Knoop

Knoop is a Dutch and Low German surname. Meaning "knot" and "button", it may have a metonymic origin referring to button maker. Notable people with the surname include:


 * Abe Knoop (born 1963), Dutch football goalkeeper and goalkeeping coach
 * Anneliese Knoop-Graf (1921–2009), German non-fiction writer
 * Bobby Knoop (born 1938), American baseball player
 * (born 1936), German contemporary painter and sculptor
 * (born 1934), Belgian politician and Government Minister
 * Franz Knoop (1875–1946), German biochemist
 * Frederick Knoop (1878–1943), American metallurgist
 * Knoop hardness test, a microhardness test for very brittle materials developed by him
 * Gerhard Knoop (1920–2009), Norwegian actor, stage producer and theatre director
 * (1861–1913), German novelist
 * (born 1943), Dutch journalist
 * Johann Knoop (1846–1882), Russian collector of musical instruments ("Baron Knoop"), son of Ludwig
 * (1706–1769), German-born Dutch gardener and pomologist
 * Johannes Knoops (born c.1970), American architect
 * Ludwig Knoop (1821–1894), German cotton merchant and businessman
 * (1853–1931), German folklorist and collector of fairy tales
 * (born 1953), American race car driver
 * Savannah Knoop (born c.1980), half-sister of the partner of American writer Laura Albert (JT LeRoy)
 * Willem Jan Knoop (1811–1894), Dutch lieutenant-general, military historian, and politician