Rousseau (surname)

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Rousseau is a French surname and may refer to:

Arts

• Eugène Rousseau (artist) (1827–1891), French glass and ceramics artist
• Eugene Rousseau (saxophonist) (born 1932), American saxophonist
• Frederick Rousseau (born 1958), French musician
• Henri Rousseau (1844–1910), French painter
• James Rousseau (born 1980), English model
• Jean Rousseau (1644–1699), French musician and author
• Jean-Baptiste Rousseau (1671–1741), French poet
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778), French author and philosopher
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau (author-filmmaker), Belgian film director
• Jeanne Rij-Rousseau (1870–1956), French painter and art theorist
• Jean Simeon Rousseau de la Rottiere (1747–1820), French decorative painter
• Stéphane Rousseau, Canadian actor
• T. Marshall Rousseau, American museum director
• Théodore Rousseau (1812–1867), French painter

Science

• Cecil C. Rousseau, mathematician
• Denis Rousseau, American scientist
• Frederic Rousseau, Belgian molecular biologist

Sports

• Bobby Rousseau (born 1940), Canadian ice hockey player
• Eugène Rousseau (chess player) (c.1810–1870), French chess player
• Florian Rousseau (born 1974), French cyclist
• Jacques Rousseau (athlete) (born 1951), French track and field athlete
• Vincent Rousseau (born 1962), Belgian runner
• Yves Rousseau, French aviator

Politics and military

• Lovell Rousseau (1818–1869), American general
• René Waldeck-Rousseau (1846–1904), French statesman
• Roger Rousseau (1921–1986), Canadian ambassador

As a first 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