Starkey (surname)
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Starkey is a surname
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Starkey is from the Middle English word stark ‘firm’, ‘unyielding’, hence a nickname for a stern, determined, or physically strong person.
Surname
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Starkey is from the Middle English word stark ‘firm’, ‘unyielding’, hence a nickname for a stern, determined, or physically strong person.
- David StarkeyDavid StarkeyDavid Starkey, CBE, FSA is a British constitutional historian, and a radio and television presenter.He was born the only child of Quaker parents, and attended Kendal Grammar School before entering Cambridge through a scholarship. There he specialised in Tudor history, writing a thesis on King...
, English historian and television presenter - David Starkey (maritime historian)David Starkey (maritime historian)Dr David J Starkey is a specialist in eighteenth and nineteenth-century British maritime history. His research focusses on shipping, seafaring, privateering, fisheries and marine environmental history...
at the University of Hull - Dean StarkeyDean StarkeyDean Starkey is an American pole vaulter. His personal best is 5.92 meters, and he won a bronze medal at the 1997 World Championships....
, American pole vaulter - George Starkey (alchemist)George Starkey (alchemist)George Starkey, born George Stirk , was an American alchemist, medical practitioner, and writer of numerous commentaries and chemical treatises that were widely circulated in Europe and influenced prominent men of science, including Robert Boyle and Isaac Newton...
, English-American - George Starkey (actor), American actor
- James Leslie StarkeyJames Leslie StarkeyJames Leslie Starkey was a noted British archaeologist of the ancient Near East and Palestine in the period before the Second World War...
(1895-1938), Archaeologist - Jim StarkeyJim StarkeyJim Starkey is a database architect who developed InterBase, the first relational database to support multi-versioning, the blob column type , type event alerts, arrays and triggers. He founded the web application development and database tool company Netfrastructure. The provides a brief history...
, database architect - Joe StarkeyJoe StarkeyJoe Starkey is an American sportscaster who has served as the radio play-by-play announcer of California Golden Bears football since 1975...
, American sports announcer - Maureen StarkeyMaureen StarkeyMaureen "Mo" Starkey Tigrett, née Mary Cox, was the first wife of The Beatles drummer, Ringo Starr. She met Starr at The Cavern Club, where The Beatles were playing, when she was a trainee hairdresser in Liverpool. Starr proposed marriage at the Ad-Lib Club in London, on 20 January 1965...
, former wife of Ringo Starr - Phyllis StarkeyPhyllis StarkeyPhyllis Margaret Starkey is a British Labour party politician, who was the Member of Parliament for Milton Keynes South West from 1997 to 2010. She had previously served as Leader of Oxford City Council....
, English politician - Ringo StarrRingo StarrRichard Starkey, MBE better known by his stage name Ringo Starr, is an English musician and actor who gained worldwide fame as the drummer for The Beatles. When the band formed in 1960, Starr was a member of another Liverpool band, Rory Storm and the Hurricanes. He became The Beatles' drummer in...
(born 1940), British musician of The Beatles, born Richard Starkey - Thomas StarkeyThomas StarkeyThomas Starkey was an English political theorist and humanist.Starkey attended the University of Oxford and gained an MA at Magdalen College in 1521. After this, Starkey stayed in Padua until around 1526...
, English humanist writer - Zak StarkeyZak StarkeyZak Starkey is an English rock drummer. He is the son of Beatles drummer Ringo Starr and Starr's first wife Maureen Starkey Tigrett. He is also well known for his unofficial membership in the English rock band The Who, with whom he has performed and recorded since 1996. He is also the third...
, English musician, son of Ringo Starr - Starkey BaronetsStarkey BaronetsThe Starkey Baronetcy, of Norwood Park in the Parish of Southwell and the County of Nottingham, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 9 July 1935 for John Starkey, who had earlier represented Newark in the House of Commons as a Conservative. The second Baronet was a...
, a family in Nottingham, England