Kostka

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

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)
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