Rousseau (surname)
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Rousseau is a French
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...

 surname
Family name
A family name is a type of surname and part of a person's name indicating the family to which the person belongs. The use of family names is widespread in cultures around the world...

 and may refer to:

Arts
  • Eugene Rousseau (saxophonist)
    Eugene Rousseau (saxophonist)
    Eugene Rousseau is an American classical saxophonist. He plays mainly the alto and soprano saxophones....

     (born 1932), American saxophonist
  • Frederick Rousseau
    Frederick Rousseau
    Frederick Rousseau belongs to the generation that witnessed the beginning of New Age music and the explosion of technologic applications to the entertainment world...

     (born 1958), French musician
  • Henri Rousseau
    Henri Rousseau
    Henri Julien Félix Rousseau was a French Post-Impressionist painter in the Naïve or Primitive manner. He was also known as Le Douanier , a humorous description of his occupation as a toll collector...

     (1844–1910), French painter
  • Jacques Rousseau
    Jacques Rousseau
    This is an article about Jacques Rousseau the 17th century French Huguenot painter, for the 17th century Dutch painter see Jacques des Rousseaux and for the French long jumper see Jacques Rousseau ....

     (1630–1693), French painter
  • Jean Rousseau (1644–1699), French musician and author
  • Jean-Baptiste Rousseau
    Jean-Baptiste Rousseau
    Jean-Baptiste Rousseau was a French poet.-Biography:Rousseau was born in Paris, the son of a shoemaker, and was well educated. As a young man, he gained favour with Boileau, who encouraged him to write. Rousseau began with the theatre, for which he had no aptitude...

     (1671–1741), French poet
  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer of 18th-century Romanticism. His political philosophy influenced the French Revolution as well as the overall development of modern political, sociological and educational thought.His novel Émile: or, On Education is a treatise...

     (1712–1778), Swiss author and philosopher
  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau (author-filmmaker)
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau (author-filmmaker)
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau is a Belgian absurdist film director. He was born in Souvret after the Second World War. He defends "popular" cinema, filming with very small budgets , and using unknown or non-professional actors...

    , Belgian film director
  • Jeanne Rij-Rousseau
    Jeanne Rij-Rousseau
    Jeanne Rij-Rousseau was a French Cubist painter and an art theoretician.Rij-Rousseau was born in Candé. From 1890 on, she lived in Paris and moved in an artistic circle with painters of the "Ile de la Grande Jatte" in Montmartre. She was a student of Maurice Denis and Paul Sérusier...

     (1870–1956), French painter and art theorist
  • Jean Simeon Rousseau de la Rottiere
    Jean Simeon Rousseau de la Rottiere
    Jean Simeon Rousseau de la Rottiere , the youngest son of Jules Antoine Rousseau , was a French decorative painter...

     (1747–1820), French decorative painter
  • Stéphane Rousseau
    Stéphane Rousseau
    Stéphane Rousseau is a Québécois actor and comedian. He starred in the Academy Award winning film The Barbarian Invasions . He has also been in Asterix at the Olympic Games...

    , Canadian actor
  • Théodore Rousseau
    Théodore Rousseau
    Pierre Étienne Théodore Rousseau , French painter of the Barbizon school, was born in Paris, of a bourgeois family.-Youth:At first he received a business training, but soon displayed aptitude for painting...

     (1812–1867), French painter


Science
  • Cecil C. Rousseau
    Cecil C. Rousseau
    Cecil Clyde Rousseau is a mathematician and author who specializes in graph theory and combinatorics. He is a professor emeritus at The University of Memphis and former chair of the USAMO.Rousseau received his Ph.D...

    , mathematician
  • Denis Rousseau
    Denis Rousseau
    Denis L. Rousseau is an American scientist. He is currently Professor and University Chairman of the department of Physiology and Biophysics at Albert Einstein College of Medicine...

    , American scientist
  • Frederic Rousseau
    Frederic Rousseau
    Frederic Rousseau is a Belgian molecular biologist and researcher at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel . Together with Joost Schymkowitz he is group leader at the VIB Switch Laboratory, Vrije Universiteit Brussel...

    , Belgian molecular biologist


Sports
  • Bobby Rousseau
    Bobby Rousseau
    Joseph Jean-Paul Robert Rousseau is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey right winger.-Early career:...

     (born 1940), Canadian ice hockey player
  • Eugène Rousseau (chess player)
    Eugéne Rousseau (chess player)
    Eugène Rousseau was a French chess master. He was the strongest chess player in New Orleans in the first half of the 1840s. The Rousseau Gambit is named after him....

     (c.1810–1870), French chess player
  • Florian Rousseau
    Florian Rousseau
    Florian Rousseau is a French former track cyclist who won three gold medals and one silver at the Summer Olympics . He was popular among spectators for the facial expressions he pulled - many of them seeming to make his eyes bulge - to help him concentrate at the start of races...

     (born 1974), French cyclist
  • Jacques Rousseau (athlete)
    Jacques Rousseau (athlete)
    This is an article about Jacques Rousseau the athlete. For the 17th century French Huguenot painter, see Jacques Rousseau.Jacques Rousseau is a French athlete born on March 10, 1951 in Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe...

     (born 1951), French track and field athlete
  • Vincent Rousseau
    Vincent Rousseau
    Vincent Rousseau is a former long-distance runner from Belgium, who competed in three consecutive Summer Olympics for his native country, starting in 1984. In 1993, he had his biggest success by winning the IAAF World Half Marathon Championships in Brussels, the next year followed by the first...

     (born 1962), Belgian runner
  • Yves Rousseau
    Yves Rousseau
    Yves Rousseau is credited with some ultralight aircraft FAI world records and has received international recognition for his 13 years of work on human-powered ornithopter flight; Rousseau attempted his first human-powered flight with flapping wings in 1995.In 2005, Rousseau was given the Paul...

    , French aviator


Politics and military
  • André Rousseau
    André Rousseau
    André Rousseau, , was an entrepreneur and politician in Quebec. He was the first to occupy the position of Minister of Industry and Commerce from July 5, 1960 to December 5, 1962 under the first Government of Jean Lesage. In 1950, Mr...

     (1911–2002), Quebec politician and businessman
  • Lovell Rousseau
    Lovell Rousseau
    Lovell Harrison Rousseau was a general in the United States and Union Armies during the American Civil War and a lawyer and politician in both Kentucky and Indiana.-Early life and career:...

     (1818–1869), American general
  • René Waldeck-Rousseau
    René Waldeck-Rousseau
    this gy was coolPierre Marie René Ernest Waldeck-Rousseau was a French Republican statesman.-Early life:Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau was born in Nantes, Loire-Atlantique...

     (1846–1904), French statesman
  • Roger Rousseau
    Roger Rousseau
    Charles Odilon Roger Rousseau, CC was a Canadian ambassador. He was also appointed Commissioner for the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal....

     (1921–1986), Canadian ambassador


As a first name:
  • Rousseau Owen Crump
    Rousseau Owen Crump
    Rousseau Owen Crump was a politician and businessman from the U.S. state of Michigan.Crump was born in Pittsford, New York, the eldest son of Samuel and Sarah Crump. His parents had settled in Pittsford in April 1842 after emigrating from England soon after marrying. His father was born and...

     (1843–1901), American politician and businessman
  • Rousseau H. Flower
    Rousseau H. Flower
    Rousseau Hayner Flower was an extremely prolific 20th century paleontologist, known for his eccentric personality.- Career :Although trained as an entomologist, and a specialist in dragonflies and orthopterans, Flower began studying paleontology in the middle of the 1930s...

     (1913–1988), American paleontologist
  • Victor Rousseau Emanuel
    Victor Rousseau Emanuel
    Victor Rousseau Emanuel was a writer of pulp fiction who was active in Great Britain and the U.S. in the first half of the 20th century who wrote under the pen names "Victor Rousseau" and "H. M. Egbert." After an early career as a reporter for the New York World and as an editor of Harper's...

     (1879–1960), British writer


Fictional
  • Danielle Rousseau
    Danielle Rousseau
    Danielle Rousseau is a fictional character on the ABC drama television series Lost, which chronicles the lives of over forty people after their plane crashes on a remote island somewhere in the South Pacific. Croatian actress Mira Furlan plays the scientist who shipwrecks on the island sixteen...

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