Quesnel

Quesnel or Quesnell means "little oak" in the Picard dialect of French. It is used as a proper name and may refer to:

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