Cotton (disambiguation)

Cotton could be:

• Cotton, the textile fiber
• Cotton plant
• The Cotton series of video games
• Cotton, British motorcycle manufacturer

People

• Aimé Auguste Cotton (1869–1951), French scientist, discovered the Cotton effect (in 1895) and Cotton-Mouton effects
• Arthur Cotton, British General and Engineer famous for his work in India.
• Billy Cotton, British band leader.
• Charles Cotton, poet.
• Charles Cotton, New Zealand geologist.
• F. Albert Cotton, Inorganic Chemist
• Henry Cotton, British Golfer
• Mary Ann Cotton, British serial killer.
• Robert Cotton (MP), English politician
• Robert Bruce Cotton, collector of the Cottonian library
• William Cotton
• One of the Cotton Baronets

Places

• Coton, Staffordshire
• Cotton, Suffolk

Fiction

• The Cotton family of Hobbits

• Cotton Hill, a fictional character on King of the Hill

• Cotton, a fictional character in the movies "Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl" and "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" who is mute (having had his tongue cut out) and has trained his pet parrot to speak for him

Etymology

• As a placename, "Cotton" came from Anglo-Saxon cot-tūn = "cottage farmstead".
• As a surname, it came from the placename.
• As the plant and the textile, it came from Arabic quţun.

See also

• List of Old English (Anglo-Saxon) surnames