Cotton (disambiguation)

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Contents 1 People 2 Places 3 Fiction 4 Etymology 5 See also

Cotton could be:

• Cotton
• Cotton plant
• The Cotton series of video games
• Cotton, British motorcycle manufacturer

[edit] People

• Aimé Auguste Cotton (1869–1951), French scientist, discovered the Cotton effect (in 1895) and Cotton-Mouton effects
• Billy Cotton, British band leader.
• Charles Cotton, poet.
• Charles Cotton, New Zealand geologist.
• F. Albert Cotton, Inorganic Chemist
• Henry Cotton, Psychiatrist
• Mary Ann Cotton, British serial killer.
• Robert Cotton (MP), English politician
• Robert Bruce Cotton, collector of the Cottonian library
• William Cotton
• One of the Cotton Baronets

[edit] Places

• Coton, Staffordshire
• Cotton, Suffolk

[edit] Fiction

• The Cotton family of Hobbits

• Cotton Hill, a fictional character on King of the Hill

[edit] Etymology

• As a placename, "Cotton" came from Anglo-Saxon cot-tūn = "cottage farmstead".
• As a surname, it came from the placename.
• As the plant and the textile, it came from Arabic quţun.

[edit] See also

• List of Old English (Anglo-Saxon) surnames