Colby most often refers to:
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Colby (given name)
Colby is a given name.
Notable people with the given name "Colby" include
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*Colby Armstrong (born 1982), Canadian ice hockey player
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* Colbie Bell (born 1971), American wrestler
*Colby Bishop (born 1996), English footballer
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Colby (surname)
Colby is a surname.
Notable people with the surname "Colby" include
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*Abram Colby, American slave
* Anita Colby (1914–1972), American actress
* Anthony Colby (1792–1873), American politician
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*Bainbridge Colby (1869–1950), American pol ...
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Colby cheese
Colby is a semi-hard orange cheese made from cow's milk. It is named after the city of Colby, Wisconsin, US, where it was first developed in 1885 and quickly became popular.
Colby is manufactured in a similar process as cheddar cheese. Instea ...
(originally 'Colby Cheddar'), a type of cheese made from cow's milk
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Colby-Jack, a mixture of Colby and Monterey Jack cheeses
Colby may also refer to:
Places
Europe
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Colby, Cumbria
Colby is a village and civil parish in the Eden district of the English county of Cumbria. It is near the village of Bolton to the north and the town of Appleby-in-Westmorland
Appleby-in-Westmorland is a market town and civil parish in th ...
, UK
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Colby, Norfolk, UK
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Colby Woodland Garden
Colby Woodland Garden is a National Trust woodland garden in a secluded valley, approximately ¾ of a mile north of Amroth in Pembrokeshire, Wales.
Extent
The woodland, meadow and walled gardens are approximately with plants such as azaleas, ...
, Pembrokeshire, UK
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Colby, Isle of Man
Colby ( gv, Colby) is a small village in the south of the Isle of Man in the parish of Arbory. It lies on the A7 road between the towns of Castletown and Port Erin and close to the similarly sized village of Ballabeg.
History and facilities
T ...
United States
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Colby, Kansas
Colby is a city in and the county seat of Thomas County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 5,570.
History
In 1882, a post office was established near the center of Thomas County. Area homesteaders li ...
, a city in Kansas
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Colby, Ohio Colby is an unincorporated community in Sandusky County, in the U.S. state of Ohio.
History
A post office called Colby was established in 1884, and remained in operation until 1905. Besides the post office, Colby had a station on the Nickel Plate ...
, an unincorporated community
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Colby, Wisconsin, a city in Wisconsin
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Colby (town), Wisconsin, a town in Clark County
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South Colby, Washington
South Colby is an unincorporated community in Kitsap County, Washington, United States. It is located on Yukon Harbor, west of the Southworth Ferry Dock. From there, a ferry is available to Fauntleroy in the West Seattle neighborhood of Seattl ...
, an unincorporated community
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Colby College
Colby College is a Private college, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Waterville, Maine. It was founded in 1813 as the Maine Literary and Theological Institution, then renamed Waterville College after the ...
, a liberal arts college located in Waterville, Maine
Geography
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Colby Lake (Chisago County, Minnesota)
Colby Lake is a lake in Chisago County, Minnesota, in the United States.
Colby Lake was named for an early settler.
See also
* List of lakes in Minnesota
References
Lakes of Minnesota
Lakes of Chisago County, Minnesota
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Colby Lake (Washington County, Minnesota)
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Colby Mountain (Tuolumne County, California) Colby Mountain is a summit in Tuolumne County, California, in the United States. With an elevation of , Colby Mountain is the 644th highest summit in the state of California.
Colby Mountain was named for William Edward Colby, first Secretary of t ...
Culture
* ''Colby'', a Franco-Belgian comic series from Michel Blanc-Dumont and
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Television
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The Colbys
''The Colbys'' (originally titled ''Dynasty II: The Colbys'') is an American prime time television soap opera that originally aired on ABC from November 20, 1985, to March 26, 1987. Created by Richard and Esther Shapiro and Eileen and Robert ...
'', the TV series, aired from 1985 until 1987 on ABC
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Colby's Clubhouse'', the Christian TV series, aired from 1984 until 2000 on Trinity Broadcasting Network
Other uses
* Colby, the ball in
Bando (sport)
Bando is a team sport – related to field hockey, hurling, shinty, and bandy – which was first recorded in Wales in the eighteenth century.
A bando game is played on a large level field between teams of up to thirty players each of them equippe ...
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Colby Nolan, a cat
* The Colby meteorite of 1917, which fell in Wisconsin, United States (see
meteorite falls
A meteorite fall, also called an observed fall, is a meteorite collected after its fall from outer space was observed by people or automated devices. Any other meteorite is called a " find". There are more than 1,100 documented falls listed in ...
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See also
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Colby High School (disambiguation)
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Cobe (disambiguation)
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Coby (disambiguation)
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Colbie
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Kobe (disambiguation)
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Kobi (disambiguation) Kobi or KOBI may refer to:
* Kobi (given name), including a list of people with the name
* Kobi, a colour, a variation of Red-violet#Kobi, red-violet
* Kobi, Georgia, a village
* Kobi Line, a railway in North Korea
* Kobi Station, a railway station ...
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Kolby
Kolby is a former parish of the Church of Denmark on Samsø island.
In 2004, it had 550 inhabitants, 492 of them being members of the church.
In 2014, all parishes on that island have been merged in one.
Samsø_municipality_Kolby_sogn.svg, Th ...
, place in Denmark
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