Columbus

Columbus is a Latinized version of the Italian surname "Colombo". It most commonly refers to:


 * Christopher Columbus (1451–1506), the Italian explorer
 * Columbus, Ohio, the capital city of the U.S. state of Ohio
 * Columbus, Georgia, the 2nd-largest city in the U.S. State of Georgia

Columbus may also refer to:

Extraterrestrial

 * Columbus (crater), a crater on Mars
 * Columbus (ISS module), the European module for the International Space Station
 * Columbus (spacecraft), a program to develop a European space station 1986–1991

Italy

 * Columbus (Rome), a residential district

United States

 * Columbus, Arkansas
 * Columbus, Georgia, the 119th-largest city in the United States, and the 2nd-largest in Georgia after Atlanta
 * Columbus, Illinois
 * Columbus, Indiana, known for modern architecture
 * Columbus, Kansas
 * Columbus, Kentucky
 * Columbus, Minnesota
 * Columbus, Mississippi
 * Columbus, Missouri
 * Columbus, Montana
 * Columbus, Nebraska
 * Columbus, New Jersey
 * Columbus, New Mexico
 * Columbus, New York
 * Columbus, North Carolina
 * Columbus, North Dakota
 * Columbus, Ohio, the largest city in the United States with this name
 * Columbus, Texas
 * Columbus, Wisconsin
 * Columbus (town), Wisconsin
 * Columbus Avenue (disambiguation)
 * Columbus Circle, a traffic circle in Manhattan, New York
 * Columbus City (disambiguation)
 * Columbus Township (disambiguation)

Forename

 * Columbus Caldwell (1830–1908), American politician
 * Columbus Germain (1827–1880), American politician
 * Columbus Short (born 1982), American choreographer and actor

Surname

 * Bartholomew Columbus (c. 1461–1515), Christopher Columbus' younger brother
 * Chris Columbus (filmmaker) (born 1958), American filmmaker
 * Diego Columbus (1479/80–1526), Christopher Columbus' eldest son
 * Ferdinand Columbus (1488–1539), Christopher Columbus' second son
 * Scott Columbus (1956–2011), long-time drummer for the heavy metal band Manowar

Films

 * Columbus (2015 film), an Indian comedy, subtitled "Discovering Love"
 * Columbus (2017 film), an American drama set amidst the architecture of Columbus, Indiana
 * Columbus (Star Trek), a shuttlecraft in the Star Trek series

Opera

 * Columbus (Egk), German-language opera by Egk, 1943
 * Columbus, 1855 opera by František Škroup
 * Christophe Colomb, French-language opera by Milhaud often referred to as Columbus in English sources

Other uses in music

 * Columbus (Herzogenberg), large scale cantata by Heinrich von Herzogenberg 1870
 * "Colombus", song by Mary Black from No Frontiers
 * "Columbus" (song), a song by the band Kent from their album Tillbaka till samtiden

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

 * Columbus (novel), a 1941 novel about Christopher Columbus by Rafael Sabatini
 * Columbus (Bartholdi), a statue depicting Christopher Columbus by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, in Providence, Rhode Island, US
 * Columbus Edwards, the character known as Lum of Lum and Abner

Brands and enterprises

 * COLUMBUS, ab initio quantum chemistry software
 * ColumBus, former name of Howard Transit in Howard County, Maryland
 * Columbus Communications, a cable television and broadband speed Internet service provider in the Caribbean region
 * Columbus Salame, an American food processing company
 * Columbus Tubing, an Italian manufacturer of bicycle frame tubing
 * Columbus Buggy Company, an American automotive manufacturer from 1875 to 1913

Ships

 * Columbus (1824), a disposable ship built to transport lumber from North America to Britain
 * MS Columbus, a cruise ship owned by Plantours & Partner GmbH
 * MV Columbus, a cruise ship owned by Seajets
 * SS Christopher Columbus, Great Lakes excursion liner (1893–1933)
 * SS City of Columbus, a passenger steamer that sailed from Boston to Savannah and sank off Martha's Vineyard in 1884
 * 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

Other uses

 * Columbus hops, a variety of hops
 * Generation of Columbuses, a generation of Poles born ca. 1920, who had to fight twenty years later
 * Columbus (shopping centre), a shopping centre in Vuosaari, Helsinki, Finland