Foss (surname)
# Foss (surname)

Foss is a common surname of Scandinavian origin. 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
