Ostrovsky (surname)
Ostrovsky, Ostrovskiy, Ostrovskyi, Ostrovskaya or Ostrovska are variations of a Slavic surname. It is based on the Slavic word for "island":
- Belarussian: востраў
- Russian: остров
- Ukrainian: острів
Notable people
- Alexander Ostrovsky, Russian dramatist
- Alexey Ostrovsky, Russian politician
- Anton Ostrovsky, Israeli actor and rap singer
- Arkady Ostrovsky, Soviet composer
- Baruch Ostrovsky, first mayor of Ra'anana, Israel
- Erika Ostrovsky, Austrian-American biographer of Louis-Ferdinand Céline
- Grigory Ostrovsky, Russian portrait painter
- Iossif Ostrovskii, Ukrainian mathematician
- Josh Ostrovsky, American entrepreneur, social media personality
- Leonid Ostrovsky, Soviet football star
- Leonard Ostrovsky, US politician in Ohio
- Mikhail Nikolayevich Ostrovsky, Russian statesman
- , commissar and Soviet minister to Bucharest, victim of Stalin's purges
- Nikolai Ostrovsky, Russian Soviet writer, author of the novel How the Steel Was Tempered
- Rafail Ostrovsky, professor of computer science and mathematics at UCLA
- Sasha Ostrovsky member of Russian country music band Bering Strait
- Sima Ostrovskiy - Soviet and Israeli artist, painter, sculptor and writer
- Simon Ostrovsky, Soviet-born Jewish American journalist, director, and producer of documentaries
- Sofiya Ostrovska, Ukrainian mathematician
- Victor Ostrovsky, Canadian-born, Israel-raised self-proclaimed former Mossad officer and author of several books
- Vivian Ostrovsky, 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''