Kingfish

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Kingfish may refer to:

Fish varieties

• King mackerel Scomberomorus cavalla
• Kingcroaker Menticirrhus spp.
• Narrow-barred Spanish mackerel Scomberomorus commerson (Australia)
• White croaker Genyonemus lineatus (United Kingdom)
• Cobia Rachycentron canadum (Papua New Guinea)
• Wahoo Acanthocybium solandri (Barbados,Persian Gulf)
• Crevalle jack Caranx hippos (Mauritania)
• Japanese meagre Argyrosomus japonicus (Australia)
• Yellowtail amberjack Seriola lalandi (Australia, New Zealand)
• Opah Lampris guttatus (United Kingdom)
• Silver gemfish Rexea solandri (Australia)
• Giant trevally (sometimes travelli) Caranx ignobilis (South Africa)
• Indo-Pacific king mackerel (Indian Ocean)

Media

• "Kingfish" George Stevens, a character in the radio and television series Amos 'n' Andy
• Kingfish (band), a San Francisco Bay Area rock band that included Bob Weir, Matt Kelly and Dave Torbert
  • Kingfish (1976 album), the band's first album
  • Kingfish (1985 album), another album released by the band
• Kingfish: A Story of Huey P. Long, a 1995 TV movie
• "Kingfish", a song by reggae artist Patrice Bart-Williams on the 2010 album One
• "Kingfish", a song by Randy Newman on the 1974 album Good Old Boys

Military

• Raduga KSR-5, NATO reporting name AS-6 Kingfish, an air-launched Soviet anti-ship and strike missile
• Convair Kingfish, a reconnaissance aircraft designed for Project GUSTO
• USS Kingfish (SS-234), a Gato-class submarine of the United States Navy

People

• Huey Long (1893–1935), nicknamed "Kingfish", Louisiana governor and senator
• King Levinsky (1910–1991), American heavyweight boxer

Other uses

• Kenosha Kingfish, a summer-collegiate baseball team in Kenosha, Wisconsin
• Baton Rouge Kingfish, a defunct minor league ice hockey team in Baton Rouge, Louisiana
• KingFish phone tracker, a product line of human-portable cellular telephone identification and tracking devices

See also

• Kingfisher (disambiguation)