Starmer (surname)

Starmer is a surname. It is an English habitational surname, derived from Starmore in Leicestershire. Alternatively, it can also be derived from "Stermore near Stowe", which used to exist in Staffordshire.^[1] Variants of the surname include Starmore, Starsmore, Starsmoor, and Starsmeare.^[2]

Notable people by that name include:

• Aaron Starmer (born 1976), American author
• Charles Starmer (1870–1933), British newspaper proprietor and Liberal politician
• Clement Starmer (1895–1978), English cricketer
• Keir Starmer (born 1962), British politician and Prime Minister since 2024
• Nigel Starmer-Smith (born 1944), English rugby union player, journalist and commentator
• Victoria Starmer (née Alexander), British former solicitor, wife of Keir Starmer
• Walter P. Starmer (1877–1961), English artist
• William Austin Starmer, American sheet music cover artist
• William T. Starmer (born 1944), American geneticist and professor