Kostka

Kostka may refer to:

People

 * Kostka family, Polish noble family (szlachta) from Kashubia
 * Aleksander Kostka Napierski (1620–1651), Polish captain during the Thirty Years' War in Swedish service
 * Anna Kostka (1575–1635), Polish–Lithuanian noble lady
 * Carl Kostka (1846–1921), German mathematician, 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
 * Michael 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 from 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
 * Stefan Kostka (born 1939), American music theorist
 * Tomáš Kostka (born 1984), Czech racing driver living in France
 * Vladimír Kostka (1922–2009), Czech ice hockey coach

Places

 * Mount Kostka, Antarctica

In mathematics

 * Kostka number K$λμ$, 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$λμ$(q, t), named after Carl Kostka, polynomial in two variables with non-negative integer coefficients depending on two partitions λ and μ