Landau (surname)

Landau is a German and Yiddish toponymic surname derived from one of the two places named Landau.^[1] Notable people with the surname include:

• Barry Landau, American collector alleged to have stolen thousands of historical documents
• Bina Landau (1925–1988), Polish-born American Jewish soprano
• Chaim Landau (1916–1981), Israeli Minister of Transportation
• Christopher Landau (born 1963), American lawyer and diplomat; former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico
• David J. Landau (1920–1996), author and Holocaust survivor
• David Landau (screenwriter), American screenwriter
• David Landau (journalist), former editor-in-chief of Israeli daily newspaper Haaretz
• David Landau (actor), American actor
• David P. Landau, American physicist
• Dov Landau (born 1930), Israeli rabbi
• Edmund Landau (1877–1938), German mathematician
• Edie Landau, American television producer
• Ely Landau, American television producer
• Eugen Landau (1852–1935), German banker and philanthropist
• Felix Landau (1910–1983), Austrian National Socialist, SS Hauptscharführer, served in an Einsatzkommando
• Felix Landau (art dealer) (1924–2003), American art dealer
• Gili Landau (born 1958), Israeli footballer and manager
• Guttman Landau, Bessarabian Judenrat leader
• H. G. Landau, American mathematical biologist, statistician and sociologist
• Henry Landau, American mathematician
• Henry Landau (captain), British World War I Captain and author
• Jacob Landau (artist), American artist
• Jacob Landau, American journalist
• Jacob ben Judah Landau, rabbi
• Joel Landau, rabbi
• John A. Landau, member of the Rhodesian parliament
• Jon Landau, American music critic and record producer
• Jon Landau (film producer) (1960–2024), 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
• Lola Landau, Jewish German and Israeli poet
• 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 (1936–2013), American author, documentary filmmaker, and academic
• Saul Raphael Landau, lawyer and Zionist activist
• Seth Landau, American film maker
• Siegfried Landau, founder of the Brooklyn Philharmonic
• Susan Landau, American mathematician and engineer
• Suzanne Landau (born 1946), Israeli art museum curator
• Uzi Landau (born 1943), Israeli politician
• William Landau (1924–2017), American neurologist
• Yechezkel Landau (1713–1793), Jewish theologian and decisor
• Yoav Landau (born 1992), Israeli musician