Columbus

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Columbus is an Anglicized version of the Italian surname Colombo.

Columbus may refer to:

[edit] People

• Christopher Columbus, navigator, explorer and colonizer who brought public awareness of the Americas to Europeans
• Chris Columbus (filmmaker), American film maker
• Scott Columbus, long-time drummer for the heavy metal band Manowar
• Columbus Short, American choreographer and actor
• St. Columba, Irish Gaelic missionary monk
• Realdo Colombo, anatomist and surgeon from the 16th century

[edit] Places

In the United States:

• Columbus, Ohio, the state capital of Ohio and the best-known and largest place named Columbus
  • Columbus Metropolitan Area, places both inside and outside of the city proper but still within the metro area
• Columbus, Arkansas
• Columbus, Georgia
• Columbus, Illinois
• Columbus, Indiana
• Columbus, Kansas
• Columbus, Kentucky
• Columbus, Minnesota
• Columbus, Mississippi
  • Columbus Air Force Base
• Columbus, Montana
• Columbus, Nebraska
• Columbus, New Jersey
• Columbus, New Mexico
• Columbus, New York
• Columbus, North Carolina
• Columbus, North Dakota
• Columbus, Texas
• Columbus, Wisconsin, a city in Columbia and Dodge counties
• Columbus (town), Wisconsin, a town in Columbia County
• Columbus City, Iowa
• Columbus Grove, Ohio
• Columbus Junction, Iowa
• Columbus Township, Illinois
• Columbus Township, Indiana
• Columbus Township, Iowa
• Columbus Township, Luce County, Michigan
• Columbus Township, St. Clair County, Michigan
• Columbus Township, Missouri
• Columbus Township, Nebraska
• Columbus Township, North Carolina
• Columbus Township, Pennsylvania

[edit] Other

• Columbus (ISS module), the European module for the International Space Station
• Columbus (song), a song by the band Kent from their album Tillbaka till samtiden
• COLUMBUS, ab initio quantum chemistry software
• Columbus Day
• ColumBus, former name of Howard Transit in Howard County, Maryland
• Carry On Columbus, a 1992 film
• Knights of Columbus
• MS Columbus, a cruise ship owned by Hapag-Lloyd
• 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
• Columbus Destroyers, Arena Football League team
• Columbus Avenue, a south thoroughfare on the West Side of Manhattan in New York City, also known as Ninth Avenue
• Columbus Street, a diagonal street that runs through the North Beach and Chinatown areas of San Francisco, California