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Knox may refer to:

Places

United States

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

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  • 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)
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