title: Quill (surname)
text: # Quill (surname)
  
  Quill or Quille is an anglicised version of the Irish surname " Ó Cuill" Coll, Coill, and O'Coill (Ó Coill), all of which mean wood, forest or shrub Hazel Tree. The Coill clan are believed to be a bardic family from Munster, particularly Kerry and Cork. The Irish surname has also been Anglicised as Woods. Notable people with the surname include:
  
  * Alf Quill, Australian athlete
  * Declan Quill, Irish Gaelic footballer
  * Eric Quill (b. 1978), American soccer player
  * Erin Quill, American actress
  * Gene Quill (1927–1988), American musician
  * Greg Quill, Australian musician
  * Jeffrey Quill (1913–1996), British aviator and author
  * John Quill, Irish rugby player
  * John Quill, pseudonym of Charles Heber Clark
  * Kid Quill, stage name of American musician Mitchell Quilleon Brown
  * Máirín Quill (b. 1936), Irish politician
  * Michael D. Quill Sr. (b. 1949), mayor of Auburn, NY
  * Mike Quill, one of the founders of the Transport Workers Union of America (TWU), a subway workers union
  * Peter Quill (footballer) (b. 1969), Australian athlete
  * Timothy Quill, Irish politician
  * Timothy E. Quill, American physician
  
  ## Fictional characters
  
  * Peter Quill, birth name of Star-Lord, a superhero from Marvel Comics
  * Quill, codename of Maxwell Jordan, a character from X-Men comics
  