Famous People with Name Knut

Knut Nystedt,            Origin/Culture/Country: Norwegian

Knut Nystedt,: in Kristiania (now Oslo), Norway, is an orchestral and choral composer. He grew up in a Christian home where hymns and classical music were an important part of everyday life. His major compositions for choir and vocal soloists are mainly based on texts from the Bible or sacred themes. Old church music, especially Palestrina and Gregorian chants, have had a major influence on his compositions.

Knut Schreiner            Origin/Culture/Country: Norwegian

Knut Schreiner: Schreiner usually appears on stage in an all black attire, sporting a Schutz-Staffel Totenkopf officer's hat. His style of playing is strongly influenced by James Williamson of the Stooges from 1971 to 1974. Schreiner has confessed that Raw Power (1973) by the Stooges is one of his all-time favorite records. He is also influenced by Ace Frehley of KISS and Angus Young of AC/DC. Schreiner is also the lead guitarist and lead singer of his own band Euroboys, (formerly known as Ksre And The Cavemen). He also took part in the Black Diamond Brigade.

Knut Reinhardt            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Knut Reinhardt: a German former footballer who played as a Midfielder. Reinhardt had successful spells with Bayer Leverkusen and Borussia Dortmund, before ending his career at 1. FC Nuremberg. He won seven caps for Germany between 1988 and 1992. After his football career he started a second career as elementary school teacher.

Knut Kroon            Origin/Culture/Country: Swedish

Knut Kroon: was a Swedish footballer. He played as a striker.He began his career in Stattena IF. In 1925 he moved to the nearby club Helsingborgs IF where he made 516 appearances and scored 318 goals. he won Allsvenskan 5 times with the club he quit playing in 1942.

Knut Emil Lundmark            Origin/Culture/Country: Swedish

Knut Emil Lundmark: was a Swedish astronomer, professor of astronomy and head of the observatory at Lund University 1929-1955.Lundmark received his astronomical education at the observatory of Uppsala University. His dissertation (1920) was titled: The relations of the globular clusters and spiral nebulae to the stellar system. In the 1920s he worked at several observatories in the US, mainly Lick Observatory and Mount Wilson Observatory.Knut Lundmark was one of the pioneers in the modern study of the galaxies and their distances. He was one of the first to suspect that the galaxies are remote stellar systems at vast distances and not nearby objects belonging to our own galaxy, the Milky Way. In 1919 he measured the distance to M31 - the Andromeda Galaxy, to 650 000 light years (about a fourth of the present day value) using magnitudes of novae found in M31 and comparing them to nearby ones with known distances