Kostka
Kostka may refer to:
People
- Kostka family, Polish noble family from Kashubia
- Aleksander Kostka Napierski, Polish captain during the Thirty Years' War in Swedish service
- Anna Kostka, Polish–Lithuanian noble lady
- Carl Kostka, German mathematician, introduced Kostka numbers in 1882
- Dominik Kostka, Czech footballer
- Hubert Kostka, Polish football player and manager
- Jan Kostka, Polish noble and a candidate in elections for the new King of Poland in 1572
- Katarzyna Kostka, Polish–Lithuanian noble lady
- Michael Kostka, ice hockey player
- Petr Kostka, Czech actor
- Stan Kostka, American football fullback and later a college football coach
- Stanisław Kostka (1475–1555), Polish noble, adviser to King Sigismund I the Old and King Sigismund II Augustus I
- Stanisław Kostka Gadomski, Polish nobleman and politician
- Stanisław Kostka Potocki, Polish noble, politician, writer, publicist, collector and patron of art
- Stanisław Kostka Zamoyski, Polish nobleman, politician, landowner and patron of arts
- Stanislaus Kostka S.J., Polish novice of the Jesuits
- Stefan Kostka, American music theorist
- Tomáš Kostka, Czech racing driver living in France
- Vladimír Kostka, Czech ice hockey coach
Places
- Mount Kostka, Antarctica
In mathematics
- Kostka number K, introduced by Carl Kostka in 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 K, named after Carl Kostka, polynomial in two variables with non-negative integer coefficients depending on two partitions λ and μ