- Henri Rousseau
Henri Julien Félix Rousseau was a French Post-Impressionist painter in the Naive or Primitive manner. He is also known as "Le Douanier" (the customs officer) after his place of employment. Ridiculed during his life, he came to be recognized as a self-taught genius whose works are of high artistic quality.
- Bobby Rousseau
Robert "Bobby" Rousseau (born July 26, 1940 in Montreal, Quebec) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey forward. Bobby played most of his career with the Montreal Canadiens, but also spent time with the New York Rangers and Minnesota North Stars. Bobby won the 1962 Calder Trophy for being the top rookie and he won the Stanley Cup four times.
- Denis Rousseau
Denis L. Rousseau (born in New Hampshire, USA) is an American scientist. He is currently Professor and University Chairman of the department of Physiology and Biophysics at Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, (June 28, 1712 - July 2, 1778) was a Genevan philosopher of the Enlightenment whose political ideas influenced the French Revolution, the development of socialist theory, and the growth of nationalism. Rousseau also made important contributions to music both as a theorist and as a composer.
- Jean-Baptiste Rousseau
Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, was a French poet. He was born in Paris, the son of a shoemaker, and was well educated. As a young man, he gained favour with Boileau, who encouraged him to write. Rousseau began with the theatre, for which he had no aptitude. A one-act comedy, "Le Café", failed in 1694, and he was not much happier with a more ambitious play, "Le Flatteur" (1696), or with the opera "Venus et Adonis" (1697).
- Jean Rousseau
Jean Rousseau was a French viol player, composer, and author remembered principally for his "Traité de la viole" (1687), a valuable source of information on the performance practices of his time.
- Frederick Rousseau
Frederick Rousseau (born 1958, Paris) belongs to the generation that witnessed the beginning of New Age music and the explosion of technologic applications to the entertainment world. His musical research is based on electronic sounds that he mixes with ethnic instruments, classical orchestras and to voices of all tones, colours and provenances.
- Frederic Rousseau
Frederic Rousseau is a Belgian molecular biologist and researcher at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Brussels, Belgium). Together with Joost Schymkowitz he is group leader at the VIB Switch Laboratory, Vrije Universiteit Brussel.
- James Rousseau
James Rousseau (born James Rousseau Osborne December 19, 1980) is an English supermodel. He is descended from the family of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778), the philosopher whose writings influenced the French revolutionary movement.
- Florian Rousseau
Florian Rousseau (born February 3, 1974 in Joinville-le-Pont) is a track cyclist from France, who won three golden medals and one silver during his career at the Summer Olympics (1996 and 2000).
- Eugène Rousseau
Eugène Marsille Rousseau was a French chess master. He was the strongest chess player in New Orleans in the first half of the 1840s. The Rousseau Gambit is named after him. In 1845 Rousseau played a match against the Englishman Charles Stanley for the title of chess champion of the US, the first contest ever for that title. The match was played for a stake of $1000. Rousseau lost the match (+8=8-15) and Stanley became the first US Champion.
- Théodore Rousseau
Pierre Étienne Théodore Rousseau, French painter of the Barbizon school, was born in Paris, of a bourgeois family which included one or two artists. At first he received a business training, but soon displayed aptitude for painting. Although his father regretted the decision at first, he became reconciled to his son leaving business, …
- Eugene Rousseau
Eugene Rousseau (born 23 August 1932 in Blue Island, Illinois, Illinois) is an American classical saxophonist. He plays mainly the alto and soprano saxophones. He studied at the Paris conservatory with Marcel Mule in 1962. He earned a doctorate degree at the University of Iowa. His principal teacher there was Himie Voxman. He was one of the organizers of the first World Saxophone Congress in Chicago in 1969.
- T. Marshall Rousseau
T. Marshall Rousseau is perhaps best known for his two-decade role as the Executive Director of the Salvador Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida, from which he retired in July 2002. Rousseau is honored with the status of Executive Director Emeritus and continues to serve as a consultant for the museum store. He is active in many organizations and serves on various boards of directors, including The Salvador Dalí Museum (1984-2004), …
- Yves Rousseau
Yves Rousseau (France) is credited with some ultralight aircraft FAI world records and has received international recognition for his 13 years of work on human-powered ornithopter flight. In 2005, Rousseau was given "The Paul Tissandier Diploma", awarded to those who have served the cause of aviation in general and sporting aviation in particular, by their work, initiative, devotion or in other ways.
- Vincent Rousseau
Vincent Rousseau (born July 29, 1962 in Mons, Hainaut) is a former long-distance runner from Belgium, who competed in three consecutive Summer Olympics for his native country, starting in 1984. In 1993, he had his biggest succes by winning the IAAF World Half Marathon Championships in Brussels, the next year followed by the first place in the Rotterdam Marathon. Twice (1985 and 1993) Rousseau was named "Belgian Sportsman of the Year".
- Roger Rousseau
Roger Rousseau CC (6 February 1921 - 26 September 1986) was a Canadian ambassador. He was also appointed Commissioner for the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. He served in the air force during World War II, but became a prisoner of war in 1942 until the war's end. He was born in Trois-Pistoles, Quebec and died of cancer in Ottawa, Ontario.
- Lovell Rousseau
Lovell Harrison Rousseau (August 4, 1818 - January 7, 1869) was a general in the United States and Union Armies during the American Civil War and a successful lawyer and politician in both Kentucky and Indiana.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau is a Belgian absurdist film director. He was born in Souvret (Courcelles) after the Second World War. He defends "popular" cinema, filming with very small budgets (2000 to 2500€ per film), and using unknown or non-professional actors. He calls himself "the director of the absurd". His films drift between realism and surrealism, and are often shown at film festivals of the genre. His life will be the subject of Yann Moix's next film, …
- Cecil C. Rousseau
Cecil C. Rousseau is a mathematician and author who specializes in graph theory and combinatorics. He is a professor at The University of Memphis and former chair of the USAMO. He has an Erdős number of 1, and is among Erdős' top 10 co-authors. To his students and colleagues, he's known affectionately as C<sup>2</sup>R.
- Stéphane Rousseau
Stéphane Rousseau is a Canadian actor. He starred in the Academy Award winning film The Barbarian Invasions
- John Locke
John Locke was an English philosopher. Locke is considered the first of the British Empiricists, but is equally important to social contract theory. His ideas had enormous influence on the development of epistemology and political philosophy, and he is widely regarded as one of the most influential Enlightenment thinkers and contributors to liberal theory. His writings influenced Voltaire and Rousseau, many Scottish Enlightenment thinkers, …
- François Legault
François Legault is a politician in Quebec, Canada, and a member of the National Assembly of Quebec. A member of the Parti Québécois (PQ), he was first elected in the 1998 Quebec election in the riding of Rousseau in the Lanaudière region. Legault has a bachelor's and master's degree in business administration from the HEC Montreal. He worked as an administrator for Provigo, a finance director for Nationair and an auditor for Ernst & Young.
- Madame Roland
Marie-Jeanne Roland de la Platiere, better known simply as Madame Roland and born Marie-Jeanne Phlipon (March 17, 1754 - November 8, 1793) was, together with her husband Jean Marie Roland de la Platiere, a supporter of the French Revolution and influential member of the Girondist faction, but fell out of favor during the Reign of Terror and died by the guillotine.
- Maurice Cranston
Maurice Cranston (8 May, 1920 - 5 November, 1993) was a British philosopher, professor, and author. He served for many years as a Professor of Political Science at the London School of Economics, and was also known for his popular publications. Cranston's major works include biographies of John Locke and Rousseau and others addressing the history of liberty. He contributed to many publications in both Britain and the United States and wrote scripts for to BBC.
- Tiradentes
Joaquim José da Silva Xavier, known as Tiradentes, was part of the Brazilian seditious movement known as the Inconfidência Mineira. Born in Sao José del Rei (now called Tiradentes), Minas Gerais, Tiradentes was adopted by his godfather and moved to Vila Rica (now Ouro Preto) after the deaths of his parents (mother in 1755; father in 1757). He practiced several professions - cattle driver, miner, …
- Jules Dupré
Jules Dupré, French painter, was one of the chief members of the Barbizon school of landscape painters. If Corot stands for the lyric and Rousseau for the epic aspect of the poetry of nature, Dupré is the exponent of her tragic and dramatic aspects. Dupré exhibited first at the Salon in 1831, and three years later was awarded a second-class medal. In the same year he came to England, where he was deeply impressed by the genius of Constable.
- Constant Troyon
Constant Troyon, French painter, was born in Sèvres, near Paris, where his father was connected with the famous manufactory of porcelain. Troyon was an animal painter of the first rank, and was closely associated with the artists who painted around Barbizon. The technical qualities of his methods of painting are most masterly; his drawing is excellent, and his composition always interesting. It was only comparatively late in life that Troyon found his "métier", …
- Ben Nicholson
Benjamin Lauder Nicholson OM, (10 April 1894 - 6 February 1982), known as Ben Nicholson, was an English abstract painter. Born at Denham, Buckinghamshire, Nicholson was the son of the painter Sir William Nicholson and the brother of Nancy Nicholson. The family moved to London in 1896 and Nicholson was educated as a boarder at Gresham's School, Holt, Norfolk. He travelled to New York in 1917 for an operation on his tonsils, …
- John Churton Collins
John Churton Collins (March 26, 1848 - September 25, 1908), English literary critic, was born at Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire. From King Edward's school, Birmingham, he went to Balliol College, Oxford, where he graduated in 1872, and at once devoted himself to a literary career, as journalist, essayist and lecturer. His first book was a study of Sir Joshua Reynolds (1874), and later he edited various classical English writers, …
- Christophe de Beaumont
Christophe de Beaumont (1703 - 1781), French ecclesiastic and archbishop of Paris, was a cadet of the Les Adrets and Saint-Quentin branch of the illustrious Dauphin family of Beaumont. He became bishop of Bayonne in 1741, then archbishop of Vienne in 1743, and in 1746, at the age of forty-three, archbishop of Paris. Beaumont is noted for his struggle with the Jansenists. To force them to accept the bull Unigenitus which condemned their doctrines, …
- Pierre Clastres
Pierre Clastres, (1934-1977), was a French anthropologist and ethnographer. He is best known for his fieldwork among the Guayaki in Paraguay and his theory on stateless societies. Some people regard him as giving scientific validity to certain anarchist perspectives. In his most famous work, "Society Against the State" (1974), Clastres indeed criticizes both the evolutionist notion that the state would be the ultimate destiny of all societies, …
- Émile Faguet
Émile Faguet was a French writer and critic. He was born at La Roche sur Yon, and educated at the normal school in Paris. After teaching for some time in La Rochelle and Bordeaux, he returned to Paris to act as assistant professor of poetry in the university. He became professor in 1897. He was elected to the Académie française in 1900, and received the ribbon of the Legion of Honour in the next year.
- Ibn Tufail
Ibn Tufail full name: Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Abd al-Malik ibn Muhammad ibn Tufail al-Qaisi al-Andalusi أبو بكر محمد بن عبد الملك بن محمد بن طفيل القيسي الأندلسي. Andalusian Arab Muslim philosopher, physician, and court official.
- Charles de la Fosse
Charles de La Fosse (or Lafosse) (1640 - December 13, 1716), French painter, was born in Paris. He was one of the most noted and, least servile pupils of Le Brun, under whose direction he shared in the chief of the great decorative works undertaken in the reign of Louis XIV. Leaving France in 1662, he spent two years in Rome and three in Venice. The influence of his prolonged studies of Veronese is evident in his "Finding of Moses" (Louvre), …
- Bianca Jagger
Bianca Jagger is a prominent international human rights advocate. For over twenty years she has campaigned for social and economic justice and environmental protection throughout the world. She was born in Nicaragua, Bianca Perez-Mora Macias , on May 2 1950. In the mid-sixties she left her native country armed with a French Government scholarship to study Political Science in Paris.
- Frederick Neuhouser
Frederick Neuhouser is the Viola Manderfeld Professor of German and a Professor of Philosophy at Barnard College, Columbia University. Before joining Columbia as a faculty member, Neuhouser taught at Harvard University, University of California, San Diego and Cornell University. Neuhouser graduated from Wabash College (Crawfordsville, IN), "summa cum laude", and received his Ph.D. from Columbia University.
- Jacob Talmon
Jacob Leib Talmon (1916-1980) was Professor of Modern History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has been categorised as a 'Cold War liberal' because of his devout anti-Marxism which permeates his main works. He notably studied the genealogy of totalitarianism arguing that such political Messianism stemmed from the French Revolution, and stressed the similarities between Jacobinism and Stalinism.
- Philarète Chasles
Victor Euphemien Philarète Chasles was a French critic and man of letters. He was born at Mainvilliers (Eure et Loir). His father, Pierre Jacques Michel Chasles (1754-1826), was a member of the Convention, and was one of those who voted the death of Louis XVI. He brought up his son according to the principles of Rousseau;s "Emile", and the boy, after a regime of outdoor life, followed by some years classical study, was apprenticed to a printer, …
- Charles Butterworth
Charles Butterworth, Ph.D. (born 1938) is a noted philosopher of the Straussian school and currently a professor of political philosophy at the University of Maryland, College Park. Butterworth is also a translator and editor of numerous books, …