Leroux (surname)

Leroux (mostly northwestern France ), LeRoux (American spelling), Le Roux (mostly Brittany, as a translation of Breton Ar Rouz or Ar Ruz) or Roux (mostly southeastern France, as a translation of Occitan Ros) is a surname of French origin meaning "red-haired" or "red-skinned" and may also come in certain cases (e.g. with the spelling Le Roux) from Breton Ar Roue meaning ″The King″. It may refer to:

People

 * Adélaïde Leroux (born 1982), French actress
 * AJ le Roux (born 1990), South African rugby player
 * Alain Le Roux (c. 1040–1093), associate of William I of England
 * Antoine Leroux (fl. 1846–1853), New Mexico mountain man
 * Auguste Leroux (1871–1954), French painter
 * Bernard Le Roux (born 1989), South African-born French rugby player
 * Bruno Le Roux (born 1965), French politician
 * Buddy LeRoux (1930–2008), American businessman and baseball club owner
 * Charles C.-J. Le Roux (1724-?), French educator, inventor, and physicist
 * Charles Le Roux (1814–1895), French painter
 * Charles Leroux (1856–1889), American balloonist and parachutist
 * Chelazon Leroux, Indigenous Canadian drag queen
 * Chris Leroux (born 1984), Canadian baseball pitcher
 * Christine Barkhuizen le Roux (1959–2020), South African writer
 * Claudine Le Roux (born 1964), French canoer
 * Christophe Le Roux (born 1969), French footballer
 * Daniel Le Roux (1933–2016), South African footballer
 * Doppies le Roux (born 1985), South African rugby player
 * Etienne Leroux (1922–1989), South African writer
 * François Le Roux (born 1955), French baritone
 * François Leroux (born 1970), Canadian ice hockey player
 * Fred le Roux (1882–1963), South African cricketer
 * Garth Le Roux (born 1955), South African cricketer
 * Gaspard Le Roux (1660–1707), French harpsichordist
 * Gaston Leroux (1868–1927), French journalist, detective, and novelist
 * Gaston Leroux (ice hockey) (1913–1988), Canadian ice hockey player
 * Gaston Leroux (politician) (born 1948), Canadian politician
 * Grant le Roux (born 1986), South African rugby player
 * Hennie le Roux (born 1967), South African rugby player
 * Isabel Le Roux (born 1987), South African sprinter
 * Jean Leroux (born 1949), Canadian politician
 * Jean-Marie Le Roux (1863–1949), French mathematician
 * Jean Paul Leroux, Venezuelan actor
 * Jean-Yves Leroux (born 1976), Canadian ice hockey player
 * Josephine Leroux (1747–1794), French Ursuline nun
 * Lash LeRoux (born 1976), American wrestler
 * Laura Leroux-Revault (1872–1936) French artist and painter, daughter of Louis Hector Leroux.
 * Laurent Leroux (1759–1855), Canadian businessman and politician
 * Le Roux Smith Le Roux (1914–1963), South African artist, actor and broadcaster
 * Louis Héctor Leroux (1829–1900), French painter, father of Laura Leroux-Revault.
 * Louis Napoleon Le Roux (1890–1944), Breton nationalist
 * Maurice Le Roux (1923–1992), French composer and conductor
 * Maxime Leroux (1951–2010), French actor
 * Ollie le Roux (born 1973), South African rugby player
 * Paul Le Roux (born 1972), Rhodesia-born programmer, criminal cartel boss and DEA informant
 * P. K. Le Roux (1904–1985), South African politician
 * Pierre Leroux (1797–1871), French philosopher and political economist
 * Pierre Leroux (author) (born 1958), Canadian novelist, journalist and screenwriter
 * Pieter Louis Le Roux (1865–1943), South African missionary
 * Robert Leroux (sociologist) (born 1964), Canadian sociologist
 * Robert Leroux (born 1967), French fencer
 * Roland Leroux (born 1956), German chemist
 * Roulland Le Roux (fl. 1508–1527), French architect
 * Shaun Le Roux (born 1986), South African squash player
 * Sydney Leroux (born 1990), Canadian-American soccer player
 * Willie le Roux (born 1989), South African rugby player
 * Xavier Leroux (1863–1919), French composer
 * Yvon Le Roux (born 1960), French football player

Fictional characters

 * Françoise Leroux, aka “Femme Leroux”, character of Le Labyrinthe du monde (Memoirs) by Marguerite Yourcenar
 * Leroux, in Night Flight by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
 * Leroux, in L’Armée des ombres (Army of Shadows) 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