Romanovsky (surname) explained

Romanovsky (masculine), Romanovskaya (feminine) is a Russian surname.Other Slavic equivalents: Romanowski (Polish), Ramanauskas (Lithuanian), Ramanouski/Ramanouskaya (Belarusian), Romanovskyy/Romanovska (Ukrainian). All are toponymic surnames derived from any of locations named Romanów, Romany, or Romanowo,^[1] the latter names literally meaning "belonging to Roman."

Notable people with the surname include:

Russian

• Alexander Romanovsky (chess player) (1880–1943), Lithuanian–Russian chess master
• Alexander Romanovsky (pianist) (born 1984), Ukrainian classical pianist
• Elena Romanovskaya, Russian ice dancer
• Ivan Romanovsky (1877–1920), general in the Imperial Russian Army and White movement
• Princess Natalia Romanovskaya-Iskander (1917–1999), daughter of Prince Romanovsky-Iskander, son of Grand Duke Nicholas Constantinovich of Russia
• Paul Ilyinsky (Paul Romanovsky-Ilyinsky), 1928–2004), former mayor of Palm Beach, Florida and a son of Grand Duke Dmitry Pavlovich of Russia
• Peter Romanovsky (1892–1964), chess player
• Vladimir Zakharovich Romanovsky (1896-1967), Soviet general
• Vladimir Romanovsky (1957–2013), Soviet sprint canoeist
• Vsevolod Ivanovich Romanovsky (1879–1954), Russian-Soviet-Uzbek mathematician

Belarusian

• Aliaksandra Ramanouskaya (born 1996), Belarusian freestyle skier.

Ukrainian

• Olga Romanovska, Ukrainian singer and model

Notes and References

1. Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, 2013