The word stark may refer to one of several articles in Wikipedia:

• Stark is a novel by Ben Elton

• Stark is the name of one of the twin worlds in the best-selling PC-game The Longest Journey.

• Stark, short for Starways Common, is the common interstellar language based on English in Orson Scott Card's fiction from the Ender's Game series.

• In George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series, the Stark family is central to the plotline.

• Willie Stark is the protagonist of the novel All The King's Men, by Robert Penn Warren.

• Stark also means sparse.

• Johannes Stark was a German physicist, discoverer of the Stark effect