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:
“I’m afraid to look in the mirror. I’m afraid I’m going to see an old lady with white hair, just like the old ladies in the park. A little bundle in a black shawl just waiting for the coffin.”
—Paddy Chayefsky (1923–1981)
“I am asked if I would not be gratified if my friends would procure me promotion to a brigadier-generalship. My feeling is that I would rather be one of the good colonels than one of the poor generals. The colonel of a regiment has one of the most agreeable positions in the service, and one of the most useful. “A good colonel makes a good regiment,” is an axiom.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)