Lansky or Lanskaya is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Lansky

Aaron Lansky Aaron Lansky (born June 17, 1955 in New Bedford, Massachusetts) is the founder of the Yiddish Book Center, an organization he created to help salvage Yiddish language publications. He received a MacArthur Fellowship in 1989 for his work. Lansky is ...

(born 1955), Yiddish book center organizer *

Greg Lansky Greg Lansky (born December 12, 1982) is a French artist, entrepreneur and investor based in the United States. He has directed and produced a number of adult films he describes as art. Lansky was a founder of Vixen Media Group in 2014, one of th ...

(born 1982), Jewish French adult film producer *

Ida Lansky Ida G. Lansky (''née'' Leranbaum 1910 – November 27, 1997) was a Canadian-born American photographer. She was most active between 1954 and 1960, when she stopped publicly exhibiting her work and chose to study library science. Lansky is known ...

(1910–1997), American photographer * Meyer Lansky (1902–1983), American gangster *

Paul Lansky Paul Lansky (born June 18, 1944, in New York) is an American composer. Biography Paul Lansky (born 1944) is an American composer. He was educated at Manhattan's High School of Music and Art, Queens College and Princeton University, studying wit ...

(born 1944), American composer

Lanskaya

* Alyona Lanskaya (born 1985), Belarusian singer *

Natalia Pushkina Natalia Nikolayevna Pushkina-Lanskaya (russian: link=no, Наталья Николаевна Пушкина-Ланская; 8 September 1812 – 26 November 1863) ( Goncharova) (Гончарова), was the wife of the Russian poet Alexander Pu ...

-Lanskaya (1812–1863), wife of Russian poet Alexander Pushkin *

Yelena Lanskaya Yelena Lanskaya is an American director, producer and editor. She is an active member of Directors Guild of America, the Motion Picture Editors Guild and Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Yelena has directed movies such as '' The Sant ...

, American film director, producer, and editor

Fictional characters

Lightmaster Lightmaster (real name Dr. Edward Lansky) is a fictional character, a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Publication history Lightmaster first appeared in ''Peter Parker, the Spectacular Spider-Man'' #3 and ...

, Comic book villain whose actual name is Dr. Edward Lansky {{surname, Lansky Polish-language surnames Surnames of Jewish origin