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, 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)

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

See also

  • Sterling Forest State Park, New York
  • Mount Sterling (disambiguation), various communities (and one mountain)
  • Stirling (disambiguation)