Colvin (surname)

Colvin is a surname, and may refer to:

• Addison B. Colvin (1858-1939), American banker and politician
• Claudette Colvin (b. 1939), American activist for African American rights
• D. Leigh Colvin (1880-1959), American politician, active in the temperance movement
• Dora Colvin, American trucker, pioneering woman in the occupation
• Douglas Glenn Colvin (1951- 2002), real name of American musician Dee Dee Ramone
• Fred H. Colvin (1867- 1965), American machinist and writer
• Harvey Doolittle Colvin (1815 - 1892), American politician
• Holly Colvin (b. 1989), English cricketer
• Howard Colvin (1919 - 2007), British architectural historian and writer
• Hugh Colvin (1887 - 1962), British soldier
• Jack Colvin (1934 - 2005), American actor
• James Colvin, pseudonym used by Michael Moorcock
• James Morris Colquhoun Colvin (1870–1945), British Army officer
• John Horace Ragnar Colvin (1922–2003), British diplomat and spy
• John O. Colvin (b. 1946), American judge
• John Russell Colvin (1807–1857), British administrator in India, and his sons:
  • Sir Auckland Colvin (1838–1908), British civil servant in India, Turkey, and Egypt; founder of Colvin Taluqdars' College
  • Walter Mytton Colvin (1847 - 1908), British colonial administrator
• Kathryn Colvin (b. 1945), British diplomat
• Mark Colvin (b. 1952), Australian broadcaster
• Mary Colvin (1907–1988), director of the British Women's Royal Army Corps
• Michael Colvin (1932–2000), British MP
• Monty Colvin, American musician in Galactic Cowboys.
• Sir Ragnar Colvin (1882 - 1954), British and Australian admiral
• Richard Colvin (1856–1936), British MP
• Richard Colvin (b. 1969), Canadian diplomat of British birth
• Rosevelt Colvin (b. 1977), American football player
• Shawn Colvin (b. 1956), American musician
• Sir Sidney Colvin (1845 - 1927), British critic, curator, and friend of Robert Louis Stevenson
• Verplanck Colvin (1847-1920), American surveyor and champion of the Adirondacks

See also

• Colvin family, the Anglo-Indian administrators and soldiers

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