Black Colonel may refer to one of the following:
- John Farquharson, 3rd of Inverey
- Viktor Alksnis, Russian politician
- Black Colonels was a Soviet political derogatory term for the Greek military junta of 1967-1974.
- Black Colonel (wine), a Crimean wine and sort of grapes (Russian: Чёрный полковник, Crimean Tatar: Джеват-Кара (Dzhevat-Kara, Cyrillic orthography), Cevat Kara (Latin orthography))
- Chevalier de Saint-Georges, the first black colonel in the French army.
- Charles Young (United States Army), the first black colonel in the U.S. army. (Note: some sources mention Benjamin O. Davis to be the first black colonel; in fact he was the first black general)
- Fatulla Huseynov, first vice-president of the Azerbaijan Football Federations Association (AFFA)
- Odontomyia tigrina - black colonel, a British soldierfly
- Maharaja Nandakumar
Famous quotes containing the words black and/or colonel:
“It was common practice for me to take my children with me whenever I went shopping, out for a walk in a white neighborhood, or just felt like going about in a white world. The reason was simple enough: if a black man is alone or with other black men, he is a threat to whites. But if he is with children, then he is harmless, adorable.”
—Gerald Early (20th century)
“The Colonel went out sailing,
He spoke with Turk and Jew
With Christian and with Infidel
For all tongues he knew.
“O what’s a wifeless man?” said he
And he came sailing home.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)