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:
“Thats the down-town frieze,
Principally the church steeple,
A black line beside a white line;
And the stack of the electric plant,
A black line drawn on flat air.”
—Wallace Stevens (18791955)
“The Colonel went out sailing,
He spoke with Turk and Jew
With Christian and with Infidel
For all tongues he knew.
O whats a wifeless man? said he
And he came sailing home.”
—William Butler Yeats (18651939)