White Knight Explained

A white knight is a fictional stock character representing a gallant knight.

White Knight or Whiteknight may also refer to:

People and titles

• White Knight (Fitzgibbon family), a Hiberno-Norman title of nobility
• Lewis Carroll, who referred to himself as White Knight

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 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, a knight in chess
• White Knight Chronicles, a video game by Level-5 for the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4

Film and television

• White Knight (film), an Indian short documentary film directed by Aarti Shrivastava
• "The White Knight" (The Legend of Zelda), an episode of The Legend of Zelda
• "White Knights" (Legends of Tomorrow), an episode of Legends of Tomorrow

Literature

• , a 2017–2018 comic book limited series written and illustrated by Sean Murphy
• White Knight, a 1999 novel by Jaclyn Reding
• White Knight, a 2018 novel by C.D. Reiss
• The White Knight (book), a 1952 biography of Lewis Carroll by Alexander L. Taylor
• The White Knight, a 2007 novel by Gilbert Morris
• The White Knight, a 2023 Ben Hope novel by Scott Mariani

Music

• "The White Knight" (Cledus Maggard song), a 1976 hit single by Cledus Maggard
• White Knight (album), by Todd Rundgren

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, a glider
• HMM-165, a helicopter squadron in the US Marine Corps, nicknamed White Knights
• White knight (intelligence firm), an organization owned by Joel Zamel

Other uses

• White knight (business), a friendly investor that acquires a corporation
• White Knight (chocolate), an Australian mint-flavored chocolate bar
• White Knight (software), a terminal program for Macintosh computers
• White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, one of the most violent and militant branches of the Ku Klux Klan
• Whiteknights Park, main campus of the University of Reading, England
• Whiteknights Yorkshire Blood Bikes, an English charity
• 17612 Whiteknight, a minor planet

See also

• John Hunyadi, nicknamed the White Knight of Wallachia
• White horse (disambiguation)
• White night (disambiguation)