Foss (surname)
Foss is a common surname of Scandinavian origin[citation needed]. Foss may refer to:
- Aage Foss (1885–1952), Danish film actor
- Ambrose Foss (c. 1803–1862), Australian pharmacist
- Anita Foss (1921–2015), American baseball player
- Betty Foss (1929–1998), American baseball player
- Brian Foss (1921-1997), British psychologist
- Byron Foss (born 1979), American soccer player
- Daniel Foss (1940–2014), American sociologist
- Charles Calveley Foss (1885–1953), English recipient of the Victoria Cross
- Chris Foss (born 1946), British illustrator
- Craig Foss (born 1963), New Zealand politician
- Cyrus David Foss (1834–1910), American Methodist bishop
- Dickie Foss (1912–1995), English footballer
- Donald Foss (1945–2022), American billionaire, founder of Credit Acceptance
- Edward Foss (1787–1870), English lawyer and biographer
- Elith Foss (1911–1972), Danish film actor
- Erling Foss (1897–1982), Danish civil engineer
- Eugene Foss (1858–1939), American politician
- Frank Foss (athlete) (1895–1989), American Olympic athlete
- Frank H. Foss (1865–1947), American politician
- George Foss, British physician, who treated for some time Michael Dillon (see), the first female-to-male transsexual to undergo phalloplasty
- George Edmund Foss (1863–1936), American politician
- Hans Andersen Foss (1851–1929), American author, newspaper editor and temperance leader
- Heidi Foss, Canadian television writer
- Henrich Herman Foss (1790–1853), Norwegian naval officer and politician
- Henry Foss (1891–1986), American civic leader
- Herbert L. Foss (1871–1937), American naval seaman and Medal of Honor recipient
- Hubert J. Foss (1899–1953), English music publisher, pianist and composer
- Hugh Foss (1902–1971), British cryptographer
- Hugh Foss (bishop) (1848-1932), Anglican bishop
- Ingunn Foss, Norwegian politician
- Joe Foss (1915–2003), American general and politician
- John W. Foss (1933–2020), American general
- Julius Foss (1879–1953), Danish composer and musician
- Karen Foss (born 1944), American television journalist
- Kenelm Foss (1885-1963), British actor, screenwriter and film director
- Kurt Foss (1925–1991), Norwegian composer, singer and vaudeville artist
- Larry Foss (1936–2019), American baseball pitcher
- Leif O. Foss (1899–1982), Norwegian trade unionist and politician
- Lukas Foss (1922–2009), American composer and conductor
- Martin Foss (1889–1968), German-born American philosopher, father of Lukas
- Nicolai J. Foss, Danish economist
- Nils Foss (1928–2018), Danish director and civil engineer
- Per-Kristian Foss (born 1950), Norwegian politician
- Peter Foss (born 1946), Australian politician
- Phillip O. Foss (1916–2001), American political scientist
- Richard Foss, American journalist and science fiction author
- Rodney Shelton Foss (1919–1941), United States naval officer
- Sam Walter Foss (1858–1911), American librarian and poet
- Thea Foss (1857–1927), Norwegian-American businessperson
- Thore Torkildsen Foss (1841–1913), Norwegian politician
- Tore Foss (1901–1968), Norwegian actor
- Wenche Foss (1917-2011), Norwegian actress
See also[edit]
This page lists people with the surname Foss.
If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name(s) to the link.
If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name(s) to the link.