White knight
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White knight may refer to:
- Knight (chess), a chess-piece.
- White knight, a generic term for a Knight-errant, Paladin or "knight in shining armor"
- White knight (business), a business term for a corporation, private company, or person that intends to help a firm
White Knight may refer to:
- White Knight, a character in Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll which resembles the chess-piece. Carroll based the character on himself; it is a bumbling but kindly old man with a penchant for useless inventions.
- The White Knight, a biography of Lewis Carroll
- White Knight (Chocolate), an Australian mint flavoured chocolate candy bar
- White Knight, a chess simulation game designed for the 1980s platform, the BBC Microcomputer - Model B
- White Knight (Scaled Composites Model 318), the aircraft used to carry and launch SpaceShipOne, the privately funded experimental spacecraft that won the X-prize
- White Knight, a Chicago Hip House artist from the late 80's early 90's
- White Knight, one of the founders of L0pht and a member of hacker group Cult of the Dead Cow
- The White Knight, an extinct hereditary Anglo-Norman title of nobility used in Ireland (see Edmund Fitzgibbon, a holder of the title during the Tudor period)
- White Knight, a card from the game Magic: The Gathering which offered protection from its alterego, the Black Knight
- The White Knight, a King Arthur character
- White Knight Story, a video game under development by Level-5 for the PlayStation 3
- White Knight, a character class in the game MapleStory
- "The White Knight", a 1976 hit single by Cledus Maggard based on the citizens band radio fad of the 1970s