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Knox may refer to:
Places
United States
- Knox, Indiana
- Knox, Henry County, Indiana
- Knox, Maine
- Knox, New York
- Knox, North Dakota
- Knox, Knox County, Ohio
- Knox, Vinton County, Ohio
- Knox, Pennsylvania
- Knox, Wisconsin, a town
- Knox Mills, Wisconsin, a ghost town
- Knox City, Missouri
- Knox City, Texas
Other
- City of Knox, Victoria, Australia
- Knox Atoll, Marshall Islands
- Knox Coast, the coast of Antarctica lying between Cape Hordern and the Hatch Islands
People
- Knox (surname), including list of persons with the surname
- Knox (musician) (born 1945), guitarist, singer and songwriter of original UK punk rock band The Vibrators
- Knox Cameron (born 1983), Jamaican-American soccer striker
- Knox H. White (born 1954), American politician
- John Knox (born c. 1513), a Scottish clergyman, theologian, and writer who was a leader of the Protestant Reformation and is considered the founder of the Presbyterian denomination in Scotland.
Buildings and structures
- Albright–Knox Art Gallery, a major showplace for modern art and contemporary art in the western New York Region
- Blaw-Knox tower, a guyed tower for medium wave transmission with a diamond-shape form
- Fort Knox (Maine), a fort located on the Penobscot River in Prospect, Maine
- Fort Knox, a United States Army post in Kentucky
- United States Bullion Depository, commonly called "Fort Knox", a high security storage facility
- John Knox House, an historic house in Edinburgh, Scotland
- Knox Memorial Bridge, a bridge that crosses the Intracoastal Waterway north of Ormond Beach, Florida
- Westfield Knox, a shopping centre in Wantirna South, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria
Churches
- Knox Presbyterian Church (Oakville)
- Knox Presbyterian Church (Ottawa)
- Knox Presbyterian Church (Toronto)
- Knox United Church (Calgary)
- Knox United Church (Scarborough), a Presbyterian Church in Scarborough, Ontario
Navy ships
- Knox-class frigate, a class of United States Navy ships
- USS Frank Knox, a Gearing-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War II
- USS Knox, the prototype and lead ship of the Knox class of destroyer escorts
Schools
- Knox Academy, a secondary school in Haddington, Scotland
- Knox College (Illinois), a liberal arts college in Galesburg, Illinois
- Knox College, Otago, one of the constituent colleges of the University of Otago in New Zealand
- Knox College, Toronto, a theological college in Toronto, Canada
- Knox Grammar School in New South Wales, Australia
- The Knox School (Australia), in Wantirna South, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Art, entertainment, and media
Characters
- Knox, one of the characters in the Dr. Seuss book Fox in Socks (1965)
- Knox Overstreet, a character in the film Dead Poets Society (1989)
- Florence Mccarthy ("Flurry") Knox, the protagonist's landlord and a key figure in the Somerville and Ross books, set in Ireland, beginning with Some Experiences of an Irish R.M..
Publications
- Knox Bible (Knox's Translation of the Vulgate), a 1950 twentieth century translation of the Bible by Msgr. Ronald Knox
Other uses
- Frank Knox Memorial Fellowship, fellowships affiliated with Harvard University, given in honor of Frank Knox
- Knox Automobile Company, an American Brass Era car manufacturer
- Knox Basketball Inc, a basketball association in Melbourne, Australia
- Knox Box, a small, wall-mounted safe that holds building keys for firefighters to retrieve in emergencies
- Knox gelatin, a brand of gelatin now marketed by Kraft Foods
- Knox Mine disaster, a mining accident that took place near the village of Port Griffith, in Jenkins Township, Pennsylvania
- Samsung Knox, an enterprise mobile security solution
See also
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