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A white knight is a fictional stock character representing a gallant knight.
White Knight 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
Other
- The White Knight (book), a 1952 biography of Lewis Carroll
- "The White Knight" (Cledus Maggard song), a 1976 hit single by Cledus Maggard
- Batman: White Knight, a comic series by Sean Murphy
- 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 candy 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
See also
- John Hunyadi, nicknamed the White Knight of Wallachia
- White horse (disambiguation)
- White night (disambiguation)
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