Kenneth Perry Landon (27 March 1903 Meadville, Pennsylvania – 26 August 1993 Arlington, Virginia) was a government and academic specialist on Thailand.
At the start of America's participation in World War Two, he was called to Washington to become a State Department specialist on Thailand.
While at Earlham, he taught what was probably the first undergraduate course in Chinese philosophy and published several monographs, including Siam in Transition and The Chinese in Thailand, [4] before joining a predecessor office of the Office of Strategic Services in Washington on the eve of World War Two, during which he also worked for the Board of Economic Warfare.
[5] After the war, Landon served as associate dean of the School of Language and Area Studies at the Foreign Service Institute and was on the Operations Coordinating Board of the National Security Council.
[1] He then served as director of the Center for South and Southeast Asian Studies at American University until his retirement in 1974.