Rousseau (surname)

Rousseau is a French surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Arts

• Eugene Rousseau (saxophonist) (born 1932), American saxophonist
• Frederick Rousseau (born 1958), French musician
• Henri Rousseau (1844–1910), French naive painter, also known as Douanier Rousseau
• Jacques Rousseau (painter) (1630–1693), French trompe l'œil painter
• Jean Rousseau (1644–1699), French musician and author
• Jean-Baptiste Rousseau (1671–1741), French poet
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778), Genevan author and philosopher
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau (author-filmmaker) (1946-2014), Belgian film director
• Jeanne Rij-Rousseau (1870–1956), French painter and art theorist
• Jean Simeon Rousseau de la Rottiere (1747–1820), French decorative painter
• Nita Rousseau (1949–2003), French writer
• Philippe Rousseau (1816–1887), French still life painter
• Serge Rousseau (1930–2007), French film and television actor
• Stéphane Rousseau (b. 1966), Canadian actor
• Théodore Rousseau (1812–1867), French painter

Science

• Cecil C. Rousseau (b. 1938), American mathematician
• Denis Rousseau, American scientist
• Frederic Rousseau, Belgian molecular biologist
• Judith Rousseau, French statistician

Sports

• Alex Rousseau (water polo) (born 1967), American water polo player
• Bobby Rousseau (born 1940), Canadian ice hockey player
• Eugène Rousseau (chess player) (c.1810–1870), French chess player
• Florian Rousseau (born 1974), French cyclist
• Gregory Rousseau (born 2000), American football player
• Maurice Rousseau (1906-1977), French Olympic gymnast
• Michel Rousseau (1936–2016), French amateur track cyclist
• Odette Rousseau (1927-2012), French parachutist
• Jacques Rousseau (athlete) (born 1951), French track and field athlete
• Vincent Rousseau (born 1962), Belgian runner
• Yves Rousseau, French aviator

Politics and military

• André Rousseau (1911–2002), Quebec politician and businessman
• Jeannie de Clarens, née Rousseau (1919-2017), French resistance fighter and spy
• Lovell Rousseau (1818–1869), American general
• René Waldeck-Rousseau (1846–1904), French politician
• Roger Rousseau (1921–1986), Canadian ambassador

Other fields

• Domaine Armand Rousseau, wine producer in Burgundy, France
• Samuel Rousseau (1763–1820), British scholar
• Philip Rousseau, scholar of early Christianity

As a given name

• Rousseau Owen Crump (1843–1901), American politician and businessman
• Rousseau H. Flower (1913–1988), American paleontologist
• Victor Rousseau Emanuel (1879–1960), British writer

Fictional

• Danielle Rousseau, character on the American TV show Lost
• Alexandra Rousseau, her daughter

See also[]

• Rossouw

Surname list

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