Zoltán Kövecses (born 23 September 1946 in Újpest) is a Hungarian linguist and former water polo player.
He is a professor emeritus at the School of English and American Studies of the Faculty of Humanities of Eötvös Loránd University.
[5] In 2014, his edited (co-edited by Frank Polzenhagen, Stefanie Vogelbacher, and Sonja Kleinke) volume entitled Cognitive Explorations into Metaphor and Metonymy was published by Peter Lang.
[8] On 28 August 2022, he was invited by the Magyar Katolikus Rádió (Hungarian Catholic Radio) to talk about cognitive linguistics.
Between 1964 and 1978, he was a permanent team member of Ferencváros playing in the Országos Bajnokság I (men's water polo).