Landauer is a surname, originally referring to somebody from

Landau Landau (), officially Landau in der Pfalz (, ), is an autonomous (''kreisfrei'') town surrounded by the Südliche Weinstraße ("Southern Wine Route") district of southern Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is a university town (since 1990), a long ...

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Gustav Landauer Gustav Landauer (7 April 1870 – 2 May 1919) was a German philosopher, writer, and a leading theorist of anarchism in Germany at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. He was an advocate of social anarchism and an avowed ...

(1870–1919), German anarchist, writer, and critic * Karl Landauer (12 October 1887 – 27 January 1945) was a German psychoanalyst *

Kurt Landauer Kurt Landauer (28 July 1884 – 21 December 1961) was a German football official. His profession was often listed as ''Kaufmann'' ("merchant"), he was head of the advertising department of the major Munich daily newspaper '' Münchner Neueste Nac ...

(1884–1961), German football official *

M. H. Landauer M. H. Landauer (1808 – February 3, 1841) was a writer on Jewish mysticism, born at Kappel, near Buchau, Württemberg in Germany. He was a son of the cantor Elias Landauer, and at the age of 18 entered the yeshiva and lyceum in Karlsruhe; later, h ...

(1808–1841), German rabbi and writer on Jewish mysticism * Robert S. Landauer (1924–2004), American scientist specializing in radiation measurement *

Rolf Landauer Rolf William Landauer (February 4, 1927 – April 27, 1999) was a German American, German-American physicist who made important contributions in diverse areas of the thermodynamics of information processing, condensed matter physics, and the cond ...

(1927–1999), German-American physicist * Samuel Landauer (1846–1937), German orientalist and librarian * Thomas Landauer (1932–2014), American professor of psychology * Walter Landauer (1910–1983), Austrian pianist best known as half of the Rawicz and Landauer piano duo

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