Knowlton is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
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Andrew Knowlton
Andrew Knowlton was the Restaurant Editor at ''Bon Appétit'' magazine, where he worked for 18 years, starting in 2000. He has also been the host of several cooking competition shows, including ''The Final Table''.
Early life
Knowlton was born in ...
, American magazine editor and television personality
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Austin Eldon Knowlton
Austin Eldon Knowlton (July 23, 1909 – June 25, 2003) was a trained architect who spent most of his career in the construction industry. His company designed, financed, and built more than 160 college and university buildings on every major ...
(1909–2003), American architect
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Bill Knowlton (1898–1944), American baseball pitcher
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Charles Knowlton
Charles Knowlton (May 10, 1800 – February 20, 1850) was an American physician and writer. He was an atheist.
Education
Knowlton was born May 10, 1800 in Templeton, Massachusetts. His parents were Stephen and Comfort (White) Knowlton; his ...
(1800–1850), American physician and writer
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Daniel Gibson Knowlton (1922–2015), American bookbinder
*David Clark Knowlton, American social anthropologist and contributor to ''
Mormonism: A Historical Encyclopedia''
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Ebenezer Knowlton
Ebenezer Knowlton (December 6, 1815 – September 10, 1874) was a U.S. Representative from Maine, and Free Will Baptist minister.
Biography
Born in Pittsfield, New Hampshire, Knowlton moved with his parents to South Montville, Maine, in 182 ...
(1815–1874), American politician and minister
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Edward U. Knowlton
Edward Ute Knowlton (June 24, 1933 – December 1, 2016) was an American physician and politician.
Born in Ogden, Utah, Knowlton graduated from the University of Utah School of Medicine and then practiced medicine in Kaysville, Utah. He serve ...
(1933–2016), American physician and politician
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Frank Hall Knowlton
Frank Hall Knowlton (September 2, 1860 - November 22, 1926) was an American botanist, ornithologist and naturalist. Born in Vermont, he joined the Geological Survey and took an interest in fossil plants in the local lignite, later becoming a sp ...
(1860–1926), American paleobotanist
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Grace Knowlton
Grace Knowlton (1932 – 4 December 2020) was an American sculptor and photographer who was known for her outdoor sculptures. Her work has been exhibited at the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and other venues.
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(1932–2020), American sculptor
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James H. Knowlton (1813–1879), American politician
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Ken Knowlton
Kenneth Charles Knowlton (June 6, 1931 – June 16, 2022) was an American computer graphics pioneer, artist, mosaicist and portraitist. In 1963, while working at Bell Labs, he developed the BEFLIX programming language for creating bitmap comput ...
, American computer graphics pioneer and artist
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Miles Justice Knowlton (1825–1874), American missionary
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Nancy Knowlton
Nancy Knowlton is a coral reef biologist and a former Sant Chair for Marine Science at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.
Life
She graduated from Harvard University, and from the University of California, Berkeley, with a PhD. ...
(1949–), American biologist
*Richard Knowlton, former CEO of the
Hormel
Hormel Foods Corporation is an American food processing company founded in 1891 in Austin, Minnesota, by George A. Hormel as George A. Hormel & Company. The company originally focused on the packaging and selling of ham, sausage and other pork, ...
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Thomas Knowlton
Thomas W. Knowlton (November 22, 1740 – September 16, 1776) was an American patriot who served in the French and Indian War and was a colonel during the American Revolution. Knowlton is considered America's first Intelligence professional, ...
(1740–1776), American military officer
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William A. Knowlton
General William Allen Knowlton (June 19, 1920 – August 10, 2008) was a United States Army four-star general, and a former Superintendent of the United States Military Academy. As a full general, he served as Commander, Allied Land Forces South ...
(1920–2008), American army general
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Wiram Knowlton
Wiram Knowlton (January 24, 1816June 27, 1863) was an American politician and jurist from Wisconsin. He was a Wisconsin Circuit Court Judge and '' ex officio'' Justice of the pre-1853 Wisconsin Supreme Court (the Wisconsin Supreme Court before 185 ...
(1816–1863), American politician
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