White Star

White Star (and similar) may refer to:

  • Any star with a suitable spectral type
  • WhiteStar, a Sega Pinball / Stern Pinball's hardware platform for their pinball games
  • White Star (Babylon 5), a fictional starship or class of starship in the Babylon 5 universe
  • White Star (chemical warfare), a British poison gas mixture of 50% phosgene and 50% chlorine used in World War I
  • White Star (cider), a type of British white cider
  • White Star Line steamship company
  • White Star Mortgages, a mortgage brokerage company headquartered Dublin, Ireland
  • Whitestar Potato, the morning glory species Ipomoea lacunosa
  • White Star Woluwé F.C., a football club in Belgium
  • FBC White Star, a football club in Peru
  • Operation White Star, name for a U.S military assistance program to the government of Laos from 1959-1962.
  • The Order of the White Star of Estonia
  • Tesla WhiteStar, a codename for a future Tesla Motors electric car sedan
  • Wisła Kraków, a football club in Poland
  • White Star, Kentucky

Famous quotes containing the words white and/or star:

    “I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.”
    —Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)

    “I put the gold star up in the front window
    beside the flag. Alterations is what I know
    and what I did: hems, gussets and seams.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)