Quentin
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| Quentin | |
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| Gender | Male |
| Meaning | the fifth |
| Origin | Latin |
| Related names | see below |
| Derived | Quintinus |
| Wikipedia articles | All pages beginning with "Quentin" |
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Quentin (Latin Quintinus, from Quintus) is a Latin-derived male (and occasionally, female) given name meaning "the fifth".
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[edit] People
People commonly known solely as Quentin include:
- Saint Quentin
- Quentin Blake - illustrator, famous for illustrating for Roald Dahl books
- Quentin Leo Cook (a.k.a. Fatboy Slim) - British musician
- Quentin Crisp - openly gay author and social critic
- Quentin Hubbard - son of the founder of the Church of Scientology
- Quentin Jammer - American professional National Football League football player
- Quentin Meillassoux - French philosopher
- Quentin Bryce - Australia's first female Governor-General
- Quentin Richardson - American professional National Basketball Association basketball player
- Quentin Roosevelt - son of 26th President Theodore Roosevelt, Lieutenant in the United States Army Air Corps, killed in action during World War I in 1918
- Quentin Roosevelt II - son of Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., Major in the United States Army and vice president of China National Aviation Corp, killed in a plane crash in 1948
- Quentin Smith
- Quentin Willson - British TV presenter and motoring journalist
- Quentin Tarantino - film director
- Quentin Mosimann - French-Swiss singer-DJ
[edit] Fiction
- Quentin Beck, a.k.a. Mysterio, a supervillain, enemy of Spider-Man
- Quentin Collins, a main character on the ABC soap opera Dark Shadows
- Quentin Compson, a main character in William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury and Absalom, Absalom!
- Quentin Costa, a character in Nip/Tuck
- Quentin Durward, a Scottish archer in the service of the French King Louis XI
- Quentin Kelly, a main character on the sitcom Grace Under Fire
- Quentin Kirrin, Uncle Quentin from Enid Blyton's "Famous Five".
- Quentin Travers, leader of the Watchers' Council on the television program Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- Quintin Kelly, actor in Seven Pounds
- Quentin, a character in Edward Gorey's poem. 'Q is for Quentin who sunk in a mire'
[edit] Places
Places commonly known as Quentin include:
- Quentin, Pennsylvania
- San Quentin, California
- Many French towns are called Saint-Quentin
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