General Frederick Augustus Starring (May 24, 1834 – April 11, 1904) was an American civil engineer, lawyer, and soldier.

After the American Civil War, he entered public service as an agent for the U.S. Treasury and examined U.S. consular and diplomatic affairs in Europe.

His father was civil engineer, Sylvanus Seaman Starring, descended from Dutch pioneers; his mother was Adeline Morton Williams from Fredonia, New York.

[1] At the start of the Civil War, he volunteered to fight with the Union army, being first an aide at the Battle of Bull Run.

Starring married Olivia (Conine) Ellis from Baltimore on November 14, 1874, in St George's, Hanover Square, London.