Šťastný (pronounced [ˈʃcastniː]) is a Czech and Slovak surname which literally means "happy".[2] The feminine form of the surname is Šťastná.
Pronunciation | [ˈʃcastniː] |
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Origin | |
Meaning | happy |
Region of origin | Czech Republic and Slovakia; Burgenland, Austria |
Other names | |
Variant form(s) | Stastny |
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Spelling variants include Stiastny/Stiastna, Stiasny/Stiasna, Stiassny/Stiassna, etc..
The surname may refer to:
In sports:
- The Šťastný family of ice hockey:
- First generation (all brothers):
- Marián Šťastný (born 1953), Slovak–Canadian winger
- Peter Šťastný (born 1956), Slovak–Canadian Hall of Fame centre; also notable as a politician in Slovakia
- Anton Šťastný (born 1959), Slovak–Canadian winger
- Second generation (both sons of Peter):
- Yan Stastny (Ján Šťastný) (born 1982), Canadian–American centre
- Paul Stastny (Pavol Šťastný) (born 1985), Canadian–American centre
- First generation (all brothers):
- Andrej Šťastný (born 1991), Slovak professional ice hockey player (not related to the above family)
- Bohuslav Šťastný (born 1949), retired Czech professional ice hockey player (also unrelated to the Slovak Šťastný family)
- František Šťastný (1927 − 2000), Czech Grand Prix motorcycle racer
- Jarmila Šťastná, Czech speed skater
- Jiří Šťastný, Czech basketball player
- Leopold Šťastný (1911 − 1996), Slovak football (soccer) player and trainer
- Jan Šťastný (canoeist) (born 1970), Czech canoeist
In the arts:
- Bohumil Šťastný (1905 − 1991), Czech photographer
- Jan Šťastný (violoncellist) (c. 1764 − ?), Czech composer and cellist
- Jan Šťastný (actor) (born 1965), Czech actor
- Marie Šťastná (born 1981), Czech poet
- Vladimír Šťastný (1841 − 1910), Czech priest and poet
Stiasny
edit- Franz Stiasny (1881 - 1941), Austrian medal maker
- Edmund Stiasny, the namesake of the Stiasny's method for analysis of tannins
Stiassny
edit- Wilhelm Stiassny (1842, Preßburg - 1910 Bad Ischl), a Jewish Hungarian-Austrian architect
- Ignaz Stiaßny (1849 - 1909), Austrian theatre director and -agent
- Robert Stiassny (1862, Vienna - 1917), Austrian art historian[3]
- Felix Stiassny (1867 - 1938), Austrian industrialist
- Rudolf Viktor Stiaßny (pseudonym: Viktor Staal; 1909, Frankstadt (Czech: Frenštát pod Radhoštěm), Moravia - 1982), Moravian-Austrian actor[4]
- Alfred Stiassny, Austrian Professor of the Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien
- Melanie Stiassny (b.1953), German ichthyologist