Knee (disambiguation)

Knee may mean (besides a knee joint typical of mammals):

Other knee-like joint structures in animals:

• Equine knee, in horses and their kin
• Avian knee, in birds
• Arthropod knee, in legged kin of shellfish and insects

Non-animal structures with relatively sharp bends:

• Knee (construction), a bent piece of wood that takes stress, as commonly used in construction of wooden boats
• Cypress knee, structure on cypress-tree root

Knee or Knees can be a surname:

• Allan Knee, a film and television writer and playwright
• Bernie Knee (1924–1994), a singer/musician
• Christian Knees (born 1981), a German cyclist who rides for Team Milram in the UCI ProTour
• Derek Knee, (1922–2014), an interpreter for Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery
• Fred Knee (1868–1914), a British trade unionist and socialist politician
• Miriam Knee (born 1938), a former Australian cricketer

Knee can also refer to:

• A strike with the knee, see Knee (strike)
• A distinctive riverbend, see Knee (geography)
• knee of the curve, for example see Maximum power point tracker
• The knee setting in an electronic audio compressor device (soft or hard knee)
• Knees, the German name for Satchinez, Timiş County, Romania
• Knee energy region in physics is an energy spectra for cosmic rays
• Quarterback kneel, a football play