sterling

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Sterling may refer to:

• Sterling silver, a grade of silver
• Pound sterling, the currency of the United Kingdom

Businesses

• Hotel Sterling, a former hotel in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, United States
• Sterling Airlines
• Sterling Bicycle Co., 19th century American bicycle manufacturer
• Sterling (car), British automobile brand, sold in the U.S. 1987–1991
• Sterling (cigarette), British cigarette brand
• Sterling Commerce, a provider of integration and business application solutions
• Sterling Drug (a.k.a. Sterling Products, Inc.), a pharmaceutical company now owned by Bayer
• Sterling group, a leading Indian business group promoted by NRI C. Sivasankaran
• Sterling Jewelers, the largest retail jewelry company in the United States
• Sterling Optical
• Sterling Publishing, a publisher of nonfiction books
• Sterling Records (Sweden), a classical music record label
• Sterling Records (US), noted for being the first to sign Hank Williams
• Sterling Software, a (now defunct) company co-founded by Sterling Williams
• Sterling Sports Cars, an American automobile kit company
• Sterling Trucks

Investment firms

• Sterling American Property, a $4.5 billion US real estate investment firm, founded in 1991 and based in New York
• The Sterling Group, a $2 billion US private equity firm, founded in 1982 and based in Houston
• Sterling Investment Partners, an $800 million US private equity firm, founded in 1991 and based in Westport Connecticut
• Sterling Partners, a $2.2 billion US private equity and venture capital firm, founded in 1983 and based in Baltimore and Chicago

People

Sterling is a Scottish family name:

• Lord Sterling, several

Surname

• Andrew B. Sterling (1874–1955), American songwriter
• Anne Fausto-Sterling (born 1944), American academic
• Antoinette Sterling (d. 1904), Anglo-American vocalist
• Brett Sterling (b. 1984), American ice hockey player
• Bruce Sterling (b. 1954), American science fiction writer
• Claire Sterling, American author and journalist
• Dana Sterling, fictional character from RoboTech
• Dave Sterling, American composer and pianist
• Donald Sterling, basketball team owner
• Donnie Sterling, bassist
• Edward Sterling (1773–1847), British journalist
• Edward Boker Sterling (1851-1925), philatelist of Trenton, New Jersey
• Ford Sterling (1883–1939), American actor
• George Sterling (1869–1926), American poet
• Georgie Sterling, Australian actress
• Jan Sterling (1921–2004), American actress
• Jeffrey Sterling, Baron Sterling of Plaistow, British peer and former chairman of P&O
• John Sterling (author) (1806–1844), British author
• John Sterling (sportscaster) (b. 1948), American radio broadcaster
• John William Sterling (1844–1918), American philanthropist, corporate attorney, and benefactor to Yale University
• Leon Sterling, Australian computer scientist
• Lester Sterling, Jamaican musician
• Linder Sterling, British artist
• Mindy Sterling, American actress
• Nici Sterling (b. 1968), British porn star
• Norm Sterling (b. 1942), Canadian politician
• Peter Sterling (b. 1960), Australian rugby league player
• Ross S. Sterling (1875–1949), American politician
• Thomas Sterling (1851–1930), American politician
• Thomas Sterling (computing), computer scientist
• Tisha Sterling (b. 1944), American actress
• Wallace Sterling (1906–1985), Canadian-born American university president

Given name

• Sterling Brinkley, American businessman
• Sterling Hayden, American actor and author
• Sterling Hitchcock, American major league baseball pitcher
• Sterling Holloway, American actor
• Sterling Hyltin, New York City Ballet principal dancer
• Sterling Knight, American actor
• Sterling Lindquist, An American Man
• Sterling Morrison, guitar player with The Velvet Underground
• Sterling Sharpe, former American football wide receiver
• Sterling Simms, singer on Def Jam

Places

Most populous US municipalities named Sterling

• Sterling, Virginia (31,353)
• Sterling, Illinois (15,500)
• Sterling, Colorado (12,589)

Other US municipalities named Sterling

• Sterling, Alaska
• Sterling, Connecticut
• Sterling, Georgia
• Sterling, Idaho
• Sterling, Indiana
• Sterling, Iowa
• Sterling, Kansas
• Sterling, Massachusetts
• Sterling, Michigan
• Sterling, Missouri
• Sterling, Montana
• Sterling, Nebraska
• Sterling, New York
• Sterling, North Carolina
• Sterling, North Dakota
• Sterling, Ohio
• Sterling, Oklahoma
• Sterling, Pennsylvania — two locations:
  • Sterling, Clearfield County, Pennsylvania
  • Sterling, Wayne County, Pennsylvania
• Sterling, Texas
• Sterling, Utah
• Sterling, Washington
• Sterling, Wisconsin — two locations:
  • Sterling, Polk County, Wisconsin
  • Sterling, Vernon County, Wisconsin

US place names containing the word Sterling

• Mount Sterling, Illinois
• Mount Sterling, Iowa
• Mount Sterling, Kentucky
• Mount Sterling, Ohio
• Mount Sterling, Wisconsin
• Sterling City, Texas
• Sterling Forest, New York
• Sterling Forest State Park, New York
• Sterling Heights, Michigan
• Sterling Park, Virginia
• Sterling State Park, Michigan

Education

• Sterling College (Kansas), a college in Sterling, Kansas, USA
• Sterling College (Vermont), a small college in northern Vermont, USA
• The Sterling Foundation School, a school in Lahore, Pakistan

Other uses

• Sterling submachine gun
• Sterling (program), a program for generating fractals
• Music Man Sterling, bass guitar by Music Man
• a scuppernong (large muscadine Vitis rotundifolia) cultivar
• Sterling (band)

See also

• Stirling (disambiguation)

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