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 Dominik Kostka (born 1996), Czech footballer 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), ice hockey player Petr Kostka (born 1938), Czech actor Stan Kostka (1913–1997), American football fullback and later a college football coach Stanisław Kostka Gadomski (1718–1797), Polish nobleman and politician Stanisław Kostka Potocki (1755–1821), Polish noble, politician, writer, publicist, collector and patron of art Stanisław Kostka Zamoyski (1775–1856), Polish nobleman, politician, landowner and patron of arts Stanislaus Kostka S.J. (1550–1568), Polish novice of the Jesuits 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, 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(q, t), named after Carl Kostka, polynomial in two variables with non-negative integer coefficients depending on two partitions λ and μ
See also Kostka-Napierski uprising, peasant revolt in Poland in 1651 Saint-Stanislas-de-Kostka, Quebec, municipality of Quebec, Canada St. Stanislaus Kostka Church (disambiguation)