Quesnel or Quesnell means "little oak" in the Picard dialect of French. It is used as a proper name and may refer to:
Places Le Quesnel, a commune the Somme department in France Quesnel, British Columbia, a city in British Columbia, Canada Quesnel Forks, British Columbia, a ghost town in British Columbia, Canada Quesnell Heights, Edmonton, a neighbourhood in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Geographical features Quesnel Lake Quesnel River Quesnel Highland
People Adam Quesnell (born 1981/1982), American stand-up comedian Chantal Quesnel (born 1971), Canadian actress Désiré Quesnel (1843–1915), French wood-engraver François Quesnel (1543–1619), 16th-century French artist François Jean Baptiste Quesnel (1768–1819), French general under Napoleon Frédéric-Auguste Quesnel (1785–1866) Canadian lawyer and politician Joseph Quesnel (1746–1809), Canadian operatic composer/playwright Jules-Maurice Quesnel (1786–1842), Canadian fur-trader and politician Pasquier Quesnel (1634–1719), French Jansenist theologian Peter Quesnel (or Quesuel) (d. 1299?), Franciscan Pierre Quesnel (1502–1580), 16th-century French artist, worked in Scotland Pooky Quesnel (born 1966), English actress Yannick Quesnel (born 1973), French retired footballer
Other Quesnel (sternwheeler) Quesnell Bridge, in Edmonton AB, Canada, over North Saskatchewan River
See also Quensel, a superficially similar surname, but of Swedish extraction