Kovács

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Kovács or Kovacs is one of the most common Hungarian family names.

History[]

The name is found in Hungary and Hungarian expatriate communities. There are similar names with the Kováts or Kovách spellings. The name means "blacksmith" in Hungarian, and it is a loanword from Slavic languages. There are 221,688 people in Hungary who are named Kovács, making the name the second most common family name among Hungarians.^{[citation needed]}

Cognates[]

• Covaci in Romania
• Koufax in Yiddish
• Kovač in many South Slavic and West Slavic communities
• Kováč in Slovakia
• Kovach, the Carpatho-Ruthenian form
• Kovachev in Bulgaria
• in Albania
• in Belarus (also Kavalchuk, , Kavaliou, Kavalski, , Kavalevich)
• Koval in Ukraine (also Kovalchuk, Kovalenko, Kovalev)
• Kovář (also Kováč) in Czech Republic.
• Kowal in Poland (also Kowalczyk, Kowalski)

Notable people[]

• Ágnes Kovács (born 1981), Hungarian swimmer
• Angela Kovács, Swedish actress
• Barbara Kovács, Hungarian racewalker
• Balázs Kovács, Hungarian athlete
• Bill Kovacs (1949–2006), American pioneer of commercial computer animation technology
• Dan Kovacs (born 1970), American powerlifter
• Dénes Kovács (1930–2005), Hungarian violinist
• Edit Kovács (fencer), Hungarian fencer
• Edit Kovács (swimmer), Hungarian swimmer
• Ella Kovacs (born 1964), Romanian athlete
• Ernie Kovacs (1919–1962), American entertainer
• Ervin Kováts (1927–2012), Hungarian-born Swiss chemist known for the Kovats retention index
• Frank Kovacs (1919–1990), American tennis player
• Fred Kovacs, American soccer player
• Gábor Kovács (financier) (born 1957), Hungarian financier, banker, art collector, philanthropist and founder of KOGART
• Greg Kovacs (born 1968), American bodybuilder
• Iván Kovács (born 1970), Hungarian fencer
• János Kovács (born 1985), Hungarian footballer
• Joe Kovacs (puppeteer) (born 1967), American puppeteer
• Joe Kovacs (born 1989), American track and field athlete
• Julie Kovacs, American chemist
• Kálmán Kovács (disambiguation)
• Katalin Kovács (born 1976), Hungarian canoer
• Ladislav Kovács (born 1991), Slovak Counter-Strike: Global Offensive player
• László Kovács (politician) (born 1939), Hungarian politician and diplomat
• László Kovács (cinematographer) (1933–2007), Hungarian-American cinematographer
• Magda Kósáné Kovács (born 1940), Hungarian politician and Member of the European Parliament
• Michal Kováč (1930-2016), first president of Slovakia
• Mišo Kovač (born 1941), Croatian singer
• Margit Kovács (1902–1977) Hungarian ceramist and sculptor
• Pál Kovács (1912–1995), Hungarian fencer
• Péter Kovács (footballer) (born 1978), Hungarian footballer
• Richard Kovacs (1885–1950), physician
• Robin Kovacs (born 1996), Swedish ice hockey player
• Rita Kovács, Hungarian swimmer
• Sándor J. Kovács (born 1947), Hungarian-American cardiologist
• Sandy Koufax (born 1935), American baseball player
• Sharon Kovacs (born 1990), Dutch singer
• István Kovács (footballer born 1920) (1920–1995), Romanian football manager
• Viktor Kovács (born 1973), Hungarian track and field athlete
• Zoltán Kovács (ice hockey) (born 1962), ice hockey coach and administrator
• Zsófia Kovács (triathlete) (born 1988), Hungarian triathlete

Fictional characters[]

• Takeshi Kovacs, a fictional character in three books by Richard Morgan
• Walter Kovacs, the identity of the character Rorschach, in the DC Comic series Watchmen
• Kirilli Kovacs, a character in Darren Shan's series, The Demonata.

Surname list

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