Olshansky

Olshansky or Olshanski are  East Slavic toponymic surnames associated with the places  Olshana, Olshanka, Olshany, Halshany. The Belrusian-language rendering of the surname are Halshansky, Alshansky, Polish: Olszański, Holszański, Lithuanian: Olšanski, Alšėniškis. Name of the House in latin sources: Domus Olszansciorum, sometimes with subdivisions like Domus Olszansciorum Hippocentaurus or D. O. Corvo. Feminine variants: Olshanska, Olshanskaya, Hoshanska, Halshanskaya. Notable people with the surname include:


 * Members of the Olshanski/Holshansky noble family (Alšėniškiai; Holszańscy herbu Hippocentaurus), which can be variously styled in East Slavic, Polish, or Lithuanian ways
 * Barbara Olshansky, American human rights lawyer
 * Igor Olshansky (born 1982), American football player
 * Ivan Olshansky (died in or after 1402), progenitor of the Lithuanian princely Alšėniškiai (Holshansky) family
 * Konstantin Olshansky, (1915–1944), Ukrainian Hero of the Soviet Union
 * Nikolay Olshansky (born 1939), Russian politician
 * Paweł Holszański (1485–1555)
 * S. Jay Olshansky (born 1954), professor in the School of Public Health at the University of Illinois at Chicago
 * Semyon Olshanski (died in 1505 or 1506), noble from the Holshansky family
 * Sergei Olshansky (born 1948), Soviet football player
 * Sophia Holshanska, or Sophia of Halshany (1405–1461), Queen of Poland as the fourth and last wife of Jogaila, King of Poland and Supreme Duke of Lithuania
 * Uliana Olshanska (died 1448), noblewoman from the Olshanski (Holshanski, Alšėniškiai) family, the second wife of Vytautas, Grand Duke of Lithuania
 * Vladimir Olshansky (born 1947), Russian performing artist, director, composer, sculptor
 * Yelena Olshanskaya, original name of Elena Miller, a Russian who, as alleged by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), lived in Canada as a spy
 * Juliana Olshanskaya (1525–1540), noblewoman, saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church