Cotton (disambiguation)

Cotton is a soft, staple fiber that can be spun and woven into a textile of the same name.

Cotton may also refer to:

• Gossypium, the cotton plant
• Cotton (series), a series of video games
• Cotton (motorcycle), British motorcycle manufacturer
• Cotton Hill, a character on King of the Hill
• Cotton, Suffolk, an English civil parish
• Cotton (album)
• Cotton, Georgia
• Cotton, Minnesota
• Cotton, West Virginia
• Cotton Patch Goose, a breed of domestic goose
• Cotton library, the collection of medieval manuscripts by Robert Bruce Cotton
• Cotton, County Down, a townland in County Down, Northern Ireland

Contents 1 Surname 1.1 Athletes 1.2 Musicians 1.3 Politicians and nobility 1.4 Science and engineering 1.5 Television 1.6 Other 2 See also

Surname

Athletes

• Amy Cotton (born 1980), Canadian judoka
• Henry Cotton (golfer) (1907–1987), English golfer
• James Cotton (basketball) (born 1975), American basketball player
• James Cotton (gridiron football) (born 1978), American defensive end

Musicians

• Billy Cotton (1899–1969), British band leader
• James Cotton (born 1935), American blues musician (harmonica)
• Paul Cotton (musician) (born 1943), American guitar player

Politicians and nobility

• George W. Cotton (1821–1892), South Australian politician
• Paul Cotton (diplomat) (born 1930), New Zealand diplomat
• One of the Cotton Baronets

Science and engineering

• Aimé Cotton (1869–1951), French scientist
  • Cotton effect, named after him
• Sir Arthur Cotton (1803–1899), British general and engineer famous for his work in India
• Arthur Disbrowe Cotton (1879–1962), botanist, species author Cotton and a president of the British Mycological Society
• Charles Cotton (geologist), New Zealand geologist
• Émile Cotton (1872–1950), French mathematician, discoverer of the Cotton tensor. Brother of Aimé Auguste Cotton
• F. Albert Cotton (1930–2007), American inorganic chemist

Television

• Antony Cotton (born 1975), British actor, best known for his roles in Coronation Street and Queer as Folk (UK)
• Bill Cotton (1928–2008), British television executive, World War I pilot
• Fearne Cotton (born 1981), English television presenter and radio 1 DJ

Other

• Charles Cotton (1630–1687), poet
• John Cotton (Puritan) (1585–1652), clergyman
  • Cotton Mather (1663–1728), his grandson
• Mary Ann Cotton (1832–1873), British serial killer
• Richard Lynch Cotton (1794–1880), British vicar and university administrator
• Robert Cotton (disambiguation), a disambiguation page for various men with this name
• Sir Sydney Cotton (1792–1874), British Army officer.
• William Cotton (disambiguation), a disambiguation page for various men with this name

See also

• Coton (disambiguation)
• Cotten
• List of Old English (Anglo-Saxon) surnames

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