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 Chronicles, a video game by Level-5 for the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4
  • A computer chess program written by Martin Bryant (programmer)

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

  • Batman: White Knight, 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" (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

Other uses

  • White knight (business), a friendly investor that acquires a corporation
  • White Knight (chocolate), an Australian mint-flavored chocolate bar
  • The White Knight (horse), British thoroughbred racehourse foaled 1903
  • 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
  • White Knight, an intelligence firm owned by Joel Zamel

See also

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