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 ("knot"). The surname Knott is also a variant spelling of the German-language surname Knoth, which is derived from the Middle High German knode, knote ("knot").

People

Knott family (lighthouse keepers)
Alan Knott (born 1946), English cricketer
Andrew Knott (born 1979), English actor
Annie M. Knott (1850-1941), prominent Scottish-born Christian Scientist
Bill Knott (politician) (1921–2013), Australian politician
Bill Knott (poet) (born 1940), American poet
Bill Knott (footballer) (active in 1922), footballer from New Zealand
Blanche Knott, American author
Cara Knott (1966–1986), American student murdered by a law enforcement officer
Cargill Gilston Knott (1856–1922), Scottish physicist, mathematician and seismologist
Charles Knott (1914–2003), English cricketer
Charles Harold Knott, known as John Knott, (1901–1988), English cricketer
Dan Knott (1879–1959), Canadian labour activist and politician
Darren Knott, British disc jockey and record producer
Edward Knott (1582-1656), English Jesuit controversialist
Eleanor Knott MRIA (1886 – 1975), an Irish scholar, academic and lexicographer

Eric Knott (born 1974), American baseballer
Francis Knott, British athlete during the 1908 Summer Olympics
Freddie Knott (1891–1972), English cricketer
Frederick Knott (1916–2002), English playwright
George Knott (1910–2001), Australian athlete and politician
Ian Knott, English rugby league footballer who played in the 1990s and 2000s
J. Proctor Knott (1830–1911), Governor of Kentucky
Jack Knott (1907-1981), American baseballer
Sir James Knott, 1st Baronet (1855–1934), English shipping magnate and politician
James Knott (born 1975), English cricketer, the son of Alan Knott
John Knott (disambiguation), multiple people
Jon Knott (born 1978), American baseballer
Lydia Knott (1866–1955), American actress of the silent era
Kathleen Knott (born 1987), Australian netball player
Nick Knott (1920–1987), Canadian ice hockey player
Michael Knott, American singer-songwriter
Percy Knott, English footballer in the 1920s
Peter Knott (1956–2015), Australian politician
Ralph Knott (1878–1929), British architect
Sidney Knott (born 1933), South African cricketer
Stuart R. Knott (1859–1943), the fourth president of Kansas City Southern Railway
Walter Knott (1889–1981), American farmer who created the Knott's Berry Farm amusement park