Mervyn Allister King (born March 30 1948) is Governor of the Bank of England. He succeeded Sir Edward George on June 30 2003.

King studied at Wolverhampton Grammar School, King's College, Cambridge (gaining a first class degree in economics in 1969), St John's College, Cambridge, and Harvard; he then taught at the University of Cambridge and the University of Birmingham. He has also been Visiting Professor to Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From October 1984 he was Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics.

King joined the Bank in March 1991 as Chief Economist and Executive Director, having been a non-executive director from 1990 to 1991. He was appointed Deputy Governor in 1997, taking up his post on 1 June 1998.

An ex-officio member of the Bank's interest-rate setting Monetary Policy Committee since its inception in 1997, he is the only person to have taken part in every one of its monthly meetings to date. His voting style is often seen as "hawkish". Before becoming Governor, he regularly voted for tighter monetary policy than his colleagues. That pattern has continued in a more muted way as Governor: most notably, he was outvoted opposing the MPC's August 2005 interest rate cut, and in June 2007 was in the minority by voting for higher rates. King's willingness on occasion to take a minority position is unusual among central bank leaders.

King is noted for his often-repeated ambition to make monetary policy "boring", by which he means that it should be as predictable as possible by continually focusing on achieving a set inflation target. The term "inflation nutter" was also coined in a paper by King.

King is a fan of Aston Villa F.C., and arranged a game between Bank of England employees and ex-Villa players. He also briefly found himself commentating on an Ashes test match for BBC radio Five Live in 2005, whilst being interviewed by Simon Mayo.

Cambridge University awarded him an honorary Doctorate in Law in 2006. He is a Visiting Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford.

Mervyn "The King" King (born March 15, 1966) is a professional darts player, who made his name in the British Darts Organisation but now plays for the rival Professional Darts Corporation. His match entrance is King of Kings by the band Motörhead, originally written for professional wrestler Triple H.

Mervyn King (born 4 January, 1960) is a lawn bowler and 2006 World Indoor Singles Champion. He also represented England at the 2002 and 2006 Commonwealth Games.

Mervyn E. King is senior counsel and former judge on the Supreme Court of South Africa, "Professor extraordinaire" at the College of Economic and Management Sciences of the University of South Africa, Chairman of the King Committee on corporate governance in South Africa. Member of the private sector advisory group on corporate governance to the World Bank, Chairman of the Eminent Persons Group to review the governance and oversight of the United Nations.