Stirling is a suburb of Canberra, Australian Capital
Territory, Australia. It is located in the Weston
Creek district.

Stirling is named after Sir James Stirling (1791–
1865) who was the first Governor of Western
Australia between 1829–1839 and established
settlements at Perth and Fremantle in 1829. The
suburb was gazetted in 1970.

Stirling contains the Weston Campus of the
Canberra College, which is located on
Fremantle Drive.