Toussaint
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Toussaint (French: All Saints) may refer to:
- Toussaint, Seine-Maritime, a commune in the arrondissement of Le Havre in the Seine-Maritime département of France
- Toussaint (film), a 2009 film about Haitian liberator Toussaint L'ouverture
- Toussaint (album), a 1971 album by Allen Toussaint
- Toussaint (leper chief) (born c. 1890), chief of a leper colony in South America
[edit] People with the surname
- Allen Toussaint (born 1938), American musician, songwriter and record producer and one of the most influential figures in New Orleans R&B
- Auguste Toussaint (1911–1990s), Mauritian archivist and historian
- Beth Toussaint (born 1962), American actress, best known for her television performances
- Dany Toussaint, candidate in the 2006 Haitian presidential election
- Godfried Toussaint, Belgian, British, and Canadian professor of computer science specializing in computational geometry and computational music
- Eugenio Toussaint (1954–2011), Mexican composer
- François-Vincent Toussaint (1715–1772), author of Les Mœurs ("The Manners") published in 1748 and immediately prosecuted and burned by the French court of justice
- Jean Toussaint (born 1960), American-British jazz saxophonist
- Jean Joseph Henri Toussaint (1847–1890), French veterinarian and bacteriologist
- Jean-Philippe Toussaint (born 1957), Belgian writer
- Lorraine Toussaint (born 1960), television actress best known for playing assistant medical examiner Elaine Duchamps on the television drama Crossing Jordan
- Mauricio Toussaint (born 1960), contemporary Mexican artist, living between Mexico and Arizona in the USA where he largely lives and works
- Michel'le Toussaint, an American R&B singer-songwriter
- Olivier Toussaint, French composer, pop singer, orchestra arranger, company manager, and record producer active since 1968
- Roger Toussaint (born 1956), former President of TWU Local 100 who called on the 2005 New York City transit strike
- Rudolf Toussaint, the German Army commander in Prague at the end of World War II, imprisoned for life for war crimes
[edit] People with the given name
- Toussaint Charbonneau (1767–1843), was a French-Canadian explorer and trader, and a member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, best known as the husband of Sacagawea
- Toussaint de Charpentier (1779–1847), German geologist and entomologist
- Toussaint Dallam (born 1659), French organ-builder.
- Toussaint Dubreuil (c. 1560–1602), French painter associated with the second School of Fontainebleau
- Toussaint-Bernard Émeric-David (1755–1839), French archaeologist and writer on art
- Toussaint-Antoine-Rodolphe Laflamme (1827–1893), a French-Canadian lawyer, professor of law and politician
- Toussaint Louverture (1743–1803), black slave who organized the expulsion of French, British, and Spanish armies that enforced slavery in Haiti and nearby Santo Domingo
- Toussaint Natama (born 1982), Burkinabé football player
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