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
• Edgar Knoop (born 1936), German contemporary painter and sculptor
• Etienne Knoops (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
• Gerhard Ouckama Knoop (1861–1913), German novelist
• Hans Knoop (born 1943), Dutch journalist
• Johann Knoop (1846–1882), Russian collector of musical instruments ("Baron Knoop"), son of Ludwig
• Johann Hermann Knoop (1706–1769), German-born Dutch gardener and pomologist
• Johannes Knoops (born c.1970), American architect
• Ludwig Knoop (1821–1894), German cotton merchant and businessman
• Otto Knoop (1853–1931), German folklorist and collector of fairy tales
• Rick Knoop (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

See also

• Knop (disambiguation)
• Koop (disambiguation)
• Noop (disambiguation)