive.