King prawn may refer to:
- In Australia, several species of commercially significant edible prawns (shrimp) in the genus Melicertus (previously classified in Peneaus):
- Melicertus plebejus (Hess, 1865) - eastern king prawn;
- Melicertus latisulcatus (Kishinouye, 1896) - western king prawn;
- Melicertus longistylus (Kubo, 1943) - redspot king prawn.
- The vannamei prawn or whiteleg shrimp, Penaeus vannamei.[dubious – discuss]
- Pepe the King Prawn, a Muppets character performed by Bill Barretta.
- King Prawn (band), an English ska punk band active 1993–2003 and 2012.
- Fairy King Prawn (靚蝦王), a racehorse.