Kostka
Appearance
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Kostka is a Slavic surname. It may refer to:
- Aleksander Kostka Napierski (1620–1651), Polish captain during the Thirty Years' War in Swedish service
- Anna Kostka (1575–1635) (1575–1635), Polish–Lithuanian noble lady
- Carl Kostka (1846–1921), mathematician who introduced Kostka numbers in 1882
- Hubert Kostka (born 1940), Polish football player and manager
- Jan Kostka (1529–1581), Polish noble and a candidate in elections for the new King of Poland in 1572
- Katarzyna Kostka (1576–1648), Polish–Lithuanian noble lady
- Mike Kostka (born 1985), professional ice hockey defenceman
- Petr Kostka (born 1938), Czech actor
- Stan Kostka (1913–1997), American football fullback in the National Football League (NFL) and later a college football coach
- Stanisław Kostka (1475–1555) (1475–1555), Polish noble, adviser to King Sigismund I the Old and King Sigismund II Augustus I
- Stanisław Kostka Gadomski (1718–1797), governor of Łęczyca province since 1787, Speaker of the Sejm, General officer of Armed forces
- Stanisław Kostka Potocki (1755–1821), Polish noble, politician, writer, publicist, collector and patron of art
- Stanisław Kostka Zamoyski (1775–1856), Polish nobleman (szlachcic), politician, landowner, patron of arts
- Stanislaus Kostka S.J. (1550–1568), Polish novice of the Society of Jesus
- Tomáš Kostka (born 1984), Czech racing driver, who lives in Beausoleil, Alpes-Maritimes
- Vladimír Kostka (1922–2009), Czech ice hockey coach
- Kostka Bojana (born 1979), Born in Serbia, descendent of Polish Noble Stanislaw Kostka, mentor, educator, inventor of extreme nails shapes, founder of Kostka Nail System, currently one of the best nail artists in the world
See also
- Kostka family, Polish noble family (szlachta) originated from Kashubia
- Kostka number Kλμ, introduced by Kostka (1882), non-negative integer depending on two partitions λ and μ, that is equal to the number of semistandard Young tableaux of shape λ and weight μ
- Kostka polynomial or Kostka–Foulkes polynomial Kλμ(q, t), named after Carl Kostka, is a polynomial in two variables with non-negative integer coefficients depending on two partitions λ and μ
- Kostka-Napierski Uprising, peasant revolt in Poland in 1651
- Mount Kostka (70°42′S 164°49′E / 70.7°S 164
- Saint-Stanislas-de-Kostka, Quebec, municipality of Quebec
- St. Stanislaus Kostka Church (disambiguation)