Šťastný Explained

Šťastný
Pronunciation:	pronounced as /cs/
Meaning:	happy
Region:	Czech Republic and Slovakia; Burgenland, Austria
Variant:	Stastny
Footnotes:	^[1]

Šťastný (pronounced as /cs/) is a Czech and Slovak surname which literally means "happy".^[2] The feminine form of the surname is Šťastná.

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
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:

Stiasny

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 (cs|[[Frenštát pod Radhoštěm]]), Moravia - 1982), Moravian-Austrian actor^[4]
Alfred Stiassny, Austrian Professor of the Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien
Melanie Stiassny (b.1953), German ichthyologist