# North Star (disambiguation)

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

### Road

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

### Watercraft

* HMS North Star, several ships in the Royal Navy
* North Star, built 1937, used by the United States Navy as coastal minesweeper USS Crossbill (AMc-9)
* North Star (narrowboat), a wooden horse-drawn icebreaker built in 1868, now at the Black Country Living Museum
* North Star, a steam yacht built in 1893 as Venetia, which Cornelius Vanderbilt III bought and renamed North Star
* North Star (sternwheeler 1897), a river steamer in Montana and British Columbia
* North Star (1902 sternwheeler), a steamboat in Washington state
* North Star, built in 1966 as Marburg, an expedition ship, later renamed National Geographic Endeavour
* North Star, a roll-on/roll-off cargo ship featured in the documentary series Mighty Ships
* USCGC North Star, US Coast Guard Cutter in the Second World War
* USMS North Star III, originally Emory Victory (MCV-654), a Victory ship used in the Alaska Resupply Program
* Chinese spy ship Beijixing, a spy ship whose name translates to "North Star"

## 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
* The North Star (Remedy Drive album), 2018
* 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