Starling (name)

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Starling is a given name and a surname. According to one source, the surname arose in Old English as a nickname related to the bird, starling, but the author speculates "it is hard to see why".[1] Another source puts the surname into a list of "surnames derived from birds".[2]

Notable people with the name

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Given name
  • Starling Marte (born 1988), professional athlete
  • Starling Thomas V (born 2000), American football player
Surname
  • Alan Starling (born 1951), English footballer
  • Avril Starling (born 1953), English cricketer
  • Boris Starling (born 1969), English writer
  • Bubba Starling (born 1992), American baseball player
  • Ernest Starling (1866-1927), English physiologist
  • Geoff Starling (born 1952), Australian rugby league player
  • Hannah Starling (born 1995), British diver
  • John Henry Starling (1883–1966), Australian public servant
  • Josh Starling (born 1990), Australian Rugby League player
  • Kristy Starling (contemporary), a Contemporary Christian Music singer
  • Paul Starling (born 1948), Australian karateka
  • Ronnie Starling (1909–1991), English footballer
  • Simon Starling (born 1967), English artist

Fictional characters

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  • Clarice Starling, a main character in the novels and films The Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal
  • Juliet, Cordelia, and Rosalind Starling, from Suda 51's hack-and-slash zombie game Lollipop Chainsaw
  • Robyn Starling, one of the main characters from the 1993 animated film Tom and Jerry: The Movie

See also

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  • Sterling (given name)
  • Sterling (surname)

References

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  1. ^ Cottle, Basil (1978) [1967]. The Penguin dictionary of surnames (Reprint ed.). New York: Penguin Books. p. 268. ISBN 978-0-14-051032-4 – via Internet Archive.
  2. ^ Lower, Mark Antony (1849). English Surnames. Essays on family nomenclature, historical, etymological, and humorous. With chapters of rebuses and canting arms, the Roll of Battel Abbey, a List of latinized surnames, etc. Vol. 1 (3rd ed.). London: John Russell Smith. p. 178 – via Google Books.
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