Philibert Joseph Roux

Philibert Joseph Roux (April 26, 1780 – March 24, 1854) was a French surgeon born in Auxerre.

Trained as a military surgeon, he later moved to Paris, where he was a student and friend of Xavier Bichat (1771–1802).

In 1835, he succeeded Guillaume Dupuytren (1777–1835) as chief surgeon at Hôtel-Dieu de Paris.

Remembered for his pioneer work in plastic surgery, in 1819 he performed one of the earliest staphylorrhaphies[1] (surgical repair of a cleft palate).

A collection of his papers is held at the National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland.