Sir Hayden Erskine Starke KCMG (22 February 1871 – 14 May 1958) was an Australian judge who served on the High Court of Australia from 1920 to 1950.

Dr Anthony George Hayden Starke had emigrated from Honiton in Devon in 1863 to take up the position at the new hospital in this bustling town that then rivalled Ballarat.

Starke completed a course as an articled clerk in 1892, and was admitted to the Victorian Bar later that year, having won the annual Prize in Law from the Supreme Court of Victoria.

[2] Starke had a tendency to dissent from the majority opinions offered by the likes of Latham and Owen Dixon.

[3] Starke thought that some justices, such as Edward McTiernan, and George Rich, were too heavily under the influence of Owen Dixon, and is said to have referred to them as "parrots" and "worms".