Ostrovsky (surname)

Ostrovsky, Ostrovskiy, Ostrovskyi (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 (vostraw)
 * Russian: остров (ostrov)
 * Ukrainian: острів (ostriv)

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), 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

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