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

Arts

Eugene Rousseau (saxophonist) Eugene Rousseau (born August 23, 1932 in Blue Island, Illinois) is an American classical saxophonist. He plays mainly the alto and soprano saxophones. Career Eugene Rousseau studied at the Paris conservatory on a Fulbright grant with Marc ...

(born 1932), American saxophonist *

Frederick Rousseau Frederick Rousseau (born 1958 in Paris) is a New Age instrumentalist. His musical research is based on electronic sounds that he mixes with ethnic instruments, classical orchestras, and vocals. Career After a classical training in piano, Roussea ...

(born 1958), French musician *

Henri Rousseau Henri Julien Félix Rousseau (; 21 May 1844 – 2 September 1910)
at the Jacques Rousseau (painter) Jacques Rousseau (4 June 1630 – 16 December 1693) was a French painter. Biography A member of a Huguenot family, Rousseau was born at Paris. He was noted as a painter of ''trompe-l'œil'', decorative landscapes and classic ruins, somewhat in ...

(1630–1693), French ''trompe l'œil'' painter * Jean Rousseau (1644–1699), French musician and author *

Jean-Baptiste Rousseau Jean-Baptiste Rousseau (6 April 1671 – 17 March 1741) was a French playwright and poet, particularly noted for his cynical epigrams. Biography Rousseau was born in Paris, the son of a shoemaker, and was well educated. As a young man, he ga ...

(1671–1741), French poet *

Jean-Jacques Rousseau Jean-Jacques Rousseau (, ; 28 June 1712 – 2 July 1778) was a Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer. His political philosophy influenced the progress of the Age of Enlightenment throughout Europe, as well as aspects of the French Revolu ...

(1712–1778), Genevan author and philosopher *

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (author-filmmaker) Jean-Jacques Rousseau (December 16, 1946 – November 5, 2014) was a Belgian absurdist independent film director. He was born in Souvret, Belgium ( Courcelles) and died in Montigny-le-Tilleul. He shot his films with very small budgets (€2000 t ...

(1946-2014), Belgian film director *

Jeanne Rij-Rousseau Jeanne Rij-Rousseau (June 10, 1870 – October 22, 1956) was a French Cubist painter and an art theoretician. Her estate has been scattered throughout the world. Paintings are trafficked in N.Y., Chicago, London, and Paris. Some works are in Par ...

(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 * Samuel Rousseau (born 1971), French artist * Samuel-Alexandre Rousseau (1853-1904), French composer *

Serge Rousseau Serge Rousseau (13 March 1930 – 3 November 2007) was a French film and television actor and agent. He was a close friend of François Truffaut. He played the murdered husband of Jeanne Moreau in ''The Bride Wore Black'' and the unknown man ...

(1930–2007), French film and television actor * Stéphane Rousseau (b. 1966), Canadian actor *

Théodore Rousseau Étienne Pierre Théodore Rousseau (April 15, 1812December 22, 1867) was a French painter of the Barbizon school. Life Youth He was born in Paris, France in a bourgeois family. At first he received a basic level of training, but soon display ...

(1812–1867), French painter

Science

* Cecil C. Rousseau (1938–2020), 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 Joseph Jean-Paul Robert Rousseau (born July 26, 1940) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey right winger who played in the National Hockey League (NHL), most notably for the Montreal Canadiens. He won the Calder Memorial Trophy in 1962 as ...

(born 1940), Canadian ice hockey player *

Eugène Rousseau (chess player) Eugène Rousseau (13 November 1805, Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis, France – Paris, France, 1870) 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 ...

(c.1810–1870), French chess player *

Florian Rousseau Florian Rousseau (born 3 February 1974 in Orléans) is a former French track cyclist who won three gold medals and one silver at the Summer Olympics (1996 and 2000). He was popular among spectators for the facial expressions he pulled - many o ...

(born 1974), French cyclist *

Gregory Rousseau Gregory Rousseau (born April 5, 2000) is an American football defensive end for the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Miami. As a redshirt freshman there in 2019, he recorded 15.5 sacks and won ...

(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 Vincent Rousseau (born 29 July 1962 in Mons, Hainaut) 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 ...

(born 1962), Belgian runner *

Yves Rousseau Yves Rousseau is a French inventor and aviator credited with multiple ultralight aircraft FAI world records. He has received international recognition for his 13 years of work on human-powered ornithopter flight. Rousseau attempted his first huma ...

, French aviator

Politics and military

André Rousseau André Rousseau, (January 12, 1911 – September 17, 2002), 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 Go ...

(1911–2002), Quebec politician and businessman * Jeannie de Clarens, née Rousseau (1919-2017), French resistance fighter and spy *

Lovell Rousseau Lovell Harrison Rousseau (August 4, 1818 – January 7, 1869) was a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War, as well as a lawyer and politician in Kentucky and Indiana. Early life and career Born near Stanford, Kentucky, on August ...

(1818–1869), American general *

René Waldeck-Rousseau Pierre Marie René Ernest Waldeck-Rousseau (; 2 December 184610 August 1904) was a French Republican politician who served as the Prime Minister of France. Early life Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau was born in Nantes, Brittany. His father, René Wa ...

(1846–1904), French politician * Roger Rousseau (1921–1986), Canadian ambassador

Other fields

Domaine Armand Rousseau Domaine Armand Rousseau is a French wine grower and producer. It is based in Gevrey-Chambertin, in the Côte de Nuits wine-growing region of Burgundy, France. History Armand Rousseau was born in 1884 to a family heavily involved in the wine indu ...

, wine producer in Burgundy, France * Isaac Rousseau (1672–1747), Genevan master-clockmaker and Jean-Jacques Rousseau's father * Samuel Rousseau (1763–1820), British printer and orientalist scholar * Philip Rousseau, scholar of early Christianity

As a given name

Rousseau Owen Crump Rousseau Owen Crump (May 20, 1843 – May 1, 1901) 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 (Cutting) Crump. His parents had settled in Pittsfor ...

(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