Starbuck
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Starbuck is a surname, and may refer to:
- Bill Starbuck, fictional character in The Rainmaker, a play by N. Richard Nash, later a film with Katherine Hepburn and Kirk Douglas
- Chez Starbuck
- George Starbuck, American poet
- JoJo Starbuck
- Lieutenant Starbuck, fictional male character in the original Battlestar Galactica film and Battlestar Galactica (1978 TV series)
- Nathaniel Starbuck, fictional character
- Starbuck , fictional first mate of the ship Pequod in Herman Melville's novel Moby-Dick
- Starbuck is the call-sign of a female fictional character, Kara Thrace, in the "reimagined" current TV series Battlestar Galactica
- Starbuck, alternate name for a fictional philosopher mentioned briefly in the Principia Discordia
- Starbuck, nickname given to fictional female character Dana Scully by her father, Captain William Scully, in the TV series The X-Files. It was a Moby-Dick reference and Dana in turn nicknamed her father Ahab
[edit] See also
- The Starbuck Chronicles, series of historical novels by Bernard Cornwell
- The final episode of the TV Series "Galactica 1980" is titled "The Return of Starbuck".
- J.J. Starbuck, 1987 NBC TV series, in which an older, recently widowed billionaire traveled around the country in a 1961 Lincoln convertible, having adventures and solving crimes.
- Starbuck Island is an uninhabited atoll in the Line Islands discovered by whaling ship captain Valentine Starbuck in 1823.
- Starbuck (band) was a 1970s musical act, most famous for their 1976 hit Moonlight Feels Right. [1]
- Starbuck, Minnesota (pop. 1314) is a small town in the United States supposedly named after horses named "Star" and "Buck".
- Starbuck, Washington (pop. 130) is an even smaller American town.
- Starbucks, international coffee retail chain with headquarters in Seattle