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Professor Bernard Quatermass, a fictional scientist of British TV and film.
The character was played by several actors from from 1953 up to 2005.

Reginald Tate portraying Prof. Quatermass.
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[ CQ from googling: Charles Qualey (1933-2016), American engineer or something. ]
 
 
Dennis Quaid (b. 1954), American actor.
 
 
After EQ there's a big gap for me; actually KQ is the next one I can think of.


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Eça de Queiroz (1845 - 1900).
Portuguese writer, a giant in the realist style. He's probably the most knwon Portuguese writer after Camoens and Fernando Pessoa,

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Not posting FQ or GQ of unknown persons found by name googling. Actually also this one I found by googling, but I at least I've read a novel by his son. Embarrassed
 
 
Henri Queffélec (1910 – 1992), French writer and screenwriter, considered a great maritime novelist.
 
 
 
 
 The KQ I'm thinking of is an actress who has acted for example astronaut's wife. 
After that I'll have a gap until P, R and S. Hopefully we won't be stuck for a very long time in Q - gaps are all right!
Also feel free to give hints for certain challenging initials. Tongue
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Ingmar Quant (aka IQ)

Character from the mid-1970s Dutch youth television series Q & Q (middle).




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Kathleen Quinlan (b. 1954), American film and television actress. Above, I referred to her role in this film:
 
 
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Q is not a great problem for those from Portugal, Spain & Latin America: lots of Queiroz, Quevedo, Quintana, Quental, Quiroga, etc.

Liliana Queiroz (b. 1985).
Portuguese model. Not historical but pictorial.



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Mary Quant (b. 1930)

Welsh fashion designer

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Nairo Quintana (b. 1990).
Outstanding Colombian cyclist. 

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Oliver Queen (b. 1985), fictional character in the television series Arrow (2012 - ).
 
 
Actually I googled, I'm not familiar with Arrow. But I just found out my idea for PQ was false: the detective story writer is Quentin Patrick, not Patrick Quentin. Embarrassed 
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I found him googling and thought he was an interesting character to be shown here.

Peter McQueen (1780 - 1820).
Native American chief, mixed blood Irish father and Creek mother, who fought white settlers in the Creek War (1813 - 1814) and later in the First Seminole War (1816 - 1818). 



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(Skipping QQ.)
 
Raymond Queneau (1903 – 1976), French novelist, poet, critic and editor.
His Exercises of Style (1947) is hilarious, telling the same short and insignificant chain of happenings in 99 different ways!
 
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Steve McQueen (1930 - 1980)

American actor

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Thomas De Quincey (1785 – 1859), English essayist, best known for his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821).
 
 
My next one will be Y.Q.
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Skipping UQ and regretting JQ (John Quincy Adams, Jânio Quadros).

Valérie Quenessen (1957 - 1989).
French actress well known for her role in the film Summer Lovers (1982).



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William B. Quandt (b. 1941)

American professor of political science

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Xiaolong Qiu

Qiu Xiaolong (Chinese裘小龙/ˈ ˌʃˈlɒŋ/; born Shanghai, China, 1953)  is an English-languagepoetliterary translatorcrime novelistcritic, and academicwho has lived for many years in St. Louis, Missouri. He originally visited the United States in 1988 to write a book about T. S. Eliot, but following the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, he remained in America to avoid persecution by the Communist Party of China.

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Yann Queffélec (b. 1949), French author who won the Prix Goncourt in 1985 for his novel Les Noces barbares (The Wedding).
 
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Zainab Qayyum (b. 1975).
Pakistani model, actress and TV host.

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We really had a surprisingly good chain of Q's!
 
 
Auguste Rodin (1840 – 1917), French sculptor. Famous works include The Gates of Hell, The Kiss and The Thinker.
 
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