Rousseau (surname)
# Rousseau (surname)

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

## Arts

* Charles M. Rousseau (1848–1918), Kingdom of Belgium-born American architect
* Eugene Rousseau (saxophonist) (born 1932), American saxophonist
* Frederick Rousseau (born 1958), French musician
* Henri Rousseau (1844–1910), French naive painter, also known as Douanier Rousseau
* 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), Genevan author and philosopher
* Jean-Jacques Rousseau (author-filmmaker) (1946-2014), Belgian film director
* Jeanne Rij-Rousseau (1870–1956), French painter and art theorist
* Jean Simeon Rousseau de la Rottiere (1747–1820), French decorative painter
* Nita Rousseau (1949–2003), French writer
* Oliver Rousseau (1891–1977), American architect, real estate developer, and builder
* Philippe Rousseau (1816–1887), French still life painter
* Samuel Rousseau (born 1971), French artist
* Samuel-Alexandre Rousseau (1853-1904), French composer
* Serge Rousseau (1930–2007), French film and television actor
* Stéphane Rousseau (b. 1966), Canadian actor
* Théodore Rousseau (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 (born 1940), Canadian ice hockey player
* Eugène Rousseau (chess player) (c.1810–1870), French chess player
* Florian Rousseau (born 1974), French cyclist
* Gregory Rousseau (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 (born 1962), Belgian runner
* Yves Rousseau, French aviator

## Politics and military

* André Rousseau (1911–2002), Quebec politician and businessman
* Jeannie de Clarens, née Rousseau (1919-2017), French resistance fighter and spy
* Lovell Rousseau (1818–1869), American general
* René Waldeck-Rousseau (1846–1904), French politician
* Roger Rousseau (1921–1986), Canadian ambassador

## Other fields

* Domaine Armand Rousseau, 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 (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
