Eleanor Marie Knott MRIA (born Philippa Marie Eleanor Knott; 18 November 1886 – 4 January 1975) was an Irish scholar, academic and lexicographer, as well as one of the first women elected to the Royal Irish Academy.

Knott worked for the school in the administration section until she won a scholarship in 1907 which allowed her to continue studying.

[3][4][5][6][7][8] However she also managed to achieve an academic career in Trinity College Dublin when she was appointed lecturer in Celtic languages in 1928.

Her master's was completed in 1932; her doctorate in 1938 and a special chair created when she became the Professor of early Irish there in 1939.

As an academic Knott contributed to journals and was joint editor of Éiru but also using the names EK, PMEK and Finnéigeas, she wrote articles for Sinn Féin and The Irish Peasant as a nationalist.