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Colin Bell (RAF officer)
Colin Stuart Bell (born 5 March 1921), DFC, BEM, is the last surviving RAF Mosquito pilot of the Second World War; he flew 50 raids with 608 Squadron, distinct from the footballer Colin Bell.
Colin Bryant
Colin Bryant is an investment executive who serves as General Partner and Chief Operating Officer for Private Investments at Coatue Management, which he joined in July 2023.
Colin Camerer
Colin F. Camerer is an American behavioral economist and neuroeconomist at Caltech, known for behavioral game theory, leading large-scale replication studies of economics experiments, and a 2013 MacArthur Fellowship.
Colin Campbell, 1st Baron Clyde
Colin Campbell, 1st Baron Clyde, born Colin Macliver, was a British field marshal who relieved the siege of Lucknow during the Indian Mutiny of 1857.
Colin Cowherd
Colin Murray Cowherd is an American sports talk host, 2025 Radio Hall of Fame inductee, whose The Herd with Colin Cowherd airs weekdays on FS1 and FOX Sports Radio; he joined FOX in 2015 after ESPN Radio and co-founded The Volume podcast network in 2021.
Colin Howell
Colin Howell, Northern Irish dentist from Castlerock, murdered his wife Lesley Howell and RUC constable Trevor Buchanan in May 1991, staging a suicide pact; confessed 2009, pleaded guilty 2010, minimum 20-year term.
Colin Huang (Pinduoduo)
Colin Huang, known in Chinese as Huang Zheng (黄峥), is a Chinese entrepreneur who founded the e-commerce company Pinduoduo, taking it public on Nasdaq in 2018.
Colin Ireland
Colin Ireland, the "Gay Slayer" (1954–2012), British serial killer who murdered five gay men in London in 1993 after a New Year's resolution, luring victims from the Coleherne pub; caught by a fingerprint and CCTV, he confessed and died in prison.
Colin Jordan
Colin Jordan (1923–2009), British neo-Nazi activist, founded the White Defence League, National Socialist Movement, and British Movement (1968–1975), co-founded the World Union of National Socialists with George Lincoln Rockwell, and was repeatedly jailed for racist agitation.
Colin Martin-Reynolds
Colin Martin-Reynolds CMG, British career diplomat; Governor of the Falkland Islands and Commissioner for South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands since July 2025; formerly UK Ambassador to Colombia (2019–2022) and FCO Chief Information Officer.
Colin McDonald (attorney)
Colin Michael McDonald, American federal prosecutor and first Assistant Attorney General for the DOJ's National Fraud Enforcement Division, confirmed 52-47 in March 2026; former San Diego AUSA and Hawaii public corruption prosecutor.
Colin McGinn
Colin McGinn is a British-born philosopher best known for arguing that the mind–body problem may be permanently beyond human understanding, a view he calls cognitive closure.
Colin Murray
Colin Murray (born 1977, Belfast) is a Northern Irish broadcaster, host of BBC Radio 5 Live's Fighting Talk, former Match of the Day 2 presenter, and permanent host of Channel 4's Countdown since 2023; distinct from the Newcastle law academic of the same name.
Colin Pitchfork
Colin Pitchfork, English baker and double child murderer, first person in the world convicted of murder using DNA profiling; killed Lynda Mann (1983) and Dawn Ashworth (1986) in Leicestershire; caught by mass DNA screening; parole denied October 2025.
Colin Powell
Colin Luther Powell (1937-2021), American four-star general and 65th US Secretary of State (2001-2005); first Black Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Secretary of State; Gulf War chairman and 2003 UN Iraq speech.
Colin Renfrew
Colin Renfrew, Baron Renfrew of Kaimsthorn, was a British archaeologist, Disney Professor at Cambridge, who led the radiocarbon revolution and proposed the Anatolian hypothesis of Indo-European origins.
Colin Sutton (police and crime commissioner)
Colin Sutton, former Metropolitan Police Detective Chief Inspector who led the Levi Bellfield and Night Stalker investigations, is the Reform UK Police and Crime Commissioner for Norfolk, elected 16 July 2026, the party's first elected PCC.
Colin Tennant, 3rd Baron Glenconner
Colin Tennant, 3rd Baron Glenconner (1926–2010), British aristocrat who bought Mustique in 1958 for £45,000, made it a celebrity resort, and was Princess Margaret's close friend; later lived in St Lucia.
Collab Sustainable Solutions
Collab Sustainable Solutions, also known as Collab Sustainable Solutions II, is a New York venture capital fund investing at Series A and B in sustainable materials, ingredients, energy, and supply chains.
Collaboration
Collaboration is the voluntary effort of two or more people or organizations to help each other achieve shared or private goals, distinct from coordination, which sets goals, and cooperation, which implements them.
Collaborative consumption
Collaborative consumption, also called the sharing economy or peer-to-peer economy, is the coordination through digital platforms of temporary access to goods and services supplied by private individuals, such as Airbnb and Uber, for compensation.
Collaborative ethnography
Collaborative ethnography is a qualitative research method in anthropology in which researchers and the people they study jointly design, conduct, analyze, and write up fieldwork.
Collaborative online international learning
Collaborative online international learning (COIL) is a higher education teaching approach in which professors in different countries co-design modules and students work together online in mixed international teams without traveling.
Collaborative Party (みんなでつくる党)
Collaborative Party (みんなでつくる党, Mintsuku) is a Japanese minor party led by Ayaka Otsu, renamed from the NHK Party line in November 2023; it lost its Diet seats and entered bankruptcy proceedings in 2024.
Collaborative Sustainable Solutions
Collaborative Sustainable Solutions, also known as Collab SOS, is a New York sustainability venture capital fund targeting Series A and Series B companies in materials, energy, and supply chains.
Collagua
The Collagua were an Aymara-speaking people of Peru's Colca Valley, the wealthier of two pre-Inca chiefdoms there, known for elongated head shaping and claimed descent from the volcano Collaguata.
Collapse of Former Qin
The collapse of Former Qin (前秦崩潰) was the disintegration of the Di-led Former Qin empire after defeat by Eastern Jin, breaking into rival states by 385.
Collapse of Thailand State Audit Office building
Collapse of Thailand State Audit Office building: 30-storey under-construction Bangkok tower (ITD-CREC, 2.136 billion baht) that fell on 28 March 2025 in the magnitude 7.7 Myanmar earthquake, killing at least 93; shear-wall and concrete flaws found, 23 indicted.
Collapse of the Ma'rib Dam
The collapse of the Ma'rib Dam (سيل العَرِم, the flood of al-'Arim) was the final breach of the great irrigation dam at Ma'rib, Yemen, about 570 CE.
Collapse of the Oyo Empire
The collapse of the Oyo Empire was the disintegration, between 1817 and 1836, of the largest Yoruba kingdom, driven by constitutional strife, Ilorin's secession, and the Fulani jihad.