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Collier or Colliers may refer to:
[edit] Coal industry
- Collier, a person in the business or occupation of producing (digging or mining) coal or making charcoal or in its transporting or commerce
- 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
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- 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 Collier (political scientist), expert on qualitative methodology and Latin American politics
- 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
- Giles Collier
- 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), Governor of the U.S. state of Alabama (1849–1853)
- 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 (1939–1950)
- 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 (disambiguation), several people
- Paul Collier, British author and Professor of Economics at The University of Oxford
- Peter Collier, Australian 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
- Severino Collier Coutinho, Brazilian Professor of Cryptography at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
- Sophia Collier, founder of the American Natural Beverage Corp
- Tim Collier, Rugby Player
- Tom Collier, American musician
- William Collier (1902–1987), American film and stage actor
- Collier Twentyman Smithers (1867–1943), British portrait artist
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