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
 * Aloysius Leo Knott (died 1918), American politician, lawyer and educator
 * Andrew Knott (born 1979), English actor
 * Annie M. Knott (1850–1941), prominent Scottish-born Christian Scientist
 * Bert Knott (1914–1986), English footballer
 * Bill Knott (politician) (1921–2013), Australian politician
 * Bill Knott (poet) (1940–2014), 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
 * Ian Knott, New Zealand technology writer
 * 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
 * Kristina Knott (born 1995), Filipino-American sprinter
 * 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 (1933–2020), 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

See also:
 * Knotts, a surname
 * Nott (disambiguation)