Colin Campbell may refer to:

Scottish history

Cailean Mór Cailean Mór Caimbeul (also known as Sir Colin Campbell; died after 1296) is one of the earliest attested members of Clan Campbell and an important ancestor figure of the later medieval Earls of Argyll. Cailean was the son of Gilleasbaig, a knigh ...

(died after 1296), also known as Sir Colin Campbell, or "Colin the Great" *

Sir Colin Og Campbell of Lochawe Sir Colin Og Campbell of Lochawe (died 1340 at Locale Argyle), also known as Cailean Óg Caimbeul, Sir Colyn Cambel, Colin the Young, and Coline Oig Campbell, was an early member of Clan Campbell and Patrilineality, patrilineal ancestor of ...

(died before 1343), Lord of Lochawe *

Colin Campbell (Swedish East India Company) Colin Campbell (1November 16869May 1757) was a Scottish merchant and entrepreneur who co-founded the Swedish East India Company and was Swedish King Frederick I of Sweden, Fredrik I's first Envoy (title), envoy to the Emperor of China. Early li ...

(1686–1757), Scottish merchant and founder of the Swedish East India Company *Colin Roy Campbell of Glenure (c. 1708–1752), also known as the "Red Fox", killed in the

Appin Murder The Appin Murder () was the assassination of Colin Roy Campbell, the Clan Campbell tacksman of Glenure, on 14 May 1752 near Appin in the west of Scotland. The murder occurred in the aftermath of the Jacobite Rising of 1745 and led to the exe ...

, subject of ''Kidnapped'' by Robert Louis Stevenson *Sir

Colin Campbell, 1st Baron Clyde Field Marshal Colin Campbell, 1st Baron Clyde, (20 October 1792– 14 August 1863), was a British Army officer. After serving in the Peninsular War and the War of 1812, he commanded the 98th Regiment of Foot during the First Opium War and then ...

(1792–1863), Scottish soldier

Scottish nobility

Colin Campbell, 1st Earl of Argyll Colin Campbell, 1st Earl of Argyll (c. 1433 – 10 May 1493) was a medieval Scottish nobleman, peer, and politician. He was the son of Archibald Campbell, Master of Campbell and Elizabeth Somerville, daughter of John Somerville, 3rd Lord ...

(c. 1433–1493), Scottish nobleman *

Colin Campbell, 3rd Earl of Argyll Colin Campbell, 3rd Earl of Argyll (c. 1486 – 9 October 1529) was a Scottish nobleman and soldier. He was also known as "Cailen Malloch". Life Colin Campbell was the son of Archibald Campbell, 2nd Earl of Argyll and Lady Elizabeth Stuart ...

(c. 1486–1535), Scottish nobleman and soldier *

Colin Campbell, 6th Earl of Argyll Colin Campbell, 6th Earl of Argyll (c. 1542– October 1584) was a Scottish nobleman and politician. He was appointed to the Lord Chancellorship of Scotland. Biography He was the eldest son of Archibald Campbell, 4th Earl of Argyll and his seco ...

(1541/46–1584), Scottish nobleman and politician *

Sir Colin Campbell, 2nd Baronet Sir Colin Campbell of Glenorchy (c.1577–1640) was a Scottish nobleman, 8th Laird of Glenorchy, known as a patron of the arts. He was the son of Duncan Campbell of Glenorchy and Lady Jane Stewart, a daughter of John Stewart, 4th Earl of Atholl ...

(1577–1640), Scottish nobleman *

Sir Colin Campbell, 1st Baronet, of Lundie Sir Colin Campbell of Lundie, 1st Baronet (died c. 1650) was a Scottish noble. He was the son of Colin Campbell of Lundie, who was youngest son of Colin Campbell, 6th Earl of Argyll. Sir Colin was created a baronet in 1627.Anderson, William"The S ...

(died c. 1650), Scottish noble *

Colin Campbell, 7th Earl Cawdor Colin Robert Vaughan Campbell, 7th Earl Cawdor, DL (born 30 June 1962), is a Scottish peer and architect. He is also known for having had legal issues with his stepmother Countess Cawdor. He is the elder son and third child of Hugh John Vaughan C ...

(born 1962), Scottish earl and architect *

Lord Colin Campbell Lord Colin Campbell (9 March 1853 – 18 June 1895) was a Scottish Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1878 to 1885. Campbell was the fifth son of George Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll, and his wife Lady Elizabeth Georgiana, ...

(1853–1895), MP, younger son of eighth Duke of Argyll

Politics and law

Colin Campbell (probate judge) Colin Campbell (June 1752 – July 1834) was a Scottish-born lawyer, probate judge, official and political officer in Nova Scotia. He represented Shelburne Township in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1793 to 1818. He was born in Inver ...

(1752–1834), lawyer, probate judge, customs official in Nova Scotia *Sir

Colin Campbell (British Army officer, born 1776) Colin Campbell may refer to: Scottish history *Cailean Mór (died after 1296), also known as Sir Colin Campbell, or "Colin the Great" * Sir Colin Og Campbell of Lochawe (died before 1343), Lord of Lochawe *Colin Campbell (Swedish East India Compan ...

(1776–1847), Governor of Nova Scotia and Ceylon *

Colin Campbell (Nova Scotia politician) Colin Campbell (August 7, 1822 – June 25, 1881) was a merchant, ship owner, ship builder and political figure in Nova Scotia, Canada. He represented Digby County in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1859 to 1867 and from 1874 to 1878. ...

(1822–1881), merchant and politician in Nova Scotia, American *

Colin H. Campbell Colin H. Campbell (25 December 1859 – October 24, 1914) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba as a Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba, Conservative from 1899 to 1914, and was a ca ...

(1859–1914), provincial cabinet minister in Manitoba, Canada *

Colin Campbell (Ontario politician) Colin Alexander "Collie" Campbell (17 January 1901 – 25 December 1978) was a Canadian mining engineer, politician and curling administrator. Campbell was the president of the International Curling Federation from 1968 to 1978 and served as a ...

(1901–1978), Canadian politician, Member of Parliament, president of the International Curling Federation *

Colin Campbell (Scottish politician) Colin McIver Campbell (born 31 August 1938) is a Scottish politician and military historian. He was a Scottish National Party (SNP) Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for West of Scotland region from 1999 to 2003. Campbell is a former hist ...

(born 1938), former Member of the Scottish Parliament *

Colin Campbell, Lord Malcolm Colin Malcolm Campbell, Lord Malcolm (born 1953) is a Scotland, Scottish lawyer, and a Senator of the College of Justice, a judge of the country's College of Justice, Supreme Courts. Early life Campbell was educated at Grove Academy, a state s ...

(born 1953), Scottish judge *

Colin Minton Campbell Colin Minton Campbell, of Woodseat in Staffordshire, was a British businessman and Member of Parliament. On his death of his uncle Herbert Minton in 1858, Colin Minton Campbell took over leadership of the family company Mintons, a leading firm m ...

(1827–1885), British Member of Parliament for North Staffordshire * Colin P. Campbell (1877–1956), former Speaker of the Michigan House of Representatives *

Colin Campbell (Australian politician) Colin Campbell (21 January 1817 – 28 November 1903) was a pastoralist and politician in colonial Victoria, a member of the Victorian Legislative Council, and later, the Victorian Legislative Assembly. Early life Campbell was born in Glasgow, ...

(1817–1903), pastoralist and politician in colonial Victoria

Education and academia

Colin Campbell (lawyer) Sir Colin Murray Campbell (26 December 1944 – 20 May 2022) was a Scottish academic lawyer who was vice-chancellor of the University of Nottingham from 1988 to 2008.Colin G. Campbell Colin Goetze Campbell (born November 3, 1935) is an American who served as the thirteenth president of Wesleyan University and the President of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. Early life He is the son of Jos ...

(born 1935), American educator, president of Wesleyan University *

T. Colin Campbell Thomas Colin Campbell (born March 14, 1934) is an American biochemist who specializes in the effect of nutrition on long-term health. He is the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor Emeritus of Nutritional Biochemistry at Cornell University. Campbell ...

(born 1934), American biochemist and nutritionist

Science

Colin Campbell (geologist) Colin J. Campbell (24 July 1931 – 13 November 2022) was a British petroleum geologist who predicted that oil production would peak by 2007. He claimed the consequences of this are uncertain but drastic, due to the world's dependency on fossil ...

(1931–2022), British petroleum geologist *

Colin Campbell (astronomer) Colin Campbell (died 26 January 1752) was a Scottish astronomer. He grew up in Jamaica and died there in Kingston in 1752. He matriculated at Glasgow University, in 1720. He was invested as a fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1733. He stud ...

(died 1752), Scottish astronomer

Sport

Colin Campbell (Australian sportsman) Colin Mansfield Campbell (13 August 1872 – 3 April 1907) was an Australian rules footballer who played for Essendon Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL) and a first-class cricketer, representing Tasmania. Family The younges ...

(1872–1907), Medical doctor, Australian footballer for Essendon and cricketer *

Colin Campbell (footballer, born 1883) Colin Campbell (20 February 1883 – 23 May 1972) was a footballer who played international football for both Argentina and Chile. Campbell played club football for Santiago National and was a Chilean squad member at the Copa Centenario Revoluci� ...

(active in 1907–1910), footballer for both Argentina and Chile *

Colin Campbell (footballer, born 1918) Colin Campbell (2 January 1918 – 18 October 2003) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Collingwood in the Victorian Football League The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules football league in Australia s ...

(1918–2003), Australian footballer for Collingwood *

Colin Campbell (footballer, born 1956) Colin Campbell (born 1 December 1956) is a Scottish retired footballer who played as a midfielder. He played in the Scottish Football League for Hibernian, Dundee United, Airdrieonians and Meadowbank Thistle. Career Campbell was born on the is ...

, Scottish association football player *

Colin Campbell (cricketer, born 1977) Colin Campbell (born 11 August 1977) was an English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-fast bowler who played for Durham. Campbell played twice for Durham, making his debut in 1996. He has appeared in five Youth Test ...

, English cricketer *

Colin Campbell (cricketer, born 1884) Colin Campbell (1884 – 3 February 1966) was a Scottish-born New Zealand cricketer who played two matches of first-class cricket in 1921 and 1922. Campbell was a wicket-keeper who batted at number eleven. He played his first first-class match ...

(1884–1966), Scottish-born New Zealand cricketer *

Colin Campbell (field hockey) Colin Herbert Campbell (4 November 1887 – 25 August 1955) was a British field hockey player who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics The 1920 Summer Olympics (french: Jeux olympiques d'été de 1920; nl, Olympische Zomerspelen van ...

(1887–1955), British Olympic field hockey player *

Colin Campbell (ice hockey, born 1953) Colin John Campbell (born January 28, 1953) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman, coach and the former Senior Vice President and current Executive Vice President and Director of Hockey Operations for the National Hockey Leagu ...

, Canadian ice hockey player, coach and executive *

Colin Campbell (ice hockey, born 1991) Colin Campbell (born April 17, 1991) is a Canadian professional ice hockey Winger (ice hockey), winger for Kunlun Red Star of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). He won the Calder Cup in the American Hockey League (AHL) with the Grand Rapids G ...

, Canadian professional ice hockey player *

Colin Campbell (Olympian) Colin William Ashburner Campbell (born 20 June 1946) is a British sportsman, who competed in track and field athletics and in the bobsled. He competed for Great Britain in the 1968 and 1972 Summer Olympics, before moving to bobsled and competing ...

(born 1946), British Olympian who competed in both the Summer and Winter Olympic games (track and field and bobsleigh)

Arts

Colen Campbell Colen Campbell (15 June 1676 – 13 September 1729) was a pioneering Scottish architect and architectural writer, credited as a founder of the Georgian style. For most of his career, he resided in Italy and England. As well as his architectural ...

(1676–1729), Scottish neo-Palladian architect *

Colin Campbell (director) James Colin Campbell (11 October 1859 – 26 August 1928) was a Scottish-born film director, actor and screenwriter. He directed more than 170 films between 1911 and 1924. He also wrote for 60 films between 1911 and 1922. He was born in Scot ...

(1859–1928), Scottish-born film director, writer, actor and producer *

Colin Campbell (artist) Colin Campbell (1942–2001) was a Canadian video artist. Life Colin Campbell was born in Reston, Manitoba, 1942. Based in Toronto since 1973, Campbell produced over 45 tapes. He received his BFA from the University of Manitoba (gold medal) ...

(1942–2001), Canadian artist *

Lady Colin Campbell Georgia Arianna, Lady Colin Campbell (''née'' Ziadie, born 17 August 1949), also known as Lady C, is a British Jamaican author, socialite, and television personality who has published seven books about the British royal family. They include b ...

(born 1949), Jamaican-born British writer and biographer *

Colin Campbell (actor) Colin Campbell (17 January 1937 – 1 March 2018) was an English actor. Life His best-known role was the lead in ''The Leather Boys'' in 1964, in which he plays a bored married man who starts hanging out with a biker friend—who, he belatedly ...

(1937–2018), English actor

Others

Colin Campbell (murderer) Colin Frederick Campbell (born 16 September 1947) is a British double murderer who in the early 1980s abducted two random women in west London and killed them in sexually motivated attacks. In 2013, 32 years after the event, Campbell was convicte ...

(born 1946 or 1947), British double murderer, convicted of the cold case 1981 murder of Claire Woolterton in 2013 *

Colin Campbell, 1st Baron Colgrain Colin Frederick Campbell, 1st Baron Colgrain (13 June 1866 – 3 November 1954), was a British banker. He was educated at Eton College. He was President of the British Bankers' Association from 1938 to 1946 and was also a Director of the Nationa ...

(1866–1954), British banker *

Colin Campbell (Canadian bishop) Colin Campbell (July 12, 1931 – January 17, 2012) was a Roman Catholic bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada. On 26 May 1956 he was ordained a priest in Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia, Halifax and ...

(1931–2012), Catholic bishop of Antigonish *

Colin Campbell (New Zealand bishop) Colin David Campbell (born 21 September 1941) is a New Zealand Roman Catholic bishop. He was the bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Dunedin from 2004 to 2018. He was born in Otautau, Southland and educated at St Therese's Convent School in I ...

(born 1941), Catholic bishop of Dunedin *Sir

Colin Campbell (British Army officer, born 1754) Lieutenant General Colin Campbell (1754–1814) was Lieutenant Governor of Gibraltar. Military career Campbell was commissioned into the 71st Regiment of Foot in 1771 and then transferred to the 6th Regiment of Foot in 1783. In 1796 he went t ...

(1754–1814), British Army general * Colin Campbell (entrepreneur), Canadian 21st century serial Internet entrepreneur *Colin Campbell, first Major-Commandant of the 100th Regiment of Foot * Colin Campbell (British priest) (1863–1916), Archdeacon of Wisbech

Fiction

*Colin Campbell, protagonist of ''

The Cat Who Walks Through Walls ''The Cat Who Walks Through Walls'' is a science fiction novel by American writer Robert A. Heinlein, published in 1985. Like many of his later novels, it features Lazarus Long and Jubal Harshaw as supporting characters. Plot summary A writer se ...

'', a 1985 novel by Robert A. Heinlein

Ships

*''Sir Colin Campell of Peterhead'', best known under her later name ''Danmark'' of Copenhagen {{hndis, Campbell, Colin