Henry Rousso (born 23 November 1954) is an Egyptian-born French historian specializing in World War II France.

Forced out of Egypt under anti-Semitic measures instituted by the Nasser regime, and stripped of Egyptian nationality, they fled to France in 1956.

[1][2] Rousso studied at the École normale supérieure de Saint-Cloud between 1974 and 1979, earning an agrégation in history in 1977.

[3] Rousso is an editorial board member of several academic journals, including Conserveries mémorielles, Vingtième Siècle, History and Memory, South Central Review, and SegleXX.

[3] On 22 February 2017[4] Rousso was detained by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents[5] for 10 hours on arrival at George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston and nearly deported.