Kovacs

Kovacs or Kovács, or in its Slavic variant spelling Kovač or Kovac, is a common family name. (There are similar names with the Kováts and Kovách form with the same spelling.) Kovács means smith in the Hungarian language, Kovač means the same in some Slavic languages.

It is a cognate to English name Smith. There are 221,687 people in Hungary who are called "Kovács"; thus "Kovács" is the second most common family name among Hungarians.

* Ágnes Kovács, Hungarian swimmer
* Brian Kovacs, American pornstar
* Bill Kovacs, American pioneer of commercial computer animation technology
* Dan Kovacs, American powerlifter
* 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
* Fred Kovacs, American soccer player
* Greg Kovacs, American bodybuilder
* Iván Kovács, Hungarian fencer
* János Kovács, Hungarian footballer
* Joe Kovacs, American Puppeteer
* Kálmán Kovács , Hungarien-Canadian doctor and researcher
* 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:
* Steven M. Kovacs, played by Matthew Broderick in the movie "The Cable Guy" with Jim Carrey
* Takeshi Kovacs, a fictional character in many books by Richard Morgan
* Walter Kovacs, the identity of the character Rorschach, in the DC Comic series "Watchmen"

See also

* Kovač (Slavic form)