Kovacs
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Kovacs or Kovács, or in its Slavic variant spelling Kovač or Kovac, is a common family name. Kovács or Kovač means smith in Slavic languages. The Hungarian language also borrowed this word from Slavic.
It is a cognate to English name Smith. There are 228,274 people in Hungary who are called Kovács[citation needed]; thus Kovács is the second most common surname among Hungarians.
- Ágnes Kovács, Hungarian swimmer
- Bill Kovacs, American pioneer of commercial computer animation technology
- Edit Kovács, Hungarian fencer
- Ella Kovacs, Romanian athlete
- Ernie Kovacs, American entertainer from the early days of television
- Frank Kovacs, American tennis player in the 1940s
- Greg Kovacs, American bodybuilder
- Iván Kovács, Hungarian fencer
- Joe Kovacs, American Puppeteer
- Kálmán Kovács Hungarian football (soccer) player
- Katalin Kovács, Hungarian canoer
- László Kovács, Hungarian politician and diplomat
- László Kovács (cinematographer) - Hungarian-American cinematographer
- Magda Kósáné Kovács, Hungarian politician and Member of the European Parliament
- Pál Kovács, Hungarian fencer
- Péter Kovács Hungarian football (soccer) player now playing in Norway
- Stefan Kovacs, a Romanian former soccer manager
- Viktor Kovács, Hungarian track and field athlete
Fictional characters:
- Takeshi Kovacs, a fictional character in many books by Richard Morgan
- Walter Kovacs, the identity of the character Rorschach, in the DC Comic seriesWatchmen
[edit] See also
- Kovač (Slavic form)
