Starks is an English surname. It comes as a variant of the surname Stark. The added -s has been attributed to "post-medieval" linguistic excrescence, however it has also been viewed as denoting descent from a possessive "Stark's". Alternatively, Starks can be a reduced form of Starkes.
Notable people with the surname include
Ahmad Starks (born 1992), American basketball player Anthony Starks (1873–1952), English rugby footballer Argalus Starks (1804–1870), American politician Bob Starks (born 1945), American politician Carol Starks, British actress Catana Starks (1944–2020), American athletics coach Kay Starr (born Catherine Laverne Starks) (1922–2016), American singer Clifford Starks (born 1981), American mixed martial artist Derrick Starks (born 1970), American gospel musician Duane Starks (born 1974), American football player Edwin Chapin Starks (1867–1932), American ichthyologist Geoffrey Starks, American lawyer Howard Starks (1929–2003), American poet Howard Starks (Canadian football) (born 1944), Canadian football player James Starks (born 1986), American football player Javontae Starks (born 1989), American boxer Jim Starks (1906–?), American baseball player John J. Starks (1872–1944), American college administrator John "Jabo" Starks (1938–2018), American musician John Starks (basketball) (born 1965), American basketball player Kyle Starks, American comic artist Laura Starks, American economist Llewellyn Starks (born 1967), American long jumper Malaki Starks (born 2003), American football player (born 1952), American basketball player Markel Starks (born 1991), American basketball player Marshall Starks (1939–2016), American football player Max Starks (born 1982), American football player Otis Starks (1897–1965), American baseball player P. J. Starks (born 1982), American filmmaker Randy Starks (born 1983), American football player and coach Ricky Starks (born 1994), American wrestler (born 2000), American volleyball player Samuel W. Starks (1866–1908), American librarian Scott Starks (born 1983), American football player Steve Starks, American businessman Takia Starks (born 1986), American basketball player Timothy Starks (born 1963), American football player (born 1969), American actor TJ Starks (born 1998), American basketball player Tony Starks (born 1970), pseudonym of American rapper Ghostface Killah Tricia Starks, American historian Yvonne Starks Wilson (1929–2019), American politician
See also
Starks (disambiguation), other meanings Sally Starks Emory
References
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