title: Knowland
text: # Knowland
  
  Knowland is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
  
  * George Arthur Knowland VC (1922–1945), English recipient of the Victoria Cross during the Second World War
  * Joe Knowland (1930–2019), actor from Oakland, California
  * Joseph Knowland (1833–1912), father of U.S. Representative Joseph Russell Knowland, grandfather of U.S. Senator William Fife Knowland
  * Joseph R. Knowland (1873–1966), American politician and newspaper publisher
  * Tony Knowland (1919–2006), professor of English literature
  * William F. Knowland (1908–1974), United States politician, newspaperman, and Republican Party leader
  