Lansing (name)

Lansing is a Dutch patronymic surname from the personal name Lans (Germanic Lanzo). The "-ing" or "-ink" suffix originally was patronymic, but later also became indicative of a place. Lansing is now a rare name in the Netherlands (Lansink is the more common form), but there are many descendants in the United States of Gerrit Gerritse Lansing (ca.1615–bef.1654), a baker in Hasselt, Overijssel, whose widow and children migrated to New Netherland in 1654. At a later time there the surname became used as a middle name and given name. Notable people with the name include:

Surname

• Abraham Lansing (1835–1899), New York lawyer and politician
• Abraham G. Lansing (1756–1834), New York politician
• Alfred Lansing (1921–1975), American journalist and writer
• (1891–1959), American Egyptologist and anthropologist
• Bradford R. Lansing (1860–1912), New York politician
• Clarabelle Lansing (1930–1988), American flight attendant, sole fatality of the Aloha Airlines Flight 243 disaster
• Frederick Lansing (1838–1894), U.S. Representative from New York
• Gene Lansing (1898–1945), American baseball pitcher
• Gerrit Y. Lansing (1783–1862), U.S. Representative from New York
• Greg Lansing (born 1967), American college basketball coach
• Isaac J. Lansing (1846–1920), American pastor and university president
• J. Stephen Lansing (born 1950), American anthropologist and complexity scientist
• Jacob John Lansing, American sheriff
• James Bullough Lansing (1902–1949), American audio engineer
• Founder of the companies Altec Lansing and JBL
• Jewel Lansing (born 1930), American (Oregon) writer and politician
• Jim Lansing (1919–2000), American college football player and coach
• John Lansing Jr. (1754–1829), New York lawyer and politician
• Named for him: Lansing, New York and, indirectly, Lansing, Michigan
• Joi Lansing (1929–1972), American model, actress and nightclub singer
• Marjorie Lansing (1916–1998), American political scientist and feminist
• Michael Lansing (born 1994), American soccer goalkeeper
• Mike Lansing (born 1968), American baseball second baseman
• P. J. Lansing (born 1949), American model
• Robert Lansing (1864–1928), United States Secretary of State (1915–1920)
• Named for him: the Lansing–Ishii Agreement and U.S. Navy cargo ship SS Robert Lansing
• Robert Lansing (actor) (1928–1994), American stage, film and television actor
• Robert Lansing (state senator) (1799–1878), New York lawyer and politician
• Sherry Lansing (born 1944), American actress and first woman to head a Hollywood studio
• William E. Lansing (1821–1883), U.S. Representative from New York
• William Henry Lansing (1914–1942), U.S. Navy casualty of World War II

Fictional characters

• Lansing family, family of doctors in the General Hospital soap opera, including Ric Lansing and Molly Lansing
• Laura Lansing, eponymous character of the 1988 comedy film Laura Lansing Slept Here
• Leona Lansing, supporting character of the political drama, The Newsroom (2012–2014).

Given name

• Lansing Hoskins Beach (1860–1945), U.S. Army Chief of Engineers
• Lansing Bennett (1926–1993), American physician and shooting victim at the CIA Headquarters
• Lansing Brown Jr. (1900–1962), American photographer
• Lansing Campbell (1882–1937), American illustrator
• Lansing C. Holden (1858–1930), American architect
• Lansing Colton Holden Jr. (1896–1938), American World War I flying ace
• Lansing Hotaling (1839–1909), American lawyer and politician
• Lansing Lamont (1930–2013), American journalist
• Lansing Leroy Mitchell (1914–2001), United States federal judge
• Lansing B. Mizner (1825–1893), American lawyer, diplomat, and politician
• Lansing Stout (1828–1871), American politician and lawyer, U.S. Representative for Oregon

Middle name

• Richard Lansing Conolly (1892–1962), United States Navy Admiral
• Frederic Lansing Day (1890–1981), American playwright
• Eleanor Lansing Dulles (1895–1996), American economist and U.S. Department of State official
• Leroy Lansing Janes (1838–1909), American educator in Japan
• Thomas Lansing Masson (1866–1934), American anthropologist, editor and author
• Stuart Douglas Lansing Paine (1910–1961), American Antarctic explorer
• John Van Schaick Lansing Pruyn (1811–1877), U.S. Representative from New York
• George Lansing Raymond (1839–1929), American philosopher

See also

• Lensing, surname
• Jos Lansink (born 1961), Dutch equestrian
• Leonard Lansink (born 1956), German actor

References