Ostrovsky (surname)

Ostrovsky, Ostrovskiy, Ostrovskyi^[a] (masculine), Ostrovskaya or Ostrovska^[b] (feminine) are variations of a Slavic surname. Notable people with the surname include: It is based on the Slavic word for "island"

• Belarussian: востраў (vostraw)
• Russian: остров (ostrov)
• Ukrainian: острів (ostriv)

• Alexander Ostrovsky (1823–1886), Russian dramatist
• Alexey Ostrovsky (born 1976), Russian politician
• Anton Ostrovsky (born 1982), Israeli actor and rap singer
• Arkady Ostrovsky (1914–1967), Soviet composer
• Baruch Ostrovsky (1890–1960), first mayor of Ra'anana, Israel
• Erika Ostrovsky (1926–2010), Austrian-American biographer of Louis-Ferdinand Céline
• Grigory Ostrovsky (1756–1814), Russian portrait painter
• Iossif Ostrovskii (1934–2020), Ukrainian mathematician
• Josh Ostrovsky (born 1982), American entrepreneur, social media personality
• Leonid Ostrovsky (1936-2001), Soviet football star
• Leonard Ostrovsky (1922–1973), US politician in Ohio
• Mikhail Nikolayevich Ostrovsky (1827–1901), Russian statesman
• Mikhail Ostrovsky (diplomat) [ru], commissar and Soviet minister to Bucharest, victim of Stalin's purges
• Nikolai Ostrovsky (1904–1936), Russian Soviet writer, author of the novel How the Steel Was Tempered
• Rafail Ostrovsky (born 1963), professor of computer science and mathematics at UCLA
• Sasha Ostrovsky member of Russian country music band Bering Strait
• Simon Ostrovsky (born 1981), Soviet-born Jewish American journalist, director, and producer of documentaries
• Sofiya Ostrovska (born 1958), Ukrainian mathematician
• Victor Ostrovsky (born 1949), Canadian-born, Israel-raised self-proclaimed former Mossad officer and author of several books
• Vivian Ostrovsky (born 1945), experimental filmmaker

• Elka Ostrovksy, in Hot in Cleveland, a US TV sitcom
• Olive Ostrovsky, in the musical The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

• Andrey Astrowski (born 1973), also spelt Andrei Ostrovskiy, former Belarusian footballer
• Ostrovsky (disambiguation)
• Ostrowski (disambiguation), Polish spelling

Surname list

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