Cotta
Cotta is the cognomen or family name of the following people:
- Aurelia Cotta († 54 BC), mother of Gaius Iulius Caesar, see Aurelia (mother of Caesar)
- Bernhard von Cotta (1808–1879), German geologist
- Bonaventura Cotta (1370–1430), founder of the Cotta family in Eisenach
- Carloto Cotta (* 1984), Portuguese actor
- Christoph Friedrich Cotta (1758–1838), German lawyer and Jacobin
- Emma Cotta (1880–1957), German artist
- Fanny Cotta (* 1898), German actress and singer
- Franz Cotta ( Johann Friedrich Franz Kotta ; 1758 / 1760–1821), German painter, sculptor and porcelain modeler
- Friedrich August von Cotta (1799-1860), German forest scientist and university professor
- Friedrich Wilhelm von Cotta (1796–1874), German forest scientist, university professor and forest official
- Gaius Aurelius Cotta (consul 252 BC) († after 231 BC), Roman politician, consul 252 BC BC and 248 BC Chr.
- Gaius Aurelius Cotta (consul 200 BC) , Roman politician
- Gaius Aurelius Cotta (consul 75 BC) (around 124 BC – 74/73 BC), Roman politician
- Georg von Cotta (1796–1863), German publisher and politician
- Giacomo Cotta (1627–1689), Italian painter
- Heinrich Cotta (1763–1844), German forest scientist
- Heinrich Cotta (painter) (1791–1856), German painter, engraver, draftsman and etcher
- Herbert Schmidt-Cotta (1919–2009), German politician
- Horst Cotta (1928–2011), German physician
- Jens Cotta (* 1972), member of the state parliament (AfD)
- Johann Friedrich Cotta (1764–1832), German publisher
- Johann Friedrich Cotta (theologian) (1701–1779), German theologian
- Johannes Cotta (1862–1944), German writer, actor and director
- Livia Cotta (* 1970), German manager
- Lucius Aurelius Cotta (Consul 144 BC) , Roman Consul
- Lucius Aurelius Cotta (consul 119 BC) , Roman consul
- Lucius Aurelius Cotta (tribune) , Roman tribune 103 BC. Chr.
- Lucius Aurelius Cotta (Praetor) , Roman Praetor around 95 BC. Chr.
- Lucius Aurelius Cotta (consul 65 BC) , Roman consul
- Lucius Aurunculeius Cotta († 54 BC), Roman legate
- Marcus Aurelius Cotta , Roman politician and military leader
- Myron Joseph Cotta (born 1953), American clergyman, Bishop of Stockton
- Rosalie Cotta (1738–1812), mother of Christoph Friedrich Cotta
- Ursula Cotta († 1511), German patrician
Cotta is the name of the following places:
- Cotta (Dohma) , district of Dohma, district of Saxon Switzerland-Eastern Ore Mountains, Saxony
- Cotta (Dresden) , district of Dresden
- Cotta (city district) , city district of Dresden
Cotta stands for:
- Cotta (unit) , area and piece measure
- Cotta , central figure in The Last World , novel by Christoph Ransmayr (1988)
- Cotta Automobile Company , American automobile manufacturer
See also:
- Cotta'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung , German publisher
- Cotta's Hörbühne , sound carrier series by the Klett-Cotta publishing house
- Cotta sandstone , clastic sedimentary rock
- Dorsum of Cotta , ridge of the sea on the moon
- Klett-Cotta Verlag , German publishing association
- Panna cotta , northern Italian dessert
- Terra cotta
- Kotta
- Cota
