Minkowski, Mińkowski or Minkovski (Slavic feminine: Minkowska, Mińkowska or Minkovskaya; plural: Minkowscy, Mińkowscy; , ) is a surname of Polish origin. It may refer to:
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Minkowski or Mińkowski, a coat of arms of Polish nobility
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Alyona Minkovski
Alyona Leonidovna Minkovski (; born 30 January 1986) is a Russian American journalist, television host and commentator. In 2011, she was named on the ''Forbes'' 30 under 30 media list.
Minkovski is currently a producer of ''American Metamorp ...
(born 1986), Russian-American correspondent and presenter
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Eugène Minkowski (1885–1972), French psychiatrist
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Hermann Minkowski (1864–1909) Russian-born German mathematician and physicist, known for:
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Minkowski addition
In geometry, the Minkowski sum of two set (mathematics), sets of position vectors ''A'' and ''B'' in Euclidean space is formed by vector addition, adding each vector in ''A'' to each vector in ''B'':
A + B = \
The Minkowski difference (also ''M ...
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Minkowski–Bouligand dimension
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Minkowski diagram
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Minkowski distance
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Minkowski functional
In mathematics, in the field of functional analysis, a Minkowski functional (after Hermann Minkowski) or gauge function is a function that recovers a notion of distance on a linear space.
If K is a subset of a real or complex vector space X, ...
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Minkowski inequality
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Minkowski space
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Null vector (Minkowski space)
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Minkowski plane
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Minkowski's theorem
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Minkowski's question mark function
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Abraham–Minkowski controversy
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Hasse–Minkowski theorem
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Minkowski separation theorem
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Smith–Minkowski–Siegel mass formula
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Christopher Minkowski (born 1953), American Indologist
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Khristian Minkovski (born 1971), Bulgarian swimmer
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Marc Minkowski (born 1962), French conductor
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Oskar Minkowski (1858–1931), German physician
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Peter Minkowski (born 1941), Swiss physicist
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Pinhas Minkowsky (1859–1924), Russian ''hazzan''
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Rudolph Minkowski (1895–1976), German-American astronomer
{{surname, Minkowski, Minkowsky (Minkowska), Minkovsky (Minkovskaya), etc.
Surnames of Jewish origin
Polish-language surnames
Slavic-language surnames