Quint (name) explained

Quint is a surname and a masculine given name. It may refer to:

Surname:

• Deron Quint (born 1976), American ice hockey player, formerly in the National Hockey League
• Jean-François Quint, French mathematician
• Michel Quint (born 1948), French writer
• Misha Quint (born 1960), Russian-born classical cellist and music director
• Olivier Quint (born 1971), French footballer and football coach
• Philippe Quint, Russian-American classical violinist
• Tracy Quint, American politician

Given name:

• Arthur Quentin Quint Davis (born 1947), American festival producer and director
• Quint Kessenich (born 1967), American sportscaster
• Pieter Philips Jurriaan Quint Ondaatje (1758-1818), Dutch politician

Fictional characters:

• Quint, a professional shark hunter in Peter Benchley's novel Jaws, as well as the film adaptation
• Quinton Chamberlain, in the American soap opera Guiding Light
• Quint (Mega Man), an evil robot in the Mega Man game series
• Quint, a shipwright in the series of novels Spider Riders
• Peter Quint, a principal character in the novel The Turn of the Screw

See also

• Catherine Guy-Quint, a French politician
• Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (1500-1558), also known as Charles Quint, ruler of the Spanish Empire and the Holy Roman Empire