Cotta
# Cotta

Cotta may refer to:

## People

* Aurelia Cotta (120–54 BC), mother of Julius Caesar
* Bernhard von Cotta (1808–1879), German geologist
* Carloto Cotta (born 1984), Portuguese actor
* Elena Cotta (born 1931), Italian actress
* Gaius Aurelius Cotta (c. 124–73 BC), ancient Roman statesman and orator
* Heinrich Cotta (1763–1844), German silviculturist
* Johann Friedrich Cotta (1764–1832), German publisher, industrial pioneer, and politician
* Johann Friedrich Cotta (theologian) (1701–1779), German Lutheran theologian
* John Cotta (1575–1650), English physician
* Lucius Aurelius Cotta (consul 65 BC) (fl. 70–64 BC), ancient Roman senator
* Lucius Aurelius Cotta (consul 119 BC) (fl. 122–119 BC), Roman senator, military commander, and consul
* Lucius Aurelius Cotta (consul 144 BC) (fl. 154–144 BC), Roman magistrate, tribune, and consul
* Lucius Aurunculeius Cotta (fl. 54 BC), officer in the Gallic army of Julius Caesar
* Marcus Aurelius Cotta (consul 74 BC) (fl. 77–67 BC), Roman politician and general
* Michèle Cotta (born 1937), French political journalist
* Myron Joseph Cotta (born 1953), American Catholic bishop

## Other uses

* Ancient Roman town in Morocco
* A surplice, an ecclesiastical garment (in Medieval Latin and Italian)
* A lightweight underdress in Italian 15th-century fashion (cf. cotte)
* Cotta (moth), a moth of the family Geometridae
* Cotta Sandstone, a type of stone found in the Elbe Valley
