Kohout (feminine: Kohoutová) is a

Czech surname Czech names are composed of a given name and a family name (surname). Czechs typically get one given name – additional names may be chosen by themselves upon baptism but they generally use one. With marriage, the bride typically adopts the bride ...

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'. The Polish counterpart is Kogut and the Slovak counterpart is Kohút. Notable people with the surname include: * Aleš Kohout (born 1972), Czech footballer * Antonín Kohout (1919–2013), Czech cellist *

Eduard Kohout František Eduard Kohout (6 March 1889 – 25 October 1976) was a Czech stage, film actor and television actor.Mitchell p.57 Selected filmography * ''Battalion'' (1937) * '' The Magic House'' (1939) * '' Nocturnal Butterfly'' (1941) * '' The Danc ...

(1889–1976), Czech actor * Jan Kohout (born 1961), Czech diplomat and politician *Josef Kohout, known under his pen name Heinz Heger (1917–1994), Austrian Nazi concentration camp survivor * Michal Kohout (born 1996), Czech cyclist * Milan Kohout (born 1955), Czech-American artist and writer *

Pavel Kohout Pavel Kohout (born 20 July 1928) is a Czech and Austrian novelist, playwright, and poet. He was a member of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, a Prague Spring participant and dissident in the 1970s until he was not allowed to return from A ...

(born 1928), Czech-Austrian novelist, playwright and poet *

Pavel Kohout (organist) Pavel Kohout (born 1976 in Prague, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech organist. He is a graduate of the Prague Conservatory and the Faculty of Music of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague under the tutelage of Prof. Jaroslav Tůma. In 1999–20 ...

(born 1976), Czech organist *

Slavka Kohout Slavka Kohout Button (December 14, 1932 – March 17, 2024) was an American figure skating coach and former competitor, best known for coaching five-time U.S. Champion Janet Lynn throughout her entire competitive career. Early life Kohout was bor ...

(1932–2024), American figure skating coach * Zdeněk Kohout (born 1967), Czech bobsledder

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