Knoop is a

Dutch Dutch commonly refers to: * Something of, from, or related to the Netherlands * Dutch people () * Dutch language () Dutch may also refer to: Places * Dutch, West Virginia, a community in the United States * Pennsylvania Dutch Country People E ...

and

Low German : : : : : (70,000) (30,000) (8,000) , familycolor = Indo-European , fam2 = Germanic , fam3 = West Germanic , fam4 = North Sea Germanic , ancestor = Old Saxon , ancestor2 = Middle L ...

surname. Meaning "knot" and "button", it may have a

metonymic Metonymy () is a figure of speech in which a concept is referred to by the name of something closely associated with that thing or concept. Etymology The words ''metonymy'' and ''metonym'' come from grc, μετωνυμία, 'a change of name' ...

origin referring to button maker.Knoop
at the Database of Surnames in the Netherlands Notable people with the surname include: *

Abe Knoop Abe Knoop (born 28 August 1963 in Curaçao) is a Dutch professional football goalkeeping coach. He is currently the goalkeeping coach of the Iran national football team under the wing of Afshin Ghotbi. During his playing career, Knoop was prim ...

(born 1963), Dutch football goalkeeper and goalkeeping coach *

Anneliese Knoop-Graf Anneliese Knoop-Graf (January 30 1921 – August 27 2009) was the youngest sister of Willi Graf, who was one of the main members of the White Rose The White Rose (german: Weiße Rose, ) was a Nonviolence, non-violent, intellectual German re ...

(1921–2009), German non-fiction writer *

Bobby Knoop Robert Frank Knoop ( ; born October 18, 1938) is an American former Major League Baseball second baseman and coach. In his nine-year MLB career, he appeared in 1,153 games as a member of the Los Angeles / California Angels (1964–69), Chicago W ...

(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 The Knoop hardness test is a microhardness test – a test for mechanical hardness used particularly for very brittle materials or thin sheets, where only a small indentation may be made for testing purposes. A pyramidal diamond point is pressed i ...

, a microhardness test for very brittle materials developed by him *

Gerhard Knoop Gerhard Herman Knoop (3 November 1920 – 25 October 2009) was a Norwegian actor, stage producer and theatre director. Early and personal life Knoop was born in Kristiania (present-day Oslo), the son of Herman Waldemar Knoop (1887–1961) a ...

(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 Baron Johann Ludwig von Knoop (15 May 1821, in Bremen – 14 August 1894, in Bremen) was a cotton merchant and entrepreneur from the city-state Free Hanseatic City of Bremen, who became one of the richest entrepreneurs in his time. He was created ...

(1821–1894), German cotton merchant and businessman * (1853–1931), German folklorist and collector of fairy tales * (born 1953), American race car driver *

Savannah Knoop Savannah Knoop (born 1981) is an American artist and filmmaker. From 1999 to 2005, Knoop performed the public role of literary hoax JT Leroy. Early life Knoop grew up in the San Francisco Bay area, born to artist and acupuncturist Sharon Hennes ...

(born c.1980), half-sister of the partner of American writer Laura Albert (JT LeRoy) *

Willem Jan Knoop Willem Jan Knoop (2 May 1811 in Deventer – 24 January 1894 in The Hague) was a Dutch lieutenant-general, military historian, and politician. As a young captain of the Dutch General Staff he wrote a rebuttal of the British military historian Wil ...

(1811–1894), Dutch lieutenant-general, military historian, and politician

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