Family name Starek (Starek 
, Stárek ) , globally, is quite a rare last name. The cognomen Starek is characteristic of Czechia, where it is quite a common surname, Slovakia, where it is quite a rare surname, and Austria. Not in comparison with a country's population, it is the most numerous in Czechia, Poland, and the United States. Likewise, Starek is the forename as well as the last name.
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| Starek | Austria, Slovakia, Czechia, Poland, United States |
| Stárek | Czechia, Austria |
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august starek association football player, AT (b. 1945) |
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| jana starek historian and translator (b. 1954) |
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| roscoe burton starek (b. 1947) |
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| michael john starek Ph.D. University of Florida 2008 |
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| małgorzata starek Polish researcher, PL |
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| vlasta starek holocaust victim, birth date unknown |
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