Columbus
Appearance
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Columbus is a Latinized version of the Italian surname "Colombo". It most commonly refers to:
- Christopher Columbus
- Columbus, Ohio, capital of this U.S. state
Columbus may also refer to:
People
Surname
- Bartholomew Columbus (c. 1461–1515), younger brother of Christopher Columbus
- Chris Columbus (filmmaker) (born 1958), American film maker
- Diego Columbus (1479/80–1526), eldest son of Christopher Columbus
- Ferdinand Columbus (1488–1539), the second son of Christopher Columbus
- Scott Columbus (1956–2011), long-time drummer for the heavy metal band Manowar
Forename
- Columbus Caldwell (1830–1908), American politician
- Columbus Germain (1827–1880), American politician
- Columbus Short (born 1982), American choreographer and actor
Places
In the United States, Columbus may refer to:
Populated places
- Columbus, Georgia
- Columbus, Illinois
- Columbus, Indiana, known for modern architecture
- Columbus, Kansas
- Columbus, Kentucky
- Columbus, Minnesota
- Columbus, Mississippi
- Columbus, Missouri
- Columbus, Montana
- Columbus, Nebraska
- Columbus, New Jersey
- Columbus, New Mexico
- Columbus, New York
- Columbus, North Carolina
- Columbus, North Dakota
- Columbus, Ohio, the largest city in United States with this name
- Columbus, Texas
- Columbus, Wisconsin
- Columbus (town), Wisconsin
Other uses
- Columbus (2015 film), an Indian film
- Columbus (ISS module), the European module for the International Space Station
- Columbus (novel), a 1941 novel by the British writer Rafael Sabatini depicting the explorations of Christopher Columbus
- Columbus (song), a song by the band Kent from their album Tillbaka till samtiden
- Columbus (spacecraft), a program to develop a European space station 1986–1991
- Columbus (Star Trek), a shuttlecraft in Star Trek series
- COLUMBUS, ab initio quantum chemistry software
- Columbus Communications, a cable television and broadband speed Internet service provider in the Caribbean region
- Columbus Edwards, the character known as Lum of Lum and Abner
- Columbus hops, a variety of hops
- Columbus Salame, an American food processing company
- Columbus Tubing, an Italian manufacturer of bicycle frame tubing
- ColumBus, former name of Howard Transit in Howard County, Maryland
- Generation of Columbuses, tragic generation of Poles born ca. 1920, who had to fight 20 years later
- MS Columbus, a cruise ship owned by Hapag-Lloyd
- SS Christopher Columbus, Great Lakes excursion liner (1893–1933)
- SS City of Columbus, a passenger steamer that sailed from Boston to Savannah and sank off Martha's Vineyard in 1884
- SS Columbus (1873), an American merchantman converted in 1878 into the Russian cruiser Asia
- SS Columbus (1924), a transatlantic ocean liner for the North German Lloyd steamship line
- USS Columbus, various ships of the US Navy
See also
- Columbia (disambiguation)
- Columbus Day
- Columbus Township (disambiguation)
- St. Columba
- Carry On Columbus, a 1992 film
- Waiting For Columbus, 1978 live album by the rock band Little Feat