Quinten Hann
| Born | 4 June 1977 |
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| Sport country |
 Australia
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| Nickname | The Wizard of Oz |
| Professional | 1995–2006 |
| Highest ranking | 14 (2002–2004) |
| Career winnings | GB£432,600 |
| Highest break | 143 (Grand Prix 1997) |
| Best ranking finish | Semi-final: Irish Masters (2004) |
Quinten Hann (born 4 June 1977) is an Australian former professional snooker player who now plays professional pool. He was the 1999 WEPF World Eight-ball Champion and 1994 world under 21 champion. His highest break is 143. He was given an eight-year ban from snooker in February 2006.
Hann was ranked in the top 16 for two seasons (2002–2003 and 2003–2004), ranked at No. 14 for both seasons. He reached the quarter-finals of several ranking tournaments and the semi-final of the 2004 Irish Masters.
He missed several ranking events after breaking his wrist and collar bone whilst motorcycle racing in 1999. He also broke his foot in a parachute jump in 2000, and was forced to play shoeless in the UK Championship.
At the 2004 World Championships, he was rebuked for making threatening comments to Andy Hicks when he lost 10–4 to the unseeded outsider. After Hann had made offensive gestures and remarks throughout the match, Hicks commented at the end that the result would put Hann outside the top 16 (which it did). Following the acrimony over this defeat Hann challenged Hicks to a fight. In the event fellow snooker player Mark King stood in for Hicks at a charity boxing match with Hann which the latter won. Hann also fought Dublin GAA player, Johnny Magee, in a charity boxing match in Dublin in September 2004 after Hann suggested that Gaelic footballers were not as robust as Australia rules footballers; but he had his nose broken, with Magee winning in three rounds.
In the 2005 World Championship Hann was forced to play with a new cue after his original cue was lost after the China Open earlier that year. The original cue was eventually retrieved just before the World Championship but was found to be damaged and unusable. Having borrowed a friend's cue, he decided against practising, and instead went out drinking. He played his first round match against Peter Ebdon hungover, and rather predictably lost the match by 10 frames to 2. When asked about the defeat to Ebdon, Hann said: "I intended to go out for a few beers but when the cue wasn't there I went out for a lot of beers. I had a hangover, and the migraine kicked in during the second session. By the end, I was in bits."
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