Collins may refer to:

People

Surname

Given name

Collins O. Bright Collins Oluwole Bright (born 11 February 1917) was a Sierra Leonean diplomat. Career *In 1963, he was commercial attaché in the Sierra Leonean High Commission at 178 Broad Street in Lagos, Nigeria. *From 1969 to 1970, he was Chargé d'affaire ...

(1917–?), Sierra Leonean diplomat *

Collins Chabane Ohm Collins Chabane (15 April 1960 – 15 March 2015) was a South African Minister of Public Service and Administration. At the age of 17, he went into exile and joined the African National Congress (ANC) underground military wing Umkhonto we ...

(1960–2015), South African Minister of Public Service and Administration *

Collins Cheboi Collins Cheboi Kiprotich (born 25 September 1987) is a Kenyan middle-distance runner who specialises in the 1500 metres. His personal best for the event is 3:31.53 minutes. He was a silver medallist at the 2011 All-Africa Games and was part of th ...

(born 1987), Kenyan middle-distance runner *

Collins Denny Collins Denny (May 28, 1854 – May 12, 1943) was an American clergyman and educator. He was Professor of Mental and Moral Philosophy at Vanderbilt University from 1891 to 1910. He served as bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South from 19 ...

(1854–1943), American Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South *

Collins Denny Jr. Collins Denny Jr. (1899–1964) was a Virginia lawyer who became known for his opposition to racial integration. He was a legal counsel to public school boards, arguing against the school segregation in the United States, integration of black st ...

(1899–1964), American pro-segregationist lawyer. *

Collins Hagler Collins "Mike" Hagler (born March 15, 1935) was a Canadian football player who played for the Saskatchewan Roughriders and Ottawa Rough Riders. He won the Grey Cup with Ottawa in 1960. He played college football for the University of Iowa T ...

(born 1935), Canadian football player *

Collins Injera Collins Injera (born 18 October 1986) is a Kenyan rugby player. He holds the second place for number of tries scored on the World Rugby Sevens Series with 271. He is known for his achievements with Kenyan national rugby sevens team. Career In ...

(born 1986), Kenyan rugby player *

Collins H. Johnston Collins Hickey Johnston (August 29, 1859 – December 29, 1936) was an American football player, medical doctor, surgeon, and civic leader in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He was a graduate of the University of Michigan where he played college foot ...

(1859–1936), American football player, medical doctor, surgeon, and civic leader *

Collins John Collins John (born 17 October 1985) is a professional footballer who plays as a forward for Buitenboys. Born in Liberia, he has represented the Netherlands national team. John notably played in the Premier League for Fulham where he notched ...

(born 1985), Liberia-born Dutch footballer *

Collins Mbesuma Collins Mbesuma (born 3 February 1984) is a Zambian professional footballer who plays for South African club Pretoria Callies. He is nicknamed ''The Hurricane'' or ''Ntofontofo''. Club career Mbesuma was born in Luanshya. His father, Francis ...

(born 1984), Zambian footballer nicknamed ''The Hurricane'' or ''Ntofontofo'' *

Collins Mensah Collins Mensah (born 19 February 1961) is a Ghanaian sprinter. He competed in the men's 100 metres at the 1984 Summer Olympics The 1984 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXIII Olympiad and also known as Los Angeles 1984) were an ...

(born 1961), Ghanaian sprinter *

Collins Nweke Collins Nweke (born in Igbuzo, Nigeria) is a Belgian politician of the Green Party He was sworn in for a third term of office on 2 January 2019 as councillor for social affairs in the government of Mayor Bart Tommelein at the Ostend City Counc ...

(born 1965), Belgian politician of the Green Party *

Collins Obuya Collins Omondi Obuya (born 27 July 1981) is a Kenyan cricketer and a former captain of Kenyan cricket team. He is a right-handed batsman and leg spin bowler. He came to prominence in the 2003 Cricket World Cup where he was one of Kenya's major ...

(born 1981), Kenyan cricketer

Companies

Collins Aerospace Collins Aerospace is an American technology corporation that is one of the world's largest suppliers of aerospace and defense products. Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, it is a subsidiary of Raytheon Technologies. History On No ...

, avionics manufacturer (successor to Rockwell Collins) **

Rockwell Collins Rockwell Collins was a multinational corporation headquartered in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, providing avionics and information technology systems and services to government agencies and aircraft manufacturers. It was formed when the Collins Radio Comp ...

, defunct avionics manufacturer **

Collins Radio Company Rockwell Collins was a multinational corporation headquartered in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, providing avionics and information technology systems and services to government agencies and aircraft manufacturers. It was formed when the Collins Radio Comp ...

, manufacturer of shortwave radio and broadcast equipment, later acquired by

North American Rockwell North American Aviation (NAA) was a major American aerospace manufacturer that designed and built several notable aircraft and spacecraft. Its products included: the T-6 Texan trainer, the P-51 Mustang fighter, the B-25 Mitchell bomber, the F-8 ...

Collins Booksellers Collins Booksellers Pty Ltd is an Australian book store chain founded in 1922 by Frederick Henry Slamen Frederick may refer to: People * Frederick (given name), the name Nobility Anhalt-Harzgerode *Frederick, Prince of Anhalt-Harzgerode (1613 ...

, an Australian book store chain founded in 1922 in Melbourne *

Collins Classics Collins Classics is a record label which specialises in classical music. It was founded in 1989 as a musical subsidiary of HarperCollins Publishers and distributed through Pinnacle Entertainment (United Kingdom). Artists who recorded for the ...

, former record company *

Collins Line The Collins Line was the common name for the American shipping company started by Israel Collins and then built up by his son Edward Knight Collins, formally called the New York and Liverpool United States Mail Steamship Company. Under Edward Col ...

, common nickname for the New York and Liverpool United States Mail Steamship Company, an American transatlantic steamship line in the 1800s *

Collins Industries Collins Industries is an American bus manufacturer headquartered in Hutchinson, Kansas. Best known for production of yellow school buses, the company produces buses for multiple applications; all bodies designed by the company have been produced ...

, bus builder *

HarperCollins HarperCollins Publishers LLC is one of the Big Five English-language publishing companies, alongside Penguin Random House, Simon & Schuster, Hachette, and Macmillan. The company is headquartered in New York City and is a subsidiary of News Cor ...

, publisher *

William Collins, Sons William Collins, Sons (often referred to as Collins) was a Scottish printing and publishing company founded by a Presbyterian schoolmaster, William Collins, in Glasgow in 1819, in partnership with Charles Chalmers, the younger brother of Thomas ...

, defunct publisher (merged into HarperCollins)

Places

United States

Collins, Arkansas Collins is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Drew County, Arkansas, United States. It is located along Arkansas Highway 35, west of Dermott and southeast of Monticello Monticello ( ) was the primary plantat ...

, a census-designated place *

Collins, California Collins was an unincorporated community in Napa County, California. It lies at an elevation of 49 feet (15 m). Collins is located on the Southern Pacific Railroad, south of Napa Junction. In 1992, the community was annexed and incorporated into ...

, now incorporated into American Canyon *

Collins, Georgia Collins is a city in Tattnall County, Georgia, United States. The population was 584 at the 2010 census, up from 528 at the 2000 census. History A post office called Collins has been in operation since 1890. The Georgia General Assembly incorporat ...

, a city *

Collins, Indiana Collins is an unincorporated community in Smith Township, Whitley County, in the U.S. state of Indiana. It is commonly referred to as a 'ghost town', however this is untrue; Collins just has a very low population and once contained an abandoned s ...

, an unincorporated community *

Collins, Iowa Collins is a city in Story County, Iowa, United States. The population was 495 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Ames, Iowa Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is a part of the larger Ames-Boone, Iowa Combined Statistical Area. Geography Co ...

, a city *

Collins, Mississippi Collins is a city in Covington County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 2,586 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Covington County. History From Williamsburg Depot to Collins Collins was originally incorporated as William ...

, a city *

Collins, Missouri Collins is a village in St. Clair County, Missouri, United States. The population was 125 at the 2020 census. History Collins was platted in 1885. The community takes its name from Collins Township. A post office called Collins has been in oper ...

, a village *

Collins, New York Collins is a town in Erie County, New York, United States. The town is on the south border of the county and is considered to be one of the "Southtowns" of Erie County. The population at the 2010 census was 6,601. History The area was first sett ...

, a town *

Collins, Ohio Collins is a census-designated place (CDP) in central Townsend Township, Huron County, Ohio, Townsend Township, Huron County, Ohio, Huron County, Ohio, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census the population of the CDP was 63 ...

, a census-designated place *

Collins, Wisconsin Collins is an unincorporated census-designated place in the town of Rockland, Manitowoc County, Wisconsin, United States, in the east central part of the state. Its zip code is 54207, although its post office is being studied for closure. As of ...

, a census-designated place *

Collins Archeological District The Collins Archeological District is a pre-Columbian archaeological site located in Kennekuk County Park in Vermilion County, Illinois. The site dates from the Late Woodland period and was used roughly from 900 to 1100 A.D. The core of the site ...

, an archaeological site in Illinois *

Collins Fork Collins Creek, also known as Collins Fork, is a tributary of Goose Creek in Clay County in the U.S. state of Kentucky. It is long; is named for its first settler James Collins, a salt maker and hunter; joins Goose just south of Garrard; and is p ...

, a stream in Kentucky

Antarctica

Collins Bay *There is another ''Collins Bay'' in the southwest of King George Island (South Shetland Islands) Collins Bay () is a bay lying between Deliverance Point and Cape Perez on the west coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula. It was first chart ...

, on the Antarctic Peninsula *

Collins Glacier Lambert Glacier is a major glacier in East Antarctica. At about 50 miles (80 km) wide, over 250 miles (400 km) long, and about 2,500 m deep, it is the world's largest glacier. It drains 8% of the Antarctic ice sheet to the east and s ...

, Antarctica * Collins Harbour, in the South Shetland Islands *

Collins Peak Collins Peak () is a small but noteworthy peak, high, at the east side of Malta Plateau, on the end of the ridge overlooking the confluence of Hand Glacier and Line Glacier, in the Victory Mountains, Victoria Land. It was mapped by the United St ...

, Victoria Land *

Collins Point Collins Point is a small but prominent headland west-south-west of Fildes Point, on the south side of Port Foster, Deception Island, in the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica. It was charted by a British expedition under Foster, 1828–31. It ...

, in the South Shetland Islands

Other places

Collins Reef Collins Reef, also known as Johnson North Reef/Johnson Reef North; vi, Đá Cô Lin; Roxas Reef ( tl, Bahura ng Roxas); Mandarin , is a Vietnamese occupied and controlled reef and the westernmost feature of Union Banks Atoll near the centre of ...

or Johnson North Reef, in the Spratly Islands, South China Sea

Other uses

Camp Collins Camp Collins (also known as the Fort Collins Military Reservation) was a 19th-century outpost of the United States Army in the Colorado Territory. The fort was commissioned in the summer of 1862 to protect the Overland Trail from attacks by Native ...

, a 19th-century Army outpost in Colorado *

Collins (crater) Collins is a tiny lunar impact crater located on the southern part of the Mare Tranquillitatis. It is located about 25 kilometers to the north of the Apollo 11 landing site, Tranquility Base. Named after American astronaut Michael Collins, the cr ...

, a lunar crater * ''

Collins Bird Guide The ''Collins Bird Guide'' is a field guide to the birds of the Western Palearctic. Its authors are Lars Svensson, Killian Mullarney, Dan Zetterström and Peter J. Grant, and it is illustrated by Killian Mullarney and Dan Zetterström (with t ...

'', a 1999 field guide to the birds of the Western Palearctic *

Collins Bridge The Collins Bridge was a bridge that crossed Biscayne Bay between Miami and Miami Beach, Florida. At the time it was completed, it was the longest wooden bridge in the world. It was built by farmer and developer John S. Collins (1837–1928) with ...

, a bridge that crossed Biscayne Bay, Florida *

Collins Correctional Facility Collins Correctional Facility is a medium security prison in Collins, New York in the United States.Collins English Dictionary The ''Collins English Dictionary'' is a printed and online dictionary of English. It is published by HarperCollins in Glasgow. The edition of the dictionary in 1979 with Patrick Hanks as editor and Laurence Urdang as editorial director, was ...

'', a printed and online dictionary of English *

Collins Observatory The Eileen M. Collins Observatory is a small astronomical observatory operated by Corning Community College in Corning, New York, United States. It is named for astronaut Eileen Collins. The observatory is primarily used to teach astronomy class ...

, an astronomical observatory in Corning, New York *

Collins glass A collins glass is a glass tumbler which typically will contain . It is commonly used to serve sparkling cocktails, especially long drinks like the Tom Collins or John Collins. Its cylindrical shape, narrower and taller than a highball glass, k ...

, in which the Tom Collins cocktail is traditionally served *

Collins Place Collins Place is a large mixed-use complex in the CBD of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Designed in about 1970 by I.M.Pei and Partners, and finally completed in 1981, it was Melbourne's first and Australia's largest mixed use project, includi ...

, a hotel and office complex in Melbourne, Australia * ''Collins''-class submarine, a class of diesel-electric submarine operated by the Royal Australian Navy *

Tom Collins The Tom Collins is a Collins cocktail made from gin, lemon juice, sugar, and carbonated water. First memorialized in writing in 1876 by Jerry Thomas, "the father of American mixology", this "gin and sparkling lemonade" drink is typically serv ...

, a gin cocktail * ''R v Collins'' (1987), a Supreme Court of Canada case on exclusion of evidence * ''

R v Collins ''R v Collins'' 1973 QB 100 was a unanimous appeal in the Court of Appeal of England and Wales which examined the meaning of "enters as a trespasser" in the definition of burglary, where the separate legal questions of an invitation based on ...

'', an English case on trespassing

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