Ostrovsky (surname)

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

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

Notable people with the surname include:

Notable people

• 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
• Sima Ostrovskiy (ru) (1938-1995) - Soviet and Israeli artist, painter, sculptor and writer
• 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

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

See also

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

Notes

1. • Russian: Островский, romanized: Ostrovsky
   • Ukrainian: Островський, romanized: Ostrovskyi
   • Belarusian: Астроўскі, romanized: Astrowski
2. • Russian: Островская, romanized: Ostrovskaya
   • Ukrainian: Островська, romanized: Ostrovska
   • Belarusian: Астроўская, romanized: Astrowskaya