Knoop

Knoop is a Dutch and Low German surname. Meaning "knot" and "button", it may have a metonymic origin referring to button maker.Knoop at the Database of Surnames in the Netherlands 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

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