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:

    “Of coursers also spake they: Henry rid
    Well, like most Englishmen, and loved the races;
    And Juan, like a true-born Andalusian,
    Could back a horse, as despots ride a Russian.”
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

    “There is no king or sovereign state
    That can fix a hero’s rate;
    Each to all is venerable.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)