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The Scottish Gaelic name is recorded in the spelling Colin from as early as the 14th century. [4] MacCailean was a patronymic used by Clan Campbell , after Cailean Mór (died 1296). As a surname, Colin can be derived from the given name, but can also be of unrelated (French) origin.
Colin is a surname, variously derived including the given name Colin and the common name in French of some species of bird and fish. Alexander Colin or Colyn (1527/29–1612), Flemish sculptor; Alexandre-Marie Colin (1798–1875), French painter of historical and genre subjects; André Colin (1910–1978), French politician
Colonel Colin Mackenzie CB (1754–8 May 1821) was a Scottish army officer in the British East India Company who later became the first Surveyor General of India. He was a collector of antiquities and an orientalist .
The son of George Lauder (c.1712–1752), a surgeon and fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, by his spouse Rosina Preston (died 1786), Colin Lauder was the great-great-grandson of Sir John Lauder, 1st Baronet, of Fountainhall and the grandson of Surgeon John Lauder (surgeon) (1683–1737) deacon of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.
Colin (humpback whale), a humpback whale calf abandoned north of Sydney, Australia, in August 2008; Colin (river), a river in France; Colin (security robot), in Mostly Harmless of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series by Douglas Adams; Tropical Storm Colin (disambiguation) Collin, a District Electoral Area in Belfast, Northern Ireland ...
Collins is a given name, a transferred use of an English surname ultimately derived from multiple sources. It could be derived from Coll or Colin, an English diminutive of the Greek name Nicholas, or from the Irish word cuilein, meaning darling, from the Welsh collen, referring to a grove of hazel trees, or of the French Colline, meaning hill.
Malcolm Colin Cameron QC (April 12, 1831 – September 26, 1898) was a businessman and lawyer in Ontario, Canada. He represented Huron South in the House of Commons of Canada from 1867 to 1875 and from 1878 to 1882 and Huron West from 1882 to 1887, 1891 to 1892 and 1896 to 1898. He was born in Perth in Upper Canada in 1831.
Isabelle Collin Dufresne (1935–2014), stage name Ultra Violet, French-American artist and author William Collin Snavely , known as Diagram of Suburban Chaos, composer of electronic music John Collin Underhay (1829–1919), Canadian farmer, land surveyor and political figure in Prince Edward Island