Gary King (born December 8, 1958) is an American political scientist and quantitative methodologist.

[2] In 1980, King graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from the State University of New York at New Paltz.

King's career in academia began in 1984, when he became an assistant professor in the Department of Politics at New York University.

[citation needed] King co-founded the data analytics companies Crimson Hexagon and Learning Catalytics[citation needed] and the educational technology companies Perusall and OpenScholar.

Crimson Hexagon and its nearest competitor merged in 2018; the new company is called Brandwatch.