Kosta is a given name and nickname, often a short form of Konstantine or Konstantin. Bearers of the name include:

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  • Kostantin Kosta Alkovic (1834–1909), Serbian physicist, state advisor and minister of construction
  • Konstantinos Kosta Barbarouses (born 1990), New Zealand footballer
  • Kostandinos Kosta Grozos (born 2000), Australian soccer player
  • Kostadinos Kosta Karageorge (1992–2014), American football player and collegiate wrestler whose suicide raised issues about chronic traumatic encephalopathy in athletes
  • Konstantin Kosta Khetagurov (1859–1906), national poet who is generally regarded as the founder of Ossetian literature
  • Konstantine Kosta Koufos (born 1989), Greek-American basketball player
  • Konstantin Kosta Magazinović (1819–1891), Serbian politician and diplomat
  • Kostantin Kosta Milovanović (1847–1905), Serbian general and rifle designer
  • Konstantin Kosta Mušicki (1897–1946), Yugoslav brigadier general who commanded the collaborationist Serbian Volunteer Corps during World War II
  • Konstantin Kosta Nađ (1911–1986), Yugoslav World War II Partisan Army general
  • Konstantin Kosta Pećanac (1879–1944), Serbian and Yugoslav Chetnik commander during the Balkan Wars, World War I and World War II
  • Konstantin Kosta Vojnović (1832–1903), Croatian Serb politician, university professor and rector

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