King (surname)
King is an English and Scottish surname.
Origins and variants
The English name may be related to the Old English word for a tribal leader, cyning, which derives from the Proto-Germanic kuningaz.The Scottish surname "King" is a sept of the Clan Gregor / MacGregor.
List of people with the surname
Disambiguation of common names with this surname
- Alan King
- Albert King
- Andrew or Andy King
- Anthony King
- Ben King
- Catherine King
- Charles King
- Chris King
- Daniel King
- David King
- Edward King
- Eric King
- Evelyn King
- Frank King
- Gary King
- George King
- Harry King
- Helen King
- Henry King
- Howard King
- Ian King
- James King
- Jack King
- Jason King
- Jeff King
- Joe or Joseph King
- John King
- Katie King
- Kenneth King King
- Kevin King
- Larry King
- Leonard King
- Mark King
- Mary King
- Martin King
- Matthew or Matt King
- Mervyn King
- Michael King
- Paul King
- Peter King
- Philip King
- Preston King
- Ray King
- Richard King
- Robert King
- Ross King
- Rufus King
- Simon King
- Stephen, Steve or Steven King
- Susan King
- Thomas King
- Tony King
- William King
Arts and music
- Albert King, American blues guitarist and singer-songwriter
- Allyn King, American stage and film actress
- B.B. King, American blues guitarist and singer-songwriter
- Ben E. King, American singer
- Bertie King, Jamaican jazz and mento musician
- Betty Jackson King, American musician and composer
- Bianca King, Filipina actor
- Bill King, American radio announcer
- Brett King, American actor and businessman
- Carole King, American singer and songwriter
- Clydie King, American R&B singer, member of Ray Charles' backing group The Raelettes
- Dave King, Irish vocalist
- David King, American drummer
- Dennis King, actor
- Dorothy King, British painter
- Earl King, American blues singer-songwriter
- Earline Heath King, American sculptor
- Emmett King, American actor
- Fay King , American newspaper cartoonist
- Freddie King, American blues guitarist
- Georgia King, actress
- Hannah T. King, British-American writer
- Héctor King, Mexican recording artist
- Henry King, American film director
- Inge King, German-born Australian sculptor
- Jazzy King, German-English singer
- Jessie Marion King, Scottish painter and illustrator
- Jonathan King, British musician and record producer
- Jonathan King, New Zealand film director
- Kerry King, American rock musician
- Mabel King, American film, stage, and television actor
- Marcia Gygli King, American artist
- Mollie King, British singer
- Pee Wee King, American country music singer
- Raj King, a television presenter played by Aatif Nawaz in the British web series Corner Shop Show.
- Regina King, American actor
- Rowena King, British actor
- Ruby King, German-English singer
- Sidney E. King, American painter
- Solomon King, American singer
- Tara King, fictional character in The Avengers television series
- Teddi King, American jazz and pop vocalist
- Wayne King, American musician, singer, songwriter and orchestral leader
- Wright King, American actor
Military
- Ernest King, US Navy admiral
Politics and government
- Adam King, former US Representative from Pennsylvania
- Alveda King, American politician and minister
- Angela King, Jamaican diplomat
- Angus King, U.S. senator and former Governor of Maine
- Bruce King, former governor of New Mexico
- Coretta Scott King, American civil rights leader and widow of Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Frederick King, Canadian House of Commons member
- Martin Luther King, Jr., American civil rights leader
- Owen King , American politician and businessman
- Ralph E. King, American physician and Louisiana state senator
- Thérèse King, Senegalese politician
- Thomas Starr King, American Universalist and Unitarian minister influential in California politics during the American Civil War.
- William Lyon Mackenzie King, 10th prime minister of Canada
Sciences
- Elizabeth Osborne King, American microbiologist
- Leonard William King, English archaeologist
- Lester Charles King, English geomorphologist
Sports
- Adam King, Scottish footballer
- Alex King , German basketballer
- Barry King , British Olympic decathlete, corporate director and author
- Barry King , Irish tennis player
- Bernard King, American basketball player
- Billie Jean King, American tennis player
- Cathy King, Canadian curler
- Collis King, former West Indian cricketer
- Dana M. King, American college sports coach
- Darian King, Barbadian tennis player
- Desmond King , American football player
- D. J. King, Canadian professional ice hockey player
- Dolly King, American basketball player
- Don King, American boxing promoter
- Don King, American surfing photographer
- Dwight King, Canadian professional ice hockey player
- Emmit King, American sprinter
- Ernie King, English footballer who played for Southampton
- Evan King, American tennis player
- Fay King, American football player
- Frances King, cricketer from New Zealand
- Frederick King , English cricketer
- Gayl King, Canadian darts player
- Gordon King, American football player
- Jim King, American baseball player
- John King, American NASCAR driver
- John King, rugby league footballer of the 1940s
- Jordan King, British IndyCar driver
- Joshua King, Norwegian footballer
- Kim King, American college football player
- Lamar King, American football player
- Laurence Eastern "Laurie" King, Australian rules footballer
- Ledley King, English footballer
- Lilly King, American swimmer
- Louis King , American basketball player
- Marlon King, Jamaican footballer
- Reggie King, American basketball player
- Sam King, professional golfer
- Savannah King, Canadian freestyle swimmer
- Shaun King, American football player and sports commentator
- Shawn King,, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines basketball player
- Syd King, English footballer and manager
- Vania King, American tennis player
- W. J. King, American college football coach
Writing
- Francis King, British novelist, poet, and short story writer
- Georgiana Goddard King, American Hispanist and medievalist
- Grace King, American author
- Hannah T. King, British-American writer, pioneer
- Jessie Margaret King, Scottish essayist, journalist, poet
- Stephen King, American horror author
Other
- Basil King, Canadian clergy and novelist
- Beverly Sedgwick King, philatelist of New York City
- Ginevra King, American socialite
- Jean Ledwith King, American activist
- Karen Leigh King, American academic
- Kelly King, American businesswoman
- Lida Shaw King, American classicist and college dean
- Rodney King, American man beaten by Los Angeles police
- Ursula King German scholar of religion
- Willford I. King, American statistician and economist