White knight

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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
• White knight, a derogatory term for male social justice warriors

See also

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