- Colvin (surname)
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Colvin is a surname, and may refer to:
- Addison B. Colvin (1858-1939), American banker and politician
- Claudette Colvin (b. 1939), American activist for African American rights
- D. Leigh Colvin (1880-1959), American politician, active in the temperance movement
- Dora Colvin, American trucker, pioneering woman in the occupation
- Douglas Glenn Colvin (1951- 2002), real name of American musician Dee Dee Ramone
- Fred H. Colvin (1867- 1965), American machinist and writer
- Harvey Doolittle Colvin (1815 - 1892), American politician
- Holly Colvin (b. 1989), English cricketer
- Howard Colvin (1919 - 2007), British architectural historian and writer
- Hugh Colvin (1887 - 1962), British soldier
- Jack Colvin (1934 - 2005), American actor
- James Colvin, pseudonym used by Michael Moorcock
- James Morris Colquhoun Colvin (1870–1945), British Army officer
- John Horace Ragnar Colvin (1922–2003), British diplomat and spy
- John O. Colvin (b. 1946), American judge
- John Russell Colvin (1807–1857), British administrator in India, and his sons:
- Sir Auckland Colvin (1838–1908), British civil servant in India, Turkey, and Egypt; founder of Colvin Taluqdars' College
- Walter Mytton Colvin (1847 - 1908), British colonial administrator
- Kathryn Colvin (b. 1945), British diplomat
- Mark Colvin (b. 1952), Australian broadcaster
- Mary Colvin (1907–1988), director of the British Women's Royal Army Corps
- Michael Colvin (1932–2000), British MP
- Monty Colvin, American musician in Galactic Cowboys.
- Sir Ragnar Colvin (1882 - 1954), British and Australian admiral
- Richard Colvin (1856–1936), British MP
- Richard Colvin (b. 1969), Canadian diplomat of British birth
- Rosevelt Colvin (b. 1977), American football player
- Shawn Colvin (b. 1956), American musician
- Sir Sidney Colvin (1845 - 1927), British critic, curator, and friend of Robert Louis Stevenson
- Verplanck Colvin (1847-1920), American surveyor and champion of the Adirondacks
See also
- Colvin family, the Anglo-Indian administrators and soldiers
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