Starski is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Allan Starski (born 1943), Polish production designer and set decorator
- Ludwik Starski (1903–1984), Polish Jewish lyricist
Allan Mieczysław Starski is a Polish Academy Award winning production designer and set decorator.
Ludwik Starski was a Polish Jewish lyricist, sound engineer and screenwriter of the twentieth century. He was the father of the cinematographer Allan Starski, who often worked with movie director Andrzej Wajda. Ludwik worked with Eugeniusz Bodo, Władysław Szpilman and with Tadeusz Sygietyński.
Starski is also the moniker of:
- Busy Bee Starski (born David Parker, 1962), American hip hop musician
- Lovebug Starski (born Kevin Smith, 1960–2018), American MC, musician and record producer
David James Parker, known by the stage name Busy Bee, is an American old-school hip hop musician from New York, NY. First coming on the New York City music scene in 1977, Busy Bee worked with many of hip-hop's founding fathers, including Melle Mel, Afrika Bambaataa, and Kool DJ AJ.
Kevin Smith, best known by his stage name Lovebug Starski, was an American MC, musician, and record producer. He began his career as a record boy in 1971 as hip-hop first appeared in the Bronx, and he eventually became a DJ at the Disco Fever club in 1978. He is one of two people who may have come up with the term "hip-hop". Starski claimed that he coined the phrase while trading the two words back and forth while improvising lines with Cowboy of the Furious Five at a farewell party for a friend who was headed into the Army.
