Stark or Starke may refer to:

Places

Antarctica and vicinity

Stark Point Croft Bay () is a bay which indents the north-central side of James Ross Island and forms the southern part of Herbert Sound, south of the northeastern end of the Antarctic Peninsula. Location Croft Bay deeply indents the north shore of James ...

, James Ross Island * Stark Ridge, Churchill Mountains *

Stark Rock Stark Rock () is a conspicuous rock lying 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) south of Cruls Islands, in the Wilhelm Archipelago. Mapped by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) from photos taken by Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd. in 1956–57. The n ...

, south of the Crulls Islands

United States

Starke, Florida Starke is a city in and the county seat of Bradford County, Florida, United States. The population was 5,796 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. The origin of the city's name is disputed. Starke may have been named in honor of local la ...

, a city * Stark, Georgia, an unincorporated community * Stark, Illinois, an unincorporated community * Stark, Kansas, a city * Stark, Kentucky, an unincorporated community * Stark, Missouri, an unincorporated community * Stark, New Hampshire, a town *

Stark, New York Stark is a Administrative divisions of New York#Town, town in Herkimer County, New York, United States. The population was 757 at the 2010 census. The town was named after American Revolution, Revolutionary War general John Stark. The town of Sta ...

, a town * Stark, West Virginia, an unincorporated community * Stark, Wisconsin, a town * Stark City, Missouri *

Stark County, Illinois Stark County is a county in Illinois. According to the 2020 census, it had a population of 5,400. Its county seat is Toulon. Stark County is part of the Peoria, IL Metropolitan Statistical Area. History Stark County was formed in 1839 out o ...

* Starke County, Indiana *

Stark County, North Dakota Stark County is a county in the U.S. state of North Dakota. As of the 2020 census, the population was 33,646, and was estimated to be 33,767 in 2024, making it the 7th-most populous county in North Dakota. The county seat and the largest city ...

Stark County, Ohio Stark County is a county located in the northeastern part of U.S. state of Ohio. As of the 2020 census, the population was 374,853. Its county seat is Canton. The county was created in 1808 and organized the next year. It is named for John S ...

* Stark Township, Brown County, Minnesota

Elsewhere

* Stark (crater), on the Moon

People with the name

* Stark (surname), including Starke, and fictional characters * Stark Young (1881–1963), American teacher and writer

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional entities

* Stark (''The Longest Journey''), a world in the video game * Stark, in the Japanese manga '' Frieren'' * Stark, in Michael Marshall Smith's novel '' Only Forward'' *

House Stark George R. R. Martin's ''A Song of Ice and Fire'' saga features a large cast of characters. The series follows three interwoven plotlines: a dynastic war for control of Westeros by several families; the rising threat of the undead White Walke ...

, in George R. R. Martin's works * Tony Stark or

Iron Man Iron Man is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Co-created by writer and editor Stan Lee, developed by scripter Larry Lieber, and designed by artists Don Heck and Jack Kirby, the character first appearan ...

, a Marvel comic book character

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

* ''Stark'' (novel), by Ben Elton * ''Stark'' (TV series), a miniseries based on Ben Elton's novel *''Stark'', a 2005 album by

Gregory Douglass Gregory Douglass (born December 19, 1980) is an American singer-songwriter. Douglass plays lead guitar and piano. Background Douglass was born and raised in rural Vermont, performing in musical theater and winning local talent shows in his ear ...

Brands and enterprises

Štark Štark (pronounced: Shtark; full legal name: ''Soko Štark d.o.o. '') is a food manufacturing company based in Belgrade, Serbia. The main products of the company include candies, biscuits and chocolates. One of its hallmark products is ''Najlep ...

, a food manufacturing company in Belgrade, Serbia * Stark Brothers Nurseries and Orchards, in northeastern Missouri * Stark Candy Company, later acquired by Necco * Stark Corporation, a Thai holding company in the cable manufacturing industry * Stark Group, a Danish building materials company

Properties on the United States National Register of Historic Places

* Stark Building, Waltham, Massachusetts * Stark Park, Manchester, New Hampshire * Stark Round Barn, near Unityville, South Dakota * Starke Round Barn, near Red Cloud, Nebraska

Science and technology

Stark effect The Stark effect is the shifting and splitting of spectral lines of atoms and molecules due to the presence of an external electric field. It is the electric-field analogue of the Zeeman effect, where a spectral line is split into several compon ...

, an optical phenomenon in physics * Stark spectroscopy *

STARK (cryptography) Stark or Starke may refer to: Places Antarctica and vicinity * Stark Point, James Ross Island * Stark Ridge, Churchill Mountains * Stark Rock, south of the Crulls Islands United States * Starke, Florida, a city * Stark, Georgia, an unincorpora ...

(Scalable Transparent ARgument of Knowledge), a protocol in cryptography

Other uses

* Stark, a

barley Barley (), a member of the grass family, is a major cereal grain grown in temperate climates globally. It was one of the first cultivated grains; it was domesticated in the Fertile Crescent around 9000 BC, giving it nonshattering spikele ...

cultivar * Stark Law, U.S., restricting physician self-referrals * Stark Museum of Art, in eastern Texas * Stark–Heegner theorem, in algebra * TAC Stark, a Brazilian vehicle * USS ''Stark'', a former frigate of the United States Navy