Colon

Colon commonly refers to:

• Colon (punctuation) (:), a punctuation mark
• Colon (anatomy), a major part of the large intestine, the final section of the digestive system

Colon may also refer to:

Places

• Colon, Michigan, US
• Colon, Nebraska, US
• Kowloon, Hong Kong, spelled "Colon" in older books
• Colón, Panama in:
  • Colón Province, Panama
• Colón, Putumayo in Colombia
• Colón, Cuba in Cuba
• Colón, Venezuela in Venezuela

People and fictional characters

• Colon (singer), Japanese singer
• Colón (surname)
• Evelyn Colon, formerly unidentified American victim
• Colons, another term for Pieds-Noirs (European settlers in French Algeria)
• Fred Colon, a fictional character in the Discworld universe
• Willie Colon (American football) (born 1983), American football player

Other uses

• Colon (letter), a colon-like character used as an alphabetic letter
• Colon (rhetoric), a clause which is grammatically, but not logically, complete
• Colon (CONFIG.SYS directive), usage of :label in DR DOS configuration files
• Colon (beetle), a genus of beetles in the family Leiodidae
• Colon (grape), a French wine grape
• Colon classification, a library classification system

See also

• Colón (disambiguation)
• Cologne (disambiguation)
• Colonus (person) (in Ancient Rome)
• Columbus (disambiguation)
• Column (disambiguation)
• Isocolon
• Kolon (disambiguation)
• Koron (disambiguation)
• The Colóns (disambiguation)