People
- Cadwallader Colden (1688–1776), physician, farmer, surveyor, botanist, and lieutenant governor of the Province of New York
- Cadwallader D. Colden (1769–1834), Colonel in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812, member of New York State Assembly, mayor of New York City, U.S. Representative, and member of New York State Senate
- Cadwallader Colden Washburn, a founder of General Mills and a representative from Wisconsin to the United States Congress
- Charles J. Colden (1870–1938), a representative from California to the Seventy-third United States Congress
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