Landon
Encyclopedia

Given name

  • Alfred Felix Landon Beeston
    Alfred Felix Landon Beeston
    Alfred Felix Landon Beeston was an English Orientalist best known for his studies of Arabic language and literature, and of ancient Yemeni inscriptions, as well as the history of pre-Islamic Arabia. His works were generally published under the name A. F. L...

  • Charles Landon Knight
    Charles Landon Knight
    Charles Landon Knight was an American lawyer and newspaper publisher who represented Ohio in the United States House of Representatives from 1921-1923...

  • James Landon Knight
  • Landon (Planet of the Apes)
    Landon (Planet of the Apes)
    John Landon is a character in the movie Planet of the Apes. He is played by Brian Cox.Landon was a human astronaut who joined the NASA program some time in the 1960s. According to his colleague, George Taylor, Landon was an ambitious scientist who "wanted to live forever"...

  • Landon Carter
    Landon Carter
    Landon Carter was a planter from Virginia, best known for his account of life before the American War of Independence, The Diary of Colonel Landon Carter.-Biography:...

  • Landon Carter Haynes, Sr.
    Landon Carter Haynes, Sr.
    Landon Carter Haynes was a prominent Confederate politician during the American Civil War.-Biography:...

  • Landon Cassill
    Landon Cassill
    Landon Douglas Cassill is a driver in the NASCAR Sprint Cup and Nationwide Series. He is a test driver for Hendrick Motorsports. He currently drives the #51 Chevrolet Impala for Phoenix Racing in the Sprint Cup Series....

  • Landon Cohen
    Landon Cohen
    Landon Cohen is an American football defensive end who is currently a free agent. He was drafted by the Detroit Lions in the seventh round of the 2008 NFL Draft...

  • Landon Curt Noll
    Landon Curt Noll
    Landon Curt Noll is an American computer scientist, co-discoverer of the 25th Mersenne prime and discoverer of the 26th, which he found while still enrolled in high school and concurrently at Cal State Hayward....

  • Landon Donovan
    Landon Donovan
    Landon Timothy Donovan is an American soccer player for the Los Angeles Galaxy in Major League Soccer in the United States. He usually plays as a withdrawn forward, and can also be used as an attacking midfielder on either wing....

  • Landon Garland
    Landon Garland
    -Biography:He graduated with first honors from Hampden-Sydney College in 1829. He taught chemistry and natural philosophy at Washington College , c1829-1830, and taught chemistry and natural history at Randolph-Macon College, 1833-1834, eventually being elected chair of the department. In 1837, he...

  • Landon Gilkey
  • Landon Hedges
    Landon Hedges
    Landon Hedges is a musician from Omaha, Nebraska. He played bass guitar and sang in the band Desaparecidos. He was also in The Good Life. He currently plays guitar and sings in a band called Little Brazil on Mt. Fuji Records.-Album Appearances:...

  • Landon Johnson
    Landon Johnson
    Landon Tremone Johnson is an American football linebacker who is currently a free agent of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Cincinnati Bengals in the third round of the 2004 NFL Draft...

  • Landon Jones
    Landon Jones
    Landon Y. Jones is an American editor and author. He is a former managing editor of People magazine and the author of William Clark and the Shaping of the West, a biography of William Clark, joint leader of the Lewis and Clark Expedition....

  • Landon Liboiron
    Landon Liboiron
    Landon Liboiron is a Gemini Award nominated Canadian actor. He is best known for his role as Declan in Degrassi: The Next Generation, later named Degrassi. He currently stars in the Fox television series Terra Nova, as 17-year-old Josh Shannon....

  • Landon Lueck
  • Landon Metz
    Landon Metz
    Landon Metz is an American artist living in New York City. His work is concerned with an elevated consciousness he believes to be synonymous with a state of "no mind" and addresses the non-dual nature of the universe therewithin. Metz resides with his wife Hannah Kristina Metz.-External links:***...

  • Landon Parvin
    Landon Parvin
    Landon Parvin is a Republican speech writer who has written for several U.S. politicians, including Presidents Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, and California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger....

  • Landon Pearson
    Landon Pearson
    Landon Carter "Lucy" Pearson, OC, B.A., M.Ed. is a former Canadian senator and a children's rights advocate. She is the daughter-in-law of former Prime Minister Lester B...

  • Landon Pigg
    Landon Pigg
    Landon Pigg is a singer-songwriter, musician, and actor from Nashville, Tennessee.- Early years :Pigg was born in Nashville, Tennessee. When Pigg was a child, his family moved to Oak Park, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, and he and two of his siblings, Cari-Ann and Gabriel, sang commercial jingles...

  • Landon Powell
    Landon Powell
    Landon Reed Powell is a catcher and first baseman for the Oakland Athletics.Powell attended the University of South Carolina. In 2002, his first season playing for them, he had a .292 batting average with 12 home runs and was part of the team that went to the College World Series...

  • Landon Ross
    Landon Ross
    Landon Ross is an American writer, artist and frequent blogger on The Huffington Post. He has written extensively on atheism and politics...

  • Landon T. Ross
    Landon Timmonds Ross, Jr.
    Landon Timmonds Ross, Jr. is an American environmental biologist. He received master's degrees in geology from Florida State University and paleontology , and a biology Ph.D...

  • Landon Trusty
    Landon Trusty
    Landon Trusty is an American football tight end, currently a free agent.Trusty was most recently on the Injured reserve for 2006 season with the Denver Broncos of the NFL after tearing his anterior cruciate ligament in spring minicamp...

  • Landon Wilson
    Landon Wilson
    Landon Wilson is a former American professional ice hockey right winger who last played for the Texas Stars of the AHL, where he served as team captain. He is the son of former NHL forward Rick Wilson.-Playing career:...

  • Sofia Landon Geier
    Sofia Landon Geier
    Sofia Landon Geier is a television soap opera writer and actress. She is also credited as Sofia Landon or Sophia Landon...


Surname

  • Alf Landon
    Alf Landon
    Alfred Mossman "Alf" Landon was an American Republican politician, who served as the 26th Governor of Kansas from 1933–1937. He was best known for being the Republican Party's nominee for President of the United States, defeated in a landslide by Franklin D...

    , politician
  • Bruce Landon
    Bruce Landon
    Bruce Landon is a retired professional ice hockey goaltender who is the longtime general manager and owner of the Springfield Falcons of the American Hockey League.- Playing career :...

    , ice hockey player
  • Charles Landon
    Charles Landon
    Charles Whittington Landon was an English amateur first-class cricketer, who played six games for Lancashire County Cricket Club in 1874 and 1875, and nine for Yorkshire between 1878 and 1882. Having first played for the Lancashire Gentlemen, he also appeared for the Yorkshire Gentlemen from 1876...

    , cricketer
  • Charles Paul Landon
    Charles Paul Landon
    Charles Paul Landon was a French painter and popular writer on art and artists.He was born in Nonant and entered the studio of Jean-Baptiste Regnault, where he made a lifelong friendship with Robert Lefèvre. He and won the first prize of the Academy in 1792, for study at the French Academy in Rome...

    , painter
  • Christopher B. Landon
    Christopher B. Landon
    Christopher Beau Landon is an American screenwriter best known as the writer of 2007 film Disturbia and as the son of filmmaker Michael Landon.-Career:...

    , screenwriter
  • Christopher Landon
    Christopher Landon
    Christopher Guy Landon, known as Christopher Landon was a British writer of novels and screenplays, best known for his novel Ice Cold in Alex which he adapted faithfully for the big screen creating one of the most famous of war movies, likewise entitled Ice-Cold in Alex.-Biography:Landon was born...

    , novelist
  • Dena Landon
    Dena Landon
    Dena Landon, , is a children's fiction fantasy writer, who wrote Shapeshifter's Quest in 2005. She is currently working on a new novel, as well as a Shapeshifter sequel.-Life:...

    , children's author
  • H. C. Robbins Landon
    H. C. Robbins Landon
    Howard Chandler Robbins Landon was an American musicologist.He was born in Boston, Massachusetts and studied music at Swarthmore College and Boston University. He subsequently moved to Europe where he worked as a music critic. From 1947 he undertook research in Vienna on Joseph Haydn, a composer...

    , musicologist
  • Herbert Landon, fictional supervillain
  • Herman Landon
    Herman Landon
    Major-General Herman James Shelley Landon, CB, CMG, , was a British Army officer. During the Boer War he commanded a battalion, and was promoted in the interwar period to take command of a brigade in the British Expeditionary Force...

    , British general
  • James Landon, musician
  • Jennifer Landon
    Jennifer Landon
    Jennifer Landon is an American actress. She is known for her role as Gwen Norbeck Munson on As the World Turns .-Private life:...

    , actress
  • Jodie Landon, fictional cartoon character
  • Jon Landon
    Jon Landon
    Jonathon Landon is a former offensive lineman for the Canadian Football League's Toronto Argonauts. He was traded to the Edmonton Eskimos in February 2007 for future considerations but he chose to retire and begin his teaching career and raise his family in Ottawa.Landon now teaches Phys. Ed to...

    , football player
  • Larry Landon
    Larry Landon
    Larry James Landon is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey forward who played 9 games in the National Hockey League for the Montreal Canadiens and Toronto Maple Leafs.-External links:...

    , ice hockey player
  • Laurene Landon
    Laurene Landon
    Laurene Landon is a film and television actress. Laurene first began appearing in movies in the late 1970s. She is best known for playing the role of Molly in ...All the Marbles...

    , actress
  • Leslie Landon
    Leslie Landon
    Leslie Landon Matthews is an American actress, best known from the role of Etta Plum on Little House on the Prairie TV series. Her father was Michael Landon and mother is Marjorie Lynn Noe .-Career:Leslie is notable for her role as Etta Plum on Little House on the Prairie which she played from...

    , actress
  • Letitia Elizabeth Landon
    Letitia Elizabeth Landon
    Letitia Elizabeth Landon , English poet and novelist, better known by her initials L. E. L.- Early life :...

    , writer
  • Margaret Landon
    Margaret Landon
    Margaret Landon was an American writer best remembered for Anna and the King of Siam, her best-selling 1944 novel of the life of Anna Leonowens which eventually sold over a million copies and translated into more than twenty languages...

    , novelist
  • Mark Landon
    Mark Landon
    Mark Landon was an American actor and adopted son of Bonanza and Little House on the Prairie star Michael Landon.-Biography:Mark Frasier Landon was adopted in 1956, aged 7, by the 20 year-old actor Michael Landon...

    , American actor, son of Michael
  • Michael Landon
    Michael Landon
    Michael Landon was an American actor, writer, director, and producer. He is widely known for his roles as Little Joe Cartwright in Bonanza , Charles Ingalls in Little House on the Prairie , and Jonathan Smith in Highway to Heaven...

    , actor
  • Michael Landon Jr.
    Michael Landon Jr.
    Michael Landon, Jr. is an American actor, director, writer and producer.- Biography :Born as Michael Graham Landon, Landon is the son of the late actor Michael Landon and his second wife, Marjorie Lynn Noe. Michael is the brother of Christopher B...

    , actor
  • Perceval Landon
    Perceval Landon
    Perceval Landon was an English writer and journalist, now best remembered for his classic and much reprinted ghost story Thurnley Abbey.-Family:...

    , writer
  • Richard Landon
    Richard Landon
    Richard John Landon is a retired English footballer who played as a striker.Landon combined his job as a part-time player with an office job before entering the professional game. While at his desk, he was told he had phone call waiting from Peter Shilton, who had spotted him playing for Bedworth...

    , football player
  • Richmond Landon
    Richmond Landon
    Richmond Wilcox Landon was an American athlete who competed mainly in the high jump.He competed for the United States in the 1920 Summer Olympics held in Antwerp, Belgium in the high jump where he won the gold medal.He was born in Salisbury, Connecticut and died in Lynbrook, New York.-External...

    , high jump athlete
  • Timothy Landon
    Timothy Landon
    Brigadier Sir James Timothy Whittington Landon, KCVO, served in the British and Omani armies and was instrumental in the development of the present Sultanate of Oman...

    , soldier and politician
  • Tina Landon
    Tina Landon
    Tina Landon is an award-winning Mexican-American choreographer based in Los Angeles who has worked with Prince, Anastacia, Mýa, Pink, Jay-Z, Marc Anthony, Kristi Yamaguchi, Aerosmith, Jennifer Lopez, Christina Aguilera, Ricky Martin, Janet Jackson, Michael Jackson, Shakira, Pussycat Dolls, Tina...

    , dance choreographer
  • Truman H. Landon
    Truman H. Landon
    General Truman Hempel Landon was a U.S. Air Force general and commander, U.S. Air Forces in Europe.Landon was born in Maryville, Missouri, and grew up in Carlinville, Illinois...

    , general

See also

  • Canton of Château-Landon
  • Château-Landon
    Château-Landon
    Château-Landon is a commune in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France.-External links:* * *...

  • Château-Landon (Paris Métro)
    Château-Landon (Paris Metro)
    Château-Landon is a station on line 7 of the Paris Métro in the 10th arrondissement.The station was opened on 5 November 1910 as part of the first section of the line from Opéra to Porte de la Villette. It is named after the Rue Château-Landon, a street which was built on property once owned by a...

  • Dettmer v. Landon
    Dettmer v. Landon
    Dettmer v. Landon, 799 F.2d 929 , is a court case in which the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit held that although Wicca was a religion, it was not a violation of the First Amendment to deny a prisoner access to ritual objects.-Facts:The plaintiff, Herbert Daniel Dettmer, was a...

  • Harold Morton Landon Translation Award
  • Landon Arena
    Landon Arena
    Landon Arena, better known as the Kansas Expocentre, is a 10,000-seat multi-purpose arena built in 1987 in Topeka, Kansas. It is currently home to the Kansas Koyotes indoor football team and the Topeka Roadrunners ice hockey team. Previously, Topeka Sizzlers of the Continental Basketball...

  • Landon School
    Landon School
    The Landon School is a private, nonsectarian, college preparatory school for boys in grades 3-12, with an enrollment of approximately 675 students. The school sits on in Bethesda, Maryland, just outside of Washington, D.C.-Background:...

  • Sarah Landon and the Paranormal Hour
    Sarah Landon and the Paranormal Hour
    Sarah Landon and the Paranormal Hour is a 2007 supernatural thriller film from Freestyle Releasing starring Rissa Walters as the title character. It was released on October 19, 2007...

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