Knox facts for kids

Knox may refer to:

Places

United States

• Fort Knox, a United States Army post in Kentucky
  • United States Bullion Depository, a high security storage facility commonly called Fort Knox
• Fort Knox (Maine), a fort located on the Penobscot River in Prospect, Maine
• Knox Memorial Bridge, a bridge that crosses the Intracoastal Waterway north of Ormond Beach, Florida
• Knox, Indiana
• Knox, Henry County, Indiana
• Knox, Maine
• Knox, New York
• Knox, North Dakota
• Knox, Knox County, Ohio
• Knox, Vinton County, Ohio
• Knox, Pennsylvania
• Knox, Wisconsin, a town
  • Knox Mills, Wisconsin, a ghost town
• Knox City, Missouri
• Knox City, Texas

Other places

• Knox County (disambiguation)
• City of Knox, Victoria, Australia
• Knox Atoll, Marshall Islands
• Knox Coast, the coast of Antarctica lying between Cape Hordern and the Hatch Islands
• Westfield Knox, a shopping centre in Wantirna South, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Ships

• USS Knox (FF-1052), the prototype and lead ship of the Knox class of destroyer escorts
  • Knox-class frigate, a class of United States Navy ships
• USS Frank Knox (DD-742), a Gearing-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War II

Organisations

• Knox Automobile Company, an American Brass Era car manufacturer
• Knox Basketball Inc, a basketball association in Melbourne, Australia

Schools

• Knox Academy, a secondary school in Haddington, Scotland
• Knox College (Illinois), a liberal arts college in Galesburg, Illinois
• Knox College, Otago, one of the constituent colleges of the University of Otago in New Zealand
• Knox College, Toronto, a theological college in Toronto, Canada
• Knox Grammar School in New South Wales, Australia
• The Knox School (Australia), in Wantirna South, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Churches

• Knox Presbyterian Church (Oakville)
• Knox Presbyterian Church (Ottawa)
• Knox Presbyterian Church (Toronto)
• Knox United Church (Calgary)
• Knox United Church (Scarborough), a Presbyterian Church in Scarborough, Ontario

People

• Knox (surname), including list of persons with the surname
• Knox (musician) (born 1945), British guitarist, singer and songwriter
• Knox Cameron (born 1983), Jamaican-American soccer striker
• Knox H. White (born 1954), American politician
• John Knox (born c. 1513), a Scottish clergyman, theologian, and writer who was a leader of the Protestant Reformation

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

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
• Samsung Knox, an enterprise mobile security solution

See also

In Spanish: Knox para niños

• Blaw-Knox tower, a guyed tower for medium wave transmission with a diamond-shape form
• John Knox House, an historic house in Edinburgh, Scotland
• Albright–Knox Art Gallery, a major showplace for modern art and contemporary art in the western New York Region
• Knox Mine disaster, a mining accident that took place near the village of Port Griffith, in Jenkins Township, Pennsylvania
• Frank Knox Memorial Fellowship, fellowships affiliated with Harvard University, given in honor of Frank Knox
• Knocks (disambiguation)
• KNOX (disambiguation)
• Nox (disambiguation)