Knut (first name)

Knut is a male name .

variants

• Knud
• Knudt
• Knuth
• Canoe
• Canut
• Canuto
• English : Canute
• Finnish : Knutti
• Danish : Knud

Origin and meaning

Knut has been used as a name in the entire North German and Nordic language area since the Middle Ages . It comes from Old High German . The meaning of the name is not clear: The name is derived either from chnot (“free”, “ noble ”) or from chnuz (“daring”, “measured”). Another origin can be the old Swedish word knot , which meant "knot", and in a broader sense "family group".

name day

• January 7th : St. Knud Lavard
• July 10th : Canute IV. The Saint

Name bearer

Ruler

• Canute I , King of Denmark (around 934)
• Canute II the Great , King of England (1016-1035), Denmark (1019-1035) and Norway (1028-1035)
• Knut III. the hard , also called Hardiknut , King of Denmark (1035-1042) and England (1035-1037, 1040-1042)
• Canute IV. The Saint , King of Denmark (1080-1086)
• Knud Lavard , Duke of Schleswig
• Knut I , also known as Knut Eriksson , King of Sweden (1167–1196)
• Canute II , King of Sweden (1229–1234)

First name

Knut

• Canute of Denmark (1900–1976), Danish Prince and Crown Prince 1947–1953

• Knut Bohwim (1931–2020), Norwegian actor, screenwriter and director
• Knut Aastad Bråten (* 1976), Norwegian politician and journalist
• Knut Folkerts (* 1952), former RAF terrorist
• Knut Hamsun (1859–1952), Norwegian writer
• Knut Hartwig (1891–1977), German actor and voice actor
• Knut Hartwig (* 1969), German soccer player and actor
• Knut Hinz (* 1941), German actor
• Knut Hoffmeister (* 1956), German media artist
• Knut Ipsen (* 1935), German legal scholar
• Knut Kiesewetter (1941–2016), German musician
• Knut Kircher (* 1969), German football referee
• Knut von Kühlmann-Stumm (1916–1977), German politician (FDP, later CDU)
• Knut Pani (* 1956), Mexican painter and sculptor
• Knut Reinhardt (* 1968), German soccer player
• Knut Schmidt-Nielsen (1915-2007), American biologist
• Knut Steen (1924–2011), Norwegian sculptor
• Knut Terjung (* 1940), German journalist
• Knut Vollebæk (* 1946), Norwegian diplomat and politician
• Knut Wicksell (1851-1926), Swedish economist

Knud

• Knud Bielefeld (* 1967), German hobby name researcher
• Knud von Harbou (* 1946), German journalist
• Knud Jacobsen (1928–2019), Danish-Swiss painter, graphic artist, draftsman, wood cutter and sculptor
• Knud Enemark Jensen (1936–1960), Danish racing cyclist
• Knud Knudsen (1832–1915), Norwegian photography pioneer
• Knud Rasmussen (1879–1933), Danish polar explorer
• Knud Riepen (* 1981), German actor
• Knud Romer (* 1960), Danish writer
• Knud Wollenberger (1952–2012), Danish-German poet and MfS-IM

stage name

• Lord Knud ( Knud Kuntze; 1944–2020), German musician and radio host

Others

• Knut (2006–2011), world-famous polar bear in the Berlin Zoological Garden