List of Famous people with last name Ostrom
Elinor Ostrom
Elinor Claire "Lin" Ostrom was an American political economist whose work was associated with the New Institutional Economics and the resurgence of political economy. In 2009, she was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for her "analysis of economic governance, especially the commons", which she shared with Oliver E. Williamson. To date, she remains the first of only two women to win the Nobel Prize in Economics, the other being Esther Duflo.
John Ostrom
John Harold Ostrom was an American paleontologist who revolutionized modern understanding of dinosaurs in the 1960s.
Meredith Ostrom
Meredith Joy Ostrom American actress. She graduated New York University, Tisch School of the Arts where she got her BFA degree with a double major in Drama and Fine arts with a minor in Cinema Studies. After graduation she moved to London. She was linked for years to Duran Duran's Nick Rhodes.