title: Rousseau (surname)
text: # 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
  