Le Sueur (surname)

Le Sueur or Lesueur is a French surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Hubert Le Sueur ((c. 1580[1] – 1658), French sculptor
  • Jean Le Sueur ((c. 1598 – 1668, also known as Abbé Saint-Sauveur), French-born Quebecois priest
  • Eustache Le Sueur (1617 – 1655), painter and a founder of the French Academy
  • Pierre-Charles Le Sueur (c. 1657 – 1704), French trapper and explorer of North America
  • Jacques-François le Sueur (fl. 1704 – 1754), French Jesuit missionary and linguist of the Abnaki in Canada
  • Jacques-Philippe Le Sueur (1759–1830), French sculptor
  • Jean-François Le Sueur (1760 – 1837), French composer
  • Charles Alexandre Lesueur (1778 – 1846), French naturalist-illustrator and explorer of Australia
  • Pierre-Étienne Lesueur (fl. 1791 1810), French painter
  • Marie Lesieur (1799 – 1890), known as Lesueur, French ballet dancer
  • Georges Lesueur (1834–1910), French engineer, public works contractor, Senator of Algeria from 1888 to 1897
  • Daniel Lesueur, pen name of Jeanne Lapauze, née Loiseau (1860–1920), French poet and novelist
  • Arthur LeSueur (1867?–1950?), American socialist newspaper editor and Socialist mayor of Minot, North Dakota
  • Florence LeSueur (1898 – 1991), African-American civil rights activist and the first female president of a NAACP chapter
  • Meridel Le Sueur nee Wharton (1900 – 1996), American writer and political activist, stepdaughter of Arthur Le Sueur
  • Hal LeSueur (c.1901 or 1904 – 1963), American actor and elder brother of Joan Crawford
  • Lucille Fay LeSueur, real name of Joan Crawford (c.1904 or 1912 – 1977), film actress and sister of Hal
  • Raoul Lesueur (1912 – 1981), French cyclist
  • Terry Le Sueur (born 1942?), politician and Chief Minister of Jersey
  • Clinton LeSueur (born 1969), Mississippi politician
  • Emily LeSueur (born 1972), US synchronized swimmer
  • Éloyse Lesueur (born 1988), French long jumper
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