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:
“Media mystifications should not obfuscate a simple, perceivable fact; Black teenage girls do not create poverty by having babies. Quite the contrary, they have babies at such a young age precisely because they are poor—because they do not have the opportunity to acquire an education, because meaningful, well-paying jobs and creative forms of recreation are not accessible to them ... because safe, effective forms of contraception are not available to them.”
—Angela Davis (b. 1944)
“Swan/Mary Rutledge: Oh no, no. I’m not running away. I came here to get something, and I’m going to get it.
Col. Cobb: Yes, but San Francisco is no place for a woman.
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—Ben Hecht (1893–1964)