Saussure, de Saussure, or DeSaussure is a surname of French origin. Notable individuals with this surname include:
Albertine Necker de Saussure (1766–1841), Swiss writer, educationalist, and advocate of education for women, daughter of Horace-Bénédict, and sister of Nicolas-Théodore César-François de Saussure (1705–1783), Swiss travel writer (1925–2007), Swiss artist and member of the Taizé Community Ferdinand de Saussure (1857–1913), Swiss linguist, brother of Léopold and René Henri Louis Frédéric de Saussure (1829–1905), Swiss mineralogist and entomologist (taxonomist), and father of Ferdinand, Léopold and René. Henry William de Saussure (1763–1839), American lawyer, state legislator from South Carolina, president of the U.S. Mint (1901–1984), female sailing pioneer and scholar, specialist of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, daughter of Léopold and mother of Delphine Seyrig Horace-Bénédict de Saussure (1740–1799), Genevan physicist and Alpine traveller Léopold de Saussure (1866–1925), sinologist, astronomer, French Naval Officer, brother of Ferdinand and René Louis D. DeSaussure (1824–1888), American slave trader Nicolas-Théodore de Saussure (1767–1845), chemist, son of Horace-Bénédict, and brother of Albertine Raymond de Saussure (1894–1971), Swiss psychoanalyst René de Saussure (1868–1943), Swiss Esperantist and scientist, brother of Ferdinand and Léopold William F. De Saussure (1792–1870), U.S. Senator from South Carolina Wilmot Gibbes de Saussure (1822–1886), Confederate-American military officer, South Carolina politician, historian
See also De Saussure family