North Star (disambiguation)

is a name of Polaris in its role as northern pole star.

North Star or North Stars may also refer to:

Places

United States

• Fairbanks North Star Borough, Alaska
• North Star, California, a place in Yuba County, California
• North Star, Delaware, a census-designated place
• North Star, Minnesota, an unincorporated community
• North Star, Ohio, a village
• North Star, U.S. Virgin Islands
• North Star, Wisconsin
  , an unincorporated community
• North Star Township (disambiguation)

Elsewhere

• North Star, New South Wales, Australia, a village
• North Star, Alberta, Canada, a hamlet

Transport

Air

• Canadair North Star, a passenger aircraft manufactured by Canadair for Trans Canada Airlines
• Custom Flight North Star, a Canadian amateur-built aircraft design

Rail

• North Star (broad gauge locomotive)
  (1837–1871), a Star class locomotive of the Great Western Railway
• North Star (1866–1902), a GWR 378 Class locomotive
• North Star (1898–1912), a GWR 3031 Class locomotive renamed Bulkeley in 1906
• North Star (1906–29), a GWR 4000 Class locomotive, rebuilt to 4073 Class in 1929
• North Star (1929–57), a GWR 4073 Class locomotive rebuilt from the above
• North Star (Amtrak train), a former train route in Minnesota
• North Star (NYC train) a New York Central Railroad train, 1947–1962, operating New York–Cleveland, with a branch to the Adirondacks
• Northstar Line, a commuter train line in metropolitan Minneapolis, Minnesota

Road

• North Star, a brand of NZ Bus in Auckland, New Zealand

Sea

• HMS North Star, several ships in the British Royal Navy
• MS North Star
  , built in 1966 as Marburg, a small expedition ship
• North Star (sternwheeler 1897), a river steamer in Montana and British Columbia
• North Star (sternwheeler 1902)
  , a steamboat in Washington state
• North Star, built 1937, used by the U.S. Navy as coastal minesweeper USS Crossbill
• North Star, a roll-on/roll-off cargo ship featured in the documentary series Mighty Ships
• North Star (narrowboat), a wooden horse-drawn icebreaker built in 1868, now at the Black Country Living Museum, England
• USCGC North Star (WPG-59)
  , U.S. Coast Guard Cutter during the Second World War
• USMS North Star III, originally MV Emory Victory (MCV-654), a U.S. Victory ship later used in the Alaska Resupply Program

Film

• North Star (1925 film), directed by Paul Powell
• The North Star (1943 film), a war film directed by Lewis Milestone
• North Star: Mark di Suvero, 1977 documentary
• The North Star (1982 film)
  or L'Étoile du Nord, a French film
• North Star (1996 film), an action Western directed by Nils Gaup
• The North Star (2016 film), an American film about slavery and the underground railroad
• The North Star: Finding Black Mecca, a 2021 film about Black Canadian settlements in Ontario
• North Star (2023 film), a British drama film & the directorial debut of Kristin Scott Thomas

Television

• North Star (TV series), an Israeli teen drama
• "North Star" (Black-ish)
  , a 2018 episode of the American television sitcom
• "North Star" (Glenn Martin, DDS episode)
  , an episode of Glenn Martin, DDS
• "North Star" (Star Trek: Enterprise), a third season episode of Star Trek: Enterprise

Music

• The North Star (Roddy Frame album), 1998
• North Star (Curved Air album), 2014
• North Star, a 2023 album by Pendragon
• "North Star", a song by Offset from the 2019 album Father of 4
• "North Star", a song from the 1979 album Exposure by Robert Fripp
• "North Star", a song by Faithless featuring Dido from the 2010 album The Dance
• "North Star", an unreleased song from the U2 360° Tour
• "North Star", a 1977 composition by Philip Glass, written for the soundtrack of the 1977 documentary
• North Star, a British record label and music group formed by members of Tottenham Mandem

Companies and brands

• North Star, a brand of shoes owned by
  Bata Shoes
• North Star (My Little Pony)
  , a toy animal
• North Star (Thai company), the producer of Polaris drinking water
• Beijing North Star, a conglomerate company in Beijing, China
• North Star Computers, a company established in 1976
• North Star Mine and Powerhouse, Grass Valley, California, USA
• North Star Mall, a shopping center in San Antonio, Texas
• North Star Hotel, a hotel in Vancouver, Canada
• North Star Yachts
  , a Canadian boat builder

Education

• North Star Middle School (disambiguation)
• North Star School District, Pennsylvania
• North Star Self-Directed Learning for Teens, an education center based in Sunderland, Massachusetts, United States
• North Stars, nickname of St. Charles North High School, Illinois

Sports

• North Star Cup
  , the current championship trophy of the Canadian Premier League
• North Star Shield
  , a former championship trophy of the Canadian Premier League used from 2019 to 2022
• Minnesota North Stars, a team in the National Hockey League between 1967 and 1993
• Île-des-Chênes North Stars, a defunct Canadian senior hockey team, 2003 Allan Cup champions
• Kildonan North Stars, a team in the Manitoba Junior Hockey League between 1976 and 1990

Other uses

• The North Star (anti-slavery newspaper), published from 1847–1851 by the abolitionist Frederick Douglass
• North Star (organization), an organization for LGBT Mormons
• North Star House (Grass Valley, California), on the National Register of Historic Places, associated with the mine
• The North-Star News, a former newspaper in Oklahoma
• The North Star, an online newspaper launched in 2018 by activist Shaun King
• North Star, the name of a bell used by CF Montréal supporters to celebrate a goal, win, etc.
• North Star, the code name of the Turkish Brigade with the United Nations Command during the Korean War

See also

• Étoile du Nord (train) or North Star, a former international express train in Europe
• "North Star State", nickname of the U.S. state of Minnesota
• Star of the North (disambiguation)
• Northern Star (disambiguation)
• Northstar (disambiguation)
• All pages with titles beginning with North Star
• All pages with titles containing North Star
• All pages with titles beginning with The North Star
• Estrella del norte (disambiguation) (Spanish: Star of the North)
• Estrela do Norte (disambiguation) (Portuguese: Northern Star)
• Étoile du Nord (disambiguation) (French: North Star)
• Nordstern (disambiguation) (German: Northstar)
• Nordstar (disambiguation)
• Polestar (disambiguation)