Ostrovsky (surname)

Ostrovsky, Ostrovskoy, Ostrovskii ((Островский, masculine), Ostrovskaya, or Ostrovska (feminine) are variations of a Slavic surname. Notable people with the surname include: It is based on the Slavic word for "island"

* Belarussian :востраў (vostraŭ)
* Russian:остров (ostrov)
* Ukrainian:острів (ostriv)

## Notable people[edit]

* 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

## Fictional characters[edit]

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

## See also[edit]

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

Surname list

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