Columba (given name)

Columba is a unisex given name meaning dove which may refer to:

Religious figures

 * Columba (521–597), Irish prince who evangelised the Picts, and one of Scotland's patron saints
 * Columba of Rieti (1467–1501), Dominican beatified mystic
 * Columba of Sens (c. 257 – 273), saint and martyr
 * Columba of Spain (died c. 853), nun, saint and martyr
 * Columba of Terryglass (died 553), saint and one of the Twelve Apostles of Ireland
 * Columba the Virgin, Christian saint who probably lived in the 6th century
 * Columba Cary-Elwes (1903–1994), English priest, missionary and author
 * Columba de Dunbar (c. 1386 – 1435), Bishop of Moray
 * Columba Marmion (1858–1923), beatified Irish monk and third abbot of Maredsous Abbey
 * Columba Murphy, Irish Roman Catholic priest
 * Columba Ryan (1916–2009), Dominican priest and philosophy teacher
 * Columba Stewart (born 1957), American Benedictine monk and scholar

Other

 * Columba Blango (politician) (born 1956), former decathlete and Mayor of Southwark
 * Columba Blango (paralympian) (born 1992), British parasports runner
 * Columba Bush (born 1953), wife of former Florida Governor Jeb Bush and sister-in-law of President George W. Bush
 * Columba Domínguez (born 1929), Mexican retired actress
 * Columba McDyer (1921–2001), Gaelic football player
 * Columba McVeigh (1958–1975), Northern Irish teenager murdered by the IRA