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

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

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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