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surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include:
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Collett (Norwegian family), including
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Axel Collett
Axel Collett (6 August 1880 in Kolvereid – 17 January 1968) was a Norwegian landowner, timber merchant and sawmill owner. He was a co-owner and actively involved in the management of Firma Albert Collett, a firm established by his father, ...
(1880–1968), Norwegian landowner
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Camilla Collett
Jacobine Camilla Collett (née Wergeland; 23 January 1813 – 6 March 1895) was a Norwegian writer, often referred to as the first Norwegian feminist. She was also the younger sister of Norwegian poet Henrik Wergeland, and is recognized as bein ...
(1813–1895), Norwegian author
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James Collett
James Collett (18 August 1655 – 29 May 1727) was an English-born Norwegian merchant.
Life
James Collett was born in London, England. As a young man, he worked for an English wholesaler. In 1683, he settled in Christiania (now Oslo), Nor ...
(1655–1727), English-Norwegian merchant; origin of the Norwegian Collett family
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Johan Collett
Johan Collett (22 March 1775 – 19 June 1827) was a Norwegian politician and public administrator. He served as a member of the Constituent Assembly at Eidsvold in 1814.
Background
He was born at Rønnebæksholm in Næstved, Denmark, as the yo ...
(1775–1827), Norwegian politician
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(1817–1895), Norwegian politician, son of Johan Collett
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Jonas Collett
Jonas Collett (25 March 1772 – 3 January 1851) was a Danish-Norwegian public official, legislator, and statesman. Born on the Rønnebæksholm estate at Næstved in Denmark, he remained in Norway after the termination of the personal union with De ...
(1772–1851), Norwegian politician
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Robert Collett (1842–1913), Norwegian zoologist
Other people with Collett as a surname:
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Andy Collett
Andrew Alfred Collett (born 29 of October 1973)is an English former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
Career
Collett was born in Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham. He began his career at Middlesbrough, for whom he made his firs ...
(born 1973), English retired football goalkeeper
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Anthony Collett
Anthony Keeling Collett (22 August 1877 – 22 August 1929) was an author and writer on natural history subjects and was nature correspondent for ''The Times'' during the 1910s and 1920s.
Collett's father was the Reverend William Collett, a form ...
(1877–1929), English author
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Arthur Henry Collett (1870–1930), an Australian politician who served as the mayor of Parramatta
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Ben Collett (born 1984), English footballer
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Charles Collett (1851–1952), British chief mechanical engineer of the Great Western Railway
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Charles E. Collett
Charles E. Collett (1903–1968) was an American water polo player and lawyer.
Born in San Francisco, he became a member of the Olympic Club at the age of 12. Besides becoming an avid swimmer, his childhood included ferryboat rides to Marin and ...
, American lawyer and 1924 Olympic water polo team member
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(born 1944), American football player
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Ernie Collett (disambiguation), several people
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Gilbert Collett
Lt. Colonel Gilbert Faraday Collett DSO (18 July 1879 – 25 February 1945) was an English sportsman who was an international rugby union wing and first-class cricketer for Gloucestershire County Cricket Club. As a rugby footballer he represe ...
(1879–1945), English rugby union player
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Glenna Collett-Vare
Glenna Collett Vare (June 20, 1903 – February 3, 1989) was an American Hall of Fame golfing champion whom the Hall calls the greatest female golfer of her day, and who dominated American women's golf in the 1920s.
Biography
Born in New Haven, ...
(1903–1989), American golfing champion
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Henry Collett
Sir Henry Collett (6 March 1836 – 21 December 1901) was an English soldier and botanist. He served as an army officer in the East India Company.
Life
Collett was born in Thetford, Norfolk, the fourth son of Rev. W. Collett and his second wife ...
(1836–1901), army officer in the East India Company and botanist
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Herbert Collett
Herbert Brayley Collett (12 November 1877 – 15 August 1947) was an Australian politician, librarian and soldier.
Collett was born in St. Peter Port, Guernsey and arrived with his family in Western Australia in October 1884. He was educated ...
(1877–1947), Australian politician and soldier
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Jason Collett
Jason Collett is a Toronto-based Canadian singer-songwriter. He has released six solo studio albums, and is a former member of Broken Social Scene. His latest album, ''Song & Dance Man'', was released in February, 2016.
Early life
Collett was bo ...
, Canadian musician
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John Collett (artist)
John Collet or Collett (1725 – 6 August 1780) was an English satirical artist.
Life
He was born in London about 1725, and son of a gentleman holding a public office.
He was a pupil of painter George Lambert, and studied at the art school in ...
(1725–1780), English painter
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John Collett (composer)
John Collett (c1735-1775) was an English violinist and composer. He is credited with composing the first British four movement symphony.
Little is known of Collett's life. He may have been the son of Richard Collett or Thomas Collett, both member ...
(c.1735–1775), British violinist and composer
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John Collett (MP) (1798–1856), Irish Whig politician
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Joseph Collett
Joseph Collett (1673–1725) was a British administrator in the service of the British East India Company. He served as the deputy-governor of Bencoolen from 1712 to 1717 and as governor of the Madras Presidency from 1717 to 1720. He re-built ...
(1673–1725), British East India Company administrator, Governor of Bencoolen and President of Madras
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Laura Collett
Laura Collett (born 31 August 1989) is a British equestrian who competes in eventing.
Early life and career
Collett won the supreme pony title at Horse of the Year Show in 2003 when she was 13. She won nine medals during her youth career, inclu ...
(born 1989), British equestrian who competes in
eventing
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Lorraine Collett
Lorraine Collett Petersen (December 9, 1892 – March 30, 1983) was an American model hired to promote a corporate trademark as the "Sun-Maid Girl".
Lorraine Collett was born to George Dexter Collett and Martha Elizabeth Falkenstein in Kansas C ...
(1892–1983), American model, the "Sun-Maid girl"
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Lucy Collett
Lucy Victoria Collett, also known as Lucy V and Lucy Vixen, is a British glamour model from Warwick, England.
She won '' The Sun'' newspaper's Page 3 Idol 2012 modeling contest, and she frequently appeared as a Page 3 girl in that newspaper. S ...
(born 1989), British glamour model
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Mark Collett
Mark Adrian Collett (; born October 1980) is a British neo-Nazi, anti-semitic conspiracy theorist and political activist. He was formerly chairman of the Young BNP, the youth division of the British National Party (BNP), and was director of ...
(born 1980), British political activist
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Nathan Collett
Nathan Collett is a filmmaker based in Nairobi, Kenya.
Film career Overview
Collett's work focuses on those on the margins of society as well as on environmental issues. He has filmed across the world, including location footage in Somalia and S ...
, Kenyan filmmaker
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Ritter Collett (1921–2001), American sports editor and columnist
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Susan Collett
Susan Collett RCA IAC is a Canadian artist in printmaking and ceramics. In 1986, she graduated from the Cleveland Institute of Art, earning a B.F.A. in printmaking with a minor in ceramics.
Early life and career
Collett began formal arts educati ...
(born 1961), Canadian artist
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Toni Collett (born 1972), birth name of Australian actress Toni Collette
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Wayne Collett (1945–2010), American Olympic silver medalist in the 400 meters
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Collett Leventhorpe
Collett Leventhorpe (May 15, 1815 – December 1, 1889) was a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.
Early life
Collett Leventhorpe was born on the 15th of May, 1815 to Thomas Leventhorpe and Mary Colle ...
(1815–1889), Confederate brigadier general in the American Civil War
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Collett E. Woolman
Collett Everman Woolman (October 8, 1889September 11, 1966), commonly known as "Wooly" to his employees, was an airline entrepreneur who led Delta Air Lines from its beginnings as a small, pioneering crop-dusting company to the Jet Age.
Delta Ai ...
(1889–1966), one of the four founders of Delta Air Lines
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