Colm is a male given name of
Irish origin.
Colm can be pronounced "Collum" or "Kullum". It is not an Irish version of
Colin Colin may refer to:
* Colin (given name)
* Colin (surname)
* ''Colin'' (film), a 2008 Cannes film festival zombie movie
* Colin (horse) (1905–1932), thoroughbred racehorse
* Colin (humpback whale), a humpback whale calf abandoned north of Sydney, ...
, but like Callum and Malcolm derives from a Gaelic variation on ''columba'', the Latin word for 'dove'.
People
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Colm Brogan
Colm Brogan (20 October 1902 – 28 January 1977) was a Scottish journalist and writer.
Background
He was born in Glasgow to Denis Brogan, a tailor from Donegal.''The Times'' (29 January 1977), p. 14. One of Colm Brogan's four brothers was the h ...
(1902–1977), Scottish writer
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Colm Byrne (born 1971), Irish playwright
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Colm Collins, Gaelic football manager
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Colm Condon
Colm Patrick Condon (16 July 1921 – 9 August 2008) was an Irish barrister who served as Attorney General of Ireland from 1965 to 1973.
Condon served in office as Attorney General of Ireland during the beginning of the Troubles in Northern Irela ...
(1921–2008), Irish lawyer
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Colm Connolly (born 1942), Irish broadcaster and author
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Colm Cooper (born 1983), Irish Gaelic football player
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Colm Coyle
Colm Coyle (born 26 February 1963), is a former Gaelic footballer and former manager from County Meath, Ireland. He was manager of the senior Meath county team from September 2006 to July 2008, having previously played for the county.
Playin ...
(born 1963), Irish Gaelic football player and manager
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Colm Feore (born 1958), American-born Canadian actor
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Colm Hilliard (1936–2002), Irish politician
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Colm Imbert (born 1957), Trinidad and Tobago politician
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Colm Magner (born 1961), Canadian actor
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Colm Mangan
Lieutenant General Colm Mangan was Chief of Staff of the Defence Forces from September 2000 until February 2004.
Mangan joined the Defence Forces as a cadet in 1960 and is cited as having ''"overseen major strategic initiatives in the key are ...
(born 1942), Irish general
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Colm Meaney
Colm J. Meaney (; ga, Colm Ó Maonaigh; born 30 May 1953) is an Irish actor known for playing Miles O'Brien in '' Star Trek: The Next Generation'' (1987–1994) and '' Star Trek: Deep Space Nine'' (1993–1999). He has guest-starred on many T ...
(born 1953), Irish actor
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Colm Mulcahy (born 1958), Irish mathematician, academic, columnist and author
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Colm Ó CÃosóig (born 1964), Irish drummer
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Colm O'Gorman (born 1966), Irish activist
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Colm Ó hEocha (1926–1997), Irish scientist
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Colm Ó Maonlaà (born 1966), Irish actor
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Colm O'Shaughnessy (born 1996), Irish Gaelic football player and rugby player
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Colm TóibÃn (born 1955), Irish novelist
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Colm Vance (born 1992), Canadian soccer player
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Colm Wilkinson (born 1944), Irish actor and singer
Fictional characters
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Colm, in the video game ''Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones''
*Colm O'Driscoll, one of the antagonists in the video game ''
Red Dead Redemption 2''
*Uncle Colm McCool, from the
Channel 4 sitcom ''
Derry Girls''
*Col. Colm Corbec, in the Warhammer novel series
Gaunt's Ghosts
Other uses
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× ''Colmanara'', orchid genus abbreviated in trade journals as "Colm"
*COLM, Nasdaq code for
Columbia Sportswear
See also
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List of Irish-language given names
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Callum (disambiguation) Callum is a Scottish given name and surname.
Callum may also refer to:
* Callum (Thrace), a settlement and station (mutatio) of ancient Thrace, inhabited during Byzantine times. Its site is located east of Selymbria in European Turkey.
* Callum, O ...
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Colom (disambiguation)
Colom may refer to:
People
*Colom (surname)
*Colom Keating, American actor and writer
Places
*Colom Island, Spain
*Passeig de Colom, Barcelona
*Roca Colom, mountain of Catalonia
See also
*Colm
*Colomb
*Colomba
*Colombe (disambiguation)
* C ...
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Colum (disambiguation)
References
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Irish-language masculine given names