Franklin W. Knight (born 1942) is a Jamaican historian of Latin America and the Caribbean.
He is an emeritus professor at Johns Hopkins University, where he was the Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Professor of History from 1993 to 2014 and director of the Centre for Africana Studies.
[3] Prior to joining the faculty at Johns Hopkins, Knight was Assistant Professor of History at Stony Brook University.
[1] From 1998 to 2000, he served as the President of the Latin American Studies Association.
[3] In 2007, Knight was awarded an honorary doctorate from his alma mater, the University of the West Indies.