Kostka

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 , 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