In the present paper, the estimate of the third Hankel determinant H 3,1 (f) = a 1 a 2 a 3 a 2 a 3 a 4 a 3 a 4 a 5 for the class of starlike functions, i.e., for the class of analytic functions f standardly normalized such that Re(z f (z)/ f (z)) > 0, z ∈ D := {z ∈ C : |z| < 1}, is improved.