Black Colonel

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

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