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/German spy who allegedly was responsible for the death of Field Marshal Kitchener in 1916
- Duquesne Spy Ring
- 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 (c. 1700–1778), Governor General of New France (in present-day Canada)
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