List of people known as the White

• Cleitus the White an officer of Alexander the Great
• Konrad X the White, Duke of Oleśnica, Koźle, Bytom and half of Ścinawa
• Leszek the White, Prince of Sandomierz and High Duke of Poland
• Olaf the White, a Viking sea-king of the latter half of the 9th century
• Otto III, Duke of Swabia, also Margrave of the Nordgau
• Władysław the White, Duke of Gniewkowo

• Elyan the White, a Knight of the Round Table in Arthurian legend
• Gandalf, in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings
• Saruman, in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings
• Tirant the White, protagonist of the Catalan romance Tirant lo Blanch, published in 1490