# Sterling

Sterling may refer to:

## Currency

* The English penny, historically known as the sterling
* Pound sterling, the currency of the United Kingdom
* Sterling silver, a grade of silver

## Places
### United Kingdom

* Stirling, a Scottish city whose alternative historical spelling is Sterling

### United States

* Sterling, Alaska
* Sterling, Colorado
* Sterling Micropolitan Statistical Area, Colorado
* Sterling, Connecticut
* Sterling, Georgia
* Sterling, in Bingham County, Idaho
* Sterling Wildlife Management Area, Idaho
* Sterling, Illinois
* Sterling, a ghost town in Jackson County, Iowa
* Sterling, Kansas
* Sterling, Massachusetts
* Sterling, Michigan
* Sterling Heights, Michigan
* Sterling State Park, Michigan
* Sterling Center, Minnesota
* Sterling, Missouri
* Sterling, in Madison County, Montana
* Sterling, Nebraska
* Sterling, New York
* Sterling, in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina
* Mount Sterling (Great Smoky Mountains), North Carolina
* Sterling, North Dakota
* Sterling, Ohio
* Sterling, Oklahoma
* Sterling, in Woodward Township, Clearfield County, Pennsylvania
* Sterling City, Texas
* Sterling County, Texas
* Sterling, Utah
* Sterling, Virginia
* Sterling, Washington
* Sterling, Polk County, Wisconsin
* Sterling, Vernon County, Wisconsin
* Sterling Township (disambiguation)

## Businesses

* Sterling Airlines, a former low-cost Danish airline
* Sterling Armaments Company, based near London, England
* Sterling Bank (Nigeria), a national commercial bank
* Sterling Bicycle Co., a 19th-century American bicycle manufacturer
* Sterling (cigarette), a British cigarette brand
* Sterling Commerce, a former software company
* Sterling Drug (a.k.a. Sterling Products, Inc.), a pharmaceutical company now owned by Bayer
* Sterling Furniture, Scotland's largest furniture retail outlet
* Sterling Industries, a medical device contract manufacturer
* Sterling Jewelers, the largest retail jewelry company in the United States
* Sterling (marque), a British automobile brand, sold in the U.S. from 1987 to 1991
* Sterling Optical
* Sterling Plumbing, a brand of products from Kohler Co.
* Sterling Publishing, a publisher of nonfiction books
* Sterling Software, a (now defunct) company co-founded by Sterling Williams
* Sterling Sports Cars, an American automobile kit company
* Sterling Trucks, a former commercial truck brand in the United States
* Hotel Sterling, a former hotel in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, United States

## Schools

* Sterling College (Kansas), Sterling, Kansas
* Sterling College (Vermont), Craftsbury Common, Vermont
* Sterling High School (disambiguation)

## Music

* Sterling Records (Sweden), a classical music record label
* Sterling Records (US), noted for being the first to sign Hank Williams
* Music Man Sterling, a bass guitar by Music Man

## People

* Sterling (given name)
* Sterling (surname)
* Sterling Golden, early ring name of American professional wrestler Hulk Hogan (born 1953)

## Fictional characters

* Sterling Archer, eponymous protagonist of the animated TV series Archer
* Bruce Sterling (Love of Life), American television soap opera character (1959 to 1980)
* Bruce Sterling, protagonist of the 2003 TV series Mister Sterling
* Roger Sterling, on the TV series Mad Men

## Other uses

* Sterling (horse) (1868–1891), a British racehorse and sire
* Sterling (program), a program for generating fractals
* Sterling Plaza, a historic building in Beverly Hills, California
* Sterling submachine gun, produced by the Sterling Armaments Company
* a scuppernong (large muscadine grape, Vitis rotundifolia) cultivar