Surname Knies (Knies 
, 克尼斯, Книс 
) , worldwide, is quite a rare last name. The cognomen Knies is characteristic of Germany, where it is quite a rare surname, Netherlands, where it is a rare surname, and Kazakhstan. Measured by absolute frequency, this name is the most popular in Germany, the United States, and Brazil.
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| Knies | United States, Poland, Germany, Netherlands, Brazil |
| Книс | Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan |
| Кніс | Ukraine |
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karl gustav adolf knies German economist, DE (b. 1821) |
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jan knies Czech archeologist, geologist and paleontologist, CZ (b. 1860) |
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| max knies (b. 1851) |
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| richard knies DE (b. 1886) |
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| hans knies (b. 1898) |
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| wolfgang knies German judge and politician, DE (b. 1934) |
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| guillaume knies NL (b. 1938) |
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| saskia knies researcher |
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| jochen knies researcher (ORCID 0000-0002-0114-5629) |
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| angelina yasuko knies Ph.D. North Carolina State University 2018 |
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| allan douglas knies Ph.D. Purdue University 1995 |
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| eva knies researcher |
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| susanne knies Dr. rer. nat. Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn 1998 |
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| gundi knies researcher, ORCID id # 0000-0002-0251-2865 |
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| helmut m. knies United States archivist |
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