Dumesnil Explained

Dumesnil (pronounced as /fr/; "from the cottage") is a French surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• Bryan Dumesnil (born 1983), Canadian pitcher
• Cheryl Dumesnil (born 1969), American poet and editor
• Louis Gaulard Dumesnil (died 1702), French operatic tenor
• Marie Dumesnil (1713–1803), French actress
• Pierre Louis Dumesnil (1698–1781), French painter who specialized in genre scenes
• Suzanne Dechevaux-Dumesnil (1900–1989), tennis-partner, lover and later wife of Samuel Beckett
• Jacques Dumesnil (1904–1998), French film and television actor
• Jacques-Louis Dumesnil (1882–1956), French politician

See also

• Peterson-Dumesnil House, a Victorian-Italianate house in the Crescent Hill neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky, United States
• Saint-Pierre-du-Mesnil, a commune in the Eure department in Haute-Normandie in northern France
• Dumesny