diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 881e43a105..520f33f168 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -67,6 +67,7 @@ typing = [
     "httpx2",
     "botocore-stubs",
     "werkzeug",
+    "starlette>=1.3.1",
 ]
 test = [
     "dataclasses ; python_full_version < '3.7'",
diff --git a/sentry_sdk/integrations/mcp.py b/sentry_sdk/integrations/mcp.py
index 7ec7a22c21..e59c40feb3 100644
--- a/sentry_sdk/integrations/mcp.py
+++ b/sentry_sdk/integrations/mcp.py
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
     from typing import Any, Callable, ContextManager, Optional, Tuple, Union
 
-    from starlette.types import Receive, Scope, Send  # type: ignore[import-not-found]
+    from starlette.types import Receive, Scope, Send
 
     from sentry_sdk.traces import StreamedSpan
     from sentry_sdk.tracing import Span
diff --git a/sentry_sdk/integrations/starlette.py b/sentry_sdk/integrations/starlette.py
index eccb4f780f..8b1e485d9e 100644
--- a/sentry_sdk/integrations/starlette.py
+++ b/sentry_sdk/integrations/starlette.py
@@ -40,31 +40,39 @@
 )
 
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
-    from typing import Any, Awaitable, Callable, Container, Dict, Optional, Tuple, Union
+    from typing import (
+        Any,
+        Awaitable,
+        Callable,
+        Container,
+        Dict,
+        Optional,
+        Tuple,
+        Union,
+    )
 
     from sentry_sdk._types import Event, HttpStatusCodeRange
-
 try:
-    import starlette  # type: ignore
+    import starlette
     from starlette import __version__ as STARLETTE_VERSION
-    from starlette.applications import Starlette  # type: ignore
-    from starlette.datastructures import (  # type: ignore
+    from starlette.applications import Starlette
+    from starlette.datastructures import (
         UploadFile,
     )
-    from starlette.middleware import Middleware  # type: ignore
-    from starlette.middleware.authentication import (  # type: ignore
+    from starlette.middleware import Middleware
+    from starlette.middleware.authentication import (
         AuthenticationMiddleware,
     )
-    from starlette.requests import Request  # type: ignore
-    from starlette.routing import Match  # type: ignore
-    from starlette.types import ASGIApp, Receive, Send  # type: ignore
+    from starlette.requests import Request
+    from starlette.routing import Match
+    from starlette.types import ASGIApp, Receive, Send
     from starlette.types import Scope as StarletteScope
 except ImportError:
     raise DidNotEnable("Starlette is not installed")
 
 try:
     # Starlette 0.20
-    from starlette.middleware.exceptions import ExceptionMiddleware  # type: ignore
+    from starlette.middleware.exceptions import ExceptionMiddleware
 except ImportError:
     # Startlette 0.19.1
     from starlette.exceptions import ExceptionMiddleware  # type: ignore
@@ -156,8 +164,10 @@ def setup_once() -> None:
             patch_templates()
 
 
-def _enable_span_for_middleware(middleware_class: "Any") -> type:
-    old_call = middleware_class.__call__
+def _enable_span_for_middleware(
+    middleware_class: "Any",
+) -> "Any":
+    old_call: "Callable[..., Awaitable[Any]]" = middleware_class.__call__
 
     async def _create_span_call(
         app: "Any",
@@ -430,7 +440,7 @@ def _sentry_middleware_init(
             if cls == ExceptionMiddleware:
                 patch_exception_middleware(cls)
 
-        Middleware.__init__ = _sentry_middleware_init
+        Middleware.__init__ = _sentry_middleware_init  # type: ignore[method-assign]
 
 
 def patch_asgi_app(root_path_in_path: "_RootPathInPath") -> None:
@@ -462,7 +472,7 @@ async def _sentry_patched_asgi_app(
 
         return await middleware(scope, receive, send)
 
-    Starlette.__call__ = _sentry_patched_asgi_app
+    Starlette.__call__ = _sentry_patched_asgi_app  # type: ignore[method-assign]
 
 
 # This was vendored in from Starlette to support Starlette 0.19.1 because
@@ -662,7 +672,7 @@ def patch_templates() -> None:
 
     # https://github.com/Kludex/starlette/commit/96479daca2e4bd8157f68d914fd162aa94eff73a
     try:
-        from starlette.templating import Jinja2Templates  # type: ignore
+        from starlette.templating import Jinja2Templates
     except ImportError:
         return
 
@@ -692,7 +702,7 @@ def add_sentry_trace_meta(request: "Request") -> "Dict[str, Any]":
 
             return old_jinja2templates_init(self, *args, **kwargs)
 
-        Jinja2Templates.__init__ = _sentry_jinja2templates_init
+        Jinja2Templates.__init__ = _sentry_jinja2templates_init  # type: ignore[method-assign]
 
 
 class StarletteRequestExtractor:
@@ -701,8 +711,6 @@ class StarletteRequestExtractor:
     (like form data or cookies) and adds it to the Sentry event.
     """
 
-    request: "Request" = None
-
     def __init__(self: "StarletteRequestExtractor", request: "Request") -> None:
         self.request = request
 
diff --git a/uv.lock b/uv.lock
index 4addd76e84..09742b6d5a 100644
--- a/uv.lock
+++ b/uv.lock
@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ typing = [
     { name = "openfeature-sdk" },
     { name = "opentelemetry-distro", extras = ["otlp"] },
     { name = "pymongo" },
+    { name = "starlette", specifier = ">=1.3.1" },
     { name = "statsig" },
     { name = "strawberry-graphql" },
     { name = "typer" },
@@ -1618,6 +1619,18 @@ wheels = [
     { url = "https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/52/a7/d2782e4e3f77c8450f727ba74a8f12756d5ba823d81b941f1b04da9d033a/sphinxcontrib_serializinghtml-2.0.0-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:6e2cb0eef194e10c27ec0023bfeb25badbbb5868244cf5bc5bdc04e4464bf331", size = 92072, upload-time = "2024-07-29T01:10:08.203Z" },
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "starlette"
+version = "1.3.1"
+source = { registry = "https://pypi.org/simple" }
+dependencies = [
+    { name = "anyio" },
+]
+sdist = { url = "https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/eb/e3/7c1dc7381d9f8ab7d854328ebfa884e62cb3f3d8549ddfd37c7814f42afa/starlette-1.3.1.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:05d0213193f2fbaae60e2ecb593b4add4262ad4e46536b54abe36f11a71724e0", size = 2703240, upload-time = "2026-06-12T09:23:11.602Z" }
+wheels = [
+    { url = "https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/ec/bb/2799cc2ede3ed41131f8975621e7213dfc7ef4acbbaadfa440f32500c370/starlette-1.3.1-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:c7372aae11c3c3f26a42df7bd626cec2f47d03483d261d369516a615a53714c6", size = 73632, upload-time = "2026-06-12T09:23:10.017Z" },
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "statsig"
 version = "0.71.6"