Ostrovsky (surname)

Ostrovsky (Островский) is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Alexander Ostrovsky (1823–1886), Russian dramatist
Alexey Ostrovsky (born 1976), Russian politician
Arkady Ostrovsky (1914–1967), Soviet composer
Baruch Ostrovsky (1890–1960), first mayor of Ra'anana, Israel
Erika Ostrovsky (born 1926), Austrian-American biographer of Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Grigory Ostrovsky (1756–1814), Russian portrait painter
Leonid Ostrovsky (1936-2001), Soviet football star
Olive Ostrovsky, fictional character from the musical, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
Mikhail Ostrovsky, several people:
- Mikhail Nikolayevich Ostrovsky (1827–1901), Russian statesman
- Mikhail Ostrovsky, 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
Simon Ostrovsky (born 1981), Soviet-born Jewish American Emmy award winner journalist, director, and producer of documentaries
Victor Ostrovsky (born 1949), Canadian-born, Israel-raised self-proclaimed former Mossad officer and author of several books

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