Quill (surname)
# Quill (surname)

Quill or Quille is an anglicised version of the Irish surname " Ó Cuill" Coll, Coill, and O'Coill (Ó Coill), all of which mean wood, forest or shrub Hazel Tree. The Coill clan are believed to be a bardic family from Munster, particularly Kerry and Cork. The Irish surname has also been Anglicised as Woods. Notable people with the surname include:

* Alf Quill, Australian athlete
* Declan Quill, Irish Gaelic footballer
* Eric Quill (b. 1978), American soccer player
* Erin Quill, American actress
* Gene Quill (1927–1988), American musician
* Greg Quill, Australian musician
* Jeffrey Quill (1913–1996), British aviator and author
* John Quill, Irish rugby player
* John Quill, pseudonym of Charles Heber Clark
* Kid Quill, stage name of American musician Mitchell Quilleon Brown
* Máirín Quill (b. 1936), Irish politician
* Michael D. Quill Sr. (b. 1949), mayor of Auburn, NY
* Mike Quill, one of the founders of the Transport Workers Union of America (TWU), a subway workers union
* Peter Quill (footballer) (b. 1969), Australian athlete
* Timothy Quill, Irish politician
* Timothy E. Quill, American physician

## Fictional characters

* Peter Quill, birth name of Star-Lord, a superhero from Marvel Comics
* Quill, codename of Maxwell Jordan, a character from X-Men comics
