Jesse Knight (July 5, 1850 – April 9, 1905) was a Justice of the Wyoming Supreme Court from December 18, 1897 to April 9, 1905. He in Boonville, New York, to Jesse and Henrietta Knight. His father died of yellow fever in the Isthmus of Panama before Knight was born. Knight attended Lewis, Oneida, and Fulton county schools, and then lived in Minnesota with his uncle from 1867 to 1869. He moved to Omaha, Nebraska, and then to the Territory of Wyoming, where he worked in various occupations including as a store clerk and postmaster.