Starling (disambiguation)

Starling is a family of birds.

Starling may also refer to:

Finance

• Starling Bank, commonly referred to as 'Starling'.

People

• Starling (name)

Places

• Starling, Greater Manchester, a settlement in the Metropolitan Borough of Bury, England

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional characters

• Starling, a member of the Birds of Prey in DC Comics
• 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

• The Starlings, 1990s alternative rock band
• The Starlings, a coloratura soprano duo from the 1930–40s

Other arts, entertainment, and media

• Starlings (TV series), a British comedy drama airing on Sky1
• Jim Starling, a series of novels for children written by Edmund Wallace Hildick

Computing and technology

• Starling (software), a light-weight persistent queue server that speaks the MemCache protocol
• STARLING, a macrocomparativistical etymological online database established by Sergei Starostin, now managed by Georgiy Starostin
• Starling Framework, an open source framework for ActionScript development

Watercraft

• Starling (dinghy), a sailing dinghy
• HMS Starling, several ships in the British Royal Navy

Other uses

• 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
• Armstrong Whitworth Starling, a 1920s British fighter aircraft
• Frank–Starling law of the heart, identified by British physiologist Ernest Starling
• Starling Equation, an equation that illustrates the role of hydrostatic and oncotic forces (the so-called Starling forces) in the movement of fluid across capillary membranes