Toussaint

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Toussaint (French: All Saints) may mean:

the name of:

  • François-Vincent Toussaint (1715-1772), author of Les Mœurs ("The Manners") published in 1748 and immediately prosecuted and burned by the French court of justice
  • Toussaint Louverture (c. 1743-1803), black slave who organized the expulsion of French, British, and Spanish armies that enforced slavery in Haiti and nearby Santo Domingo
  • Allen Toussaint (born 1938), an American musician, songwriter and record producer and one of the most influential figures in New Orleans R&B
  • Roger Toussaint (born 1956), leader of TWU Local 100 who called on the 2005 New York City transit strike
  • Mauricio Toussaint (born 1960), a contemporary Mexican artist, living between Mexico and Arizona in the USA where he largly live and work.
  • Lorraine Toussaint (born 1960), a television actress best known for playing assistant medical examiner Elaine Duchamps on the television drama Crossing Jordan
  • Dany Toussaint, a candidate in the 2006 Haitian presidential election
  • Godfried Toussaint, Canadian professor in computer science
  • Damien Toussaint, Australian teacher / educator involved in the PEEL Project.
  • Jean Joseph Henri Toussaint
  • Jean-Philippe Toussaint
  • Jean Toussaint
  • Rudolf Toussaint, the German Army commander in Prague at the end of World War II, imprisoned for life for war crimes.

the given name of:

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