Landau (family name)
Landau is a predominantly Jewish family name ( Hebrew לנדאו).
Name bearer
A.
- Alfred Landau (philologist) (1850–1935), Austrian philologist and folklorist
- Alfred Landau (lawyer) (1914 – after 1985), American lawyer, UN civil servant and economic expert of Austrian origin
- Anneliese Landau (1903–1991), German-American musicologist
C.
- Carina Landau , pseudonym of Carina Krause (* 1967), German dubbing writer and photographer
- Chaim Landau (1916–1981), Israeli politician
- Charlotte Landau-Mühsam (née Mühsam ; 1881–1972), German women's rights activist and politician
D.
- David Landau (actor) (1879–1935), American actor
- David Landau (journalist) (1947-2015), British-Israeli journalist and editor
- David Folkerts-Landau (* 1949), German economist
- David P. Landau (* 1941), American physicist
- David Wolf Landau (1742-1818), German rabbi
- Dirk Landau (* 1964), German politician
E.
- Edmund Landau (1877–1938), German mathematician
- Edwin Maria Landau (1904–2001), German translator and publisher
- Ely A. Landau (1920–1993), American film producer and film distributor
- Ernst Landau (1911 – after 1977), American lawyer, radio director and diplomat of Austrian origin, see Ernest G. Land
- Ernst Landau (1916–2000), Austrian journalist, concentration camp survivor, translator and newspaper founder, see Ernest Landau
- Ernst Landau (1931–1999), Israeli photographer of Austrian origin
- Eugen Landau (1852–1935), German banker
- Ezekiel Landau (1713–1793), legal scholar and chief rabbi
F.
- Felix Landau (conductor) (1872–1913), German conductor and Kapellmeister
- Felix Landau (SS member) (1910–1983), Austrian SS main squad leader
- Felix Landau (art dealer) (1924–2003), Austrian-American art dealer
G
- Georg Landau (1807–1865), German archivist and historian
- Gustaw Landau-Gutenteger (1862–1924), Polish architect
H
- Helene Landau, see Helene Bauer (1871–1942), Austrian social scientist, journalist and socialist
- Hans von Landau (around 1450–1513), German landowner
- Hans Landau (1892 – after 1933), German surgeon
- Heinrich Friedrich Landau (* 1920), German diplomat
- Herbert Landau (* 1948), German lawyer
- Horst Landau (* 1937), German writer
I.
- Isidor Landau (1850–1944), German journalist and theater critic
J
- Jacob von Landau (1822–1882), German banker
- Jacob Landau (journalist) (1892–1952), journalist and editor of Austrian origin
- Jacob M. Landau (* 1924), Israeli orientalist
- Jakob Landau (1892–1952), Austrian-American journalist
- Jon Landau (Manager) (* 1947), American music critic, record producer and manager
- Jon Landau (film producer) (* 1960), American film producer
- Josef Landau (1877–1944), Polish chemist and industrialist
- Judah Loeb Landau (1866–1942), South African rabbi
- Juliet Landau (born 1965), American actress
- Julius Müller-Landau (1907–1992), German pianist
K
- Karl von Hackelberg-Landau (1859–1921), Austrian Catholic priest and canon
- Klara Landau (* 1953), Swiss ophthalmologist
- Kurt Landau (politician) (1903–1937), Austrian Trotskyist and party official
- Kurt Landau (ergonomist) (* 1947), German ergonomist and university professor
L.
- Leo Landau (actor) (1878–1916), Austrian actor and theater director
- Leo Landau (lawyer) (1880–1960), German lawyer and Zionist
- Leopold Landau (singer) (1841-1894), singer (tenor)
- Leopold Landau (physician) (1848–1920), German doctor and university professor
- Les Landau , American television director
- Lev Dawidowitsch Landau (1908–1968), Russian physicist
- Lyubov Harkavy-Landau (1877–1941), Belarusian-Soviet doctor, pharmacologist, physiologist and university professor
- Lola Landau (1892–1990), German writer
- Ludwig Landau (1535 / 36–1588), abbot of the Imperial Abbey of Hersfeld, see Ludwig V. (Hersfeld)
M.
- Markus Landau (1837–1918), Austrian literary historian and writer
- Martin Landau (1928–2017), American actor and producer
- Max Landau , real name of Max Landa (1873–1933), Austrian stage and silent film actor
- Max Landau (1886–1915), Austrian anatomist
- Michael Landau (musician) (* 1958), American guitarist and songwriter
- Michael Landau (priest) (* 1960), Austrian Catholic priest
- Moses Landau (1788–1852), Czech scholar, writer and printer
- Moshe Landau (1912–2011), Israeli lawyer
P
- Paul Landau (1880–1951), German journalist and writer
- Peter Landau (1935–2019), German legal scholar, legal historian and canonist
R.
- Ralph Landau (1916–2004), American chemical engineer, entrepreneur and author
- Reiner von Landau (birth name Johannes Landau ; 1585–1637), German abbot of Melk Abbey
- Rolf Müller-Landau (1903–1956), German painter
- Roman Landau (* 1955), German journalist, author and publisher
- Rudolf Landau (* 1946), German Protestant pastor, theologian and editor
S.
- Salo Landau (1903-1944), Dutch chess player
- Samuel Landau (1882–1942), Polish actor
- Saul Landau (1936–2013), American director, producer and writer
- Saul Raphael Landau (1870–1943), lawyer and publicist
- Sigalit Landau (* 1969), Israeli sculptor, video artist and installation artist
- Sigmund von Landau (1542–1606), Austrian governor
- Susan Landau (computer scientist) (* 1954), American computer scientist and cryptographer
- Susan Landau Finch (* 1960), American film producer
T
- Tina Landau (* 1962), American playwright and theater director
U
- Uzi Landau (* 1943), Israeli politician, minister and member of the Knesset
V
- Verena Landau (* 1965), German painter
W.
- Wilhelm von Landau (1848–1908), German explorer and orientalist
- William M. Landau (1924-2017), American neurologist
- Wolf Landau (1811–1886), German chief rabbi
Z
- Zishe Landau (1889–1937), Yiddish poet