Quinton is either a surname or a masculine
given name
A given name (also known as a forename or first name) is the part of a personal name quoted in that identifies a person, potentially with a middle name as well, and differentiates that person from the other members of a group (typically a f ...
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The English surname and given name may refer to the place name Quinton, from
Old English
Old English ( or , or ), or Anglo-Saxon, is the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the Early Middle Ages. It developed from the languages brought to Great Britain by Anglo-S ...
''cwen'' "queen" or ''cwene'' "woman" and ''tun'' "farmstead, estate".
The French surname ''Quinton''
ɛ̃tɔ̃is a common surname and a former given name. It is a variant form of ''Quenton''
ɑ̃tɔ̃ itself from ''
Quentin, Quintin'' with the usual replacement of the suffix ''-in'' (such as in the surnames ''Quintard, Quintier'') by ''-on'', commonly used in the French given names (e. g. ''Marion, Yvon'') and surnames (e.g. ''Creton, Crinon, Bricon'', etc.)
[ Albert Dauzat, ''Noms et prénoms de France'', Librairie Larousse 1980, édition revue et commentée par Marie-Thérèse Morlet. p. 502b and 503a.]
Given name
Sports
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Quinton Andrews, American football player
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Quinton Bell, American football player
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Quinton Bohanna (born 1999), American football player
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Quinton Byfield
Quinton Byfield (born August 19, 2002) is a Canadian professional ice hockey centre (ice hockey), centre for the Los Angeles Kings of the National Hockey League (NHL). Byfield was selected second overall by the Kings in the 2020 NHL Entry Draft, ...
(born 2002), Canadian ice hockey player
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Quinton Cooley (born 2001), American football player
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Quinton de Kock
Quinton de Kock (born 17 December 1992) is a South African international cricketer and former captain of the Proteas in all three formats. He currently plays for Titans at the domestic level and for South Africa in T20Is. He was named the Cri ...
, South African cricketer
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Quinton Boatswain
Quinton Hubert Boatswain (born 16 October 1990) is a West Indian cricketer from Montserrat. Boatswain is a right-handed batsman who bowls right-arm fast-medium. He is a member of the Leeward Islands cricket team.
Career
In January 2008, Montse ...
, Montserratian cricketer
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Quinton Ferrell, American basketball coach
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Quinton Flowers, American football player
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Quinton Fortune, South African footballer
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Quinton Hooker (born 1995), American basketball player in the Israeli Basketball Premier League
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Quinton Knight, American football player
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Quinton Narkle, Australian rules footballer
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Quinton Newsome (born 2001), American football player
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Quinton "Rampage" Jackson, American mixed martial artist
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Quinton Patton (born 1990), American football player
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Quinton Rose (born 1998), American basketball player
Others
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Quinton Flynn
Quinton Flynn (born October 10, 1964) is an American voice actor and comedian, who has provided the English voices of video game characters such as Raiden in the ''Metal Gear'' series, Marcus Damon in ''Digimon Data Squad'', and Axel and his o ...
, American voice actor
Surname
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A. R. Quinton (1853–1934), English watercolour artist
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René Quinton (1866–1925), French naturalist and aviation pioneer
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Sophie Quinton
Sophie Quinton (born 31 August 1976) is a French actress. She has played in a number of short films directed by Gérald Hustache-Mathieu and starred in the 2003 film ''Who Killed Bambi? (2003 film), Who Killed Bambi?''.
Life and career
Born into ...
(born 1976), French actress
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Anthony Quinton
Anthony Meredith Quinton, Baron Quinton, FBA (25 March 192519 June 2010) was an English political and moral philosopher, metaphysician, and materialist philosopher of mind. He served as President of Trinity College, Oxford from 1978 to 1987; ...
(1925–2010), British philosopher
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Harold Quinton (c. 1899–1969), American business executive
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John Quinton (1921–1951), RAF Navigator
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English-language masculine given names
Masculine given names
Given names originating from a surname