Landau (surname)
Landau is a surname. A variation of Landau is Landauer. Notable people with the surname include:
- Abraham Landau, German-American-Jewish gangster
- Barry Landau, American collector alleged to have stolen thousands of historical documents
- Chaim Landau, Israeli Minister of Transportation
- Christopher Landau, American lawyer and diplomat
- David J. Landau, author and Holocaust survivor
- David Landau, American screenwriter
- David Landau, former editor-in-chief of Israeli daily newspaper Haaretz
- David Landau, American actor
- David P. Landau, American physicist
- Dov Landau, Israeli rabbi
- Edmund Landau, German mathematician
- Felix Landau, Austrian National Socialist, SS Hauptscharführer, served in an Einsatzkommando
- Felix Landau , American art dealer
- Guttman Landau, Bessarabian Judenrat leader
- Henry Landau, American mathematician
- Henry Landau, British World War I Captain and author
- Jacob Landau, American artist
- Jacob Landau, American journalist
- Jacob ben Judah Landau, rabbi
- Joel Landau, rabbi
- John A. Landau
- Jon Landau, American music critic and record producer
- Jon Landau, American film producer
- Judah Leo Landau, rabbi
- Juliet Landau, American actress
- Kurt Landau, Austrian communist
- Lev Landau, Soviet physicist, awarded the Nobel Prize in 1962
- Martin Landau, American actor
- Michael Landau, American session guitarist
- Moshe Landau, Israeli jurist, former president of the Supreme Court of Israel, president of the court during the Adolf Eichmann war crimes trial
- Neil Landau, American writer, playwright, producer, director
- Russ Landau, American musician
- Salo Landau, Dutch chess player
- Saul Landau, American author, documentary filmmaker, and academic
- Seth Landau, American film maker
- Siegfried Landau, founder of the Brooklyn Philharmonic
- Susan Landau, American mathematician and engineer
- Suzanne Landau, Israeli art museum curator
- Uzi Landau, Israeli politician
- William Landau, American neurologist
- Yechezkel Landau, Jewish theologian and decisor
Fictional characters
- Burt Landau, fictional character on "FX"
- Dov Landau, fictional character in the novel and film Exodus
- Nathan Landau, fictional character in the film "Sophie's Choice"
