Quackenbush

Quackenbush is a surname of Dutch origin that is an Americanized form of the Dutch Quackenbosch. It is a toponymic surname from the Dutch kwak 'night heron' + bosch 'woodland wilderness'. The surname Quackenbosch is no longer found in the Netherlands. The family descends from 17th-century immigrant to New Netherland Pieter Pieterzoon Quackenbosch.

Notable people with the surname include:

• Alvin J. Quackenbush, American merchant and politician from New York
• Bill Quackenbush, Canadian professional hockey player
• Chuck Quackenbush, American politician from California; state insurance commissioner and state assemblyman
• Dave Quackenbush, American punk rock singer
• Henry Quackenbush, American industrialist
• John A. Quackenbush, American politician from New York; U.S. representative 1888–1893
• John Quackenbush, American computational biologist and genome scientist
• Justin Lowe Quackenbush, American jurist
• Kevin Quackenbush, American baseball player
• Max Quackenbush, Canadian professional hockey player
• Mike Quackenbush, American professional wrestler
• Robert Quackenbush, American children's author
• Robert Quackenbush (politician), American politician from Wisconsin
• Sandra Quackenbush, American virologist
• Professor Quackenbush, a fictional adult character by Sloan Fischer in Kidsongs: Very Silly Songs

• Quackenbush rifle

• Herman I. Quackenboss, New York politician

Surname list

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