List of references to Earth in Star Wars

Despite being explicitly set in a Galaxy far, far away, various sources have established what appear to be connections between the Star Wars universe and the real world (i.e. Earth). This subpage is a half-hearted attempt to keep track of them.

Appears on their own
These species appear on screen "as themselves", or are mentioned in text without qualifiers (i.e. as "Turtles" rather than "Space Turtles".)
 * Ducks
 * Horses and ponies (seen on Naboo as statues and the Forest Moon of Endor, both as real animals, and as Bordoks, but you can tell it's them.)
 * Humans
 * Owls (on the Forest moon of Endor)
 * Pterosaurs
 * Rabbits

Has namesakes appear
This means that the species has something named after it in the Star Wars galaxy (like a starship, or another animal), but may not exist itself.
 * Bats
 * Bears
 * Beetles
 * Boars
 * Cats
 * Crows
 * Dogs
 * Falcons
 * Hawks
 * Moths
 * Panthers
 * Pigeons
 * Rats
 * Ravens
 * Shrikes
 * Slugs
 * Spiders
 * Wasps
 * Wolves
 * Zebras

Mythical creatures
These creatures exist on Earth only in legend, but their names, at least, are reused in the Star Wars galaxy.
 * Basilisks
 * Chimaerae
 * Dragons
 * Gorgons
 * Hydrae
 * Manticores

Plants

 * Dandelions
 * Most plants seen in Naboo, Tatooine, Kashyyyk, or Forest Moon of Endor location shots are arguably "playing themselves" on screen.

Food and drink

 * Blue milk
 * Hot chocolate
 * "Trix"-brand breakfast cereal (or maybe not, though this reference does establish the existence of raspberries, oranges, and lemons)

Names
These characters have first or last names which wouldn't be out of place in an Earth phone book (or in some cases, first and last names.)
 * Bobby
 * Carl
 * Hanna Ding
 * Hanna Doshun
 * Jake Farrell
 * Niles Ferrier
 * Simon Greyshade
 * Bob Hudsol
 * Wes Janson
 * Skorg Jameson
 * Kyle, Patricia and Morgan Katarn
 * Keith
 * Ken
 * "Ben" Kenobi
 * Danielle Kieran
 * Larry the Shriek
 * Liam
 * Jasper McKnives
 * Pharl McQuarrie
 * Alfonso Luiz Obota
 * Otto
 * Nick Rostu
 * Helena Shan
 * Silas
 * Luke Skywalker
 * Shawn Valdez
 * Alexandra Winger
 * Xiong Wong

Places
These planets or other locations have names which bear a suspicious resemblance to places on Earth.
 * Aargau
 * Dor
 * Chenini
 * Endor
 * Ibleam
 * Megiddo
 * Salisbury
 * Tatooine = Tataouine
 * Zug

Real astronomical objects
Despite being real astronomical objects in Earth's neighborhood, these names appear in Star Wars for some reason. For more, please see Book of Imperial Shuttle Plans: Cygnus Spaceworks, though it seems this is non-canon.
 * Altair
 * Antares
 * Cygnus
 * Rigel

Historical figures
Why would anything in the Star Wars galaxy be named after people who lived a long time in the future, in a galaxy far, far away?
 * Ferdinand Magellan

Science fiction stories set in our galaxy
The settings of these stories pop up in Star Wars somehow. See also Book of Imperial Shuttle Plans: Cygnus Spaceworks.


 * E.T.
 * Isaac Asimov's Foundation series
 * Lord of the Rings

Language
All of these examples, of course, could be the result of clever, multi-layered, Tolkien-style "translations".
 * Knight Hammer's name is a pun which only works in English.
 * Teräs Käsi is Finnish.
 * X-wings and Y-wings resemble the English letters they are named for, but no letters in the Aurebesh.
 * Lambda-class shuttles look like the letter Lambda in the Greek alphabet (though other shuttles with Greek letter names don't look like their namesakes.)
 * Dexter Jettster, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and Han Solo all say "Damn", and Han Solo refers to "Hell" (Corellian legends have seven). Are they referring to a general concept of damnation found in many religions, or a specific religious belief shared with an Earth religion?

Units of measurement

 * Many in-universe sources use the metric system. The meter was originally based on the size of the Earth.
 * Light years and parsecs are likewise based on the orbit of the Earth.

Non-canonical stories involving Earth

 * Alien Exodus
 * "Into the Great Unknown", in Star Wars Tales 19

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