White knight

White knight may refer to:

• A literary stock character, see knight (stock character)
• The White Knight Fitzgibbon, an extinct hereditary Anglo-Norman title of nobility used in Ireland
• White knight (business), a "friendly investor" in business

In literature

• The White Knight (Through the Looking Glass), a character in Through the Looking Glass which resembles the chess-piece
• White Knight, is Lewis Carroll as referred to by himself
• The White Knight (book), a 1952 biography of Lewis Carroll

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
• White Knights, the nickname for the HMM-165 helicopter squadron in the United States Marine Corps
• Posnansky/Fronius PF-1 White Knight, glider

Entertainment

• Knight (chess), playing piece in the game of chess
• White Knight Chronicles, a video game by Level-5 for the PlayStation 3
• The Knights of Falador, a fictional organisation in the online game RuneScape
• "The White Knight" (Cledus Maggard song), a 1976 hit single by Cledus Maggard
• The name of the train engine in the Tokyopop manga Snow
• "The White Knight" is also a nickname for Pittsburgh Penguin's superstar Evgeni Malkin.
• "Gotham's White Knight", a nickname given to Harvey Dent in The Dark Knight
• White Knight, a character in the Generator Rex cartoon series.
• White Knight is a play-able character class in the ever popular MMORPG Maplestory.
• White Knight (film), an Indian short documentary film directed by Aarti Shrivastava

Other uses

• White knight (business), a corporation, private company, or person that intends to help a firm
• White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, one of the most violent and militant branches of the Ku Klux Klan
• 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

See also

• Black knight (disambiguation)
• White Horse (disambiguation)
• White night (disambiguation)

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