Rousseau (surname)
Appearance
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, 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), Belgian film director
- Jeanne Rij-Rousseau (1870–1956), French painter and art theorist
- Jean Simeon Rousseau de la Rottiere (1747–1820), French decorative painter
- Serge Rousseau (1930–2007), French film and television actor
- 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
- Maurice Rousseau (born 1906), French Olympic gymnast
- 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
Other fields
- Domaine Armand Rousseau, wine producer in Burgundy, France
- Samuel Rousseau (1763–1820), British scholar
- 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