Knut

For other uses, see Knut (disambiguation).

Knut (Norwegian and Swedish), Knud (Danish), or Knútur (Icelandic) is a Scandinavian and German first name, of which the anglicised form is Canute. In Germany both "Knut" and "Knud" are used. In Spanish and Portuguese Canuto is used which comes from the Latin version Canutus, and in Finland, the name Nuutti is based on the name Knut. The name is derived from the Old Norse Knútr meaning "knot". In English the K is not mute, so the name is not pronounced nut or nute.

It is the name of several medieval kings of Denmark, two of whom also reigned over England during the first half of the 11th century.

People

• Harthaknut I of Denmark (Knut I, Danish: Hardeknud) (b. c. 890), king of Denmark
• Knut the Great (Knut II, Danish: Knud den Store or Knud II) (d. 1035), Viking king of England, Denmark and Norway
  • Subject of the apocryphal King Canute and the waves
• Harthaknut (Knut III, Danish: Hardeknud or Knud III) (d. 1042), king of Denmark and England
• Saint Knud IV of Denmark (Danish: Knud IV), king of Denmark (r. 1080–1086) and martyr
• Knud Lavard (d. 1131), Danish prince and saint
• Knud V of Denmark (Danish: Knud V), king of Denmark (r. 1146–1157)
• Canute I of Sweden (Swedish: Knut Eriksson) (king 1173–1195)
• Canute II of Sweden (Swedish: Knut Långe) (king 1229–1234)
• Knud VI of Denmark (Danish: Knud VI), king of Denmark (r. 1182–1202)
• Knut Wallenberg (1853-1938), Swedish Minister of Foreign Affairs and banker
• Knut Hamsun (1859–1952), Norwegian author
• Knud Rasmussen (1879–1933), Greenlandic polar explorer and anthropologist
• Knute Rockne (1888–1931), American football player and coach
• Knute Cauldwell (1896-1952), American football player
• Knud, Hereditary Prince of Denmark (1900–1976), younger son of King Christian X
• Knud Reimers (1906–1987), Danish yacht designer
• Knut Haukelid (1911-1994), American-born Norwegian soldier and resistance fighter
• Knut Schmidt-Nielsen (1915–2007), Norwegian-born American biologist
• Knut Haugland (1917–2009), Norwegian resistance fighter and explorer
• Knud Heinesen (born 1932), Danish politician
• Knut Hergel (1899–1982), Norwegian actor
• Knut Frydenlund (1927–1987), Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs
• Knut Vollebæk (born 1946), Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs
• Knut Knudsen (born 1950), Norwegian cyclist, Olympic and World Champion
• Knut Fleckenstein (born 1953), German politician
• Knut Storberget (born 1964), Norwegian politician and former Minister of Justice
• Knut Reinhardt (born 1968), German footballer
• Knut Risan (1930–2011), Norwegian actor
• Knut Arild Hareide (born 1972), leader of Norway's Christian Democratic Party, and a former Minister of the Environment
• Knut Schreiner (born 1974), Norwegian guitarist for Turbonegro, Euroboys, Mirror Lakes, and music producer
• Knut Wicksell (1851–1926), Swedish economist
• Knut Abraham (born 1966), German politician

Other

• Knut (polar bear) (2006–2011), a polar bear at the Berlin Zoo who attracted worldwide attention
• Adonis Cnut, Rik Mayall's character in the sitcom Believe Nothing
• Knut (band), a Swiss mathcore band
• The Knut, a unit of currency in the fictitious Harry Potter universe
• KNUT, a radio station in Guam
• Knout, a heavy scourge-like multiple whip

See also

• Knudsen (disambiguation)
• Knutsford
• Knuth
• Kyiv National University of Trade and Economics (KNUTE)
• Nuuttipukki