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# Scourie

Scourie (Scottish Gaelic: Sgobhairigh), historically spelled "Scoury", is a village on the north west coast of Scotland, about halfway between Ullapool and Durness. The name comes from the Gaelic word Sheiling or shed, a stone-built place of shelter used during the summer months. It is in the civil parish of Eddrachillis, in the traditional county of Sutherland, now part of the Highland council area; the 2011 Census classified Scourie as 'Very remote rural' with an adult population of 132.
Until the 19th century, Clan Mackay was the predominant family in the area with a junior branch of the family owning Scourie itself; in 1640, it was the birthplace of Hugh Mackay, a Scottish general who settled in the Netherlands and commanded the forces of William III at Killiecrankie in July 1689. The last of the Mackays' Scottish estates including Scourie were sold in 1829, although the name is still common in the area.
The nearby island of Handa is a nature reserve and the site of a large seabird colony, including puffins, skuas, guillemots and razorbills. The Scourie estate was owned by Dr Jean Balfour, who died in 2023. The palm trees in the grounds of Scourie House next to the harbour are claimed to be the most northerly specimens in the world not grown in artificial conditions. However, this is a popular misconception. The "palms" in the grounds are actually Cordyline australis, a native New Zealand tree which is found in lowland and montane areas. In the UK it is commonly referred to as "Torbay palm" or "Cornwall palm".
Being on the popular North Coast 500 (NC500) scenic route, the village has accommodation for tourists at a hotel with 21 rooms, bed and breakfasts and a campsite. Fishing, particularly fly fishing, is popular due to the large number of freshwater lochs that offer brown trout.
Scourie plays host to the home matches of shinty team, Kinlochbervie Camanachd Club and North Caledonian Football League side Scourie Football Club.
# Del mio meglio

Del mio meglio (stylized as ...del mio meglio) is a compilation album by Italian singer Mina released in 1971 by PDU. The first in a series of compilation albums released under the "Del mio meglio" title.
The songs "Io vivrò (senza te)", "Se stasera sono qui", "Vedrai vedrai" and "Yesterday" were all recorded in 1970 during a concert at Radiotelevisione svizzera and were previously unreleased on album (as well as Mina's new hit "Io e te da soli").

## Personnel

* Mina – vocals (all tracks)
* Alberto Baldan Bembo – pipe organ (A1, A3, A4)
* Pino Presti – bass (A1, A3, A4)
* Ernesto Massimo Verardi – electric guitar (A1, A3, A4)
* Rolando Ceragioli – drums (A1, A3, A4)
* Mario Robbiani – arrangement, conducting (A1, A3, A4)
* Gian Piero Reverberi – arrangement (A6)
* Bruno Canfora – arrangement (B1)
* Detto Mariano – arrangement (B4)
* Luis Bacalov – arrangement (B5)
* Augusto Martelli – arrangement (A2, A5, B2, B3, B6)
# Bòrd na Gàidhlig

Bòrd na Gàidhlig (pronounced , lit. 'Gaelic Board') is the executive non-departmental public body of the Scottish Government with responsibility for Gaelic. It was established by an Act of the Scottish Parliament in 2005 (which took effect in early 2006) and is based in Inverness.

## Structure

Bòrd na Gàidhlig is a non-departmental public body constituted of members of the board, whose role is "to provide leadership, direction, support and guidance" to the body, and staff who are typically full-time public sector employees and who carry out the day-to-day work of the body. The head of the board is the cathraiche (chairperson) and the head of the staff is the ceannard (chief executive).
The current ceannard is Shona NicIlleathain; a non-native Gaelic speaker, she studied the language at the University of Edinburgh and Sabhal Mòr Ostaig and had worked at the Bòrd for twenty years prior to taking over the office in June 2016.

## History

In 2006 Bòrd na Gàidhlig was designated as the body responsible for implementing the Gaelic Language (Scotland) Act 2005 and specifically, as stated in the Act, "securing the status of the Gaelic language as an official language of Scotland commanding equal respect to the English language". The Bòrd represents a cornerstone of the Scottish Government's implementation of their duties under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages.
The first cathraiche of the eight member Bòrd was Donnchadh MacFhearghais (Duncan Ferguson) from Islay, rector of Plockton High School, former convenor of Comunn Luchd-Ionnsachaidh, Comunn na Gàidhlig, and director of the steering committee for BBC Gaelic programming. In March 2012, following the resignation of Arthur Cormack, who had been appointed in February 2009 after holding the position of interim Chair from July 2008, Elizabeth McAtear was appointed by the Bòrd as interim Chair before the full recruitment process for a replacement Chair.
# TAZARA Memorial Park

TAZARA Memorial Park is located in Chongwe, Lusaka Province, Zambia, and was built to commemorate the construction of the TAZARA Railway and honor the workers who lost their lives during the project. The park was officially opened on August 10, 2022.

## Construction

In the 1960s and 1970s, China undertook the construction of a railway connecting Tanzania and Zambia. A total of 50,000 Chinese workers participated in this project, with up to 16,000 workers on site during its peak.. Unfortunately, several Chinese workers lost their lives due to various causes, with some being buried in Tanzania and others in Zambia. On May 14, 2019, the groundbreaking ceremony for the memorial park was held in Zambia. The entire project was constructed by CCECC, and upon completion, all 36 Chinese martyrs buried in Zambia were relocated to the memorial park. The park was officially completed and inaugurated on August 10, 2022, in a ceremony attended by Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema. Since its completion, the site has hosted several commemorative events organized by Chinese embassy and consulate staff along with local government representatives.

## Structure

The TAZARA Memorial Park spans 20,000 square meters and features an external outline resembling a Chinese knot, symbolizing the strong ties between China and Zambia. The park is divided into several sections, including the Gate of Friendship, the Memorial Square, the Martyrs' Cemetery, and the TAZARA Railway Memorial Hall.
# Rubel Miya

Rubel Miya (Bengali: রুবেল মিয়া; born 1 January 1995) is a Bangladeshi professional footballer who plays as a winger.
Rubel was Man of The Final award winner of the 2016 Independence Cup for Chittagong Abahani Limited.

## International goals
### U19

| # | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
| 1. | 10 October 2013 | Franso Hariri Stadium, Arbil | Kuwait U19 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 2014 AFC U-19 Championship qualification |

### Club

Sheikh Jamal Dhanmondi Club
| # | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
| 1. | 15 November 2014 | Changlimithang Stadium, Thimphu | Druk United F.C. | 3–0 | 3–0 | 2014 King's Cup (Bhutan) |
Abahani Limited Dhaka
| # | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
| 1. | 3 May 2017 | Bangabandhu National Stadium, Dhaka | Bengaluru FC | 2–0 | 2–0 | 2017 AFC Cup |
| 2. | 11 April 2018 | Indira Gandhi Athletic Stadium, Guwahati | Aizawl FC | 1–0 | 3–0 | 2018 AFC Cup |
# Miguel Carrasco

Miguel Ángel Carrasco Reyes (born 10 June 2003) is a Honduran footballer currently playing as a midfielder for Real España.

## Career statistics
### Club

    As of 14 June 2020.
| Club | Season | League | League | League | Cup | Cup | Continental | Continental | Other | Other | Total | Total |
| Club | Season | Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| Real España | 2019–20 | Liga Salva-Vida | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Career total | Career total | Career total | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
# Gymnastics at the 2002 Asian Games – Men's floor

The men's floor competition at the 2002 Asian Games in Busan, South Korea was held on 1 and 4 October 2002 at the Sajik Gymnasium.

## Schedule

All times are Korea Standard Time (UTC+09:00)
| Date | Time | Event |
| Tuesday, 1 October 2002 | 15:00 | Qualification |
| Friday, 4 October 2002 | 15:00 | Final |

## Results
### Qualification

| Rank | Athlete | Score |
| 1 | Liang Fuliang (CHN) | 9.650 |
| 2 | Yang Wei (CHN) | 9.600 |
| 3 | Kim Seung-il (KOR) | 9.450 |
| 4 | Jo Jong-chol (PRK) | 9.425 |
| 4 | Li Xiaopeng (CHN) | 9.425 |
| 6 | Takehiro Kashima (JPN) | 9.375 |
| 7 | Kim Dong-hwa (KOR) | 9.325 |
| 8 | Stepan Gorbachev (KAZ) | 9.275 |
| 9 | Yang Tae-young (KOR) | 9.200 |
| 10 | Jong U-chol (PRK) | 9.150 |
| 10 | Lee Sun-sung (KOR) | 9.150 |
| 12 | Hiroyuki Tomita (JPN) | 9.075 |
| 13 | Yasuhiro Ogawa (JPN) | 9.050 |
| 14 | Cheng Feng-yi (TPE) | 9.000 |
| 14 | Alexandr Semenyuk (KAZ) | 9.000 |
| 16 | Teng Haibin (CHN) | 8.950 |
| 17 | Hisashi Mizutori (JPN) | 8.925 |
| 18 | Andrey Markelov (UZB) | 8.900 |
| 19 | Naoya Tsukahara (JPN) | 8.850 |
| 19 | Ri Myong-chol (PRK) | 8.850 |
| 21 | Feng Jing (CHN) | 8.825 |
| 21 | Sain Autalipov (KAZ) | 8.825 |
| 21 | Yernar Yerimbetov (KAZ) | 8.825 |
| 24 | Ruslan Sugraliyev (KAZ) | 8.750 |
| 24 | Loke Yik Siang (MAS) | 8.750 |
| 24 | Lai Kuo-cheng (TPE) | 8.750 |
| 27 | Ng Shu Wai (MAS) | 8.700 |
| 28 | Kim Hyon-il (PRK) | 8.650 |
| 29 | Keldiyor Hasanov (UZB) | 8.500 |
| 30 | Jong Kwang-yop (PRK) | 8.400 |
| 31 | Kim Dae-eun (KOR) | 8.350 |
| 31 | Lin Yung-hsi (TPE) | 8.350 |
| 33 | Ooi Wei Siang (MAS) | 8.300 |
| 33 | Huang Che-kuei (TPE) | 8.300 |
| 35 | Eranga Asela (SRI) | 8.200 |
| 35 | Anton Fokin (UZB) | 8.200 |
| 37 | Maki Al-Mubiareek (KSA) | 7.900 |
| 37 | Onn Kwang Tung (MAS) | 7.900 |
| 37 | Nashwan Al-Harazi (YEM) | 7.900 |
| 40 | Sameera Ekanayake (SRI) | 7.750 |
| 41 | Ahmad Al-Herz (KUW) | 7.600 |
| 41 | Nayef Dashti (KUW) | 7.600 |
| 43 | Esmail Al-Muntaser (YEM) | 6.950 |
| 44 | Toqeer Ahmad (PAK) | 6.600 |
| 45 | Nasser Al-Turki (QAT) | 6.450 |
| 45 | Don Charitha Arachchi (SRI) | 6.450 |
| 47 | Muhammad Akbar (PAK) | 5.900 |

### Final

| Rank | Athlete | Score |
| | Kim Seung-il (KOR) | 9.525 |
| | Jo Jong-chol (PRK) | 9.450 |
| | Yang Wei (CHN) | 9.400 |
| 4 | Takehiro Kashima (JPN) | 9.375 |
| 5 | Stepan Gorbachev (KAZ) | 9.125 |
| 6 | Jong U-chol (PRK) | 9.100 |
| 7 | Liang Fuliang (CHN) | 8.975 |
| 8 | Kim Dong-hwa (KOR) | 8.800 |
# Assemblies of God (disambiguation)

Assemblies of God is a Pentecostal movement. "Assemblies of God" may refer to one of many groups within this movement:
* World Assemblies of God Fellowship, the 1988 largest worldwide association with the name Assemblies of God
* Assemblies of God USA, officially the General Council of the Assemblies of God — the 1914 direct U.S. member of the World Assemblies of God, sometimes referred to as the "General Council" denomination by other AOG denominations in the U.S.
* Assembleias de Deus, a 1911 Brazilian denomination that has schismed since the 1980s, with some descendants still in communion with the World Assemblies of God
* General Convention of the Assemblies of God in Brazil, the Brazilian denomination in full communion with the Assemblies of God USA
* Assembly of God Bethlehem Ministry, a 1995 non-territorial organization based in Florida, USA, but associated with the Brazilian Assembleias de Deus
* Australian Christian Churches — the direct Australian member of the World Assemblies of God
* one of the other national organizations in the list of Assemblies of God National Fellowships
There are independent Assemblies of God groups or denominations with similar names:
* Assemblies of God International Fellowship (AGIF), also known as Assemblies of God International Brotherhood, and more recently the E4 Ministry Network
* International Assemblies of God Fellowship (IAOG), based in Martinsburg, West Virginia
* Independent Assemblies of God, International (IAOGI), formed in 1935 by the merger of the Scandinavian Assemblies of God in the United States of America, Canada and Foreign Lands, with the Independent Pentecostal Churches
* Pentecostal Assemblies of God of America (PAGA), founded in 2013 in California
* United Pentecostal Council of the Assemblies of God, Incorporated (UPCAG), founded in 1919 and affiliated with the Assemblies of God USA since 2014
# Gymnastics at the 2002 Asian Games – Men's horizontal bar

The men's horizontal bar competition at the 2002 Asian Games in Busan, South Korea was held on 1 and 5 October 2002 at the Sajik Gymnasium.

## Schedule

All times are Korea Standard Time (UTC+09:00)
| Date | Time | Event |
| Tuesday, 1 October 2002 | 15:00 | Qualification |
| Saturday, 5 October 2002 | 16:00 | Final |

## Results
### Qualification

| Rank | Athlete | Score |
| 1 | Teng Haibin (CHN) | 9.750 |
| 2 | Yang Tae-seok (KOR) | 9.600 |
| 3 | Hiroyuki Tomita (JPN) | 9.575 |
| 4 | Li Xiaopeng (CHN) | 9.550 |
| 5 | Yernar Yerimbetov (KAZ) | 9.525 |
| 6 | Yang Wei (CHN) | 9.425 |
| 7 | Liang Fuliang (CHN) | 9.400 |
| 8 | Huang Xu (CHN) | 9.350 |
| 9 | Kim Seung-il (KOR) | 9.325 |
| 10 | Takehiro Kashima (JPN) | 9.275 |
| 11 | Naoya Tsukahara (JPN) | 9.250 |
| 11 | Yang Tae-young (KOR) | 9.250 |
| 13 | Mutsumi Harada (JPN) | 9.175 |
| 14 | Lee Sun-sung (KOR) | 9.125 |
| 15 | Stepan Gorbachev (KAZ) | 8.950 |
| 16 | Jong U-chol (PRK) | 8.925 |
| 17 | Huang Che-kuei (TPE) | 8.900 |
| 17 | Hisashi Mizutori (JPN) | 8.900 |
| 19 | Kim Hyon-il (PRK) | 8.850 |
| 20 | Kim Jong-ryong (PRK) | 8.750 |
| 21 | Cheng Feng-yi (TPE) | 8.650 |
| 22 | Ng Shu Wai (MAS) | 8.600 |
| 23 | Onn Kwang Tung (MAS) | 8.550 |
| 24 | Jong Kwang-yop (PRK) | 8.500 |
| 25 | Andrey Markelov (UZB) | 8.400 |
| 26 | Kim Dong-hwa (KOR) | 8.375 |
| 27 | Ri Myong-chol (PRK) | 8.250 |
| 27 | Anton Fokin (UZB) | 8.250 |
| 29 | Keldiyor Hasanov (UZB) | 8.200 |
| 30 | Lin Yung-hsi (TPE) | 8.000 |
| 31 | Sameera Ekanayake (SRI) | 7.900 |
| 32 | Ruslan Sugraliyev (KAZ) | 7.800 |
| 33 | Ooi Wei Siang (MAS) | 7.750 |
| 34 | Ilya Myachin (KAZ) | 7.600 |
| 35 | Eranga Asela (SRI) | 7.400 |
| 35 | Lai Kuo-cheng (TPE) | 7.400 |
| 37 | Loke Yik Siang (MAS) | 7.350 |
| 38 | Toqeer Ahmad (PAK) | 5.600 |
| 39 | Muhammad Akbar (PAK) | 5.350 |
| 40 | Lin Yao-hui (TPE) | 5.150 |
| 41 | Nayef Dashti (KUW) | 4.300 |

### Final

| Rank | Athlete | Score |
| | Hiroyuki Tomita (JPN) | 9.800 |
| | Teng Haibin (CHN) | 9.800 |
| | Yang Tae-seok (KOR) | 9.800 |
| 4 | Yernar Yerimbetov (KAZ) | 9.750 |
| 5 | Stepan Gorbachev (KAZ) | 9.725 |
| 6 | Kim Seung-il (KOR) | 9.650 |
| 7 | Takehiro Kashima (JPN) | 9.600 |
| 8 | Li Xiaopeng (CHN) | 8.950 |
# Gabibbo

Gabibbo is an Italian mascot for the Mediaset-controlled channel Canale 5 created in 1990. Gabibbo's main role has been in the programs Paperissima and Striscia la notizia, but he has appeared in several other Canale 5 programs. He is normally a jovial character known for his ability to make wisecracks and his overall humble demeanor. He speaks Italian with a Genoese accent, occasionally using Italianized Genoese words. In fact the word Gabibbo or Gabibbu belongs to the Genoese language and it is used to indicate, in an ironic-depreciative way, an immigrant from southern or even central Italy (it may originate from the Arab wordhabib).

## Western Kentucky Hilltoppers lawsuit

Gabibbo has also earned negative press surrounding a lawsuit brought by Western Kentucky University who claim that Gabibbo is an exact copy of their mascot Big Red. Western Kentucky claims it has a case because in an interview with Novella 2000, Ricci states that he created Gabibbo after seeing Western Kentucky's mascot, further adding that Gabibbo is in fact, "(an imported) Big Red".
Ricci claims he was joking in that interview, saying that he made the remark after Novella pointed out the similarities between Big Red and Gabibbo. He goes on to say that there are "100 different mascots who look like Gabibbo", not just Big Red, adding that the Sesame Street mascots Cookie Monster and Elmo also look like Gabibbo. However, Gabibbo's head is almost an exact copy of Big Red's (a fact repeated by The New York Times' business section, who quip that Gabibbo is simply a "better dressed" version of Big Red) and that Big Red debuted in 1979, almost eleven years prior to Gabibbo.
On 12 December 2007, Gabibbo and Antonio Ricci were found to not be liable for infringement by the court of appeals in Milan. On June 7, 2018, the decision was overruled and remanded by the Italian Supreme Court.
# Riff (surname)

Riff is a German language surname. It stems from a reduced form of the male given name Ricfried. Notable people with the name include:
* Emma Riff (born 2000), French modern pentathlete
* Sepp Riff (1928–2000), Austrian cinematographer
# Hauptvermutung

The Hauptvermutung of geometric topology is a now refuted conjecture asking whether any two triangulations of a triangulable space have subdivisions that are combinatorially equivalent, i.e. the subdivided triangulations are built up in the same combinatorial pattern. It was originally formulated as a conjecture in 1908 by Ernst Steinitz and Heinrich Franz Friedrich Tietze, but it is now known to be false.

## History

The non-manifold version was disproved by John Milnor in 1961 using Reidemeister torsion.
The manifold version is true in dimensions $m\leq 3$. The cases $m=2$ and $3$ were proved by Tibor Radó and Edwin E. Moise in the 1920s and 1950s, respectively.
An obstruction to the manifold version was formulated by Andrew Casson and Dennis Sullivan in 1967–69 (originally in the simply-connected case), using the Rochlin invariant and the cohomology group $H^{3}(M;\mathbb {Z} /2\mathbb {Z} )$.
In dimension $m\geq 5$, a homeomorphism $f\colon N\to M$ of m-dimensional piecewise linear manifolds has an invariant $\kappa (f)\in H^{3}(M;\mathbb {Z} /2\mathbb {Z} )$ such that $f$ is isotopic to a piecewise linear (PL) homeomorphism if and only if $\kappa (f)=0$. In the simply-connected case and with $m\geq 5$, $f$ is homotopic to a PL homeomorphism if and only if $[\kappa (f)]=0\in [M,G/{\rm {PL}}]$.
This quantity $\kappa (f)$ is now seen as a relative version of the triangulation obstruction of Robion Kirby and Laurent C. Siebenmann, obtained in 1970. The Kirby–Siebenmann obstruction is defined for any compact m-dimensional topological manifold M
    $\kappa (M)\in H^{4}(M;\mathbb {Z} /2\mathbb {Z} )$
again using the Rochlin invariant. For $m\geq 5$, the manifold M has a PL structure (i.e., it can be triangulated by a PL manifold) if and only if $\kappa (M)=0$, and if this obstruction is 0, the PL structures are parametrized by $H^{3}(M;\mathbb {Z} /2\mathbb {Z} )$. In particular there are only a finite number of essentially distinct PL structures on M.
For compact simply-connected manifolds of dimension 4, Simon Donaldson found examples with an infinite number of inequivalent PL structures, and Michael Freedman found the E8 manifold which not only has no PL structure, but (by work of Casson) is not even homeomorphic to a simplicial complex.
In 2013, Ciprian Manolescu proved that there exist compact topological manifolds of dimension 5 (and hence of any dimension greater than 5) that are not homeomorphic to a simplicial complex. Thus Casson's example illustrates a more general phenomenon that is not merely limited to dimension 4.
# Ragsdale conjecture

The Ragsdale conjecture is a mathematical conjecture that concerns the possible arrangements of real algebraic curves embedded in the projective plane. It was proposed by Virginia Ragsdale in her dissertation in 1906 and was disproved in 1979. It has been called "the oldest and most famous conjecture on the topology of real algebraic curves".

## Formulation of the conjecture

Ragsdale's dissertation, "On the Arrangement of the Real Branches of Plane Algebraic Curves," was published by the American Journal of Mathematics in 1906. The dissertation was a treatment of Hilbert's sixteenth problem, which had been proposed by Hilbert in 1900, along with 22 other unsolved problems of the 19th century; it is one of the handful of Hilbert's problems that remains wholly unresolved. Ragsdale formulated a conjecture that provided an upper bound on the number of topological circles of a certain type, along with the basis of evidence.

## Conjecture

Ragsdale's main conjecture is as follows.
Assume that an algebraic curve of degree 2k contains p even and n odd ovals. Ragsdale conjectured that
    $p\leq {\tfrac {3}{2}}k(k-1)+1\quad {\text{and}}\quad n\leq {\tfrac {3}{2}}k(k-1).$
She also posed the inequality
    $|2(p-n)-1|\leq 3k^{2}-3k+1,$
and showed that the inequality could not be further improved. This inequality was later proved by Petrovsky.

## Disproving the conjecture

The conjecture was held of very high importance in the field of real algebraic geometry for most of the twentieth century. Later, in 1980, Oleg Viro introduced a technique known as "patchworking algebraic curves" and used to generate a counterexample to the conjecture.
In 1993, Ilia Itenberg produced additional counterexamples to the Ragsdale conjecture, so Viro and Itenberg wrote a paper in 1996 discussing their work on disproving the conjecture using the "patchworking" technique.
The problem of finding a sharp upper bound remains unsolved.
# Kovač

Kovač (Serbo-Croatian Cyrillic: Ковач) is a surname derived from the Proto-Slavic word kovač, which translates to blacksmith. It is common across Europe, specifically countries in Southeast Europe such as Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia, and Slovenia.
Kovač is a common surname in Croatia, with 9,614 carriers (2011 census), most of them living in northern and eastern parts of the country. The surname is one of the most common surnames in five counties of Croatia. It is common in Serbia, with 8,749 people bearing it. In Slovenia, some 4,800 have this surname. Outside Europe, the surname is fairly common in the United States (especially Texas and California), Canada, and South America.
The surname Kovács is the Hungarian loanword of this word, and is one of the most frequent surnames in Hungary. The Romanian form is Covaci, and it is also a relatively frequent surname in Romania. The derivative forms Kovačić or Slovenian Kovačič, as well as Kovačević and Bulgarian Kovachev, are also very common.

## Notable people

* Aleksandra Kovač (born 1972), Serbian singer/songwriter
* Boris Kovač (born 1955), Serbian composer and multi-instrumentalist
* Edvard Kovač (born 1950), Slovenian theologian
* Jože Kovač (born 1961), Slovenian hockey player
* Kordula Kovac (born 1957), German politician
* Kornelije Kovač (1942–2022), Serbian musician/producer
* Kristina Kovač (born 1974), Serbian singer/songwriter
* Marko Kovač (born 1981), Serbian architect, film director and actor
* Mario Kovač (artist) (born 1975), Croatian theatre and movie director
* Mario Kovač (scientist), Croatian computer engineering professor and inventor
* Mario Kovač (politician), Croatian politician, see Cabinet of Ivica Račan I
* Mirko Kovač (1938–2013), Montenegrin writer
* Mirko Kovač (born 1983), Serbian basketball player
* Mišo Kovač (born 1941), Croatian singer
* Niko Kovač (born 1971), Croatian football player and coach
* Nikola "NiKo" Kovač (born 1997), Bosnian professional Counter-Strike player
* Robert Kovač (born 1974), Croatian football player
* Roberto Kovac (born 1990), Swiss basketball player
* Slobodan Kovač (born 1967), Serbian volleyball player
* Sonja Kovač (born 1984), Croatian actress and model
* Tinkara Kovač (born 1978), Slovenian singer/musician

## Cognates

* Koval in Ukraine (also Kovalchuk, Kovalenko, Kovalev)
* Kowal in Poland (also Kowalczyk, Kowalski)
* Kovach, the Carpatho-Ruthenian form
* Kovács, Kováts or Kovách in Hungary
* Kováč in Slovakia
* Kovář (also Kováč) in Czech Republic
* Kovaçi in Albania
* Covaci in Romania

## Fictional characters

* Luka Kovač, doctor portrayed by Goran Višnjić on ER
* Steve Kovac, character cryogenically frozen in Howard Fast's The Cold, Cold Box