Le Sueur (surname)

Le Sueur or Lesueur is a French surname. Notable people with the surname include: *

Hubert Le Sueur Hubert Le Sueur (; – 1658) was a French people, French sculpture, sculptor with the contemporaneous reputation of having trained in Giambologna's Florence, Florentine workshop. He assisted Giambologna's foreman, Pietro Tacca, in Paris, in finis ...

(c. 1580 – 1658), French sculptor * Jean Le Sueur (c. 1598 – 1668, also known as Abbé Saint-Sauveur), French-born Quebecois priest *

Eustache Le Sueur Eustache Le Sueur or Lesueur (; 19 November 161730 April 1655) was a French artist and one of the founders of the French Academy of Painting. He is known primarily for his paintings of religious subjects. He was a leading exponent of the neocl ...

(1617 – 1655), painter and a founder of the French Academy *

Pierre-Charles Le Sueur Pierre-Charles Le Sueur (; c. 1657, Artois, France – 17 July 1704, Havana, Cuba) was a French fur trader and explorer in North America, recognized as the first known European to explore the Minnesota River valley. Le Sueur came to Canada w ...

(c. 1657 – 1704), French trapper and explorer of North America *

Jacques-François le Sueur Jacques-François le Sueur (), also known as François Eustache (), Jacques François, and Jacques, was an 18th-century French Jesuit missionary and linguist, of the Abnaki missions in Canada. Life Although the principal facts of le Sueur's wor ...

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1704 – 1754), French Jesuit missionary and linguist of the Abnaki in Canada * Jacques-Philippe Le Sueur (1759–1830), French sculptor *

Jean-François Le Sueur Jean-François Le Sueur (more commonly Lesueur; ; 15 February 17606 October 1837) was a French composer, best known for his oratorios and operas. Life He was born at Plessiel, a hamlet of Drucat near Abbeville, to a long-established family of P ...

(1760 – 1837), French composer *

Charles Alexandre Lesueur Charles Alexandre Lesueur (; 1 January 1778 in Le Havre – 12 December 1846 in Le Havre) was a French Natural history, naturalist, artist, and explorer. He was a prolific natural-history collector, gathering many type specimens in Australia ...

(1778–1846), French naturalist-illustrator and explorer of Australia, Southeast Asia, and North America * Pierre-Étienne Lesueur (fl. 1791–1810), French painter * Marie Lesieur (1799–1890), known as Lesueur, French ballet dancer * Georges Lesueur (1834–1910), French engineer, public works contractor, Senator of Algeria from 1888 to 1897 * Daniel Lesueur, pen name of

Jeanne Lapauze Jeanne Lapauze, née Loiseau (1860–1920) was a French poet and novelist who used the pen name Daniel Lesueur. Biography She was born in the vicinity of Paris. Her volume of poems, ''Fleurs d'avril'' (1882), was crowned by the Académie fran� ...

, née Loiseau (1860–1920), French poet and novelist *

Arthur LeSueur Arthur LeSueur or Arthur Le Sueur (December 7, 1867– March 19, 1950) was an American newspaper editor, politician, and lawyer. LeSueur, a socialist, served as the mayor of Minot, North Dakota from 1909 until his resignation in 1911. Early li ...

(1867?–1950?), American socialist newspaper editor and Socialist mayor of Minot, North Dakota * Florence LeSueur (1898–1991), African-American civil rights activist and the first female president of an NAACP chapter *

Meridel Le Sueur Meridel Le Sueur (February 22, 1900, Murray, Iowa – November 14, 1996, Hudson, Wisconsin) was an American writer associated with the proletarian literature movement of the 1930s and 1940s. Born as Meridel Wharton, she assumed the name of her mo ...

née Wharton (1900–1996), American writer and political activist, stepdaughter of

Arthur Le Sueur Arthur LeSueur or Arthur Le Sueur (December 7, 1867– March 19, 1950) was an American newspaper editor, politician, and lawyer. LeSueur, a socialist, served as the List of mayors of Minot, North Dakota, mayor of Minot, North Dakota from 1909 un ...

Hal LeSueur Hal Hays LeSueur (3 September 1903 – 3 May 1963)Hal LeSueur's ''Los Angeles Times'' obituary (dated May 9, 1963), his U.S. Army Enlistment papers, California State Death records and his gravestone all indicate 1903 (see below). was an American ...

(c.1901 or 1903 – 1963), American actor and elder brother of Joan Crawford * Lucille Fay LeSueur, real name of

Joan Crawford Joan Crawford (born Lucille Fay LeSueur; March 23, 190? was an American actress. She started her career as a dancer in traveling theatrical companies before debuting on Broadway theatre, Broadway. Crawford was signed to a motion-picture cont ...

(c.1904, 1905, 1906 or 1908 – 1977), film actress and sister of Hal *

Raoul Lesueur Raoul Lesueur (; 29 April 1912 – 19 August 1981) was a French cyclist. He started his career as a road racer, winning numerous competitions in the 1930s and ''Critérium des As'' in 1943. After World War II he focused on motor-paced racing. ...

(1912–1981), French cyclist *

Bennie Le Sueur Benjamin Joseph (Bennie) Le Sueur (22 March 1917 – 17 August 1994) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Footscray Football Club and Collingwood Football Club in the Victorian Football League The Victorian Football League ...

(1917-1994),

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for Footscray and Collingwood *

Joe LeSueur Joseph Madison LeSueur (September 15, 1924 – May 14, 2001) was an American poet and screenwriter. He is known as a lover of Frank O'Hara and the author of ''Digressions on Some Poems by Frank O’Hara: A Memoir.'' Life LeSueur grew up in Los A ...

(1924 – 2001) American poet and screenwriter. *

Terry Le Sueur Terence Augustine Le Sueur Order of the British Empire, OBE was Chief Minister of Jersey between 2008 and 2011. He was born at Millbrook, Saint Helier, and was educated at De La Salle College, Jersey and Oxford University, where he was the Kin ...

(born 1942?), politician and Chief Minister of Jersey *

Emily LeSueur Emily LeSueur (born November 7, 1972) is an American competitor in synchronized swimming and was a 1996 Atlanta Olympic champion. Early life LeSueur tried several sports, starting out as a dancer, and as a youth started in a Mesa Parks Swim p ...

(born 1972), US synchronized swimmer * Éloyse Lesueur (born 1988), French long jumper {{surname, Le Sueur French-language surnames Surnames of Norman origin Occupational surnames