History, Culture, Science and Politics
- Cuilén mac Ildulb (d. 971), King of Scots
- Sir Colin Campbell (d. 1296), Scottish warrior and progenitor of Clan Campbell
- Colin Campbell, 1st Baron Clyde, (1792–1863) Scottish soldier
- See Colin Campbell for more people with this name
- Colin Chapman, founder of Lotus Cars
- Colin Ferguson (convict), Jamaican - American mass murderer
- Colin Kelly, the first American hero of the Second World War
- Colin MacLaurin, Scottish mathematician
- Colin McComb, American game designer
- Colin McAllister, Scottish interior designer and television presenter.
- Colin McGinn, British philosopher
- Colin Campbell Mitchell, British Army lieutenant-colonel and politician
- Col Needham, founder of the Internet Movie Database
- Colin Powell, former U.S. Secretary of State
- Colin Pillinger, British planetary scientist
- Colin Stagg, the man wrongly imprisoned in the Rachel Nickell murder case
- Colin Winter, bishop
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