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Starr (surname)

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Starr is a family name, originating from the pre-Modern English word starre or sterre, meaning "star". Notable people with the surname include:

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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
  • Hickory Starr (1916 - 1991) Chief NightHawk Keetoowah Cherokee
  • Hickory Starr Jr. (1940 - ) Health Administrator IHS, American Indian Activist Cherokee
  • 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 (1922-2016), 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

    • References

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