Kossuth and its variations—Kossut, Kosuth, Košút, etc.—are surnames of
Slavic origin. The literal meaning is "a hornless forest animal", most commonly a female (doe) deer or roe deer. ''Ko-'' is a prefix that provides emphasis to the root ''šutý'', meaning "hornless".
In
Slovak, ''košuta'' or ''košút'' can also mean "a castrated goat", "a somersault", or, in dialect, "a bossy person".
Notable people with this surname include
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Ferenc Kossuth
Ferenc Lajos Ákos Kossuth de Udvard et Kossuthfalva (16 November 1841 – 25 May 1914) was a Hungarian civil engineer and politician.
Biography
The son of Hungarian revolutionary Lajos Kossuth, Ferenc was educated at the Paris Polytechnic ...
(1841–1914), Hungarian civil engineer and politician
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Lajos Kossuth
Lajos Kossuth de Udvard et Kossuthfalva (, hu, udvardi és kossuthfalvi Kossuth Lajos, sk, Ľudovít Košút, anglicised as Louis Kossuth; 19 September 1802 – 20 March 1894) was a Hungarian nobleman, lawyer, journalist, poli ...
(1802–1894), Hungarian lawyer, journalist, politician, and Governor-President of Hungary in 1849
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Małgorzata Kossut
Małgorzata Kossut (born 10 March 1950) is a Polish neuroscientist specializing in neuroplasticity and neural mechanisms of learning and memory, professor of natural sciences, Head of Department of Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology and Laborato ...
, Polish neuroscientist
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Joseph Kosuth
Joseph Kosuth (; born January 31, 1945), an American conceptual artist, lives in New York and London, (born 1945), American conceptual artist
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Juraj Košút (1776–1849), Slovak nobleman and lawyer from the
Kingdom of Hungary
The Kingdom of Hungary was a monarchy in Central Europe that existed for nearly a millennium, from the Middle Ages into the 20th century. The Principality of Hungary emerged as a Christian kingdom upon the coronation of the first king Stephen ...
who supported the Slovak national movement
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Marek Košút, Slovak football striker
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Tomáš Košút (born 1990), Slovak football defender
References
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Surnames of Slavic origin