Charles Rouen
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General Charles Auguste Jean Baptiste Rouen (9 July 1838 – after 1917) was a Belgian historian and soldier.
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Rouen was born in Antwerp. In Brussels on 30 April 1862, he married Joséphine Pétronille Straatman, daughter of ship-owner Lambert Straatman and Marie Sophie Fautier. He was the son of Guillaume Rouen, a Belgian hero of the Battle of Waterloo and revolutionary, and Henriette Elius. Rouen was the brother-in-law of General Jean Prosper Beaudrihaye, who married Anne Caroline Straatman, his wife's sister.