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Ostrom or Öström is a Swedish surname meaning "island stream".
Many of the Ostroms in North America are descendants of a Dutch immigrant to New Amsterdam in the 1600's.
The name was van Oosteroom and originated in the area of Utrecht and several unrelated families used this name.
Notable people with the surname include:
Henry Jan-John Ostrum, (1741-1797), Captain, 3rd Regiment New York Militia (Albany County)
Elinor Ostrom (1933–2012), American political economist
Ellen Ostrom, former dancer in the New York City Ballet's corps de ballet
Gilbert Wellington Ostrom (1837–1917), Ontario lawyer and political figure
Hans Ostrom (born 1954), American professor, writer, editor, and scholar
John Ostrom (1928–2005), American paleontologist
Magnus Öström, drummer for the Esbjörn Svensson Trio
Meredith Ostrom (born 1977), American actress, model, and painter
Tom Ostrom (1936–1994), American psychologist
Vincent Ostrom (1919–2012), American political scientist
Walter Ostrom, ceramic artist
Adam Ostrom, (born 1980), American Criminal Justice Professor
Elinor Claire "Lin" Ostrom (née Awan; August 7, 1933 – June 12, 2012) was an American political scientist and political economist whose work was associated...
Look up ostrom in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Ostrom or Öström is a Swedish surname meaning "island stream". Many of the Ostroms in North America...
Thomas Marshall Ostrom (March 1, 1936 – May 16, 1994) was a psychologist who helped further the study of social psychology. Prior to Ostrom, the field explored...
Harold Ostrom (February 18, 1928 – July 16, 2005) was an American paleontologist who revolutionized the modern understanding of dinosaurs. Ostrom's work...
Vincent Alfred Ostrom (September 25, 1919 – June 29, 2012) was an American political economist and the Founding Director of the Ostrom Workshop based...
Deinonychus have been found much farther east in Maryland. Paleontologist John Ostrom's study of Deinonychus in the late 1960s revolutionized the way scientists...
Walter Ostrom CM (born 1944) is a Canadian ceramic artist. He was born in Binghamton NY and is a graduate of Ohio University. He has been a professor of...
Meredith Joy Ostrom is an American actress. She graduated from the New York University Tisch School of the Arts where she got her BFA degree with a double...
Hans Ansgar Ostrom (born January 29, 1954) is an American professor, writer, editor, and scholar. Ostrom is a professor of African American Studies and...
Gilbert Wellington Ostrom (June 1837 – December 19, 1917) was an Ontario lawyer and political figure. He represented Hastings West in the Legislative Assembly...
this is not always the case. In 1977, Nobel winner Elinor Ostrom and her husband Vincent Ostrom proposed additional modifications to the existing classification...
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right to exploit common land being controlled by law. The work of Elinor Ostrom, who received the Nobel Prize in Economics is seen by some economists as...
told Ostrom that he had decided to use the name Velociraptor in place of Deinonychus because the former name was "more dramatic." According to Ostrom, Crichton...
Jordan Ostrom, known professionally as Sykamore, is a country singer-songwriter from Carseland, Alberta, Canada. She released her first EP, Self + Medicine...
through small canals (acequias). They are a kind of market garden. Elinor Ostrom has defined huertas as "well-demarked irrigation areas surrounding or near...
2006, p. 189. "PAYPAL INC (PYPL) IPO". NASDAQ. Retrieved August 8, 2014. Ostrom, Mary Anne (July 9, 2002). "EBay to buy PayPal for $1.5 billion". San Jose...
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2007) Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (Peace Prize – 2007) Elinor Ostrom (Economics – 2009) Thomas A. Steitz (Chemistry – 2009) Christopher A. Pissarides...
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by Elinor Ostrom, an American political scientist and the first woman to receive the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2009. Ostrom researched...
century. This new view of dinosaurs was championed particularly by John Ostrom, who argued that birds evolved from coelurosaurian dinosaurs, and Robert...
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