Landau (disambiguation)

Landau may refer to:

Places

• Landau, a city in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany (from which the Landau carriage gets its name)
• Landau an der Isar, a town in Bavaria, Germany
• Dingolfing-Landau, a district in Bavaria, Germany
• Petit-Landau aka Kleinlandau, a village in Haut-Rhin, France
• Landau Forte College, Derby, United Kingdom
• Landau, the former name of Shyrokolanivka, which became part of the Ukraine after World War II

People

• Abraham Landau, German-American-Jewish gangster
• Barry Landau, American collector alleged to have stolen thousands of historical documents
• Chaim Landau, Israeli Minister of Transportation
• 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 Ha'aretz
• David Landau (actor), actor of the 1930s
• David P. Landau, American physicist
• Edmund Landau, German mathematician
• Felix Landau, Austrian National Socialist, SS Hauptscharführer, served in an Einsatzkommando
• Felix Landau (art), American art dealer
• Henry Landau, American mathematician
• Jacob Landau, American journalist
• Jacob ben Judah Landau, rabbi
• Jon Landau, American music critic and record producer
• Jon Landau (film producer), American film producer
• Juliet Landau, American actress
• Kurt Landau, Austrian communist
• Lev Landau, Soviet physicist, awarded with the Nobel Price in 1962, author (with Evgeny Lifshitz) of the Course of Theoretical Physics
• Martin Landau, American actor
• Michael Landau, American session guitarist
• 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
• 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

Mathematics and science

Named after Edmund Landau

• Landau's function
• Landau symbol
• Landau–Ramanujan constant
• Landau's constants
• Landau's problems

Named after Lev Landau

• Landau distribution
• Landau quantization
• Ginzburg–Landau theory
• Derjaguin–Landau–Verwey–Overbeek theory
• Landau theory of phase transitions
• Landau damping

Named after others

• Landau's algorithm for denesting radicals (after Susan Landau)
• Landau–Kleffner syndrome (after William Landau)

Vehicles

• Landau (carriage), a type of convertible carriage named after the city of Landau
• Landau (automobile), a type of convertible auto
• Ford Landau, an automobile produced in Brazil from 1971 to 1983
• Ford Landau (Australia), an automobile produced in Australia from 1973 to 1976

See also

• Landauer
• Landau Commission