Henry King

Henry King may refer to:

  • Henry King (poet) (1592–1669), English poet, Bishop of Chichester
  • Henry King (British Army officer) (1776–1839), Member of Parliament for County Sligo
  • Henry King (congressman) (1790–1861), U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania
  • Henry King (police officer) (1832–?), Chief of Police in Los Angeles, California, 1878–1880, 1881–1883
  • Sir Henry King, 1st Baronet (1852–1933), English banker, mountaineer and Conservative Member of Parliament
  • Henry Churchill King (1858–1934), theologian and educator; served on King-Crane Commission
  • Harry King (1886–1968), English football (soccer) player
  • Henry King (director) (1886–1982), American film director
  • Henry King and his Orchestra, house band on the Burns and Allen radio show in the 1930s
  • Henry T. King (1919–2009), prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials
  • Henry W. King (1815–1857), Free Soil politician in the U.S. state of Ohio
  • "Henry King, Who chewed bits of string and was early cut off in dreadful agonies", poem by Hilaire Belloc
  • Brainwave (comics), a name shared by two characters in the DC Comics Universe, who are father and son:
    • Henry King, Sr., a fictional DC Comics supervillain
    • Henry King, Jr., a fictional DC Comics superhero codenamed Brainwave, Jr.

Famous quotes containing the words henry and/or king:

    “There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics—none in which there is more need of good pilotage and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.”
    —Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)

    “The first wrote, Wine is the strongest. The second wrote, The king is strongest. The third wrote, Women are strongest: but above all things Truth beareth away the victory.”
    —Apocrypha. 1 Esdras, 3:10-12.

    Referring to “three young men” of the bodyguard of Darius, king of the Persians, competing for his favor.