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Quentin Blake
Quentin Blake (born 1932, Sidcup) is the British illustrator of over 500 books, famous for Roald Dahl's titles, first Children's Laureate 1999-2001, knighted 2013, founder of the Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration.
Quentin Bryce
Dame Quentin Bryce (born 1942) is an Australian lawyer and public servant, Governor of Queensland 2003-2008 and the 25th and first female Governor-General of Australia, 2008-2014, later made a Dame of the Order of Australia.
Quentin Burdick
Quentin N. Burdick (1908–1992), North Dakota Democrat, first Democratic congressman from the state (1958) and senator 1960–1992; chaired Environment and Public Works; succeeded briefly by his wife Jocelyn.
Quentin Clark
Quentin Clark is an American venture capitalist and Managing Director at General Catalyst, where he invests in early AI and enterprise infrastructure after serving as CTO of Dropbox and SAP.
Quentin Crisp
Quentin Crisp, born Dennis Charles Pratt (1908–1999), English writer, actor, and artist's model; author of The Naked Civil Servant, subject of the 1975 John Hurt film, star of An Evening with Quentin Crisp in New York from 1978, and a flamboyant queer icon.
Quentin D. Atkinson
Quentin D. Atkinson is a New Zealand psychologist and evolutionary scientist at the University of Auckland, best known for the 2003 Nature paper supporting the Anatolian farming origin of Indo-European languages.
Quentin Durward
Quentin Durward is an 1823 historical novel by Walter Scott, set in fifteenth-century France and centered on the rivalry between Louis XI and Charles the Bold.
Quentin Fillon Maillet
Quentin Fillon Maillet, French biathlete born 1992 in Champagnole, Jura; nine Olympic medals (5 gold) across Beijing 2022 and Milano Cortina 2026, France's most decorated Olympian, 2021/22 World Cup overall champion.
Quentin Gibson
Quentin Gibson, full name Quentin Howieson Gibson (1918–2011), was a British-born biochemist who spent most of his career in the United States studying rapid-reaction kinetics and hemoglobin.
Quentin Grimes
Quentin Grimes, born 2000, is an NBA shooting guard from The Woodlands, Texas; Houston AAC Player of the Year, 2021 first-round pick (25th, Clippers/Knicks), later Pistons, Mavericks, 76ers, and a 2026 Lakers signing.
Quentin Hubbard
Quentin Hubbard, born Geoffrey Quentin McCaully Hubbard, was the fifth child of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard and a Class XII auditor who died in Las Vegas in 1976.
Quentin Jouffroy
Quentin Jouffroy (born 1993, Grenoble) is a French volleyball middle blocker, 2.02 m, Olympic gold medalist at Paris 2024 and Volleyball Nations League champion 2022 and 2024; clubs include Tours VB, Plessis-Robinson, Suwalki, and Montpellier.
Quentin L. Kopp
Quentin Lewis Kopp (born 1928) is a retired American judge, Independent California state senator (1986–1998), San Francisco supervisor (1972–1986), and San Mateo County Superior Court judge (1999–2004), author of the California High-Speed Rail Authority act.
Quentin Matsys
Quentin Matsys, also spelled Massys (1466–1530), was a Netherlandish painter born in Leuven and active in Antwerp, regarded as the founder of the Antwerp school.
Quentin Millora-Brown
Quentin Millora-Brown (born 2000) is a Filipino-American basketball forward/center from Lorton, Virginia; played college ball at Rice, Vanderbilt, and The Citadel, went undrafted in 2024, plays in Japan's B.League, and represents the Philippines national team.
Quentin Ndjantou
Quentin Ndjantou (Quentin Enzo Léo Ndjantou Mbitcha), French forward born 2007 in Arpajon; PSG academy product, professional from 2025, won 2026 Champions League and Ligue 1 with Paris Saint-Germain.
Quentin Quire
Quentin Quire, Kid Omega (Quintavius Quirinius Quire), a Marvel Comics Omega-level mutant telepath created by Grant Morrison, debuting in New X-Men #134; leader of the Omega Gang riot, Phoenix host, X-Force agent, and current X-Man.
Quentin Richardson
Quentin Richardson (Quentin Lamar Richardson, "Q-Rich"), born 1980, American NBA forward, 2000-2013 with Clippers, Suns, Knicks, Heat, Magic; 2005 Three-Point Contest champion; later Pistons player development director.
Quentin Roosevelt
Quentin Roosevelt (1897–1918), youngest son of Theodore Roosevelt, Harvard student and Army Air Service pursuit pilot with the 95th Aero Squadron; shot down over Chamery, France, July 14, 1918; the only child of a US President to die in combat.
Quentin Roosevelt II
Quentin Roosevelt II (1918–1948) was an American Army officer, aviation executive, and collector of Naxi manuscripts, a grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt and son of Theodore Roosevelt Jr.
Quentin Skinner
Quentin Skinner (born 1940) is a Cambridge historian of political thought, originator with Pocock and Dunn of the Cambridge School; author of The Foundations of Modern Political Thought (1978) and Liberty as Independence.
Quentin Tarantino
Quentin Tarantino, American film director and screenwriter of Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, Inglourious Basterds, Django Unchained, and Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood; Palme d'Or and Oscar-winning auteur planning retirement after a tenth film.
Quentin Tarantino filmography
Quentin Tarantino filmography: the directed features (Reservoir Dogs 1992 through Once Upon a Time in Hollywood 2019), screenwriting credits, awards including the Palme d'Or and two Oscars, and the ten-film retirement plan.
Quentin Williams
Quentin Williams is a Distinguished Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at UC Santa Cruz who studies the behavior of minerals, melts, and fluids at high pressure in planetary interiors.
Quenton Nelson
Quenton Nelson, Indianapolis Colts left guard (No. 56), Notre Dame product drafted sixth overall in 2018; eight-time Pro Bowler, three-time AP First Team All-Pro, ranked No. 99 in the NFL Top 100 of 2026.
Quenya
Quenya (earlier Qenya) is J.R.R. Tolkien's constructed High-elven language, begun around 1915, agglutinating and Finnish-influenced, with ten noun cases, a Latin-like ceremonial role in Middle-earth, and no definitive grammar.
Queqiao
Queqiao (鹊桥, "Magpie Bridge") is a series of Chinese lunar relay communication satellites; the first, launched in 2018, became the first satellite in a halo orbit around Earth-Moon L2, relaying for Chang'e-4.
QuEra
QuEra Computing is a Boston-based quantum computing company founded in 2018 as a Harvard and MIT spinout, operating Aquila, a 256-qubit neutral-atom processor available on Amazon Braket.
Quercetin
Quercetin (C15H10O7) is a dietary flavonol from onions, capers, and apples, named from Latin quercetum; low bioavailability, metabolized by glucuronidation, sulfation, and methylation.
Quercus
Quercus (oaks), genus of Fagaceae trees and shrubs with 400-450 species across the northern hemisphere, defined by acorns; fossil record from about 55 Ma, with Mexico and East Asia as diversity centers.