Rossum
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People

  • Allen Rossum
    Allen Rossum
    Allen Bonshaca Lamont Rossum is an American football cornerback and return specialist who is currently a free agent. He was drafted by the Philadelphia Eagles in the third round of the 1998 NFL Draft...

     (born 1975), an American football cornerback and return specialist
  • Emmy Rossum
    Emmy Rossum
    Emmanuelle Grey "Emmy" Rossum is an American actress and singer-songwriter. She first starred in a string of movies including Songcatcher , An American Rhapsody, and Passionada . However, it was her role in Mystic River that garnered her wider recognition...

     (born 1986), an American actress and singer-songwriter
  • Kristin Rossum
    Kristin Rossum
    Kristin Margrethe Rossum , is currently serving a life sentence in California for poisoning her husband Greg deVillers with fentanyl she stole from her job and attempting to pass off his death as a suicide....

     (born 1976), murderer who poisoned her husband

Places

Rossum is the name of several villages in the Netherlands:
  • Rossum (Overijssel)
    Rossum (Overijssel)
    Rossum is a town in the Dutch province of Overijssel. It is a part of the municipality of Dinkelland, and lies about 4 km north of Oldenzaal.In 2001, the town of Rossum had 1324 inhabitants...

  • Rossum (Gelderland)
    Rossum (Gelderland)
    Rossum is a town in the Dutch province of Gelderland. It is a part of the municipality of Maasdriel, and lies about 11 km southwest of Tiel.Rossum was a separate municipality between 1818 and 1999, when it was merged with Maasdriel....


Fiction

  • R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)
    R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)
    R.U.R. is a 1920 science fiction play in the Czech language by Karel Čapek. R.U.R. stands for Rossum's Universal Robots, an English phrase used as the subtitle in the Czech original. It premiered in 1921 and introduced the word "robot" to the English language and to science fiction as a whole.The...

    , a 1921 science fiction play by Karel Čapek
  • The Rossum Corporation, a fictional organization in the television series Dollhouse
    Dollhouse (TV series)
    Dollhouse is an American science fiction television series created by writer and director Joss Whedon under Mutant Enemy Productions. It premiered on February 13, 2009, on the Fox network and was officially cancelled on November 11, 2009. The final episode aired on January 29, 2010...

    , named after R.U.R.
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