Lindauer is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Charles Frederick Lindauer (1836-1921), named in the Lexow Committee hearings on New York City police corruption as a policy racket dealer
Gottfried Lindauer (1839–1926), Czech-New Zealand artist
John Howard Lindauer (born 1937), American economist, media businessman and politician, former chancellor of the University of Alaska Anchorage
Janez Lindauer, 16th-century Slovene politician
Josef Lindauer, Swiss soldier and skier
Martin Lindauer (1918-2008)
Sophia Lindauer (1830-1909), mother of Arthur Hays Sulzberger
Susan Lindauer (born 1963), American journalist and peace activist accused by the United States government as an unregistered agent of Iraq, daughter of John Lindauer
