Quinn is a surname in the English language

English language

English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

, that is derived from the Irish language

Irish language

Irish , also known as Irish Gaelic, is a Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family, originating in Ireland and historically spoken by the Irish people. Irish is now spoken as a first language by a minority of Irish people, as well as being a second language of a larger proportion of...

. The name is derived from the Irish Ó Cuinn, ie descendants of Conn. It means wisdom or chief. It arose separately among unrelated families, such as those of Thomond

Thomond

Thomond The region of Ireland associated with the name Thomond is County Clare, County Limerick and north County Tipperary; effectively most of north Munster. The name is used by a variety of establishments and organisations located in , or associated with the region...

 and Tir Eoghan. It is Ireland's 19th most numerous surname, 255th in England

England

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 and Wales

Wales

Wales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain, bordered by England to its east and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It has a population of three million, and a total area of 20,779 km²...

, and 402nd in the United States

United States

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.

Surname

People commonly known by their family name

Family name

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 Quinn include:

• Aidan Quinn
  Aidan Quinn
  -Early life:Quinn was born in Chicago, Illinois to Irish parents. He was brought up as a Roman Catholic and raised in Chicago and Rockford, Illinois, as well as in Dublin and Birr, County Offaly in Ireland. His mother, Teresa, was a homemaker, and his father, Michael Quinn, was a professor of...
  
  , American actor
• Alex Quinn, a British television reporter and presenter
• Alexander James Quinn
  Alexander James Quinn
  Alexander James Quinn is a bishop of the Catholic Church in the United States. He served as an auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Cleveland in the state of Ohio from 1983-2008.-Biography:...
  
  , Auxiliary Bishop of Cleveland
• Alexandra Quinn
  Alexandra Quinn
  Alexandra Quinn is a retired Canadian porn star who has been active in the industry since the late-1980s.Quinn's first year in the industry took place prior to her 18th birthday. Age 18 is the legal minimum in which United States citizens may appear in pornography...
  
  , Canadian porn star
• Anthony Quinn
  Anthony Quinn
  Antonio Rodolfo Quinn-Oaxaca , more commonly known as Anthony Quinn, was a Mexican American actor, as well as a painter and writer...
  
  , (1915–2001) Mexican-American actor
• Anthony Tyler Quinn
  Anthony Tyler Quinn
  Anthony Tyler Quinn is an American actor best known for his role as Jonathan Turner on Boy Meets World from 1994-1997.-Selected filmography:*A Christmas Snow *House MD...
  
  
• Bradley Quinn
  Bradley Quinn
  Bradley Quinn is a commercial photographer based in Holywood, Northern Ireland. He is the principal photographer of Northern Irish bands Snow Patrol and Cashier No. 9. He is younger brother to Jonny Quinn, the drummer for Snow Patrol. He worked under photographer before starting his own business,...
  
   (born 1976), Northern Irish photographer
• Brady Quinn
  Brady Quinn
  Brayden Tyler "Brady" Quinn is an American football quarterback for the Denver Broncos of the National Football League. Quinn was drafted by the Cleveland Browns in the first round of the 2007 NFL Draft. He played college football at Notre Dame.-Early Years:Brayden Tyler "Brady" Quinn was born on...
  
  , American football quarterback
• Chris Quinn
  Chris Quinn
  Christopher James Quinn is an American professional basketball player who plays for Khimki Moscow Region of the Russian Professional Basketball League.-High school:...
  
  , American basketball player
• Christine C. Quinn
  Christine C. Quinn
  Christine Callaghan Quinn is a Democratic politician and the current Speaker of the New York City Council. The third person to hold this office, Quinn is the first female and first openly gay speaker....
  
  , Speaker of the New York City Council
• Colin Quinn
  Colin Quinn
  Colin Edward Quinn is an American stand-up comedian and writer best known for his five years in the cast of Saturday Night Live, as the sidekick/announcer of MTV's late 1980s gameshow Remote Control and as host of Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn on Comedy Central from 2002–2004.-Early years:Quinn was...
  
  , American actor and comedian
• Dan Quinn
  Dan Quinn
  Daniel Peter Quinn is a Canadian professional golfer and former professional ice hockey player. Quinn played 14 seasons in the National Hockey League .-Playing career:...
  
  , retired professional ice hockey centre
• Daniel Quinn
  Daniel Quinn
  Daniel Quinn is an American writer described as an environmentalist. He is best known for his book Ishmael , which won the Turner Tomorrow Fellowship Award in 1991....
  
  , writer
• D. Michael Quinn
  D. Michael Quinn
  Dennis Michael Quinn is a historian who has focused on The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He was a professor at Brigham Young University from 1976 until his resignation in 1988. At the time, his work concerned church involvement with plural marriage after the 1890 Manifesto, in which...
  
  , Mormon historian
• David Quinn (disambiguation)
• Edmond Thomas Quinn
  Edmond Thomas Quinn
  Edmond Thomas Quinn was an American sculptor and painter. He is best known for his bronze of Edwin Booth as Hamlet, which stands at the center of Gramercy Park in New York City...
  
  , American sculptor
• Edward Quinn
  Edward Quinn
  Edward Quinn was born in Ireland. He lived and worked as a photographer from the 1950s, on the Côte d'Azur, during the "golden fifties" the playground of the celebrities from the world of show biz, art and business....
  
  , Irish photographer
• Emmett Quinn
  Emmett Quinn
  Thomas Emmett Quinn ) was a Canadian ice hockey executive, coach and referee. Quinn served as president of the National Hockey Association , the predecessor of today's National Hockey League . His brother Percy Quinn was also an ice hockey executive...
  
  , Canadian ice hockey executive and businessman
• Feargal Quinn
  Feargal Quinn
  Feargal Quinn is an Irish politician, businessman, television personality and an independent member of Seanad Éireann.-Early and personal life:...
  
  , Irish senator and businessperson
• Francesco Quinn
  Francesco Quinn
  Francesco Daniele Quinn was an Italian-born actor. The third son of Oscar winner Anthony Quinn and Jolanda Addorlori , Francesco is perhaps best known for his breakout role as Rhah in Oliver Stone’s Academy Award-winning Platoon...
  
  , American actor
• Freddy Quinn
  Freddy Quinn
  Freddy Quinn is an Austrian singer and actor whose popularity within the German-speaking world soared in the late 1950s and 1960s. Similar to Hans Albers two generations before him, Quinn adopted the persona of the rootless wanderer who goes to sea but longs for a home, family and friends...
  
  , Austrian singer and actor
• Glenn Quinn
  Glenn Quinn
  Glenn Martin Christopher Francis Quinn was an Irish actor in television and film, known for playing Mark Healy in the American sitcom Roseanne, and Doyle, a half-demon, on the 1999–2004 television series Angel, a spin-off series of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.-Early life:Quinn...
  
  , Irish actor
• Graham Quinn (athlete)
  Graham Quinn (athlete)
  Graham Quinn was a New Zealand track and field athlete who competed at the 1938 British Empire Games where he won the bronze medal as part of the men's 4 x 440 yards relay team. He also competed in the 100 and 220 yards sprinting events where he placed 5th in heat 1 of the 100 yards and 5th in the...
  
  , New Zealand athlete
• James or Jimmy Quinn (disambiguation)
• John Quinn (disambiguation)
• Jonny Quinn
  Jonny Quinn
  Jonathan Graham "Jonny" Quinn is a Northern Irish drummer, born in Bangor. He is best known as the drummer for alternative rock band Snow Patrol, and was previously a member of bands like The Mighty Fall, The New Brontes and Disraeli Gears. As drummer for Snow Patrol, he has played on all releases...
  
  , drummer for Snow Patrol
• Kimberly Quinn
  Kimberly Quinn
  Kimberly Quinn , is an American journalist, commentator and magazine publisher and writer. Latterly the publisher of British conservative news magazine The Spectator....
  
  , American journalist
• Lawrie Quinn
  Lawrie Quinn
  Lawrence William Quinn is a Labour politician in England.-Early life:He went to primary school in Harraby and Harraby Comprehensive School on Edgehill Road in Carlisle...
  
  , UK politician
• Lorenzo Quinn
  Lorenzo Quinn
  Lorenzo Quinn is an Italian sculptor and former actor, and the fifth son of actor Anthony Quinn.-Biography:Quinn was born in Rome, Italy and is the son of the Mexican American actor Anthony Quinn and Iolanda Quinn . Quinn was raised in both the United States and Italy and presently lives in...
  
  , Artist and sculptor and son of actor Anthony Quinn
• Marc Quinn
  Marc Quinn
  Marc Quinn is a British artist and part of the group known as Britartists or YBAs . He is known for Alison Lapper Pregnant , Self , and Garden .He is one of the Young British...
  
  , English artist
• Molly C. Quinn
  Molly C. Quinn
  Molly Caitlyn Quinn is an American actress whose works have included theatre, film, and television.-Life and career:Quinn is of Irish descent and was born in Texarkana, Texas. She began taking weekly acting lessons from retired director and producer Martin Beck after performing in her community's...
  
  , American Actress
• Micky Quinn
  Micky Quinn
  Michael "Micky" Quinn is a former footballer. He was predominantly a centre forward during a career in which he scored 228 goals from 515 games in the Football League.- Club career :...
  
  , English footballer
• Nesanel Quinn
  Nesanel Quinn
  Nesanel Hakohen Quinn was the renowned principal of Yeshiva Torah Vodaas in Brooklyn, New York, for nearly 80 years.-Biography:...
  
  , principal of Yeshiva Torah Vodaas
  Yeshiva Torah Vodaas
  Yeshiva Torah Vodaas is a yeshiva located in the Kensington neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York.- History :...
  
  
• Niall Quinn
  Niall Quinn
  Niall John Quinn honorary MBE is a former Irish international footballer, and the ex-chairman of Sunderland AFC. He still works at the club as an overseas manager. He is also heavily involved in the management side of horse racing...
  
  , Irish footballer
• Padraig Quinn
  Padraig Quinn
  Pádraig Ó Cuinn was an Irish Republican Army Quartermaster General in the Fourth Northern Division in the Irish War of Independence....
  
  , former Irish Republican Army officer
• Paddy Quinn (disambiguation)
• Pat Quinn (disambiguation)
• Patrick Quinn (disambiguation)
  Patrick Quinn (disambiguation)
  Patrick Quinn may refer to:* Patrick Quinn , American actor* Patrick Quinn , British track and field athlete* Patrick Quinn...
  
  
• Paul Quinn, Scottish footballer
• Percy Quinn
  Percy Quinn
  John Purcell Quinn was a Canadian athlete, businessman, sports promoter and politician in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He was the owner and president of the Toronto Blueshirts, winners of the Stanley Cup in 1914. He was a member of the world champion Montreal Shamrocks lacrosse team in 1896...
  
  , Canadian athlete, businessman, ice hockey executive and Toronto politician
• Richard Quinn (disambiguation)
• Rob Quinn
  Rob Quinn
  Robert John "Rob" Quinn is an English-Irish footballer, currently playing for Sevenoaks. He plays as midfielder predominantly in the centre but can also play at centre back. He has represented the Republic of Ireland under-21's and Republic of Ireland B team.Quinn began his career at Crystal...
  
  , an Irish footballer
• Robert E. Quinn
  Robert E. Quinn
  Robert Emmet Quinn was an American politician and the 58th Governor of Rhode Island.Quinn was born on April 2, 1894 in Phenix, Rhode Island. He graduated from Brown University in 1915. He then completed his law degree from Harvard Law School in 1918.He became the Lieutenant Governor of Rhode...
  
  , an American politician and a former governor of Rhode Island
• Ruairi Quinn
  Ruairi Quinn
  Ruairi Quinn is an Irish Labour Party politician who has been Minister for Education and Skills since March 2011. He is currently a Teachta Dála for the Dublin South East constituency. He was Minister for Finance from 1994 to 1997, and leader of the Labour Party from 1997 to 2002.-Early...
  
  , Irish politician
• Sally Quinn
  Sally Quinn
  Sally Sterling Quinn is an American author and journalist, who writes about religion for a blog at The Washington Post.-Personal:...
  
  , American journalist and author
• Sean Francis Quinn, Anti-Treaty IRA office
• Susan Quinn
  Susan Quinn
  Susan Quinn is an award-winning writer of non-fiction books and articles. Born in 1940, she grew up in Chillicothe, Ohio, and graduated from Oberlin College. She began her writing career as a newspaper reporter on a suburban daily outside of Cleveland, following two years as an apprentice actor at...
  
  , American non-fiction writer
• Terry O'Quinn
  Terry O'Quinn
  Terry O'Quinn is an American actor, most famous for playing John Locke on the TV series Lost. He made his debut in a 1980 television movie called F.D.R.: The Last Year. Since then, O'Quinn has had minor supporting roles in films and TV movies such as Young Guns, All the Right Moves, Silver Bullet,...
  
   (born Quinn), American actor
• Wayne Quinn
  Wayne Quinn
  Wayne Quinn is an English ex-professional football player who played as a defender.He started his career at Sheffield United, breaking into their first team in 1997. In 2001 he was loaned to Newcastle United, who later purchased him for £800,000...
  
  , English footballer
• William F. Quinn
  William F. Quinn
  William Francis Quinn was the Governor of the Territory of Hawai'i from 1957 to 1959 and the Governor of the State of Hawai'i from 1959 to 1962. Originally appointed to the office by President Dwight D...
  
  , American politician

Given name

• Quinn Allman, American musician
• Quinn Buckner
  Quinn Buckner
  William Quinn Buckner, commonly known as Quinn Buckner is a former American professional basketball player and coach. He played collegiately at Indiana University, and was selected by the Milwaukee Bucks with the 7th pick of the 1976 NBA Draft...
  
  , American former basketball player
• Quinn Cummings
  Quinn Cummings
  Quinn Cummings is an American inventor, businesswoman, television and film actress, and author best known for her Oscar-nominated role in Neil Simon's The Goodbye Girl and her humorous memoir "Notes From The Underwire" She is currently working on a second book, "The Year of Learning Dangerously",...
  
  , child actress
• Quinn Martin
  Quinn Martin
  Quinn Martin was one of the most successful American television producers. He had at least one television series running in prime time for 21 straight years , an industry record.-Early life:...
  
  , television producer
• Quinn Norton
  Quinn Norton
  Quinn Norton is a Washington DC-based journalist, photographer and blogger covering hacker culture, intellectual property and copyright issues, and the Internet. Up until early 2009, she lived and worked in San Francisco, where she was married to journalist Danny O'Brien...
  
  , journalist, photographer and blogger
• Quinn Hunchar, child actress

Fictional

Surnames

• Daniel Quinn (City of Glass), the main character in Paul Auster's City of Glass, the first of three novels in The New York Trilogy
• Doctor Quentin Q. Quinn, a character on Sealab 2021
• Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman
  Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman
  Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman is an American post-Civil War western/drama series created by Beth Sullivan. Dr. Michaela "Mike" Quinn, played by Jane Seymour, left Boston in search of adventure. She goes to Colorado Springs, Colorado where she establishes herself as doctor/adviser.The show ran on CBS...
  
  , character on American television series of the same name
• Nathan Quinn, the main character of Christopher Moore's novel Fluke, or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings
  Fluke, or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings
  Fluke, or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings is the seventh novel by Christopher Moore. Published in 2003, it combines elements of absurdist and fantasy fiction, as well as the author's own brand of social commentary and humor...
  
  
• Eamon Quinn, a character in the second season of The Riches
  The Riches
  The Riches is an FX television series, which originally ran from March 15, 2007 to April 29, 2008, and starred Eddie Izzard and Minnie Driver.-History:...
  
  
• Harley Quinn
  Harley Quinn
  Harley Quinn was first introduced as a villain on September 11, 1992, in the animated series Batman: The Animated Series, later adapted into DC Comics' Batman comic books. As suggested by her name , she is clad in the manner of a traditional harlequin jester...
  
  , a supervillainess in Batman: The Animated Series
• John Quinn, a weretiger in The Southern Vampire Mysteries
  The Southern Vampire Mysteries
  The Southern Vampire Mysteries, also known as The Sookie Stackhouse Novels, is a series of books written by bestselling author Charlaine Harris that were first published in 2001 and now serve as the source material for the HBO television series True Blood...
  
   (Sookie Stackhouse series) by Charlaine Harris
• John Quinn "Quinn", a character from The Chosen, a book from the Night World
  Night World
  Night World is a series of ten young-adult fantasy novels by American author L. J. Smith. The series presents a story in which vampires, witches, werewolves and shape-shifters live among humans without their knowledge...
  
   series by L.J. Smith
• Jonas Quinn
  Jonas Quinn
  Jonas Quinn is a fictional character in the Canadian-American television series Stargate SG-1, a science fiction show about a military team exploring the galaxy via a network of alien transportation devices...
  
  , a character in the sci-fi series Stargate SG-1
• Tom Quinn (Spooks), the lead character in the British spy-thriller series Spooks
• Jude Quinn, one of six characters portraying Bob Dylan in "I'm Not There
  I'm Not There
  I'm Not There is a 2007 biographical musical film directed by Todd Haynes, inspired by iconic American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan. Six actors depict different facets of Dylan's life and public persona: Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Marcus Carl Franklin, Richard Gere, Heath Ledger, and Ben Whishaw...
  
  "
• Quinn, a fictional character on the American Daytime Soap Opera "Days of Our Lives"

Given names

• Quinn (Prison Break character), a character on the U.S. television series Prison Break
• Quinn Fabray
  Quinn Fabray
  Quinn Fabray is a fictional character from the Fox musical comedy-drama series Glee. The character is portrayed by actress Dianna Agron, and has appeared in Glee since its pilot episode, first broadcast on May 19, 2009. She is a former cheerleader at the fictional William McKinley High School in...
  
  , a character from Glee
• Quinn Mallory
  Quinn Mallory
  Quinn R. Mallory is a fictional character on the science fiction television show Sliders, played by Jerry O'Connell.-Childhood:Quinn was born in 1973 and raised in San Francisco, California, the son of Michael and Amanda Mallory...
  
  , a character on Sliders
• Quinn Morgendorffer
  Quinn Morgendorffer
  Quinn Morgendorffer is a fictional character on the MTV animated series Daria.-Background:Quinn is the younger sister of Daria and a freshman at Lawndale High School . At the age of 14½ years, Quinn was the chief nemesis for Daria for the bulk of the series...
  
  , a character on the TV show Daria
• Quinn Pensky, a character on the Nickelodeon live-action sitcom Zoey 101
• Quinn the Eskimo
  Quinn the Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn)
  "Quinn the Eskimo " is a folk-rock song written by Bob Dylan and first recorded during The Basement Tapes sessions in 1967. The song was first released in January 1968 as "Mighty Quinn" by the British band Manfred Mann and became a great success...
  
  , Eskimo character in the song The Mighty Quinn
• Quinn James, character on One Tree Hill
  One Tree Hill (TV series)
  One Tree Hill is an American television drama created by Mark Schwahn, which premiered on September 23, 2003, on The WB Television Network. After its third season, The WB merged with UPN to form The CW Television Network, and, since September 27, 2006, the network has been the official broadcaster...
  
  

Nicknames

• Tarquin Blackwood
  Tarquin Blackwood
  Tarquin Anthony "Quinn" Blackwood is a fictional character from The Vampire Chronicles series by Anne Rice. He initially featured in the novel Blackwood Farm and later in Blood Canticle.-Description:...
  
   ("Quinn" Blackwood), a character in The Vampire Chronicles series by Anne Rice

Other uses

• University College Dublin
  University College Dublin
  University College Dublin ) - formally known as University College Dublin - National University of Ireland, Dublin is the Republic of Ireland's largest, and Ireland's second largest, university, with over 1,300 faculty and 17,000 students...
  
   Quinn School of Business
• Quinn, Michigan
  Quinn, Michigan
  The former settlement of Quinn, Michigan, was once located in Clinton Township, Macomb County, Michigan on Gratiot past mile marker 16.-History:...
  
  , United States, a ghost town
• Quinn, South Dakota
  Quinn, South Dakota
  Quinn is a town in Pennington County, South Dakota, United States. The population was 54 at the 2010 census. The town is the home of the Badlands Observatory.-Geography:Quinn is located at ....
  
  , United States, a town in Pennington County