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Cosmo () is a British and Italian surname and unisex given name. It means order, decency, and beauty; this is the English form of Cosimo, introduced to Britain in the 18th century by the Scottish nobleman
the second Duke of Gordon , who named his son and successor after his friend
Cosimo III de' Medici . Notable people and fictional characters with the name include:
Given name
Cosmo and Damian , third century Christian martyrs
Cosmo de Medici, alternate name of
Cosimo de' Medici (1389–1464)
Cosmo I, alternate name of
Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (1519–1574)
Cosmo Alexander (1724–1772), Scottish portrait painter
Cosmo Allegretti, actor and puppeteer in the 1955–1984 children's television series
Captain Kangaroo
Cosmo Baker (born 1974), American disc jockey
Cosmo Bonsor , 1st Baronet (1848–1929), British MP, chairman of the South Eastern Railway
Cosmo Campoli (1923–1997), American sculptor
Cosmo A. Cilano (1893–1937), New York state senator
Sir Cosmo Duff-Gordon, 5th Baronet (1862–1931), British landowner, survivor of the RMS Titanic
Cosmo Gordon, 3rd Duke of Gordon (1720–1752), Scottish nobleman
Cosmo Gordon Lang (1864–1945), Archbishop of Canterbury
Cosmo Graham , British professor
Cosmo Hamilton (1870–1942), British playwright
Cosmo Iacavazzi (born 1943), American football player
Cosmo Innes (1798–1874), British antiquarian
Cosmo Jarvis (born 1989), American-born English actor and musician
Cosmo Klein (born 1978), German singer
Cosmo Landesman (born 1954), American-born British journalist
Cosmo Maciocia (born 1942), Canadian politician
Cosmo Parkinson (1884–1967), British civil servant
Cosmo Wilson (born 1961), American concert lighting designer and director for rock bands
Surname
Fictional characters
Cosmo Julius Cosma , in the animated series
The Fairly OddParents , Timmy and Chloe's godfather and Wanda's husband
Cosmo , in the anime Sonic X
Cosmo of Prague, a character in a story within the novel
Phantastes by George MacDonald
Cosmo, a character in Japanese manga series
Chainsaw Man
Cosmo the Merry Martian , title character of a 1950s comic book
Cosmo the Spacedog , a fictional psychic Russian dog appearing in Marvel Comics
Private Cosmo, from the comic strip
Beetle Bailey
Cosmo Brown, in the 1952 film
Singin' in the Rain and its subsequent stage musical adaptation
Cosmo Carboni a con man played by Sylvester Stallone in the 1978 film
Paradise Alley
Imai Cosmo, in the
Kengan Ashura manga series
Jason Cosmo , protagonist of several novels by Dan McGirt
Cosmo Hill, from the novel
The Supernaturalist by Eoin Colfer
Cosmo Jones, Crime Smasher , protagonist in the 1943 American film starring Frank Graham
Cosmo Kramer , played by Michael Richards in the NBC television sitcom Seinfeld
Cosmo Martin, son of
Susan Lewis and
Chuck Martin in the medical drama ER
Cosmo Renfro, from
The Fugitive (1993 film) and
U.S. Marshals (1998 film)
Cosmo Royale, in the
Power Rangers Ninja Steel
Professor Cosmo Saltana, from the 1968 novel The Image Men by
J. B. Priestley
Mr. Cosmo Spacely , George Jetson's boss in the 1960s cartoon The Jetsons
Cosmo Topper, from the
Topper series of novels by James Thorne Smith Jr., several films, and the 1950s CBS sitcom Topper
Cosmo, a character in
Sneakers (1992 film) , played by
Ben Kingsley