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
  • 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), Swiss 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
  • 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

  • André Rousseau (1911–2002), Quebec politician and businessman
  • 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
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Famous quotes containing the word rousseau:

    “I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I write my reveries only for myself.”
    —Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778)