Colvin (surname)

Colvin is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:


 * Addison B. Colvin (1858–1939), American banker and politician
 * Andrew Colvin, Commissioner of the Australian Federal Police
 * Andrew J. Colvin (1808–1889), New York lawyer and politician
 * Bobby Colvin (1876–1940), Scottish footballer (Liverpool FC)
 * Brock Colvin (~1995-), member of the Alabama House of Representatives
 * Clare Colvin, British writer, daughter of Ian Colvin
 * Claudette Colvin (born 1939), American activist for African American rights
 * D. Leigh Colvin (1880–1959), American politician, active in the temperance movement
 * Dora Colvin, American trucker, pioneering woman in the occupation
 * Douglas Glenn Colvin (1951–2002), real name of American musician Dee Dee Ramone
 * Edwin A. Colvin, American politician
 * Elliott Colvin (died 1883), Meerut's Commissioner in the early 1880s
 * Elliot Colvin (died 1940) (1861–1940), British civil servant
 * Elliot James Dowell Colvin (1885–1950), British Indian Army officer
 * Fred H. Colvin (1867–1965), American machinist and writer
 * Harvey Doolittle Colvin (1815–1892), American politician
 * Holly Colvin (born 1989), English cricketer
 * Howard Colvin (1919–2007), British architectural historian and writer
 * Hugh Colvin (1887–1962), British soldier
 * Ian Colvin (1877–1938), British journalist
 * Jack Colvin (1934–2005), American actor
 * James Colvin (1844–1919), New Zealand MP
 * James Colvin (pseudonym), pseudonym used by Michael Moorcock
 * James Morris Colquhoun Colvin (1870–1945), British Army officer
 * John Colvin (diplomat) (1922–2003), British diplomat and spy
 * John Colvin (engineer) (1794–1871), built canals in northern India
 * John Colvin (politician), Speaker of the South Dakota House of Representatives
 * John O. Colvin (born 1946), American judge
 * John Russell Colvin (1807–1857), British administrator in India, and his sons:
 * Sir Auckland Colvin (1838–1908), British civil servant; founder of Colvin Taluqdars' College
 * Walter Mytton Colvin (1847–1908), British colonial administrator


 * Kathryn Colvin (born 1945), British diplomat
 * Marie Colvin (1957–2012), American journalist
 * Mark Colvin (1952–2017), Australian broadcaster
 * Mary Colvin (1907–1988), director of the British Women's Royal Army Corps
 * Michael Colvin (1932–2000), British MP
 * Monty Colvin, American musician in the band Galactic Cowboys
 * Sir Ragnar Colvin (1882–1954), British and Australian admiral
 * Richard Colvin (UK MP) (1856–1936), British MP
 * Richard Colvin (diplomat) (born 1969), Canadian diplomat of British birth
 * Rosevelt Colvin (born 1977), American football player
 * Sarah Colvin (born 1967), British scholar of German, literary theory, and gender studies
 * Sarah Tarleton Colvin (1865–1949), American nurse and activist
 * Shawn Colvin (born 1956), American musician
 * Sir Sidney Colvin (1845–1927), British critic, curator, and friend of Robert Louis Stevenson
 * Verplanck Colvin (1847–1920), American surveyor and champion of the Adirondacks