Marquis (disambiguation)
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Marquis is the French spelling of the title known in German as a Markgraf. The English equivalent is Marquess (also spelled "Marquis") or Margrave.
[edit] People known by the title Marquis
- Marquis of Elbeuf
- Marquis de Sade
- Marquis of Pombal
- Marquis de Condorcet
- Marquis de la Fayette
- Marquis de Custine
- Marquis de Carabas
- Marquis de Louvois
- Marquis of Beixiang of Han China
- Marquis de Laplace Pierre Simon
- Marquis de Montcalm
- Marquis of Granby
- Marquis de Fremeur
[edit] People named Marquis
- Don Marquis was a writer, poet, and journalist
- Jason Marquis is a Major League Baseball pitcher
- André Marquis, French admiral responsible for the Scuttling of the French fleet in Toulon
[edit] Other uses
- Marquis Miami, a skyscraper in Miami, Florida
- Marquis Who’s Who is a biographical publisher
- Marquis des Baux is a small village in southern France
- Marquis reagent is used as a simple spot-test to identify alkaloids
- Marquis is a type of wheat developed for use in Canada. It grows and ripens 200 miles farther north in Canada than other kinds of wheat
- Marquis is the title of a fetish magazine
- BT Marquis is a telephone switchboard PBX
- The Marquis / Grand Marquis was/is a luxury sedan sold by Mercury
- Marquis is a hamlet in Saskatchewan Canada
- Marquis (comic book)