title: Duplessis (surname)
text: # Duplessis (surname)
  
  Duplessis is a French surname. Notable people with the name include:
  
  * Georges Duplessis, a French art historian
  * Jerry Duplessis, a composer and record producer
  * José María Imbert Duplessis (1798–1847), a French-born Dominican Republic independence war commandant and national hero
  * Joseph Duplessis, a French painter
  * Lucile Duplessis, a French Revolutionary figure, wife of Camille Desmoulins
  * Marie Duplessis, a French courtesan and mistress
  * Maurice Duplessis (1890-1959), a premier of Québec in the mid twentieth century
  * Rachel Blau DuPlessis (b. 1941), an American poet and editor of George Oppen's Selected Letters
  * Thomas Duplessis (born Thomas-Antoine de Mauduit du Plessis) (1753–1791), a French officer who fought with the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War
  