Stirling (disambiguation)

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Stirling may refer to the following:

• Places
  • Scotland
    • Stirling, a city in Scotland (formerly the Royal Burgh of Stirling)
      • Stirling (council area), a Scottish council area administered from the city of Stirling
      • Stirling (Scottish Parliament constituency), centred on the city
      • Stirling (UK Parliament constituency), centred on the city
      • the former County of Stirling, also called Stirlingshire, of which the then Royal Burgh of Stirling was the administrative centre
    • Stirling, Aberdeenshire, a village
  • Australia
    • City of Stirling, a local government area in Perth, Western Australia
      • Stirling, Western Australia, a Perth suburb within the City of Stirling
      • Division of Stirling, an electoral district in the Australian House of Representatives, in Western Australia, located in the corresponding area
    • Stirling, South Australia, a town and region
    • Stirling, Australian Capital Territory, a suburb of Canberra
  • Canada
    • Stirling, Alberta, a village
    • Stirling-Rawdon Township, Ontario, Canada
  • Solomon Islands
    • Stirling Island, an island
  • United States
    • Stirling, New Jersey, a village in Morris County, New Jersey
    • Stirling City, California, a village in Butte County, California
• A surname shared by a number of people
  • James Stirling (mathematician) (1692-1770)
  • Reverend Dr Robert Stirling (1790-1878), inventor of the Stirling engine
  • Sir James Stirling (Australian governor) (1791-1865), governor of Western Australia in the 1830s
  • Sir James Stirling (Lord Justice of Appeal) (1836-1916)
  • Colonel Sir David Stirling (1915-1990), founder of the Special Air Service
  • James Stirling (architect) (1926-1992), architect
  • S.M. Stirling (1953-), science fiction author
  • Also Sir Stirling Moss, a British race car driver
• Other things, named either after the city or their inventor
  • Stirling Castle, a castle in the city of Stirling, Scotland
  • Stirling engine, an engine working on temperature difference, invented by Robert Stirling
  • The Stirling Prize for architecture, named after architect James Stirling
  • Short Stirling, a World War II British bomber aircraft
  • MV Stirling Castle, a liner
  • Stirling Castle (warship)
  • Water-tube boiler, also called the Stirling boiler
  • Stirling numbers
  • Stirling's approximation for large factorials

[edit] See also

• Sterling