Lone Star

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Lone Star, Lone Starr, Lone Stars or Lonestar may refer to:

Communities in the United States

Lone Star, Arizona, a populated place
Lone Star, Fresno County, California, an unincorporated community
Lone Star, Humboldt County, California, a former settlement
Lone Star, Kansas, an unincorporated community
Lone Star, Kentucky, an unincorporated community
Lone Star, Missouri, an unincorporated community
Lone Star, South Carolina, an unincorporated community
Lone Star, Texas, a city
Lone Star, Cherokee County, Texas, a ghost town
Lone Star, Wise County, Texas, a ghost town
Lone Star, Kaufman County, Texas, an unincorporated community
Lone Star, Virginia, an unincorporated community

Businesses

Media

KZPS ("Lone Star 92.5"), a radio station serving the Dallas/Fort Worth market in Texas
Lone Star Music, a New Braunfels, Texas-based music company
Lone Star Productions, a Poverty Row producer of John Wayne western films in the 1930s, released through Monogram Pictures
Lonestar Productions, an Australian film production company headed by Aaron Fa'aoso
MovieTime (originally named Lonestar), a Canadian digital cable specialty channel

Others

Lone Star Brewing Company, the first large, mechanized brewery in Texas
Lonestar Cell, a telecommunication company in Liberia
Lone Star Comics, a former chain of comic book stores in the Dallas-Fort Worth area
Lone Star Funds, a worldwide private equity firm based in Dallas, Texas
Lone Star Steakhouse & Saloon, a casual dining restaurant chain
Lone Star Toys, the name used by British company Die Cast Machine Tools Ltd for its toy products

Transportation

International LoneStar, a heavy duty truck manufactured by International Truck
Lone Star (1920 automobile), an early American automobile manufactured by Lone Star Motor Truck and Tractor Corp. from 1920 to 1922
Lone Star Airlines, an American regional airline that operated domestic and international flights from 1984 to 1998
Lone Star (Amtrak train), an Amtrak passenger train serving Chicago, Kansas City, Oklahoma City, Fort Worth, and Houston from 1971 to 1974
Lone Star (SSW train), a passenger train operated by St. Louis Southwestern Railway between Memphis and Dallas that discontinued service in 1952
Lone Star (steamer), wrecked near Galveston, Texas in 1865
Lone Star (towboat), a National Historic Landmark dry docked in Le Claire, Iowa

Film and television

Lone Star (1952 film), a Western starring Clark Gable, Ava Gardner and Broderick Crawford
Lone Star (1996 film), an American mystery film written and directed by John Sayles
Captain Lone Starr, a main protagonist in the 1987 Mel Brooks film Spaceballs
Lone Star (TV series), a short-lived American television series
9-1-1: Lone Star, an American procedural drama TV series
"Lone Star", a 1954 episode of Hallmark Hall of Fame

Music

Lone Star, a Spanish rock band formed in 1958
Lone Star (band), a Welsh rock band formed in 1975
- Lone Star (album), the debut album of the Welsh band
Lone Star a posthumous demos album by English rock band Shagrat
Lonestar, an American country music band
- Lonestar (album), the debut album of the American band

Sports

Austin Lone Stars, a soccer club that competed in the SISL, USISL and United Soccer Leagues from 1987 to 2000
Liberia national football team (nicknamed the Lone Stars), national team of Liberia, controlled by the Liberia Football Association
Lone Star Football League, a regional professional indoor football league from 2012 to 2014
Lone Star League, the name of three American minor professional baseball leagues in Texas, all defunct
Lone Star Conference, a college athletic conference
Lone Star Park, a horse racing track in Grand Prairie, Texas
Lone Star Series, an indoor football league that operated during 2021, later named the Arena Football Association
Lone Star 500, a NASCAR race in 1972, renamed the Alamo 500

Military

36th Infantry Division (United States) or Lone Star Division, now part of the Texas National Guard
49th Armored Division (United States), nicknamed the Lone Star, a United States Army National Guard unit
Lone Star Army Ammunition Plant, a former government-owned facility near Texarkana, Texas

People

William Henry Dietz (1884–1964), nicknamed "Lone Star", American football player and coach
John Pendleton (1802–1868), nicknamed "The Lone Star", American congressman, diplomat, lawyer and farmer

Other uses

Lone Star College System a public community college system serving the northern portions of the Greater Houston, Texas
Lone Star Geyser, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
Lone Star High School (Frisco, Texas), a public high school
The Lone Star, a barque featured in the Sherlock Holmes story "The Five Orange Pips"
Lone Star tick, a tick known scientifically as Amblyomma americanum