Starrett is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
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Charles Starrett
Charles Robert Starrett (March 28, 1903 – March 22, 1986) was an American actor, best known for his starring role in the ''Durango Kid'' westerns. Starrett still holds the record for starring in the longest series of theatrical features: ...
(1903–1986), American actor
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Helen Ekin Starrett
Helen Ekin Starrett (, Ekin; September 19, 1840 – December 16, 1920) was an American educator, author, suffragist, and magazine founder. Long engaged in educational work in Chicago, she founded the Kenwood Institute (1884), and Mrs. Starrett's C ...
(1840–1920), American educator, author, suffragette
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Jack Starrett
Claude Ennis "Jack" Starrett Jr. (November 2, 1936 – March 27, 1989) was an American actor and film director.Staff report (March 29, 1989). Jack Starrett, 52; Adventure Film Actor, Director. ''Los Angeles Times''
Starrett is perhaps best k ...
(1936–1989), American actor and film director
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Keith Starrett (born 1951), United States federal judge
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Laroy S. Starrett (1836–1922), businessman and inventor
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Paul Starrett Paul Starrett (1866–1957) was an American builder. In 1883, he graduated from Lake Forest Academy, an elite boarding school for boys which was part of the Lake Forest, Illinois, educational experiment. His brothers also graduated from this institu ...
(1866–1957), American builder
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Priscilla Hollister Starrett
Priscilla Latham Hollister Starrett (November 13, 1929 – October 8, 1997) was an American herpetologist who researched anuran (frog) morphology, systematics and behavior.Emerson, Sharon B. “Priscilla Starrett, 1929-1997.” ''Copeia'', vol. 1 ...
(1929–1997), American herpetologist
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Vincent Starrett
Charles Vincent Emerson Starrett (; October 26, 1886 – January 5, 1974), known as Vincent Starrett, was a Canadian-born American writer, newspaperman, and bibliophile.
Biography
Charles Vincent Emerson Starrett was born above his grandfathe ...
(1886–1974), American writer and newspaperman
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William A. Starrett (1877–1932), America builder of skyscrapers, built the Empire State Building
See also
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L. S. Starrett Company
The L. S. Starrett Company () is an American manufacturer of tools and instruments used by machinists, tool and die makers, and the construction industry. The company was founded by businessman and inventor Laroy Sunderland Starrett in 1880. ...
, American manufacturer of tools and instruments
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Starrett & van Vleck specialized in the design of early 20th century department stores primarily in New York City
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Starrett City, Brooklyn
Starrett City (formally known as the Spring Creek Towers) is a housing development in the Spring Creek section of East New York, in Brooklyn, New York City. It is located on a peninsula on the north shore of Jamaica Bay, bounded by Fresh Creek ...
, housing development in Brooklyn, New York City
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Starrett City Associates
Starrett City Associates is a group of investors, led by Disque Deane, that owned the Starrett City housing complex in Brooklyn, New York City until 2008. The firm is best known for unsuccessfully defending a landmark civil rights lawsuit that co ...
, group of investors that built and owned the Starrett City housing complex
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Starrett Corporation
Starrett Corporation, formerly known as Starrett Brothers, Inc. and Starrett Brothers and Eken, is a real estate development and construction firm known for having built the Empire State Building, Stuyvesant Town, Starrett City and Trump Tower in N ...
, general investment company which incorporated in Dover, Delaware, in February 1929; constructors of the
Empire State Building and several housing complexes, including Starrett City, in New York City
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Starrett-Lehigh Building a full-block freight terminal, warehouse and office building in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City
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