Columbus

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Columbus is a Latinized version of the Italian surname "Colombo". It most commonly refers to:

• Christopher Columbus (1451–1506), the Italian explorer
• Columbus, Ohio, the capital city of the U.S. state of Ohio
• Columbus, Georgia, the 2nd-largest city in the U.S. State of Georgia

Columbus may also refer to:

Places

Extraterrestrial

• Columbus (crater), a crater on Mars
• Columbus (ISS module), the European module for the International Space Station
• Columbus (spacecraft), a program to develop a European space station 1986–1991

Italy

• Columbus (Rome), a residential district

United States

• Columbus, Arkansas
• Columbus, Georgia, the 119th-largest city in the United States, and the 2nd-largest in Georgia after Atlanta
• 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 the United States with this name
• Columbus, Texas
• Columbus, Wisconsin
• Columbus (town), Wisconsin
• Columbus Avenue (disambiguation)
• Columbus Circle, a traffic circle in Manhattan, New York
• Columbus City (disambiguation)
• Columbus Township (disambiguation)

Persons with the name

Forename

• Columbus Caldwell (1830–1908), American politician
• Columbus Germain (1827–1880), American politician
• Columbus Short (born 1982), American choreographer and actor

Surname

• Bartholomew Columbus (c. 1461–1515), Christopher Columbus' younger brother
• Chris Columbus (filmmaker) (born 1958), American filmmaker
• Diego Columbus (1479/80–1526), Christopher Columbus' eldest son
• Ferdinand Columbus (1488–1539), Christopher Columbus' second son
• Scott Columbus (1956–2011), long-time drummer for the heavy metal band Manowar

Arts, entertainment, and media

Films

• Columbus (2015 film), an Indian comedy, subtitled "Discovering Love"
• Columbus (2017 film), an American drama set amidst the architecture of Columbus, Indiana
• Columbus (Star Trek), a shuttlecraft in the Star Trek series

Music

Opera

• Columbus (Egk), German-language opera by Egk, 1943
• Columbus, 1855 opera by František Škroup
• Christophe Colomb, French-language opera by Milhaud often referred to as Columbus in English sources

Other uses in music

• Columbus (Herzogenberg), large scale cantata by Heinrich von Herzogenberg 1870
• "Colombus", song by Mary Black from No Frontiers
• "Columbus" (song), a song by the band Kent from their album Tillbaka till samtiden

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

• Columbus (novel), a 1941 novel about Christopher Columbus by Rafael Sabatini
• Columbus (Bartholdi), a statue depicting Christopher Columbus by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, in Providence, Rhode Island, US
• Columbus Edwards, the character known as Lum of Lum and Abner

Brands and enterprises

• COLUMBUS, ab initio quantum chemistry software
• ColumBus, former name of Howard Transit in Howard County, Maryland
• Columbus Communications, a cable television and broadband speed Internet service provider in the Caribbean region
• Columbus Salame, an American food processing company
• Columbus Tubing, an Italian manufacturer of bicycle frame tubing
• Columbus Buggy Company, an American automotive manufacturer from 1875 to 1913

Ships

• Columbus (1824), a disposable ship built to transport lumber from North America to Britain
• MS Columbus, a cruise ship owned by Plantours & Partner GmbH
• MV Columbus, a cruise ship owned by Seajets
• 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

Other uses

• Columbus hops, a variety of hops
• Generation of Columbuses, a generation of Poles born ca. 1920, who had to fight twenty years later
• Columbus (shopping centre), a shopping centre in Vuosaari, Helsinki, Finland

See also

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• Christopher Columbus (disambiguation)
• Columbus City Hall (disambiguation)
• Columba
• Columbia (disambiguation)
• Columbus Day
• List of places named for Christopher Columbus
• All pages with titles beginning with Columbus 
• All pages with titles containing Columbus

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This page was last edited on 29 March 2024, at 16:45