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Landau Ranking

In the United States, the name Landau is the 10,607th most popular surname with an estimated 2,487 people with that name. 1


Landau migration to the United States +

Some of the first settlers of this family name were:

Landau Settlers in United States in the 19th Century
  • Onesippe Landau, who arrived in New York, NY in 1844 2
  • Albert Landau, who arrived in Philadelphia in 1851
  • Elisabeth Landau, aged 26, who landed in New York in 1854 2
  • Louis Landau, who settled in Philadelphia in 1878
  • Lubush Landau, who arrived in Arkansas in 1894 2

Contemporary Notables of the name Landau (post 1700) +

  • Jon Landau (1960-2024), American film producer who won an Academy Award for Best Picture for producing James Cameron's disaster film Titanic (1997)
  • William M. Landau (1924-2017), American professor of neurology at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
  • Martin Landau (1928-2017), Oscar-winning American film and television actor, perhaps best known for his starring role in "Mission Impossible"
  • Stephen Gerald Landau (b. 1943), American psychiatrist
  • Jacob Landau (b. 1917), American prominent artist and professor of Graphic Arts
  • George Landau (b. 1920), American Ambassador to Paraguay since 1972
  • Sonia Landau, American Republican politician, Candidate for U.S. Representative from New York 18th District, 1976
  • Henry Landau, American politician, Member of New York State Assembly from Kings County 14th District, 1926
  • Gustave J. Landau, American Republican politician, Candidate for U.S. Representative from New York 12th District, 1930
  • George Walter Landau (b. 1920), American politician, U.S. Ambassador to Paraguay, 1972-77; Chile, 1977-82; Venezuela, 1982-85
  • ... (Another 4 notables are available in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.)


  1. "What are the 5,000 Most Common Last Names in the U.S.?". NameCensus.com, https://namecensus.com/last-names/
  2. Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)


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