Knox may refer to:

Places

United States

Fort Knox Fort Knox is a United States Army installation in Kentucky, south of Louisville and north of Elizabethtown, Kentucky, Elizabethtown. It is adjacent to the United States Bullion Depository (also known as Fort Knox), which is used to house a larg ...

, a United States Army post in Kentucky **

United States Bullion Depository The United States Bullion Depository, often known as Fort Knox, is a fortified bank vault, vault building located next to the United States Army post of Fort Knox, Kentucky. It is operated by the United States Department of the Treasury. The v ...

, 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 is a city in Center Township, Starke County, in the U.S. state of Indiana. The population was 3,662 at the 2020 census. The city is the county seat of Starke County. History Knox was founded in 1851, and is named for American Revolutio ...

Knox, Maine Knox is a New England town, town in Waldo County, Maine, Waldo County, Maine, United States. The town was named for General Henry Knox, the first United States Secretary of War. The population was 811 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 cens ...

Knox, New York Knox is a town in Albany County, New York, United States. The population was 2,635 at the 2020 census. The town is in the northwestern part of Albany County and is west of Albany, the state capital. History The Town of Knox was established ...

Knox, North Dakota Knox is a city in Benson County, North Dakota, United States. There is a granary there, a post office and a church; no other businesses or services. The population was 22 at the 2020 census. Knox was founded in 1887. Geography According to the ...

Knox, Knox County, Ohio Knox is an unincorporated community in Knox County, in the U.S. state of Ohio Ohio ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. It borders Lake Erie to the north, Pennsylvania to th ...

Knox, Vinton County, Ohio Knox is a former town in Vinton County, in the U.S. State of Ohio. The GNIS classifies it as a populated place. History A post office called Knox was established in 1899, and remained in operation until 1904. The community derived its name from ...

* Knox, Pennsylvania *

Knox, Wisconsin Knox is a town in Price County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 399 at the 2000 census. The unincorporated community of Brantwood is located with the town. The unincorporated community of Clifford is located partially in the town. ...

, a town **

Knox Mills, Wisconsin Knox Mills is a ghost town in the town of Knox, in Price County, Wisconsin Wisconsin ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Great Lakes region, Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwest of the United States. It borders Minnesota to the west, ...

, a ghost town * Knox City, Missouri *

Knox City, Texas Knox City is a town in Knox County, Texas, United States. Its population was 1,065 at the 2020 census. Geography Knox City is in southern Knox County, at the intersection of State Highways 6 and 222. SH 6 runs north to Benjamin, the county se ...

* Knox County (disambiguation) * Knox Township (disambiguation)

Other places

City of Knox The City of Knox is a local government area in Victoria, Australia in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne. It has an area of and in 2020, Knox had a population of 165,147. This municipality is one of only a handful that survived the widespread mu ...

, Victoria, Australia * Knox Atoll, Marshall Islands * Knox Coast, the coast of Antarctica lying between Cape Hordern and the Hatch Islands *

Westfield Knox Westfield Knox, formerly Knox City Shopping Centre, is an Australian shopping centre, outdoor entertainment and professional services complex in the outer eastern Melbourne suburb of Wantirna South. There are over 380 stores and over 5,600 ca ...

, 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 The Knox Automobile Company was a manufacturer of automobiles in Springfield, Massachusetts, Springfield, Massachusetts, United States, between 1900 and 1914. Knox also built trucks and farm tractors until 1924. They are notable for building the ...

, an American Brass Era car manufacturer *

Knox Basketball Inc Knox Raiders is a NBL1 South club based in Melbourne, Victoria. The club fields a team in both the Men's and Women's NBL1 South. The club is a division of Knox Basketball Incorporated (KBI), the major administrative basketball organisation in the ...

, a basketball association in Melbourne, Australia * Knox Associates, d.b.a. The Knox Company, an American company that makes security devices such as the

Knox Box A Knox Box is a small, wall-mounted safe that holds building keys for fire departments, emergency medical services, and sometimes police to retrieve in emergency situations. The term "Knox-Box" is a brand name for such products produced by the ...

Schools

Knox Academy Knox Academy is a co-educational state secondary school located in Haddington, East Lothian, Scotland. Originally founded in 1379 as a medieval grammar school, it is one of the oldest schools in the world. History The modern school can be trac ...

, a secondary school in Haddington, Scotland *

Knox College (Illinois) Knox College is a Private college, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Galesburg, Illinois. Founded in 1837 by anti-slavery advocates, the college holds deep ties to the Underground Railroad movement. Wi ...

, a liberal arts college in Galesburg, Illinois *

Knox College, Otago Knox College is a Colleges of the University of Otago, residential college, founded and operated by the Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa New Zealand and affiliated with the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand. The college is set in a la ...

, one of the constituent colleges of the University of Otago in New Zealand *

Knox College, Toronto Knox College is a postgraduate theological college of the University of Toronto located at the St. George campus in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was founded in 1844 as part of a schism movement in the Church of Scotland following the Disruption ...

, a theological college in Toronto, Canada *

Knox Grammar School Knox Grammar School is an independent Uniting Church day and boarding school for boys, located in Wahroonga, New South Wales, an Upper North Shore suburb of Sydney, Australia. Founded in 1924 by the Presbyterian Church of Australia as an all- ...

in New South Wales, Australia *

The Knox School (Australia) The Knox School is an independent, co-educational, non-denominational day school, located in the eastern Melbourne suburb of Wantirna South, Victoria, Australia. The school is a member of the Eastern Independent Schools of Melbourne association ...

, in Wantirna South, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Churches

* Knox Presbyterian Church (Oakville) * Knox Presbyterian Church (Ottawa) *

Knox Presbyterian Church (Toronto) Knox Presbyterian Church is a Presbyterian Church in Canada, Presbyterian Church (building), church in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. History In 1820, the first Presbyterian congregation in Toronto (then the Town of York) was formed, and aft ...

* Knox United Church (Calgary) * Knox United Church (Scarborough), a Presbyterian Church in Scarborough, Ontario

People

Knox (given name) Knox is a primarily masculine given name, a transferred use of a Scottish Knox (surname), surname and place name from the Scottish Gaelic, Scots Gaelic "''cnoc''" or Old English ''cnocc'', referring to a small hill with a round top. Usage The nam ...

Knox (surname) Knox is a Scottish surname that originates from the Scottish Gaelic "''cnoc''", meaning a hillock or a hump or the Old English "''cnocc''", meaning a round-topped hill. Notable Knoxes include the Presbyterian reformer John Knox and the American R ...

, including list of persons and fictional characters with the surname *

Knox (pop rock musician) Knox Morris, known mononymously as Knox, is an American pop singer and songwriter. Originally from Dayton, Ohio, he is now based in Nashville, Tennessee, Nashville. He is signed to Atlantic Records. Career With plans to become a teacher, M ...

, American pop singer and songwriter * Knox (punk musician) (born 1945), guitarist, singer and songwriter of original UK punk rock band The Vibrators *

Knox Cameron Knox Cameron (born September 17, 1983) is a former soccer player who most recently played for AFC Ann Arbor in the National Premier Soccer League. Born in Jamaica, he represented the United States at youth level. Career College and amateur Ca ...

(born 1983), Jamaican-American soccer striker

Fictional characters

* Knox, one of the characters in the Dr. Seuss book ''

Fox in Socks ''Fox in Socks'' is a children's book by Theodor Seuss Geisel under the pen name Dr. Seuss. It was published by Random House on January 12, 1965. The book features Mr. Fox as he tries to convince Mr. Knox to repeat tongue twisters about the thin ...

'' (1965) * Knox Overstreet, a character in the film ''

Dead Poets Society ''Dead Poets Society'' is a 1989 American coming-of-age drama film directed by Peter Weir and written by Tom Schulman. The film, starring Robin Williams, is set in 1959 at a fictional elite boarding school called Welton Academy, and tells ...

'' (1989)

Other uses

* Knox Bible (Knox's Translation of the Vulgate), a 1950 twentieth century translation of the Bible by Msgr. Ronald Knox *

, 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 *

Henry Knox Trail The Henry Knox Trail, also known as the Knox Cannon Trail, is a network of roads and paths which traces the route of Colonel Henry Knox's "noble train of artillery" from Fort Crown Point, Crown Point to the Continental Army camp outside Boston, M ...

, marking the Historic path of Colonel

Henry Knox Henry Knox (July 25, 1750 – October 25, 1806) was an American military officer, politician, bookseller, and a Founding Father of the United States. Knox, born in Boston, became a senior general of the Continental Army during the Revolutionar ...

's transport of cannon during the Revolutionary war. *

Samsung Knox Samsung Knox (stylized as SΛMSUNG Knox) is a proprietary security and management framework pre-installed on most Samsung mobile devices. Its primary purpose is to provide organizations with a toolset for managing work devices, such as employee ...

, an enterprise mobile security solution