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.

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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

Products

 * Quackenbush rifle