Kosta (given name)
Kosta is a given name and nickname, often a short form of Konstantine or Konstantin. Bearers of the name include:
Given name
- Kosta Abrašević, Serbian poet
- Kosta Aleksić, Serbian footballer
- Kosta Bjedov, Serbian footballer
- Kosta Čavoški, Serbian law professor
- Kosta Dzugaev, South Ossetian politician
- Kosta Hristić, Serbian lawyer, diplomat and Minister of Justice
- Kosta Josipović, Serbian Impressionist painter
- Kosta Koça, Albanian footballer and coach
- Kosta Miličević, Serbian Impressionist painter
- Kosta Nedeljković, Serbian footballer
- Kosta Novaković, Serbian and Yugoslav socialist politician, journalist and professor
- Kosta Papić, Serbian football coach
- Kosta Perović, Serbian basketball player
- Kosta Petratos, Australian soccer player
- Kosta Protić, first Serbian general and a Chief of the Serbian General Staff
- Kosta Runjaić, German football manager
- Kosta Apostolov Solev, pen name Kočo Racin, Macedonian author and socialist activist considered a founder of modern Macedonian literature
- Kosta Taušanović, Serbian politician, government minister and banker
- Kosta Tomašević, Serbian footballer
- Kosta Trifković, Serbian playwright
- Kosta Vojinović, Serbian officer, one of the leaders of the Toplica Uprising against Bulgarian occupiers of Serbia
Nickname
- Kostantin Kosta Alkovic, Serbian physicist, state advisor and minister of construction
- Konstantinos Kosta Barbarouses, New Zealand footballer
- Kostandinos Kosta Grozos, Australian soccer player
- Kostadinos Kosta Karageorge, American football player and collegiate wrestler whose suicide raised issues about chronic traumatic encephalopathy in athletes
- Konstantin Kosta Khetagurov, national poet who is generally regarded as the founder of Ossetian literature
- Konstantine Kosta Koufos, Greek-American basketball player
- Konstantin Kosta Magazinović, Serbian politician and diplomat
- Kostantin Kosta Milovanović, Serbian general and rifle designer
- Konstantin Kosta Mušicki, Yugoslav brigadier general who commanded the collaborationist Serbian Volunteer Corps during World War II
- Konstantin Kosta Nađ, Yugoslav World War II Partisan Army general
- Konstantin Kosta Pećanac, Serbian and Yugoslav Chetnik commander during the Balkan Wars, World War I and World War II
- Konstantin Kosta Vojnović, Croatian Serb politician, university professor and rector