Collier

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Contents 1 Coal industry 2 Places 3 People 4 Other

Collier or Colliers may refer to:

[edit] Coal industry

• Colliery, coal mining and selling
• Collier (ship type), a bulk cargo ship which carried coal
• Charcoal maker, in colonial United States and also in Sussex, England

[edit] Places

• Collier Row, a place in the London Borough of Havering
• Colliers Wood, an area in the London Borough of Merton
• Collier County, Florida, a county of Florida's southwest coast
• Colliers, Newfoundland and Labrador, a town on the Avalon Peninsula
• Collier Township, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Pittsburgh
• Collier Range National Park, Australian park

[edit] People

• Arthur Collier (1680-1732), English philosopher
• Barron Collier (1873-1939), American advertising entrepreneur
• Barry Collier (basketball coach), Athletic Director, Butler University
• Barry Collier (politician), member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Miranda in 1999
• Celester Collier, American basketball coach
• Charles Collier (1848-1900), American banker and lawyer
• Christopher Collier (cricketer) (1888-1916), an English cricketer
• Christopher Collier (historian) (b. 1930), an American historian and author
• Constance Collier (1878-1955), British-born American film actress
• David Collier (sports administrator) (b. 1956), chief executive of the England and Wales Cricket Board
• David Collier (cartoonist) (b. 1963), Canadian alternative cartoonist
• David A. Collier, professor of Management Science, the Ohio State University
• Elisha Collier, inventor of the flintlock revolver
• Evert Collier (c. 1640-1708), Dutch painter
• Frank Collier, former British rugby league footballer
• George Collier (1738–1795), Royal Navy vice-admiral
• Sir George Collier, 1st Baronet (1774-1824), Royal Navy officer
• Harry Collier (1907-1994), Australian rules footballer in the Victorian Football League
• Henry Herbert Collier (d. 1926), British motorcycle pioneer
• Henry W. Collier (1801-1855), Governo of the U.S. state of Alabama (1849-53)
• Ian Collier (d. 2008), British actor
• James Collier (1872-1933), an American politician from the U.S. state of Mississippi
• James Lincoln Collier (b. 1928), journalist and writer
• Jason Collier (1977-2005), NBA basketball player
• Jeremy Collier (1650-1726), English theatre critic
• John Collier (artist) (1850-1934), a Pre-Raphaelite painter
• John Collier (writer) (1901-1980), British author and screenplay writer
• John Payne Collier (1789-1883), a British Shakespearean critic
• Jonathan Collier, American television writer
• Kevin S. Collier (b. 1957), American comics writer
• Laurence Collier (1890-1976), British ambassador to Norway (1939-50)
• Lois Collier (1919-1999), American film actress
• Lou Collier (b. 1970), American baseball player
• Marie Collier (1927-1971), Australian operatic soprano
• Mark Collier (actor) (b. 1971), American stage and television actor
• Mark H. Collier, former president of Baldwin-Wallace College
• Marsha Collier, American author and radio personality
• Michael Collier, several people
• Paul Collier, British author and Professor of Economics at The University of Oxford
• Peter Collier, Australiab politician
• Peter Collier (political author) (b. 1939), American writer
• Peter Fenelon Collier (1849-1909), Irish publisher, father of Robert Joseph Collier
• Philip Collier (1873–1978), former Premier of Western Australia
• Robert Collier (author) (1885-1950), American author of self help, and New Thought metaphysical books
• Robert Joseph Collier (1876-1918), American publisher, son of Peter Fenelon Collier
• Robert Porrett Collier, 1st Baron Monkswell (1817-1886), English judge and politician
• Ron Collier (1930-(2003), Canadian jazz trombonist
• Sophia Collier, founder of the American Natural Beverage Corp
• Tim Collier, Rugby Player
• Tom Collier, American musician
• William Collier (1902-1987), Anerican film and stage actor
• Collier Twentyman Smithers (1867-1943), British portrait artist

[edit] Other

• Collier Baronets, a title in the British honours system
• Collier Books, a publishing imprint of Macmillan Publishing Company
• Collier's Encyclopedia is a U.S. encyclopedia
• Collier's International South Africa and Collier's Outsourcing, subsidiary companies of financial services provider Quyn Holdings of South Africa
• Collier Motors, the last auto dealer in the U.S. under the American Motors banner
• Collier (necklace), a type of necklace, possibly a synonym for choker
• Collier Trophy, is the highest honor in American aviation
• Collier's Weekly was a U.S. magazine published between 1888 and 1957
• Colliers International, commercial real estate services company

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