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White knight may refer to:
People and titles
- The White Knight (Fitzgibbon family), an extinct hereditary Anglo-Norman title of nobility used in Ireland
- "The White Knight", a nickname for Pittsburgh Penguin's superstar Evgeni Malkin
- White Knight, the term by which Lewis Carroll referred to himself
Art, entertainment, and media
Fictional entities
- Knight-errant, a literary stock character portrayed as a white knight
- White Knight (Through the Looking-Glass), a character in Through the Looking Glass which resembles the chess-piece
- "Gotham's White Knight", a nickname given to Harvey Dent in The Dark Knight (2008)
- White Knight, James Bond's codename while infiltrating a terrorist military base in the beginning of Tomorrow Never Dies
- White Knight, a character in the Generator Rex cartoon series.
- White Knight , a playable character class in the ever popular MMORPG Maplestory
- White Knight, the name of the train engine in the Tokyopop manga Snow
- The Knights of Falador, a fictional organisation in the online game RuneScape
Games
- Knight (chess), playing piece in the game of chess
- White Knight Chronicles, a video game by Level-5 for the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4
Other art, entertainment and media
- White Knight (film), an Indian short documentary film directed by Aarti Shrivastava
- The White Knight (book), a 1952 biography of Lewis Carroll
- "The White Knight" (Cledus Maggard song), a 1976 hit single by Cledus Maggard
Business and brands
- White knight (business), a "friendly investor" in business (in contrast to the perpetrator of a hostile takeover)
- White Knight (chocolate), an Australian mint flavored chocolate candy bar
- White Knight (software), a terminal program for Macintosh computers
- White Knight tumble dryers, a brand of Crosslee plc
Vehicles
- Scaled Composites White Knight, the aircraft used to carry and launch Scaled Composites SpaceShipOne
- Scaled Composites White Knight Two, the technological successor of the first
- Posnansky/Fronius PF-1 White Knight, glider
- White Knights, the nickname for the HMM-165 helicopter squadron in the United States Marine Corps
Other uses
- White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, one of the most violent and militant branches of the Ku Klux Klan
See also
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