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Knox may refer to:

Places

United States

Other places

Ships

Organisations

Schools

Churches

People

  • Knox (surname), including list of persons with the surname
  • Knox (musician) (born 1945), guitarist, singer and songwriter of original UK punk rock band The Vibrators
  • Knox Cameron (born 1983), Jamaican-American soccer striker
  • Knox H. White (born 1954), American politician
  • Henry Knox ((born 1750), officer of the Continental Army and the first United States Secretary of War
  • John Knox (born c. 1513), a Scottish clergyman, theologian, and writer who was a leader of the Protestant Reformation
  • Kevin Knox (American football) (born 1971), former American football wide receiver
  • Kevin Knox (basketball) (born 1999), American basketball player for the New York Knicks

Fictional characters

  • Knox, one of the characters in the Dr. Seuss book Fox in Socks (1965)
  • Knox Overstreet, a character in the film Dead Poets Society (1989)
  • Florence Mccarthy ("Flurry") Knox, the protagonist's landlord and a key figure in the Somerville and Ross books
  • Eric Knox, founder of Knox Enterprises, played by Sam Rockwell, a key character in the film Charlie's Angels (2000)

Other uses

  • Knox Bible (Knox's Translation of the Vulgate), a 1950 twentieth century translation of the Bible by Msgr. Ronald Knox
  • Knox Box, a small, wall-mounted safe that holds building keys for firefighters to retrieve in emergencies
  • Knox gelatin, a brand of gelatin now marketed by Kraft Foods
  • Henry Knox Trail, marking the Historic path of Colonel Henry Knox's transport of cannon during the Revolutionary war.
  • Samsung Knox, an enterprise mobile security solution

See also