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| Language(s) | English |
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| Language(s) | English |
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| Meaning | "at the knoll" |
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| Variant form(s) | Knollys, Knolles, Knoll, Knowle, Noll, Noel, Nowell |
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Knowles ([1]) is an English surname of Old English origin. This is a locality name meaning 'at the knoll,' a hill or summit, derived from Old English word cnolle or Middle English knol,[2] meaning hilltop and thus describes a person who lived at such a place. It can also be an Anglicized version of the Irish name Ó Tnúthghail. It literally means people of the tribe.
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- Bernard Knowles (1900–1975), English film director
- Beyoncé Knowles-Carter (born 1981), American R&B singer and actress
- Barry Knowles (born 1965), Liverpool Football Club supporter and "Spirit of Shankly" (Liverpool FC Supporters Union) member from Dudley, West Midlands
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- Cameron Knowles (born 1982), New Zealand footballer
- Carl Knowles (1910–1981), American basketball player
- Admiral of the White Sir Charles Knowles, 1st Baronet (1704–1777) (see Knowles Baronets)
- Admiral of the Red Sir Charles Knowles, 2nd Baronet (1754–1831)
- Chris Knowles (footballer), English footballer
- Christopher Knowles (poet) (born 1959), American poet
- Christopher Knowles (comics), American comic book artist and writer
- Clayton Knowles, New York Times correspondent
- Conrad Knowles (1810–1844), Australian actor
- Craig Knowles (born 1959), Australian politician
- Cyril Knowles (1944–1991), an English association football player
- Cyril Knowles (rugby league) (1915–1957), an English rugby league football player, father of the association football player
- Cyril J. Knowles (1905–1961), a British cinematographer
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- Harriet Knowles (fl. 1845), the first actress in Australia
- Harry Knowles (born 1971), online film critic
- Herbert Knowles (poet) (1798–1817), English poet
- Herbert Bain Knowles (1894–1975), United States Navy officer
- Hiram Knowles (1834–1911), judge of the United States District Court for the District of Montana
- Horace G. Knowles (1863–1937), American attorney
- Horace J Knowles (1884–1954), author and illustrator
- Hugh S. Knowles (1904–1988), American acoustical engineer, inventor, and manufacturer
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- Jacob Knowles, American lobsterman and social media content creator
- James Knowles (lexicographer) (1759–1840), Irish schoolteacher and lexicographer, father of James Sheridan Knowles
- James Knowles, convicted of murdering Michael Donald in 1981
- James Hinton Knowles (1856–1943), British Missionary to Kashmir
- James Thomas Knowles (1831–1908) (1831–1908), British architect and literary editor
- James Sheridan Knowles (1784–1862), Irish dramatist and actor
- James Thomas Knowles (1806–1884), British architect and father of Sir James Knowles
- Jeremy R. Knowles (1935–2008), chemistry professor at Harvard University
- Jeremy Knowles (swimmer) (born 1981), Bahamian swimmer
- Jesse Knowles (1919–2006), American businessman and politician
- Jo-Anne Knowles (born 1971), English actress
- John Evans Knowles (1914–2011), Canadian politician
- John Knowles (1926–2001), American author
- Julian Knowles (born 1965), Australian composer
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- Oliver Knowles, instrumentalist for the music group Snow Ghosts
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See also
References
- ^ Jones, Daniel; Roach, Peter, James Hartman and William Newell, eds. Cambridge English Pronouncing Dictionary. 17th edition. Cambridge UP, 2006.
- ^ "Knoll".
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