Kenneth Winston Starr (born July 21, 1946) is an American lawyer and former judge and solicitor general who was appointed to the Office of the Independent Counsel to investigate the suicide death of the deputy White House counsel Vince Foster and the Whitewater land transactions by U.S. President Bill Clinton. He later submitted to Congress the Starr Report, which opened the door for Clinton's impeachment based on charges arising from the Monica Lewinsky scandal.

Starr currently serves as dean of Pepperdine University School of Law in Malibu, California. He argued for the groups defending the legality of the passing of Proposition 8.

Kenneth Starr was born in Lockett, a small town near Vernon, the seat of Wilbarger County in north Texas. His father was a Church of Christ minister.