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 word king:

    When the Prince of Piedmont [later Charles Emmanuel IV, King of Sardinia] was seven years old, his preceptor instructing him in mythology told him all the vices were enclosed in Pandora’s box. “What! all!” said the Prince. “Yes, all.” “No,” said the Prince; “curiosity must have been without.”
    Horace Walpole (1717–1797)