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Rousseau (surname)
Rousseau is a French surname. Notable people with the surname include: Arts and entertainment Artists *Henri Rousseau (1844–1910), French naive painter, also known as Douanier Rousseau *Jacques Rousseau (painter) (1630–1693), French painter *Jeanne Rij-Rousseau (1870–1956), French painter and art theorist *Jean Simeon Rousseau de la Rottière (1747–1820), French decorative painter *Philippe Rousseau (1816–1887), French still life painter *Samuel Rousseau (artist) (born 1971), French artist *Théodore Rousseau (1812–1867), French painter Writers and poets *Jean-Baptiste Rousseau (1671–1741), French poet *Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778), Genevan author and philosopher *Nita Rousseau (1949–2003), French writer Architects *Charles M. Rousseau (1848–1918), Belgium-born American architect *Oliver Rousseau (1891–1977), American architect, real estate developer, and builder Musicians and composers *Eugene Rousseau (saxophonist) (born 1932), American saxophonist *Fre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henri Rousseau
Henri Julien Félix Rousseau (; 21 May 1844 – 2 September 1910) at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, Guggenheim was a French Post-Impressionism, post-impressionist painter in the Naïve art, Naïve or Primitivism, Primitive manner. He was also known as Le Douanier (the customs officer), a humorous description of his occupation as a Tariff, toll and tax collector. He started painting seriously in his early forties; by age 49, he retired from his job to work on his art full-time. Ridiculed during his lifetime by critics, he came to be recognized as a self-taught genius whose works are of high artistic quality. Rousseau's work exerted an extensive influence on several generations of avant-garde artists.Roberta Smith (14 July 2006 [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Serge Rousseau
Serge Rousseau (13 March 1930 – 3 November 2007) was a French film and television actor and agent. He was a close friend of François Truffaut François Roland Truffaut ( , ; ; 6 February 1932 – 21 October 1984) was a French filmmaker, actor, and critic. He is widely regarded as one of the founders of the French New Wave. He came under the tutelage of film critic Andre Bazin as a .... He played the murdered husband of Jeanne Moreau in '' The Bride Wore Black'' and the unknown man who declares his love for Claude Jade at the end of '' Stolen Kisses''. He married Marie Dubois in 1961 and they remained together until his death by cancer at the age of 77. They had a daughter, actress Dominique Rousseau. Selected filmography * '' Maigret et l'Affaire Saint-Fiacre'' (1959) - Émile Gaulthier * ''Le bonheur est pour demain'' (1961) - Le jeune caréneur * '' Les Mauvais Coups'' (1961) - Duval * ''Portrait-robot'' (1962) * ''La foire aux cancres (Chronique d'une anné ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugène Rousseau (chess Player)
Eugène Rousseau (13 November 1805, Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis, France – Paris, France, 1870) 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. Chess biography 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 $1,000. Rousseau lost the match (+8 −15 =8) and Stanley became the first US Champion. Rousseau's second in the match was Ernest Morphy, who took his eight-year-old nephew, Paul Morphy, along and allowed him to be present for the contests. Later, Paul was allowed to play Rousseau, and it became clear that Paul was the better player, despite his young age. In 1850, Johann Löwenthal paid a visit to New Orleans, and beat Rousseau five games straight. Notable game Rousseau beat Winawer with the black pieces in Paris ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bobby Rousseau
Joseph Jean-Paul Robert Rousseau (born July 26, 1940) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey right winger who played in the National Hockey League (NHL), most notably for the Montreal Canadiens. He won the Calder Memorial Trophy in 1962 as NHL Rookie of the Year. Playing career Early career Rousseau started his career with the St. Jean Braves of the Quebec Junior Hockey League in 1955-56 where he led the league in scoring with 53 goals and 85 points in 44 games. The next season, Rousseau moved on with the Hull-Ottawa Canadiens. Hull-Ottawa reached the 1957 Memorial Cup final against the Guelph Biltmore Mad Hatters losing game 7 3–2. The Canadiens returned to the Memorial Cup in 1957-58 defeating the Regina Pats in 6 games. In 1960, Rousseau was loaned to the Kitchener-Waterloo Dutchmen, the team that represented Canada at the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley. Canada finished with a silver medal, while the USA won gold and the Soviets bronze. Rousseau ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex Rousseau (water Polo)
Alex Rousseau (born November 4, 1967) is an American former water polo player. He competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics and the 1996 Summer Olympics The 1996 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXVI Olympiad, also known as Atlanta 1996 and commonly referred to as the Centennial Olympic Games) were an international multi-sport event held from July 19 to August 4, 1996, in Atlanta, .... In 2004, he was inducted into the USA Water Polo Hall of Fame. References External links * 1967 births Living people Water polo players from Paris American male water polo players Water polo players at the 1992 Summer Olympics Water polo players at the 1996 Summer Olympics Olympic water polo players for the United States Water polo players at the 1995 Pan American Games Medalists at the 1995 Pan American Games Pan American Games gold medalists for the United States in water polo 20th-century American sportsmen {{US-waterpolo-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judith Rousseau
Judith Rousseau is a Bayesian statistician who studies frequentist properties of Bayesian methods. She is a professor of statistics at the University of Oxford, a Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford, a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and a Fellow of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis. Education and career Rousseau studied statistics and economics at ENSAE ParisTech, starting in pure mathematics but changing fields after taking a statistics class "because of all the interactions it has with other fields". She completed a doctorate in 1997 at Pierre and Marie Curie University. Her dissertation, ''Asymptotic properties of Bayes estimates'', was supervised by Christian Robert. She taught at Paris Descartes University from 1998 to 2004, Paris Dauphine University beginning in 2004, and (while on leave from Paris Dauphine) at ENSAE from 2009 to 2014. She joined Oxford in 2017. Recognition In 2015 Rousseau won the inaugural Ethel Newbold Prize of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederic Rousseau
:''See Frédéric Rousseau for the French historian of World War I'' Frederic Rousseau is a Flemish Belgian molecular biologist and researcher at the KU Leuven (Leuven, Belgium). Together with Joost Schymkowitz he is group leader at the VIB Switch Laboratory, KU Leuven. His research interest is on essential cellular processes where functional regulation is governed by protein conformational switches that have to be actively controlled to ensure cell viability He obtained a PhD at the University of Cambridge (Cambridge, United Kingdom) in 2001. He did a post-doctorate work at the EMBL in Heidelberg Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the north and the Alps to the south. Its sixteen States of Germany, constituent states have a total popu ... from 2001 until 2003. Rousseau is a VIB Group leader since 2003. References Sources Switch Laboratory (VIB) Virtual Dep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denis Rousseau
Denis L. Rousseau (signing papers as D. L. Rousseau) is an American scientist. He is currently professor and university chairman of the department of physiology and biophysics at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. /ref> Biography Rousseau is and university chairman of and ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cecil C
Cecil may refer to: People with the name * Cecil (given name), a given name (including a list of people and fictional characters with the name) * Cecil (surname), a surname (including a list of people with the name) Places Canada * Cecil, Alberta, Canada United States * Cecil, Alabama * Cecil, Georgia * Cecil, Ohio * Cecil, Oregon * Cecil, Pennsylvania * Cecil, West Virginia *Cecil, Wisconsin * Cecil Airport, in Jacksonville, Florida * Cecil County, Maryland Computing and technology * Cecil (programming language), prototype-based programming language *Computer Supported Learning, a learning management system by the University of Auckland, New Zealand Music *Cecil (British band), a band from Liverpool, active 1993-2000 * Cecil (Japanese band), a band from Kajigaya, Japan, active 2000-2006 Other uses * ''Cecil'' (novel), an 1841 novel by Catherine Gore *Cecil (lion), a famed lion killed in Zimbabwe in 2015 * Cecil (''Passions''), a minor character from the NBC soap opera ''Pas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Rousseau
Charles Odilon Roger Rousseau, CC (6 February 1921 – 26 September 1986) was a Canadian ambassador, administrator and soldier. He was head of the Montreal Olympic Organizing Committee (COJO) for the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. He served in the Royal Canadian 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. Diplomatic posts *1969–1972: Ambassador to the Central African Republic *1970–1972: Ambassador to Chad, Gabon, and Cameroon *1977–1981: Ambassador to the Dominican Republic and Venezuela *1981–1985: High Commissioner to New Zealand, Fiji, Kiribati, Tonga, Tuvalu Tuvalu ( ) is an island country in the Polynesian subregion of Oceania in the Pacific Ocean, about midway between Hawaii and Australia. It lies east-northeast of the Santa Cruz Islands (which belong to the Solomon Islands), northeast of Van ..., and Western Samoa Reference ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
André Rousseau
André Rousseau, (January 12, 1911 – September 17, 2002), was an entrepreneur and politician in Quebec. He was the first to occupy the position of Minister of Industry and Commerce from July 5, 1960, to December 5, 1962, under the first Government of Jean Lesage. In 1950, Rousseau also founded Rousseau Metal inc., a Quebec company that is specialized in the manufacturing of storage systems. Biography The son of Lacasse Rousseau and Gabrielle Fafard, André Rousseau was born on January 12, 1911, in Saint-Lambert Quebec, on the South Shore (Montreal). He was the seventh child in a family of 14 (12 boys and 2 girls). He studied at the Soeurs de la Providence and at the Notre-Dame-du-Saint-Rosaire school in Montreal, the Sacre-Cœur college in Montmagny and the Seminaire de Québec. His first wife was Cécile Collin, deceased in 1957, with whom he had 6 daughters and one adopted son. In 1959, he married Simone Ouellet who already had 4 children. At the young age of 16, An ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lovell Rousseau
Lovell Harrison Rousseau (August 4, 1818 – January 7, 1869) was a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War, as well as a lawyer and politician in Kentucky and Indiana. Rousseau was a member of the Whig Party early in his political career and later became a member of the Unconditional Union Party. He was a member of the Indiana State Senate from 1847 to 1849 and was a member of the Kentucky State Senate from 1860 to 1861. During the Civil War, Rousseau served in the Union Army as a colonel, a brigadier general, and a major general. He served in the Thirty-ninth Congress, resigned, and was re-elected to Congress. Rousseau was censured by the House of Representatives in 1866 for assaulting Rep. Josiah B. Grinnell on the House floor. Rousseau was made a brigadier general in the U.S. Army in 1867 and given the brevet rank of major general. Thereafter, he served in Alaska and Louisiana. Early life and career Born near Stanford, Kentucky, on August 4, 1818, Roussea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
