Toussaint
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Toussaint (French: All Saints) may mean:
- Toussaint, Seine-Maritime, a commune in the arrondissement of Le Havre in the Seine-Maritime département of France
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:
- Toussaint Dubreuil (c. 1561–1602), a French painter associated with the second School of Fontainebleau
- Toussaint-Bernard Éméric-David (1755-1839), French archaeologist and writer on art
- Toussaint Charbonneau (1767-1843) was a French-Canadian explorer and trader, and a member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, best known as the husband of Sacagawea
- Toussaint de Charpentier (1779-1847), a German geologist and entomologist
- Toussaint-Antoine-Rodolphe Laflamme (1827–1893), a French-Canadian lawyer, professor of law and politician
- Toussaint Natama (born 1982) a Burkinabé football player

