- Starbuck , the first mate of the ship ''Pequod'' in Herman Melville 's novel '' Moby-Dick ''
- Lieutenant Starbuck , a character in the original 1978 ''Battlestar Galactica'' film and TV series
- Captain Kara Thrace , call sign ''Starbuck'', a character in the 2004 ''Battlestar Galactica'' TV series
- Nathaniel Starbuck , the main character in the ''Starbuck Chronicles'' novels by Bernard Cornwell
- Elon Cody Starbuck, a space pirate featured in the adult-oriented anthology '' Star Reach '' and in '' Heavy Metal '' magazine
- Bill Starbuck, the main character in the play '' The Rainmaker '' (1954) by N. Richard Nash , later a film (1956) with Katharine Hepburn and Burt Lancaster ; adapted by Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt as a Broadway musical, 110 In The Shade , in 1963, and revived on Broadway in 2007
- Starbuck, the nickname given to fictional character Dana Scully by her father in the TV series ''The X-Files''
- Starbuck, alternate name for a fictional philosopher mentioned briefly in the '' Principia Discordia ''
- Starbuck is the titular consort of the Snow Queen in Joan D. Vinge 's novel, '' The Snow Queen ''
- Starbuck is a prominent subject of legend in David Clement-Davies' novel Fire Bringer
- Starbucks , international coffee retail chain with headquarters in Seattle, Washington
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