Colin Campbell
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Scottish history
- Cailean MórCailean MórCailean Mór Caimbeul, also known as Sir Colin Campbell , is one of the earliest attested members of Clan Campbell and an important ancestor figure of the later medieval Earls of Argyll....
(died ≥ 1296), also known as Sir Colin Campbell, or "Colin the Great" - Colin Iongantach (died c. 1412), also known as Colin Campbell, self-styled Lord of Argyll, see Clan MacFarlaneClan MacFarlaneClan MacFarlane is a Highland Scottish clan. The clan claims a descent from the old line of the Earls of Lennox. For some time there had been some controversy as to the descent of these earls, with both Gaelic and Anglo-Saxon origins given. Though today it is accepted that Clan MacFarlane is of...
- Colin Campbell (Swedish East India Company)Colin Campbell (Swedish East India Company)Colin Campbell was a Scottish merchant and entrepreneur who co-founded the Swedish East India Company and was Swedish King Fredrik I's first envoy to the Emperor of China.-Early life:...
(1686–1757), Scottish merchant and founder of the Swedish East India Company - Sir Colin Campbell, 1st Baron ClydeColin Campbell, 1st Baron ClydeField Marshal Colin Campbell, 1st Baron Clyde GCB, KSI was a British Army officer from Scotland who led the Highland Brigade in the Crimea and was in command of the ‘Thin red line’ at the battle of Balaclava...
(1792–1863), Scottish soldier
Scottish nobility
- Colin Campbell, 1st Earl of ArgyllColin Campbell, 1st Earl of ArgyllColin Campbell, 1st Earl of Argyll was a Scottish nobleman.-Biography:He was the son of Gillespic Campbell, Master of Campbell and Elizabeth Somerville. Elizabeth Somerville was the daughter of John Somerville, 3rd Lord Somerville and Helen Hepburn...
(c. 1433–1493), Scottish nobleman - Colin Campbell, 3rd Earl of ArgyllColin Campbell, 3rd Earl of ArgyllColin Campbell, 3rd Earl of Argyll was a Scottish nobleman and soldier. He was the son of Archibald Campbell, 2nd Earl of Argyll and Elizabeth Stuart, daughter of John Stewart, 1st Earl of Lennox. In 1506/07 he married Lady Jean Gordon, the eldest daughter of Alexander Gordon, 3rd Earl of Huntly...
(c. 1486–1535), Scottish nobleman and soldier - Colin Campbell, 6th Earl of ArgyllColin Campbell, 6th Earl of ArgyllColin Campbell, 6th Earl of Argyll was a Scottish nobleman and politician. He was appointed to the Lord Chancellorship of Scotland.-Biography:...
(c. 1541/46–1584), Scottish nobleman and politician - Sir Colin Campbell of LundieColin Campbell of LundieSir Colin Campbell of Lundie, 1st Baronet was a Scottish noble. He was the son of Colin Campbell of Lundie, who was youngest son of Colin Campbell, 6th Earl of ArgyllSir Colin was created a baronet in 1627....
, 1st Baronet (died c. 1650) - Colin Campbell, 7th Earl CawdorColin Campbell, 7th Earl CawdorColin Robert Vaughan Campbell, 7th Earl Cawdor , is a Scottish earl in the Peerage of the United Kingdom and an architect by profession. He is also known for having legal issues with his stepmother Countess Cawdor. He is the elder son and third child of Hugh John Vaughan Campbell, 6th Earl Cawdor...
(born 1962), Scottish earl and architect - Lord Colin CampbellLord Colin CampbellLord Colin Campbell was a Scottish Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1878 to 1885.Campbell was the fifth son of George Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll, and his wife Lady Elizabeth Georgiana, daughter of George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 2nd Duke of Sutherland...
(1853–1895), MP, younger son of eighth Duke of Argyll
Politics and law
- Colin Campbell (probate judge)Colin Campbell (probate judge)Colin Campbell was a Scottish-born lawyer, probate judge, official and political officer in Nova Scotia. He represented the town of Shelburne in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1793 to 1818....
(1752–1834), lawyer, probate judge, customs official in Nova Scotia - Major-General Sir Colin Campbell (colonial governor) (1776–1847), Governor of Nova Scotia & Ceylon
- Colin Campbell (Nova Scotia politician)Colin Campbell (Nova Scotia politician)Colin Campbell was a merchant, ship owner, ship builder and political figure in Nova Scotia, Canada. He represented Digby County in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1859 to 1867 and from 1874 to 1878....
(1822–1881), merchant and politician in Nova Scotia, Canada - Colin H. CampbellColin H. CampbellColin H. Campbell was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba as a Conservative from 1899 to 1914, and was a cabinet minister in the governments of Hugh John Macdonald and Rodmond Palen Roblin.Campbell was a barrister, and ran a practice in Winnipeg...
(1859–1914), provincial cabinet minister in Manitoba, Canada - Colin Campbell (Ontario politician)Colin Campbell (Ontario politician)Colin Alexander Campbell was a Liberal party member of the Canadian House of Commons. He was born in Shedden, Ontario and became a mining engineer....
(1901–1978), Canadian politician, Member of Parliament - Colin Campbell (Scottish politician)Colin Campbell (Scottish politician)Colin Campbell is a Scottish politician. He was a Scottish National Party Member of the Scottish Parliament for West of Scotland region from 1999 to 2003.-Biography:...
(born 1938), former Member of the Scottish Parliament - Colin Campbell, Lord MalcolmColin Campbell, Lord MalcolmColin Malcolm Campbell, Lord Malcolm is a Scottish lawyer, and a Senator of the College of Justice, a judge of the country's Supreme Courts.-Early life:...
(born 1953), Scottish judge - Colin Minton Campbell, British Member of Parliament for North StaffordshireNorth Staffordshire (UK Parliament constituency)North Staffordshire was a county constituency in the county of Staffordshire. It returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the bloc vote system.-History:The constituency was created by the Reform Act 1832 for the 1832 general...
Education and academia
- Colin Campbell (lawyer), British academic lawyer and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Nottingham
- Colin G. CampbellColin G. CampbellColin G. Campbell was the thirteenth president of Wesleyan University.-Education:Campbell attended Cornell University where he served as the chairman of the Orientation Executive Committee and on the Willard Straight Hall Board of Managers. He was also elected to the Sphinx Head Society in his...
(born 1935), president of Wesleyan University - T. Colin CampbellT. Colin CampbellT. Colin Campbell is an American biochemist who specializes in the effects of nutrition on long-term health. He is the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor Emeritus of Nutritional Biochemistry at Cornell University, and the author of over 300 research papers...
(born 1934), nutritionist at Cornell University and author of The China Study
Science
- Colin Campbell (geologist)Colin Campbell (geologist)Colin J. Campbell, PhD Oxford, is a retired British petroleum geologist who predicted that oil production would peak by 2007. The consequences of this are uncertain but drastic, due to the world's dependency on fossil fuels for the vast majority of its energy...
(born 1931), oil industry analyst - Colin Campbell (astronomer)Colin Campbell (astronomer)Colin Campbell FRS was a Scottish astronomer.He grew up in Jamaica. He matriculated at Glasgow University, in 1720. He was invested as a Fellow, Royal Society in 1733. He studied Newton's theory of the diminution of gravity away from the equator...
FRS (died 1752), astronomer
Sport
- Colin Campbell (Australian footballer)Colin Campbell (Australian footballer)Dr Colin Mansfield Campbell was an Australian rules footballer who played for Essendon in the Victorian Football League and a first-class cricketer, representing Tasmania....
(1872–1907), Australian Rules player - Colin Campbell (cricketer)Colin Campbell (cricketer)Colin Campbell was an English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-fast bowler who played for Durham.Campbell played twice for Durham, making his debut in 1996...
(born 1977), English cricketer - Colin Campbell (field hockey)Colin Campbell (field hockey)Colin Campbell was a British field hockey player who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics as a member of the British field hockey team, which won the gold medal.-External links:*...
, British Olympic field hockey player - Colin Campbell (footballer)Colin Campbell (footballer)Colin Campbell is a Scottish former footballer who played as a midfielder.-Career:Campbell began his football career at amateur level in the Outer Hebrides, making his debut for the Benbecula team aged just ten....
(born 1956), Scottish association football player - Colin Campbell (ice hockey) (born 1953), National Hockey League executive
Arts
- Colen CampbellColen CampbellColen Campbell was a pioneering Scottish architect who spent most of his career in England, and is credited as a founder of the Georgian style...
(1676–1729), Scottish neo-Palladian architect - Colin Campbell (director)Colin Campbell (director)Colin Campbell was a Scottish-born film director and screenwriter. He directed 177 films between 1911 and 1924. He also wrote for 60 films between 1911 and 1922...
(1859–1928), Scottish-born film director, writer, actor and producer - Colin Campbell (artist)Colin Campbell (artist)Colin Campbell was a pioneer Canadian video artist.-Life:Colin Campbell was born in Reston, Manitoba, 1942. Based in Toronto since 1973, Campbell produced over 45 tapes. He received his BFA from the University of Manitoba and his MFA from Claremont Graduate School, California...
(1942–2001), Canadian artist - Lady Colin CampbellLady Colin CampbellLady Colin Campbell, , is a British writer, biographer, autobiographer, novelist, television and radio personality, known for her biography of Diana, Princess of Wales, The Real Diana, as well as other books on the Royal Family and the international elite.Campbell was born in Jamaica, the child of...
(born 1949), writer and biographer
Others
- Colin Campbell, 1st Baron ColgrainColin Campbell, 1st Baron ColgrainColin Frederick Campbell, 1st Baron Colgrain , was a British banker.He was President of the British Bankers' Association from 1938 to 1946 and was also a Director of the National Provincial Bank and of London Assurance...
(1866–1954), British banker - Colin Campbell (Canadian bishop)Colin Campbell (Canadian Bishop)Colin Campbell was a Roman Catholic bishop of the Diocese of Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada.On 26 May 1956 he was ordained a priest in Halifax and he was appointed bishop of the Diocese of Antigonish on 12 December 1986. He was ordained as a bishop the following year on 19 March 1987...
(born 1931), Catholic bishop of Antigonish - Colin Campbell (New Zealand bishop)Colin Campbell (New Zealand bishop)Colin David Campbell is the Sixth Catholic Bishop of Dunedin . He was born at Otautau, Southland on 21 September 1941 and was educated at St Therese's Convent School, Invercargill and at Marist Brothers' Primary and Marist Brothers' High Schools, Invercargill, before training as a priest at Holy...
(born 1941), Catholic bishop of Dunedin - Colin Campbell (British Army officer)Colin Campbell (British Army officer)Lieutenant General Colin Campbell was Lieutenant Governor of Gibraltar.-Military career:Campbell was commissioned into the 71st Regiment of Foot in 1771 and then transferred to the 6th Regiment of Foot in 1783. In 1796 he went to Ireland and fought, two years later, at the Battle of Vinegar...
(1754–1814), Scottish General
Fiction
- Colin Campbell, protagonist of The Cat Who Walks Through WallsThe Cat Who Walks Through WallsThe Cat Who Walks Through Walls: A Comedy of Manners is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein published in 1985. Like many of his later novels, it features Lazarus Long and Jubal Harshaw as supporting characters.-Plot summary:...
, a novel by Robert A. Heinlein