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Quantrill or Quantrell is a surname of English origin. Notable people with the surname include:

Alfred Edward Quantrill was an English footballer. Born in RawalPindi, Punjab, India where his father was based on military service, he played on either wing and appeared four times for the England national team.

Cal Paul Quantrill is a Canadian professional baseball pitcher for the San Diego Padres of Major League Baseball (MLB).

Malcolm Quantrill was a British architect, academic and architecture theorist. His best known books are The Environmental Memory – Man and Architecture in the Landscape of Ideas (1986) and Finnish Architecture and the Modernist Tradition (1998). He was a specialist in the history of the modern architecture of Finland. He was the first person to write critical monographs in any language on three individual Finnish modernist architects, Alvar Aalto – Alvar Aalto: A Critical Study (1983) – Reima Pietilä – Reima Pietilä: Architecture, Context, Modernism (1985) – and Juha Leiviskä – Juha Leiviska and the Continuity of Finnish Modern Architecture (2001). Already during his lifetime, he acquired a reputation for thorough and innovative scholarship in architecture, bringing a questioning attitude to well-known figures and canonical architectural history.


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