Landed gentry usually refers to a largely historical British social class consisting in theory of landowners who could live entirely from rental income, or at least had a country estate. Landed gentry may also refer to: Burke's Landed Gentry, a directory of British landed gentry Landed gentry in China, the elite shenshi class in China Polish landed gentry, a historical group of hereditary landowners who held manorial estates in Poland See also Gentry (disambiguation) Landed (disambiguation)