Dr. Aage Rousell, (27 October 1901, Copenhagen – 9 June 1972, Frederiksberg) was a Danish architect, archaeologist and historian.
Roussell became a student at Sankt Andreas Kollegium in Ordrup in 1919 and took a degree in philosophy from the University of Copenhagen in 1920.
In 1926 Roussell together with cultural historian Poul Nørlund (1888–1951) unearthed 13 skeletons at Igaliku in southern Greenland.
[5] He authored works including Farms and Churches in the Mediaeval Norse Settlement of Greenland (1941)[6] He was later a contributor to the Arctic Encyclopedia.
As a result, in 1957 he was appointed head of the newly established Denmark's Liberation Museum 1940-1945 (Frihedsmuseet), a position he held until 1971.