Star of the East may refer to:
- Barney Aaron, English lightweight champion boxer
- Evening Star (Ipswich), a newspaper which had this title 1885-1893
- Umm Kulthum (singer) (1898-1975), an Egyptian singer
- Star of the East (diamond), a 94-carat (18.8 g) diamond
- An illuminated art-work in Mablethorpe, Lincolnshire
- "Star of the East" (song), a Christmas carol
- The Star of the East, nickname of snooker player Ding Junhui
- The Star of the East, a ship appearing in an urban legend about a man called James Bartley who supposedly survived being swallowed by a whale
- Star of the East, a Soviet literary magazine published in Uzbek SSR
Star in the East may refer to:
- The Order of the Star in the East, a theosophical organisation
- The Star of Bethlehem (referring to Matthew 2:2)
- A hymn:
- "Lo! The Star in the East! Over Bethlehem's Plain" by J. M. Lowrie, in The Silver Song, by William Augustine Ogden
- "Brightest and Best", also known as "Star in the East"