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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) •
Knut Eriksson, king of Sweden (r. 1173–1195) •
Knut Långe, king of Sweden (r. 1229–1234) •
Knud VI of Denmark (Danish: Knud VI), king of Denmark (r. 1182–1202) •
Knut Wicksell (1851–1926), Swedish economist •
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 •
Knut Risan (1930–2011), Norwegian actor •
Knud Heinesen (1932–2025), Danish politician •
Knut Hergel (1899–1982), Norwegian actor •
Knut Frydenlund (1927–1987), Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs •
Knut Engdahl (born 1933), Norwegian politician •
Knut Vollebæk (born 1946), Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs •
Knut Knudsen (born 1950), Norwegian cyclist, Olympic and World Champion •
Knut Hamre (born 1952), Norwegian Hardanger fiddle player • (born 1953) •
Knut Fleckenstein (born 1953), German politician •
Knut Petter Torgersen (born 1955), Norwegian politician •
Knut Storberget (born 1964), Norwegian politician and former Minister of Justice •
Knut Abraham (born 1966), German politician •
Knut Reinhardt (born 1968), German footballer •
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 ==Fictional characters==