Starling (disambiguation)
Appearance
Starling is a family of birds. The common starling is also colloquially referred to simply as "starling".
Starling may also refer to:
Places
[edit]- Starling, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
- Starling, Greater Manchester, a settlement in the Metropolitan Borough of Bury, England
Arts, entertainment, and media
[edit]Fictional characters
[edit]- Starling (DC Comics), a member of the Birds of Prey in DC Comics
- Starling (Marvel Comics), a Marvel Comics character who is the granddaughter of Vulture
- Starling, a fictional character in the animated television show Storm Hawks
- Clarice Starling, the heroine of the novel Silence of the Lambs, and of the films The Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal
- Juliet, Cordelia, and Rosalind Starling, from Suda 51's hack-and-slash zombie game Lollipop Chainsaw
Music
[edit]- Starling Arrow, a cappella spirit-folk ensemble
- The Starlings, 1990s alternative rock band
- The Starlings, a coloratura soprano duo from the 1930–40s
- The Starlings (duo), a Belgian pop music duo
Other arts, entertainment, and media
[edit]- Starling (film), a 2023 American animated short film by Mitra Shahidi
- Starlings (1988 film), a British television film by Andy Armitage in the anthology series ScreenPlay
- Starlings (TV series), a British comedy drama airing on Sky1
- Jim Starling, a series of novels for children written by Edmund Wallace Hildick
- The Starling, a 2021 American comedy-drama film
Computing and technology
[edit]- STARLING, an etymological online database managed by Georgiy Starostin
- Starling Framework, an open source framework for ActionScript development
Watercraft
[edit]- Starling (dinghy), a popular New Zealand sailing dinghy
- HMS Starling, several ships in the British Royal Navy
People
[edit]See Starling (name)
Other uses
[edit]- Starling (architecture), a defensive bulwark, usually built with pilings or bricks, surrounding the supports (or piers) of a bridge or similar construction; can also be spelt sterling
- Starling (structure), the supports (or piers) of a bridge
- Starling Bank, commonly referred to as 'Starling'.
- Starling equation, describes the net flow of fluid across a semipermeable membrane
- Armstrong Whitworth Starling, a 1920s British fighter aircraft
- Frank–Starling law of the heart, identified by British physiologist Ernest Starling