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StarKid Productions
StarKid Productions (Team StarKid), Chicago comedic musical theatre company founded 2009 at University of Michigan; A Very Potter Musical went viral on YouTube; 15 musicals, 320M+ views, Billboard #1 cast albums, national tours, 2024 London Palladium debut.
Starkville, Mississippi
Starkville, Mississippi: county seat of Oktibbeha County and home of Mississippi State University. Founded 1834-1835 as renamed Boardtown, population about 25,754 (2025 estimate), college-town economy.
StarkWare Industries
StarkWare Industries is an Israeli cryptography company founded in 2018 by Eli Ben-Sasson, Alessandro Chiesa, Michael Riabzev, and Uri Kolodny, building blockchain scaling with STARK proofs through Starknet and StarkEx.
Starlab (space station)
Starlab is a planned commercial space station developed by Starlab Space, a joint venture led by Voyager Technologies with Airbus, scheduled to launch in 2029.
StarLAN
StarLAN was an AT&T local area network technology that carried Ethernet-style traffic over unshielded twisted-pair telephone wiring in a star topology, standardized as IEEE 1BASE5 in 1987.
Starland Vocal Band
Starland Vocal Band: American soft-rock vocal quartet from Washington, D.C. (Bill Danoff, Taffy Nivert, Jon Carroll, Margot Chapman) on John Denver's Windsong label; 1976 number-one hit "Afternoon Delight", two 1977 Grammys, short-lived CBS variety show; distinct from the Starland Ballroom venue.
Starless and Bible Black
Starless and Bible Black, King Crimson's sixth album (March 1974, Island), is largely a disguised live recording from the 1973-74 Fripp, Wetton, Bruford, Cross tour, peaking at UK number 28, bridging Larks' Tongues in Aspic and Red.
Starlet (film)
Starlet is a 2012 American independent drama, Sean Baker's fourth feature, co-written with Chris Bergoch. Dree Hemingway plays Jane, an adult film performer who finds money in a yard-sale thermos and befriends 85-year-old Sadie (Besedka Johnson, debut role) in the San Fernando Valley; released by Music Box Films, grossing $146,222.
StarlETH
StarlETH, short for Springy Tetrapod with Articulated Robotic Legs, was a compliant quadruped robot developed at ETH Zurich between 2011 and 2015, predecessor of the commercial robot ANYmal.
Starletta DuPois
Starletta DuPois (born 1941, Philadelphia) is an American character actress, Tony-nominated for The Mighty Gents (1978), who has played all three female roles in A Raisin in the Sun and appears in One Battle After Another (2025).
StarLight (network)
StarLight is an international optical network exchange facility in Chicago, opened in December 2001 to interconnect research and education networks, including those distributing Large Hadron Collider data.
Starlight BnB (光开门就很忙了)
Starlight BnB (光開門就很忙了) is a 2023 Taiwanese reality show, second in the Light series spun off from Light the Night, in which Ruby Lin and six entertainers run a pet-friendly Taitung guesthouse; 13 episodes premiered June 25, 2023 on TVBS and Netflix.
Starlight Boys (星光闪耀的少年)
Starlight Boys (星光闪耀的少年, 스타라이트보이즈), formerly Youth With You International, was a 2024 iQIYI-SBS Korean-Chinese survival show: 69 trainees, star-level grading, forming the nine-member group POLARIX led by Shao Ziheng.
Starlight Express
Starlight Express: 1984 Andrew Lloyd Webber and Richard Stilgoe musical with roller-skating performers as trains; premiered Apollo Victoria 1984, ran to 2002, Broadway 1987, Bochum since 1988, 2024 Wembley revival.
Starlight Glimmer
Starlight Glimmer is a My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic unicorn, introduced in the Season 5 premiere The Cutie Map as an equality cult leader, redeemed in The Cutie Re-Mark, later Twilight's student and School of Friendship guidance counselor.
Starlight Kukugumi
Starlight Kukugumi (スタァライト九九組) is a nine-member Japanese voice-actress music unit formed in 2017 for the Revue Starlight franchise, whose members play Seisho Music Academy's 99th class in the stage musicals and anime.
Starlin Castro
Starlin Castro (Starlin DeJesus Castro), Dominican MLB infielder born 1990, four-time All-Star with Cubs, Yankees, Marlins, Nationals; record six RBI in 2010 MLB debut, 1,722 career hits, .280 average.
Starling
Starling (Sturnus vulgaris), the common or European starling, a Sturnidae songbird famed for murmurations and mimicry; invasive in North America (200 million birds from an 1890 release) yet red-listed and declining in its native UK range.
Starling Bank
Starling Bank is a British digital-only bank founded in 2014 by Anne Boden and licensed in 2016, offering personal and business current accounts to about six million customers.
Starling equation
Starling equation: Jv = LpS[(Pc−Pi) − σ(πc−πi)], Ernest Starling's 1896 law of capillary fluid exchange balancing hydrostatic and oncotic pressures; revised with the glycocalyx model and lymphatic return.
Starling House
Starling House is a 2023 Southern Gothic fantasy novel by Alix E. Harrow (Tor), a Reese's Book Club pick and NYT bestseller set in fictional Eden, Kentucky, where Opal cleans the haunted mansion of Arthur Starling.
Starling Marte
Starling Javier Marte (born 1988, Santo Domingo) is a Dominican MLB outfielder, 2x All-Star and 2x Gold Glove winner, career .284 with active-leading 361 steals and 107 outfield assists, now with the Royals.
Starlink
Starlink, also known as SpaceX Starlink, is a satellite internet constellation operated by SpaceX that delivers broadband from thousands of satellites in low Earth orbit, announced in 2015.
Starlink: Battle for Atlas
Starlink: Battle for Atlas is a 2018 Ubisoft Toronto toys-to-life open-world space action-adventure for Switch, PS4, and Xbox One; modular toy starships mount on controllers, Metacritic 74, toys discontinued April 2019.
Starlite
Starlite is an intumescent heat-resistant material invented by Maurice Ward, a British hairdresser, which survived a blowtorch in a famous 1990 TV demonstration; its secret formula died with him in 2011.
Starlux Airlines
Starlux Airlines (星宇航空) is a Taiwanese full-service international airline founded in 2018 by K.W. Chang and flying commercially since January 2020, rated a Skytrax 5-Star Airline.
Starman (film)
Starman (1984) is John Carpenter's sci-fi romance starring Jeff Bridges and Karen Allen: an alien answers Voyager 2's invitation, is shot down over Wisconsin, clones a widow's dead husband, and races to Arizona. Columbia Pictures; Bridges earned an Oscar nomination.
Starman (song)
Starman is a 1972 David Bowie song, lead single of The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars; released 28 April 1972, it peaked at No. 10 in the UK and its Top of the Pops performance launched Bowie to stardom.
Starman (upcoming film)
Starman is a cosmic science-fiction thriller directed by Josh Wakely. It stars Brendan Fraser as Tom Adams, a technologist on a Mars mission, and Jeff Daniels.
Starmania (musical)
Starmania is a 1978/1979 French-language rock opera by Michel Berger and Luc Plamondon, the first of its kind in French, starring France Gall and Daniel Balavoine, with hits like Le Blues du businessman and Le Monde est stone; revived by Thomas Jolly in 2022.