Leroux
Encyclopedia
Leroux, LeRoux, Le Roux or Roux is a surname
of French
origin meaning "red-haired" or "red-skinned" and may also come in certain cases (with the spelling Le Roux) from Breton roue meaning "king". It may refer to:
Surname
A surname is a name added to a given name and is part of a personal name. In many cases, a surname is a family name. Many dictionaries define "surname" as a synonym of "family name"...
of French
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
origin meaning "red-haired" or "red-skinned" and may also come in certain cases (with the spelling Le Roux) from Breton roue meaning "king". It may refer to:
People
- Alain Le RouxAlain Le RouxAlan Rufus was a probable companion of William the Conqueror during the Norman Conquest and especially during Harrying of the North, in which he built Richmond Castle. He was the second son of Odo, Count of Penthièvre, by Agnes, daughter of Alain Cagnart, Count of Cornouaille, and a cousin of...
, associate of William I of England - William II "Rufus"William II of EnglandWilliam II , the third son of William I of England, was King of England from 1087 until 1100, with powers over Normandy, and influence in Scotland. He was less successful in extending control into Wales...
of England, known as Guillaume le Roux in French - Charles Le RouxCharles Le RouxMarie-Guillaume Charles Le Roux was a landscape painter of the Barbizon school. He was born and died in Nantes, and is noted for his paintings of the Loire and its surroundings....
, French painter - Charles LerouxCharles LerouxCharles Leroux was an American balloonist and parachutist.He died on his 239th jump after water landing in the Bay of Reval , Estonia...
, American balloonist and parachutist - Daniel Le RouxDaniel Le RouxDaniel Leow Le Roux is a South African former footballer who played as a winger.-Career:Born in Port Shepstone, KwaZulu-Natal, Le Roux played for Queen's Park in his native South Africa before signing for English First Division team Arsenal in February 1957...
, South African footballer - Edward "Buddy" LeRoux, former American baseball club owner
- Frederick Le RouxFrederick Le RouxFrederick Louis le Roux was a South African cricketer who played in one Test in 1914....
, South African cricketer - Garth Le RouxGarth Le RouxGarth Stirling Le Roux in Kenilworth, Cape Town is a former South African first class cricketer. He went to Wynberg Boys High School, graduating in 1973....
, South African fast bowler - Gaspard Le RouxGaspard Le RouxGaspard Le Roux was a French harpsichordist active in Paris at the beginning of the 18th century. Little is known of his life; only by one quotation in a list of professors considered in Paris, and a single collection of suites for one and two harpsichords which appeared in 1705: it is one of the...
, French harpsichordist - Gaston LerouxGaston LerouxGaston Louis Alfred Leroux was a French journalist and author of detective fiction.In the English-speaking world, he is best known for writing the novel The Phantom of the Opera , which has been made into several film and stage productions of the same name, notably the 1925 film starring Lon...
, French journalist, detective, and novelist - Jean LerouxJean LerouxJean H. Leroux was a member of the Canadian House of Commons from 1993 to 1997. He is a teacher by career....
, Canadian politician - Jean Paul LerouxJean Paul LerouxJean-Paul Leroux is a Venezuelan film actor. His career started in small roles in theater, but his true career started in the critically acclaimed movie Secuestro Express in 2005, along with Argentine actress Mia Maestro. He also appeared in the 2006 Venezuelan film Elipsis along with Gaby Espino,...
, Venezuelan actor - John LeRouxJohn LeRouxJohnathan Mark LeRoux is a Cajun American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, Lash LeRoux. His ring name is a take off of Cajun western movie star Lash La Rue.-Early life:...
, American professional wrestler - Laurent LerouxLaurent LerouxLaurent Leroux was a fur trader, businessman and political figure in Lower Canada.He was born in L'Assomption in 1759, the son of Germain Leroux, a merchant originally from Paris. In 1776, he was hired as a clerk by a Montreal merchant and sent to Michilimackinac...
, Canadian businessman and politician - Marcel LerouxMarcel LerouxMarcel Leroux was a French climatologist, a former Professor of Climatology at Jean Moulin University in Lyon, France, and director of the Laboratory of Climatology, Risk, and Environment....
, French climatologist - Marie-Élisabeth Laville-LerouxMarie-Élisabeth Laville-LerouxMarie-Élisabeth Laville-Leroux was a French painter. Like her sister, Marie-Guillemine Benoist, she studied under David.Her mother, Marguerite-Marie Lombard, was from Toulouse and her father, René Laville-Leroux was from Brittany...
, French painter - Maurice Le RouxMaurice Le RouxMaurice Le Roux or Leroux was a French composer and conductor. He studied composition at the Paris Conservatory and was a student of Olivier Messiaen...
, French composer and conductor - Ollie le RouxOllie le RouxAndre-Henri "Ollie" le Roux is a South African rugby union footballer who currently plays for Leinster.-Rugby career:...
, South African Rugby great - Pierre LerouxPierre LerouxPierre Henri Leroux , French philosopher and political economist, was born at Bercy, now a part of Paris, the son of an artisan.- Life :...
(1797-1871), French philosopher and political economist - Xavier LerouxXavier LerouxXavier Henry Napoleón Leroux was a French composer.Leroux was the son of a military bandleader. He studied at the Paris Conservatory under Jules Massenet and Théodore Dubois, and won the Prix de Rome in 1885 with the cantata Endymion...
(1863–1919), French composer - Yvon Le RouxYvon Le RouxYvon Le Roux is a former football defender from France, who earned 28 international caps for the French national team during the mid-1980s...
, French football player
Music
- Le Roux (band) (Louisiana's LeRoux), American rock band regionally popular in the southern U.S. in the late 1970s to early 1980s
- La RouxLa RouxLa Roux are an English electropop duo made up of singer, keyboardist, co-writer and co-producer Eleanor Kate Jackson, and co-writer and co-producer Ben Langmaid. Jackson describes their relationship as "very much a half and half sharing situation... not like a singer producer outfit", but also...
, British synth-pop band; changing only the definite article's gender to reflect the singer's androgyne appearance.
Fiction
- Zommari Leroux, a villain from the manga Bleach
Food
- In Louisiana's Cajun culture, le roux refers to the gravy base used to make gumbo; see rouxRouxRoux is a cooked mixture of wheat flour and fat, traditionally butter. It is the thickening agent of three of the mother sauces of classical French cooking: sauce béchamel, sauce velouté and sauce espagnole. Clarified butter, vegetable oils, or lard are commonly used fats. It is used as a...
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