Depending on whom you ask, this boys' name is either a nickname for Nicholas (no pun intended) or derived from the Old Norse name "Koli" (dark) or Gaelic "Coileain" (puppy).

• entertainers
  • Colin Baker (sixth Doctor)
  • Colin Greenwood (Radiohead bassist)
  • Colin Hanks (actor, son of Tom Hanks)
  • Colin Mochrie (bald Canadian from Who's Line Is It Anyway?)
  • Colin Newman (Wire guitarist and vocalist)
• roles
  • Colin Craven, the boy with VND from Frances Hodgson Burnett's novel The Secret Garden
  • Colin Laney (protagonist of William Gibson's Idoru)
  • Colin Smith, the main character in Alan Sillitoe's "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner"
  • that mouse from the video "Precious Moments: Timmy's Special Delivery." (if you came looking for a cute little animated mouse see stuart little or mickey mouse. if there can be more than one mickey and more than one timmy in the cultural multiverse, there is definitely room for more than one colin.)
• Colin Dexter (British author of Inspector Morse mysteries)
• Colin Maclaurin (UK math professor who reported on a special case of the Taylor series)
• Gen. Colin Powell (President George W. Bush's Secretary of State)
• Colin Hughes (ported Tetris to Atari 2600)
• Dr Colin Niven
• E2's own Colin McEwan

some people's mothers can't spell: Collin Raye | Collin "Doc" Cunningham

There used to be an ascii picture of the pin eight software

mascot here, but it was removed at dannye's request.

Col"in (?), n. [F. colin; prop. a dim. of Colas, contr. fr. Nicolas Nicholas.] Zool.

The American quail or bobwhite. The name is also applied to other related species. See Bobwhite.

 

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