Roux (disambiguation)

Roux as a culinary term indicates a mixture of flour and fat used as the basis of various sauces.

Roux may also refer to:

Places

• Roux, Belgium, a village in the province of Hainault
• Roux Island, Graham Land, Antarctica
• Cape Roux, Brabant Island, Palmer Archipelago, off the northwestern coast of the Antarctic Peninsula
• Paul Roux, town in South Africa

People

• Roux family (marine painters), a family of French hydrographers and marine painters
• Roux de Marcilly (died 1669), Huguenot conspirator
• Albert Roux (1935–2021), French restaurateur
• Alexander Roux, French émigré cabinet-maker
• Ambroise Roux (1921–1999), French businessman
• Anton Roux (born 1981), South African cricketer
• Antoine Roux, French marine artist
• Arsène Roux (1893–1971), French Arabist and Berberologist
• Benoît Roux, American biophysicist
• Carol Roux, American actor of the 1960s
• César Roux (1857–1934), Swiss surgeon, eponym of the surgical procedure Roux-en-Y ("Y"-shaped Roux)
• Claude Roux (born 1945), French lichenologist
• Claude de Roux de Saint-Laurent (died 1689), French soldier, governor of Saint Christophe
• Émile Roux, French physician and immunologist
• Frédéric Roux, French footballer
• Gilles Roux, inventor of the efficient Roux method for solving the Rubik's Cube
• Georges Roux (1914–1999) Assyriologist
• Guillermo Roux, Argentine painter
• Guy Roux (born 1938), French footballer
• Jacques Roux (1752–1794), French revolutionary
• Jean Roux (1876–1939), Swiss herpetologist
• Jean-Paul Roux (1925–2009), French Orientalist/historian
• Jean-François Roux, Canadian politician
• Jean-Louis Roux, Canadian entertainer and politician
• Kenneth Roux, American virologist
• Laëtitia Roux (born 1985), French ski mountaineer
• Lionel Roux, French tennis player
• Ludovic Roux, French skier
• Luis Roux Cabral, Uruguayan chess player
• Michel Roux (1941–2020), French restaurateur
• Michel Roux Jr., French restaurateur
• Michel Roux (actor), French actor
• Michel Roux (baritone), French opera singer
• Nolan Roux (born 1988), French footballer playing for Lille
• Paul Hendrik Roux (1862-1911), South African protestant pastor and Boer War general
• Sandrine Roux (born 1966), French footballer
• Storm Roux, New Zealand association football player
• Wilhelm Roux (1850–1924), German zoologist and embryologist

Other uses

• Roux, pseudonym of the cartoonist Burton Silver
• Roux Louka, female protagonist in the 1986 anime television series Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ

See also

• Roux culture bottle, a type of laboratory glassware used to grow microorganisms or tissue cells
• Leroux (disambiguation)
• De Roux, a list of people with the surname
• Harry A. Reoux (1901–1968), American politician
• Roux Method of solving a Rubik's Cube