White Knight

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

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

 * Batman: White Knight, a 2017-18 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 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