Roux (disambiguation)
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Roux
is a culinary term for a mixture of flour and fat used as the basis of various sauces.
Roux may also refer to:
Roux is also a surname, shared by the following people:
Roux
Roux is a cooked mixture of wheat flour and fat, traditionally butter. It is the thickening agent of three of the mother sauces of classical French cooking: sauce béchamel, sauce velouté and sauce espagnole. Clarified butter, vegetable oils, or lard are commonly used fats. It is used as a...
is a culinary term for a mixture of flour and fat used as the basis of various sauces.
Roux may also refer to:
- Roux, BelgiumRoux, BelgiumRoux is a small town in the Hainaut province of Belgium. In 1976 it was incorporated into the larger municipality of Charleroi....
, a village in the province of Hainault - "Roux", pseudonym of the cartoonist Burton SilverBurton SilverBurton Silver is a cartoonist, parodist, writer, art critic and inventor. He lives in Wellington, New Zealand.Silver was born in Wellington and attended Wellington College, later completing a B.A. at Victoria University of Wellington. He worked initially as a boilermaker's assistant on Groote...
- Paul RouxPaul RouxPaul Roux is a small town in the flatlands of Free State province of South Africa that produces poplar wood for the safety match industry. General farming however remains the main industry. It was established in 1909 by Dutch Reform Reverend Paul Roux on the farm Palmietfontein, and today has a...
, a town in South Africa
Roux is also a surname, shared by the following people:
- Roux de MarsillyRoux de MarsillyRoux de Marsilly was a French Huguenot conspirator against Louis XIV of France, who was publicly tortured to death in Paris. His valet is thought to be Daugert, one of the strongest candidates to be the Man in the Iron Mask.-References:...
, Huguenot conspirator - Albert RouxAlbert RouxAlbert Roux OBE is a French-born restaurateur and chef working in Britain. He and his brother Michel operated Le Gavroche, the first restaurant in the UK to gain three Michelin stars. He helped train a series of chefs that went on to win Michelin stars, and his son, Michel Roux, Jr...
, French restaurateur - Alexander RouxAlexander RouxAlexander Roux was a French-trained ébéniste, or cabinetmaker, who emigrated to the United States in the 1830s. He opened a shop in New York City in 1837. The business grew quickly: by the 1850s he employed 120 craftsmen in his shop and introduced then-new industrial technologies, such as...
, French émigré cabinet-maker - Antoine RouxAntoine RouxAnge-Joseph Antoine Roux, "Antoine Roux" was a French fine art painter who specialised in maritime painting, sometimes referred to as marine art. Roux came from a family of artists and primarily worked in Marseille...
, French Marine artist - Arsène RouxArsène RouxArsène Roux was a French Arabist and Berberologist. He was born in Rochegude and emigrated to Morocco in his early twenties where he started studying Classical Arabic, Moroccan Arabic and the Moroccan Berber languages...
, French Arabist - Benoît RouxBenoît RouxBenoît Roux, Ph.D., is Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics at the University of Chicago. He has previously taught at University of Montreal and Weill Medical College of Cornell University...
, American biophysicist - Carol RouxCarol RouxCarol Roux is an American actress who was an original cast member of Another World and was involved in one of the show's first major storylines...
, American actress - César RouxCésar RouxCésar Roux was a Swiss surgeon , who described the Roux-en-Y procedure.-References:http://www.whonamedit.com/doctor.cfm/3068.html...
, Swiss surgeon who have given name to the surgical procedure Roux-en-YRoux-en-YRoux-en-Y may refer to:*A type of gastric bypass operation*Roux-en-Y anastomosis... - Frédéric RouxFrédéric RouxFrédéric Roux is a French goalkeeper who is currently a free agent.His previous clubs include AS Nancy Lorraine, LB Chateauroux, FC Girondins de Bordeaux, where he won the Coupe de la Ligue in 2002, and AC Ajaccio....
, French footballer - Guillermo RouxGuillermo RouxGuillermo Roux is an Argentine painter known for his watercolors, collages and frescoes.Roux was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and his father, Raúl Roux, was a well-known Uruguayan painter. He studied in the Buenos Aires School of Fine Arts until 1948, and in 1956 he travelled to Rome...
, Argentine painter - Guy Roux, French footballer
- Jacques RouxJacques RouxJacques Roux was a radical Roman Catholic priest that took an active role in the revolutionary politics of Paris 1789, during the French Revolution...
, French revolutionary - Jean-Paul RouxJean-Paul RouxJean-Paul Roux, PhD was a French Turkologue and a specialist of Islamic culture.He was a graduate of Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales, the École du Louvre, and the École Pratique des Hautes Études. In 1966 he was awarded a doctorate in literature in Paris...
, Crusades historian - Jean-François RouxJean-François RouxJean-François Roux is a politician from Quebec, Canada. He was an Action démocratique du Québec Member of the National Assembly for the electoral district of Arthabaska from 2007 to 2008....
, Canadian politician - Jean-Louis RouxJean-Louis RouxJean-Louis Roux, CC, CQ is a noted entertainer and playwright, senator, and briefly the 26th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec, Canada.-Biography:...
, Canadian entertainer and politician - Kenneth RouxKenneth RouxDr. Kenneth Roux is an American academic biologist whose research addresses structural analysis of the AIDS viruses HIV-1 and SIV, and the antibodies that neutralize them, as well as food-allergen characterization and immunoassay development. He is the Kurt G...
, American virologist - Laëtitia RouxLaëtitia RouxLaëtitia Roux is a French ski mountaineer.Roux is born in Gap, Hautes-Alpes and started ski mountaineering at the age of nine years. In autumns of 2005 she joined the PACA section of the Fédération française de la montagne et de l’escalade . At first she competed in December of the same year at...
, French ski mountaineer - Lionel RouxLionel RouxLionel Roux is a former tennis player from France, who turned professional in 1991. He was French National Junior champion in 1991, but didn't win a single title during his pro career...
, French tennis player - Ludovic RouxLudovic RouxLudovic Roux is a former French Nordic combined skier who has competed since 1996. At the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano he won a bronze medal in the 4 x 5 km team event....
, French skier - Michel RouxMichel RouxMichel Roux is a French-born chef and restaurateur working in Britain.Born in Charolles, Saône-et-Loire, Roux moved to Paris with his family after the war, where they set up a charcuterie...
, French restaurateur - Michel Roux (actor)Michel Roux (actor)Michel Roux was a French actor.He was also the French Voice for many American and Italian actors, such as Jack Lemmon, Peter Sellers, Alec Guinness and Tony Curtis....
, French actor - Michel RouxMichel Roux (opera singer)Michel Roux was a French baritone, an established principal at the Paris Opéra who also enjoyed an international career. He was born in Angoulême on 1 September 1924 and died in Paris on 4 February 1998....
, an opera singer - Nolan RouxNolan RouxNolan Roux is a French footballer who currently plays for French club Stade Brest in Ligue 1. He primarily plays in the striker role and is the son of former professional football player Bruno Roux, who is currently the manager of amateur club AFC Compiègne...
, French footballer playing for Stade BrestoisStade Brestois 29Stade Brestois 29 is a French football club based in Brest. The club was founded in 1903 under the name Armoricaine de Brest and adopted its current name in 1950... - Pierre Paul Émile RouxPierre Paul Émile RouxPierre Paul Émile Roux FRS was a French physician, bacteriologist and immunologist who was one of the closest collaborators of Louis Pasteur , a co-founder of the Pasteur Institute and discoverer of the anti-diphtheria serum, the first effective therapy for this disease.Roux got his baccalaureate...
, French physician and immunologist - Stefanie de RouxStefanie de RouxStefanie de Roux Martin is a Panamanian model that was a contestant on the Miss Universe 2003 pageant held on Panama City, Panama where she was a semifinalist . She also was the representative of her country on the Miss Earth 2006 beauty pageant, held on November 26, 2006 in Manila, Philippines...
, Panamanian model - Wilhelm RouxWilhelm RouxWilhelm Roux was a German zoologist and pioneer of experimental embryology.Roux was born and educated in Jena, Germany where he attended university and studied under Ernst Haeckel. He also attended university in Berlin and Strasbourg and studied under Gustav Schwalbe, Friedrich Daniel von...
, German zoologist