Quentin

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Quentin
Given Name
Gender Male
Meaning the fifth
Origin Latin
Related names see below
Derived Quintinus
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Quentin (Latin Quintinus, from Quintus) is a Latin-derived male 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 Chong - Chinese-South African martial artist, two times world muay thai champion
  • 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 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 Shih (时晓凡 Shi Xiaofan), Chinese photographer
  • Quentin Smith
  • Quentin Tarantino - film director

[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 Travers, leader of the Watchers' Council on the television program Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Quentin, a character in Edward Goreys poem. 'Q is for Quentin who sunk in a mire'

[edit] Places

Places commonly known as Quentin include:

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