Knabe
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Knabe is a German surname originally literally meaning "young attendant, servant, squire".[1] Nowadays, but becoming outdated, in German a "Knabe" is a about 10 to 15 years old boy. Notable people with the surname include:
- Don Knabe (born 1943), American politician
- Hubertus Knabe (born 1959), German historian
- Kerstin Knabe (born 1959), German athlete
- Morgan Knabe (born 1981), breaststroke swimmer from Canada
- Otto Knabe (1884–1961), American baseball player
- Sebastian Knabe (born 1978), German decathlete
- Wilhelm Knabe (1923–2021), German ecologist, pacifist, civil servant and politician
- Wm. Knabe & Co., piano manufacturing company founded by Wilhelm Knabe (1803 - 1864)
- Wolfgang Knabe (born 1959), German athlete
- Eva Schulze-Knabe (1907–1976), German painter
