Kossuth (surname)
Kossuth are surnames of Slavic origin. the word literally means a hornless forest animal, a female deer or roe deer. Ko - emphasizing prefix, šutý - hornless. Serbian, Croatian, Slovene, Bulgarian, Old Church Slavonic - košuta, košút means in Slovak also a castrated goat, a somersault or a bossy person.
The surnames may refer to:
- Ferenc Kossuth, Hungarian civil engineer and politician
- Lajos Kossuth, Hungarian lawyer, journalist, politician and Governor-President of Hungary in 1849
- Małgorzata Kossut, Polish neuroscientist
- Joseph Kosuth, American conceptual artist
- Juraj Košút, Slovak nobleman from the Kingdom of Hungary, a lawyer and a supporter of the Slovak national movement
- Marek Košút, Slovak football striker
- Tomáš Košút, Slovak football defender
