Willard Goldsmith Rouse (April 14, 1867 – July 31, 1930) was an American attorney, businessman, and father of land developer James Rouse.
Rouse was born in Creswell, Maryland, the son of Harriet Bayliss (née Hanway) and John Goldsmith Rouse.
He was a lawyer trained at Johns Hopkins University who once ran as the state's attorney for Harford County, Maryland.
Rouse died due to cancer of the bladder and his wife to heart failure, and lost his home on Brooklett's Avenue to bank foreclosure.
[3] Rouse was the great-grandfather of actor Edward Norton.