Landis is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
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Arthur H. Landis, American science fiction and fantasy writer
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Bill Landis, American baseball player
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Carole Landis
Carole Landis (born Frances Lillian Mary Ridste; January 1, 1919 – July 5, 1948) was an American actress and singer. She worked as a contract player for Twentieth Century-Fox in the 1940s. Her breakout role was as the female lead in the 1940 ...
, American film actress
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Charles B. Landis
Charles Beary Landis (July 9, 1858 – April 24, 1922) was an American newspaperman and politician who served six terms as a U.S. Representative from Indiana from 1897 to 1909.
Early life and career
He was a brother of both Congressman Freder ...
, U.S. Representative from Indiana
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Charles K. Landis, American property developer in southern New Jersey
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Cullen Landis, American film actor
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David Landis, American politician
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Evgenii Landis, Russian mathematician
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Floyd Landis, American cyclist
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Forrest Landis, American child actor
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Frederick Landis
Frederick Landis (August 18, 1872 – November 15, 1934) was an American lawyer and politician who served two terms as a U.S. Representative from Indiana from 1903 to 1907.
He was a brother of both Charles Beary Landis and of baseball commi ...
, U.S. Representative from Indiana
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Geoffrey A. Landis, American scientist and science fiction writer
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James M. Landis, American lawyer, academic, and government official
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James Nobel Landis, American electrical-power engineer
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James P. Landis, soldier in the American Civil War and Medal of Honor recipient
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Jean Landis
Jean Landis (September 28, 1918 – December 13, 2022) was an American aviator.
Landis was born in El Cajon, California, on September 28, 1918. She received her bachelors degree in physical education from San Diego State University in 1940 and her ...
, American aviator
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Jessie Royce Landis
Jessie Royce Landis (born Jessie Medbury, November 25, 1896 – February 2, 1972) was an American actress. Her name is also seen as Jesse Royce-Landis. She remains perhaps best-known for her mother roles in the Hitchcock films ''To Catch a Thief' ...
, American actress
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Jill Marie Landis
Jill Marie Landis (born November 8, 1948, in Clinton, Indiana, United States) is an American author of historical and contemporary romance novels.
Biography
Jill Marie Landis was born on November 8, 1948, in Indiana, but moved to California ...
, American romance author
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Jim Landis
James Henry Landis (March 9, 1934 – October 7, 2017) was an American professional baseball player. Landis played in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a center fielder on six teams from 1957 through 1967. While playing eight seasons for the Chicago ...
, American baseball player
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John Landis
John David Landis (born August 3, 1950) is an American comedy and fantasy filmmaker and actor. He is best known for the comedy films that he has directed – such as ''The Kentucky Fried Movie'' (1977), ''National Lampoon's Animal House'' (1978 ...
, American film actor and director
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John D. Landis (urban planner), Professor of City and Regional Planning at the University of Pennsylvania
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Joshua Landis
Joshua M. Landis (born May 14, 1957) is an American academic who specializes in the Middle East and is an expert on Syria. He is the head of the Center for Middle East Studies at the University of Oklahoma, and since 2004, he has published the blog ...
, American scholar of the Middle East
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Kenesaw Mountain Landis
Kenesaw Mountain Landis (; November 20, 1866 – November 25, 1944) was an American jurist who served as a United States federal judge from 1905 to 1922 and the first Commissioner of Baseball from 1920 until his death. He is remembered for his ...
, U.S. Federal judge and Commissioner of Major League Baseball
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Mark A. Landis, American art forger
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Max Landis, American screenwriter
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Merkel Landis
Merkel Landis (January 5, 1875 – September 28, 1960) was an American lawyer and banker. A native resident of Carlisle, Pennsylvania, he was the treasurer and president of Carlisle Trust Company in Pennsylvania. He used his banking talents to ...
, American lawyer and businessman
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Michele Landis Dauber, American academic
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Nina Landis, Australian actress
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