Leroux (surname)
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 from Breton Ar Roue meaning ″The King″. It may refer to:
People
- Adélaïde Leroux, French actress
- AJ le Roux, South African rugby player
- Alain Le Roux, associate of William I of England
- Antoine Leroux, New Mexico mountain man
- Auguste Leroux, French painter
- Bernard Le Roux, South African-born French rugby player
- Bruno Le Roux, French politician
- Buddy LeRoux, American businessman and baseball club owner
- Charles C.-J. Le Roux, French educator, inventor, and physicist
- Charles Le Roux, French painter
- Charles Leroux, American balloonist and parachutist
- Chelazon Leroux, Indigenous Canadian drag queen
- Chris Leroux, Canadian baseball pitcher
- Christine Barkhuizen le Roux, South African writer
- Claudine Le Roux, French canoer
- Christophe Le Roux, French footballer
- Daniel Le Roux, South African footballer
- Doppies le Roux, South African rugby player
- Etienne Leroux, South African writer
- François Le Roux, French baritone
- François Leroux, Canadian ice hockey player
- Fred le Roux, South African cricketer
- Garth Le Roux, South African cricketer
- Gaspard Le Roux, French harpsichordist
- Gaston Leroux, French journalist, detective, and novelist
- Gaston Leroux (ice hockey), Canadian ice hockey player
- Gaston Leroux (politician), Canadian politician
- Grant le Roux, South African rugby player
- Hennie le Roux, South African rugby player
- Isabel Le Roux, South African sprinter
- Jean Leroux, Canadian politician
- Jean-Marie Le Roux, French mathematician
- Jean Paul Leroux, Venezuelan actor
- Jean-Yves Leroux, Canadian ice hockey player
- Josephine Leroux, French Ursuline nun
- Lash LeRoux, American wrestler
- Laura Leroux-Revault French artist and painter, daughter of Louis Hector Leroux.
- Laurent Leroux, Canadian businessman and politician
- Le Roux Smith Le Roux, South African artist, actor and broadcaster
- Louis Héctor Leroux, French painter, father of Laura Leroux-Revault.
- Louis Napoleon Le Roux, Breton nationalist
- Louise-Zulmée Le Roux, singing teacher
- Maurice Le Roux, French composer and conductor
- Maxime Leroux, French actor
- Ollie le Roux, South African rugby player
- Paul Le Roux, Rhodesia-born programmer, criminal cartel boss and DEA informant
- P. K. Le Roux, South African politician
- Pierre Leroux, French philosopher and political economist
- Pierre Leroux (author), Canadian novelist, journalist and screenwriter
- Pieter Louis Le Roux, South African missionary
- Robert Leroux (sociologist), Canadian sociologist
- Robert Leroux (fencer), French fencer
- Roland Leroux, German chemist
- Roulland Le Roux, French architect
- Shaun Le Roux, South African squash player
- Sydney Leroux, Canadian-American soccer player
- Willie le Roux, South African rugby player
- Xavier Leroux, French composer
- Yvon Le Roux, French football player
- Zulmée Leroux, French opera singer
Fictional characters
- Françoise Leroux, aka “Femme Leroux”, character of Le Labyrinthe du monde by Marguerite Yourcenar
- Leroux, in Night Flight by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- Leroux, in L’Armée des ombres by Joseph Kessel
- Louis Leroux, from the fifth season of the video game series Criminal Case
- Messieurs Leroux, characters of Arsène Lupin contre Herlock Sholmès by Maurice Leblanc
- Pierre Leroux, from the novel A French Lover by Taslima Nasrin
- Zommari Leroux, villain from the manga ''Bleach''