'''Quesnel''' or '''Quesnell''' means "little oak" in the Picard dialect of French.<!-- <ref>{{cite book|last1=Cellard|first1=Jacques|title=Trésors des noms de familles|date=1983|publisher=Belin|location=Paris|isbn=9782701104874|page=247|edition=[6. éd.].}}</ref> --> It is used as a proper name and may refer to:
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==Places== * Le Quesnel, a commune the Somme department in France * Quesnel, British Columbia, a city in British Columbia, Canada * Quesnel Forks, British Columbia, a ghost town in British Columbia, Canada * Quesnell Heights, Edmonton, a neighbourhood in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
==Geographical features== * Quesnel Lake * Quesnel River * Quesnel Highland
==People== * Adam Quesnell (born 1981/1982), American stand-up comedian * Chantal Quesnel (born 1971), Canadian actress * Désiré Quesnel (1843–1915), French wood-engraver * François Quesnel (1543–1619), 16th-century French artist * François Jean Baptiste Quesnel (1768–1819), French general under Napoleon * Frédéric-Auguste Quesnel (1785–1866) Canadian lawyer and politician * Joseph Quesnel (1746–1809), Canadian operatic composer/playwright * Jules-Maurice Quesnel (1786–1842), Canadian fur-trader and politician * Pasquier Quesnel (1634–1719), French Jansenist theologian * Peter Quesnel (or Quesuel) (d. 1299?), Franciscan * Pierre Quesnel (1502–1580), 16th-century French artist, worked in Scotland * Pooky Quesnel (born 1966), English actress * Yannick Quesnel (born 1973), French retired footballer
==Other== * Quesnel (sternwheeler) * Quesnell Bridge, in Edmonton AB, Canada, over North Saskatchewan River
==See also== * Quensel, a superficially similar surname, but of Swedish extraction
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