Cosmas

Cosmas or Kosmas is a Greek name and may refer to:

Saints
  • Saints Cosmas and Damian (fl. 3rd century AD), Christian martyrs and physicians
  • Cosmas the Monk, (fl. 7th century AD), a Sicilian monk and tutor to John of Damascus and Cosmas of Maiuma
  • Cosmas of Maiuma (d. 773 or 794), Syrian bishop and hymnographer, also known as Cosmas of Jerusalem, Cosmas Hagiopolites, or Cosmas the Melodist
  • Cosmas of Aphrodisia (d. 1160), Sicilian Bishop and Martyr
  • Cosmas of Aetolia (1714-1779), Greek orthodox priestmonk and missionary
Patriarchs
  • Patriarch Cosmas I of Constantinople (fl. 1075-1081), Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Constantinople
  • Patriarch Cosmas II of Constantinople (fl. 1146-1147, Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Constantinople
  • Patriarch Cosmas I of Alexandria (727-768), Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria
  • Patriarch Cosmas II of Alexandria (fl. 1714-1736), Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria
  • Patriarch Cosmas III of Alexandria (fl. 1737-1746), Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria
  • Pope Cosmas I of Alexandria (fl. 729-730), Coptic Patriarch of Alexandria
  • Pope Cosmas II of Alexandria (fl. 851-858), Coptic Patriarch of Alexandria
  • Pope Cosmas III of Alexandria (fl. 921-933), Coptic Patriarch of Alexandria
Other people named Cosmas
  • Cosmas the Priest (10th century?), Bulgarian writer
  • Christopher and Cosmas (fl. 1587-1592), Japanese explorers
  • Cosmas Damian Asam (1686-1739), German painter and architect
  • Cosmas Indicopleustes (fl. 6th century AD), Greek explorer
  • Cosmas Magaya (b. 1953), Zimbabwean mbira player
  • Cosmas Ndeti (b. 1971), Kenyan marathon runner
  • Cosmas of Prague (c. 1045-1125), Bohemian historian
  • Cosmas Zachos (b. 1951), American physicist
  • George Cosmas Adyebo (1945-2000), former Prime Minister of Uganda
  • Johann Nepomuk Cosmas Michael Denis (1729-1800), Austrian poet, bibliographer and lepidopterist
  • Kosmas Chatzicharalabous, former president of the Greek football club AEK Athens F.C.
  • Kosmas Kiriakidis, former president of the Greek football club AEK Athens F.C.
  • Suzanne Kosmas (b. 1944), American politician
Place names
  • Agios Kosmas Olympic Sailing Centre, a facility of the 2004 Summer Olympics at Athens, Greece
  • Kosmas, Greece, a municipal unit in Arcadia, Greece
  • Kosmas o Aitolos, a municipal unit in Grevena regional unit, Greece
Churches buildings
  • Basilica Santi Cosma e Damiano, a church in Rome, Italy
  • Church of Cosmas and Damian, a church in medieval Novgorod the Great
  • Church of Saint Cosmas and Damian, a church on Lastovo Island, Croatia
  • St Cosmas and St Damian Church, Keymer, a church in West Sussex, England
Airlines
  • Kosmas Air, a former Serbian cargo airline
Media
  • Kosmas - Czechoslovak and Central European Journal, multidisciplinary bi-annual journal