Kingfish may refer to:

Fish

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Argyrosomus japonicus ''Argyrosomus japonicus'' is a silvery to bronze-green colored saltwater fish of the family Sciaenidae, which may grow up to in length and weigh up to . It is known as Dusky Kob, dusky salmon, salmon, Kob and kabeljou' in South Africa, Japanese ...

'' or Japanese meagre (Australia) *

Opah The opah, also commonly known as moonfish, sunfish (not to be confused with Molidae), cowfish, kingfish, and redfin ocean pan are large, colorful, deep-bodied Pelagic zone, pelagic lampriform Fish, fishes comprising the genus ''Lampris'', of ...

or ''Lampris guttatus'' (United Kingdom) * Kanadi kingfish or ''Scomberomorus plurilineatus'' * Kingcroaker or ''Menticirrhus'' spp. *

King mackerel The king mackerel (''Scomberomorus cavalla'') surmayi or kingfish, is a migratory species of mackerel of the western Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico. It is an important species to both the commercial and recreational fishing industries. Descri ...

or ''Scomberomorus cavalla'' *

Yellowtail amberjack The yellowtail amberjack, yellowtail kingfish, hiramasa or great amberjack (''Seriola lalandi'') is a large fish found in the Southern Ocean. Although previously thought to be found in all oceans and seas, recent genetic analysis restricts ''S ...

or ''Seriola lalandi'' (Australia, New Zealand) *

Butterfly kingfish The butterfly kingfish (''Gasterochisma melampus'') is an ocean-dwelling ray-finned bony fish in the mackerel family, Scombridae – a family which it shares with the tunas, mackerels, Spanish mackerels, and bonitos. It, however, represents a li ...

or ''Gasterochisma melampus'' (Australia, New Zealand)

Military

AS-6 Kingfish The KSR-5, also designated as the Kh-26 (NATO reporting name AS-6 Kingfish) was a long-range, air-launched cruise missile and anti-ship missile developed by the Soviet Union. It was essentially a scaled down version of the Kh-22 'Kitchen', ...

or Raduga KSR-5, an air-launched Soviet anti-ship and strike missile *

Convair Kingfish The Convair Kingfish reconnaissance aircraft design was the ultimate result of a series of proposals designed at Convair as a replacement for the Lockheed U-2. Kingfish competed with the Lockheed A-12 for the Project Oxcart mission, and lost to ...

, a reconnaissance aircraft designed for Project GUSTO * USS ''Kingfish'', a ''Gato''-class submarine of the United States Navy *Kingfish, a nuclear test of

Operation Fishbowl Operation Fishbowl was a series of high-altitude nuclear explosion, high-altitude nuclear tests in 1962 that were carried out by the United States as a part of the larger Operation Dominic I and II, Operation Dominic nuclear test program. In ...

Music

Christone "Kingfish" Ingram Christone "Kingfish" Ingram (born January 19, 1999) is an American blues guitarist and singer from Clarksdale, Mississippi, United States, who became a well-known performer as a teenager. His debut album, '' Kingfish,'' was released in May 2019. ...

, American blues musician ** ''Kingfish'' (Christone Ingram album), his first album *

Ed Manion Ed Manion (born February 28, 1952), also known as Eddie "Kingfish" Manion, is an American saxophonist, who plays both tenor and baritone sax. As a solo artist, he released his own instrumental album titled Nightlife in 2015. Manion is a recording ...

, nicknamed "Kingfish", American saxophonist, touring member of the E Street Band *

Kingfish (band) Kingfish is an American rock band led by Matthew Kelly, a musician, singer, and songwriter who plays guitar and harmonica. Kelly co-founded Kingfish in 1973 with New Riders of the Purple Sage bass player Dave Torbert and fellow San Francisco B ...

, a San Francisco Bay Area rock band ** ''Kingfish'' (1976 album), their first album ** ''Kingfish'' (1985 album), their fourth album * "Kingfish", a 1974 song from ''Good Old Boys'' (Randy Newman album) * "Kingfish", a 2010 song by

Patrice Bart-Williams Patrice Babatunde Bart-Williams (born 9 July 1979), better known as Patrice, is a German reggae singer, songwriter and record producer. Born in Germany to a Sierra Leonean father and a German mother, Patrice grew up listening to Fela Kuti, Bob Ma ...

from his album ''One''

Sports

Kenosha Kingfish The Kenosha Kingfish are a baseball team that plays in the collegiate summer Northwoods League. Based in Kenosha, Wisconsin, the Kingfish play their home games at Simmons Field. History Kenosha has been the home of multiple minor league baseball ...

, a baseball team in Kenosha, Wisconsin *

Baton Rouge Kingfish The Baton Rouge Kingfish were a minor professional ice hockey team in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, as a member of the East Coast Hockey League. The franchise arrived in Baton Rouge in 1996 after relocating from Erie, Pennsylvania, where they had playe ...

, a defunct minor league ice hockey team in Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Television and radio

* '' Kingfish: A Story of Huey P. Long'', a 1995 TV movie * Kingfish, a character in ''

Amos 'n' Andy ''Amos 'n' Andy'' was an American radio sitcom about black characters, initially set in Chicago then later in the Harlem section of New York City. While the show had a brief life on 1950s television with black actors, the 1928 to 1960 radio sho ...

Other uses

KingFish phone tracker The StingRay is an IMSI-catcher, a cell phone surveillance, cellular phone surveillance device, manufactured by Harris Corporation. Initially developed for the military and intelligence community, the StingRay and similar Harris devices are in ...

, a product line of human-portable cellular telephone identification and tracking devices

People with the nickname

(born 1999), American blues guitarist *

King Levinsky King Levinsky (10 September 1910 – 30 September 1991), also known as Kingfish Levinsky, was an American heavyweight boxer who fought during the 1930s. He was born as Harris Kraków and was a member of the Kraków fish-selling family of Maxwel ...

(1910–1991), American heavyweight boxer *

Huey Long Huey Pierce Long Jr. (August 30, 1893September 10, 1935), nicknamed "The Kingfish", was an American politician who served as the 40th governor of Louisiana from 1928 to 1932 and as a United States senator from 1932 until his assassination i ...

(1893–1935), Louisiana governor and senator *

Kenny Washington (American football) Kenneth Stanley Washington (August 31, 1918 – June 24, 1971) was an American professional football player who was the first African-American to sign a contract with a National Football League (NFL) team in the modern (post-World War II) era. ...

(1918–1971)