Kevin Kouzmanoff (born July 25, 1981, in Newport Beach, California), known as "Kooooz","The Crushin' Russian" (despite being of Macedonian descent), is a Major League Baseball third baseman with the San Diego Padres.

He became the third player to hit a grand slam in his first major league at-bat after Bill Duggleby in 1898 and Jeremy Hermida in 2005, and the first to do so on the first pitch.

Kouzmanoff grew up in Evergreen, Colorado where he played high school baseball at Evergreen High School. In 2002, he attended the University of Arkansas at Little Rock where he hit .364. In 2003, he attended the University of Nevada-Reno where as a walk-on he hit .361.