Duquesne
Duquesne, DuQuesne or Du Quesne /djuːˈkeɪn/ can refer to:
People
- Abraham de Bellebat, marquis du Quesne, governor of Martinique in 1716 (see list of colonial and departmental heads of Martinique)
- Abraham Duquesne (c. 1610–1688), French admiral
- Antoine Duquesne (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 (died 1624), Huguenot refugee from Flanders who settled in England
- Jean du Quesne, the Younger (1575–1612), son of the above
- Jacques Duquesne (disambiguation), multiple people
- Michel-Ange Duquesne de Menneville, Marquis Du Quesne (c. 1700–1778), Governor General of New France (in present-day Canada)
Places
- Duquesne, Arizona, Santa Cruz County, Arizona, now a ghost town
- Duquesne, Missouri, a village
- Duquesne, Pennsylvania, a city named after Marquis Duquesne
- Duquesne River, Grenada
Fictional characters
- Marc "Blackie" DuQuesne, villain of the Skylark science fiction series of novels by E. E. "Doc" Smith
- Calleigh Duquesne, in the television series CSI: Miami
- Jacques Duquesne, true identity of the Swordsman (comics) in the Marvel Comics universe
Other uses
- French ship Duquesne, eight ships and one cruiser class in the French Navy named after Abraham Duquesne
- Duquesne (PRR), a Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train, later renamed the Keystone by Amtrak
- Keystone (Amtrak train), a train service known as the Duquesne prior to becoming part of Amtrak
- Duquesne University, a private Catholic university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Duquesne Country and Athletic Club, an American professional football team from 1895 to 1900
- Pittsburgh Duquesne or Duquesne Country and Athletic Club hockey team, an American amateur, later professional, hockey team from 1895 to 1920
- 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 Gardens, a sports arena
- Duquesne Incline, an inclined plane railroad or funicular
- Duquesne University
- Fort Duquesne
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