Black Knight (disambiguation)

The Black Knight is a stock character.

Black Knight or Knights may also refer to:

Music

• Black Knights (rap group), affiliated with The Wu-Tang Clan
• The Black Knights (band), a Mersey Beat band

Military

• 57th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron, a USAF fighter squadron known as "The Black Knights of Keflavik"
• VFA-154, a US Navy fighter squadron nicknamed "The Black Knights"
• VMFA-314, a US Marine Corps fighter squadron nicknamed "The Black Knights"
• VMM-264, a US Marine Corps tiltrotor squadron nicknamed "The Black Knights"
• RSAF Black Knights, a precision aerobatics team of the Republic of Singapore Air Force
• "The Black Knights", the display team of No. 54 Squadron RAF in the 1950s
• 5th Cavalry Regiment, a United States Army unit referred to as "The Black Knights"

Nickname

• Ralph de Ashton (fl. 1421–1486), an officer of state under Edward IV of England
• Zawisza the Black (1379–1428), Polish knight and diplomat
• Hans von Trotha (c. 1450–1503), German knight and marshal excommunicated by Pope Innocent VIII; after his death, local folklore as a nefarious "Black Knight" and restless spirit
• Gary Player (born 1935), South African golfer
• Eduard Ritter von Schleich (1888–1947), Bavarian World War I flying ace and World War II Luftwaffe general
• James Stewart, the Black Knight of Lorn (c. 1383–after 1451), Scottish nobleman
• Victor Newman, a character in the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless, called the Black Knight

Sports

• Black Knight (horse) (1979–2002), Australian Thoroughbred racehorse
• Army Black Knights, the nickname of the sporting teams of the United States Military Academy
• The mascot and sports teams of Baltimore City College, Baltimore, Maryland, United States
• The mascot and sports teams of Charlottesville High School, Charlottesville, Virginia, US
• Las Vegas Black Knights, a rejected name for the Vegas Golden Knights

Science and technology

• Black Knight (rocket), part of the British rocketry program in the 1950s
• Black Knight (vehicle), an unmanned ground vehicle designed by BAE Systems
• TrES-2b, an exoplanet colloquially known as "Black Knight" due to its darkness
• Camacinia othello , a species of dragonfly

Other uses

• Black knight, a knight in chess
• Black Knight, a magazine for Aboriginal Australians produced in Brisbane by Bill Rosser in 1975
• Black Knight (company), an American technology company
• Knight of Glin or Black Knight, an Irish hereditary knighthood
• Vincent Black Knight, a British motorcycle made between 1954 and 1955 by Vincent Motorcycles
• Black Knight (film), a 2001 film starring Martin Lawrence
• The Black Knights, a fictional resistance movement in the anime series Code Geass

See also

• Black Knight satellite conspiracy theory, a conspiracy theory about an alien satellite