Kos (surname)
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Kos, meaning "blackbird", is a Slavic surname. It is very common in Slovenia, Croatia, Poland, Ukraine, and the Czech Republic.
It is the 10th most common surname in Slovenia.[1] Unlike many other Slovene surnames, Kos is found throughout the country, although it's more common in the central and eastern regions than in the west.[1]
It is the third most common surname in the Zagreb County of Croatia.[2]
People
Slovenia
- Božo Kos (1931–2009), Slovenian illustrator, caricaturist and comics artist
- Gojmir Anton Kos (1896–1970), Slovenian painter
- Janko Kos (born 1931), Slovenian literary historian
- Milko Kos (1892–1972), Slovenian historian
Elsewhere
- Anatoliy Kos-Anatolsky (1909–1983), Ukrainian composer
- Ćiril Kos (1919–2003), Croatian Catholic prelate
- Joanna Kos-Krauze (born 1972), Polish filmmaker
- Józef Kos (1900–2007), Polish war veteran
- Károly Kós (1883–1977), Hungarian architect
- Maja Kos (born 1968), Serbian synchronized swimmer
- Mile Kos (1925–2014), Serbian footballer
- Monika Kos (born 1967), Australian journalist
- Paul Kos (born 1942), American conceptual artist
- René Kos (born 1955), Dutch cyclist
- Rudolph Kos (born 1945), American priest
- Stephen Kós (born 1959), New Zealand judge
- Tomasz Kos (born 1974), Polish footballer
- Vladimir Kos (1936–2017), Czech football player
References
- 1 2 "Napaka 404".
- ↑ "Most frequent surnames, 2011 Census". Census of Population, Households and Dwellings 2011. Zagreb: Croatian Bureau of Statistics. December 2012.
See also
- All pages with titles containing Kos