Toussaint (name)
Toussaint is both a French surname and a masculine French given name. Notable people with the name include:
Surname
- Allen Toussaint, American musician, songwriter and record producer
- André Toussaint, Haitian singer and guitarist
- Auguste Toussaint, Mauritian archivist and historian
- Beth Toussaint, American actress, best known for her television performances
- Carlos Toussaint, Mexican film director
- Cheryl Toussaint, American athlete who mainly competed in the 800 metres
- Dany Toussaint, candidate in the 2006 Haitian presidential election
- Godfried Toussaint, Belgian, British, and Canadian professor of computer science specializing in computational geometry and computational music
- Eugenio Toussaint, Mexican composer
- Fitzgerald Toussaint, American football player
- François-Vincent Toussaint, author of Les Mœurs published in 1748 and immediately prosecuted and burned by the French court of justice
- Franz Joseph Toussaint, Minister of Finance to Empress Maria Theresa
- Jean Toussaint, American-British jazz saxophonist
- Jean Joseph Henri Toussaint, French veterinarian and bacteriologist
- Jean-Philippe Toussaint, Belgian writer
- Kira Toussaint, Dutch swimmer
- Lorraine Toussaint, television actress best known for playing assistant medical examiner Elaine Duchamps on the television drama Crossing Jordan
- Marie Toussaint, French politician
- Mauricio Toussaint, contemporary Mexican artist
- Michel'le Toussaint, an American R&B singer-songwriter
- Nina Toussaint-White, British actress
- Olivier Toussaint, French composer, pop singer, orchestra arranger, company manager, and record producer active since 1968
- Ven. Pierre Toussaint, Haitian-American philanthropist
- Randolph Toussaint, Guyanese cyclist
- Roger Toussaint, former president of Transport Workers Union Local 100 and announced the 2005 New York City transit strike
- Rose Marie Toussaint, Haitian-American transplant surgeon
- Rudolf Toussaint, the German Army commander in Prague at the end of World War II, imprisoned for life for war crimes
- Touki Toussaint, American baseball player
Middle name
- Oliver Toussaint Jackson, American businessman
Given name
- Toussaint (leper chief), chief of a leper colony in South America
- Toussaint Charbonneau, French-Canadian explorer and trader, member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, best known as the husband of Sacagawea
- Toussaint de Charpentier, German geologist and entomologist
- Toussaint Dallam, French organ-builder
- Toussaint Dubreuil, French painter associated with the second School of Fontainebleau
- Toussaint-Bernard Émeric-David, French archaeologist and writer on art
- Toussaint Hočevar, Slovenian-American economic historian
- Toussaint-Antoine-Rodolphe Laflamme, French-Canadian lawyer, professor of law and politician
- Toussaint Louverture, freed black slave and former French general who led the Haitian Revolution expelling the French, British, and Spanish armies that enforced slavery in Haiti and nearby Santo Domingo
- Toussaint McCall, American R&B singer and organist
- Toussaint Natama, Burkinabé football player