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__NOTOC__ Duquesne (old spelling Du Quesne, American spelling DuQuesne) ( ; ) is a family name derived from a northern dialectal form of
French French (french: français(e), link=no) may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to France ** French language, which originated in France, and its various dialects and accents ** French people, a nation and ethnic group identified with Franc ...
(Norman and Picard) meaning ''du chêne'' in French ("of the oak"), same as the surname Duchesne. It can refer to:


People

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Abraham de Bellebat, marquis du Quesne Abraham, ; ar, , , name=, group= (originally Abram) is the common Hebrew patriarch of the Abrahamic religions, including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. In Judaism, he is the founding father of the special relationship between the Jews ...
, governor of Martinique in 1716 (see list of colonial and departmental heads of Martinique) * Abraham Duquesne ( – 1688), French admiral *
Antoine Duquesne Antoine Duquesne (; 3 February 1941 – 4 November 2010) was a Belgian politician and Member of the European Parliament for the French Community of Belgium with the MR/ MCC/ PRL, Member of the Bureau of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats fo ...
(1941–2010), Belgian politician * Fritz Joubert Duquesne (1877–1956), Boer and later German spy in World War I and World War II *
Jean du Quesne, the elder Jean du Quesne, the elder also known as Jan or Jehan (December 1624) was a particularly well-documented Huguenot refugee from Flanders reported to be from Ath in Hainaut, the son of Jean Du Quesne, native of Valenciennes. David Carnegie Andrew Ag ...
(died 1624), Huguenot refugee from Flanders who settled in England *
Jean du Quesne, the Younger Jean du Quesne, the younger (1575–1612) was the son of Jean Du Quesne, the elder, a particularly well-documented Huguenot refugee from Flanders. Of noble extraction, Jean Du Quesne the elder escaped to England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth ...
(1575–1612), son of the above *
Jacques Duquesne (disambiguation) Jacques Duquesne may refer to: * Jacques Duquesne (footballer) (born 1940), Belgian footballer * Jacques DuQuesne, the Swordsman of Marvel Comics {{Hndis, Duquesne, Jacques ...
, multiple people * Michel-Ange Duquesne de Menneville, Marquis Du Quesne (c. 1700–1778), Governor General of New France (in present-day Canada)


Places


United States

* Duquesne, Arizona, now a ghost town * Duquesne, Missouri, a village * Duquesne, Pennsylvania, a city named after Marquis Duquesne * Fort Duquesne, a French fort created in 1754 which eventually became the city of Pittsburgh *
Fort Duquesne (Minnesota) Fort Duquesne is a historical French former fur trade post. It was built and was first discovered in 1983. The following year, on November 15, 1984, the site was added to the National Register of Historic Places. The site is about two miles north ...
, a former French fur trade post on the National Register of Historic Places


Grenada

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Duquesne River The Duquesne River is a river of Grenada. See also *List of rivers of Grenada This is a list of rivers of Grenada. Rivers in Grenada flow towards the Caribbean Sea The Caribbean Sea ( es, Mar Caribe; french: Mer des Caraïbes; ht, Lanmè Kar ...


Fictional characters

* Calleigh Duquesne, in the television series ''CSI: Miami'' * Jacques Duquesne, true identity of the Swordsman (comics) in the Marvel Comics universe * Marc "Blackie" DuQuesne, villain of the Skylark science fiction series of novels by E. E. "Doc" Smith


Sports

* Duquesne Country and Athletic Club, an American professional football team from 1895 to 1900 * Duquesne Country and Athletic Club (ice hockey), an American hockey team from 1895 to 1901 * Duquesne Dukes, athletic teams of Duquesne University * Duquesne Athletic Club, a professional ice hockey team in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania from 1908 to 1909 * Duquesne Gardens, the main sports arena in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in the first half of the 20th century * Duquesne Baseball Field, Duquesne University


Other uses

* French ship ''Duquesne'', eight ships and one cruiser class in the French Navy named after Abraham Duquesne * Duquesne University, a private Catholic university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania * Duquesne Club, a private social club in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, founded in 1873 * Duquesne Brewing Company (1899-1972), a brewery in Pittsburgh * Duquesne Brewing Company, revived from the above company * ''Duquesne'' (PRR), a Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train, later renamed the ''Keystone'' by Amtrak * Duquesne Incline, an inclined plane railroad or funicular {{disambiguation, geo, surname Norman-language surnames