King Rat may mean:
- Uromys rex, a species of rat
- King Rat (1962 novel), a novel by James Clavell set in World War II
- King Rat (film), released in 1965, based on the James Clavell novel
- King Rat (1998 novel), an urban fantasy novel by China Miéville
- "King Rat" (song), a 2 track vinyl promo by Modest Mouse
- King Rat is the head of the Grand Order of Water Rats, a music hall society of Great Britain
- King Rat, the nickname of the Ulster loyalist Billy Wright, and an autobiography he wrote detailing his activities
Famous quotes containing the words king and/or rat:
“King Herod shrieking vengeance at the curled
Up knees of Jesus choking in the air,
A king of speechless clods and infants. Still
The world out-Herods Herod;”
—Robert Lowell (1917–1977)
“I am not yet born; O hear me.
Let not the bloodsucking bat or the rat or the stoat or the
club-footed ghoul come near me.”
—Louis MacNeice (1907–1963)