Knott (surname)
The surname Knott has several origins. The English-language surname is derived from the Middle English personal name Knut, a cognate of the Old Norse personal name Knútr, which is in turn derived from knútr. The surname Knott is also a variant spelling of the German-language surname Knoth, which is derived from the Middle High German knode, knote.
People
- Knott family (lighthouse keepers)
- Alan Knott, English cricketer
- Aloysius Leo Knott, American politician, lawyer and educator
- Andrew Knott, English actor
- Annie M. Knott, prominent Scottish-born Christian Scientist
- Bert Knott, English footballer
- Bill Knott (politician), Australian politician
- Bill Knott (poet), American poet
- Bill Knott (footballer), footballer from New Zealand
- Blanche Knott, American author
- Brad Knott, American attorney and politician
- Cara Knott, American student murdered by a law enforcement officer
- Cargill Gilston Knott, Scottish physicist, mathematician and seismologist
- Charles Knott, English cricketer
- Joanna Saleeby Knott, American businesswoman and golfer
- Charles Harold Knott, known as John Knott,, English cricketer
- Joseph Thomas Knott, American lawyer
- J. T. Knott, American politician
- Dan Knott, Canadian labour activist and politician
- Darren Knott, British disc jockey and record producer
- Edward Knott, English Jesuit controversialist
- Eleanor Knott MRIA, an Irish scholar, academic and lexicographer
- Eric Knott, American baseball player
- Francis Knott, British athlete during the 1908 Summer Olympics
- Freddie Knott, English cricketer
- Frederick Knott, English playwright
- George Knott, Australian athlete and politician
- Ian Knott, English rugby league footballer who played in the 1990s and 2000s
- Ian Knott, New Zealand technology writer
- J. Proctor Knott, Governor of Kentucky
- Jack Knott, American baseball player
- Sir James Knott, 1st Baronet, English shipping magnate and politician
- James Knott, English cricketer, the son of Alan Knott
- John Knott (disambiguation), multiple people
- Jon Knott, American baseball player
- Kristina Knott, Filipino-American sprinter
- Lydia Knott, American actress of the silent era
- Kathleen Knott, Australian netball player
- Nick Knott, Canadian ice hockey player
- Michael Knott, American singer-songwriter
- Percy Knott, English footballer in the 1920s
- Peter Knott, Australian politician
- Ralph Knott, British architect
- Sidney Knott, South African cricketer
- Stuart R. Knott, the fourth president of Kansas City Southern Railway
- Walter Knott, American farmer who created the Knott's Berry Farm amusement park