Landrum Brewer Shettles (November 21, 1909 – February 6, 2003) was an American obstetrician/gynecologist and a pioneer in the field of in vitro fertilization.

[1] Shettles was born Pontotoc County, Mississippi about a mile and a half west of Friendship Community, just East of John's Creek.

[2] Shettles was an associate professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons 1951-1973 and 1974–1975, the Director of the New York Fertility Foundation.

Shettles became Chief of Obstetrics and Gynecology in the Gifford Memorial Hospital in Randolph, Vermont 1975 to 1981.

Then Shettles was an Attending Staff at Columbia Sunrise Medical Center 1994 until 2000 when he retired and moved to Florida to live with his daughter, Lana B. Shettles-Callahan, BFA, where they both worked on Pictures Of Life's Beginnings Until Birth - Pictorial Atlas (not yet in print).