Sam Beaver King MBE (20 February 1926 – 17 June 2016) was a Jamaican-British campaigner. He first came to England as an engineer in the RAF during the Second World War but returned to Jamaica in 1947. Failing to settle there, King took passage to London on the famous 1948 Empire Windrush sailing. He later became the first black mayor of Southwark and a campaigner in support of West Indian immigrants to the country.