The Colonel

The Colonel or the Colonels can refer to:

People

 * Colonel Sanders, the founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC)
 * Colonel Tom Parker, Elvis Presley's manager
 * Jean-Charles Langlois, a 19th-century French soldier and painter

Arts

 * The Colonel (play), an 1881 play by F.C. Burnand
 * The Colonel (1917 film), a film directed by Michael Curtiz
 * The Colonel (1974 film), a film directed by Chatrichalerm Yukol
 * The Colonel (2006 film), a film directed by Laurent Herbiet
 * The Colonel (2016 film), a film directed by Tim Williams
 * The Colonel (Monty Python), a recurring character in Monty Python's Flying Circus, played by Graham Chapman
 * The Colonel (One Hundred and One Dalmatians), character in the story One Hundred and One Dalmatians
 * "The Colonel" (The Americans), an episode of the television series The Americans
 * The Colonel, a character in the Conker series of video games
 * The Colonel, the alias used by Colin Moulding of the band XTC for the 1980 single release of Too Many Cooks in the Kitchen
 * The Colonel, the nickname of a character in the John Green novel Looking for Alaska
 * The Colonel, a novel by Mahmoud Dowlatabadi
 * The Colonel, the short form of the title for Alanna Nash's book The Colonel: The Extraordinary Story of Colonel Tom Parker and Elvis Presley

Other

 * The Colonel, informal name for anyone with the military rank of colonel, whether actively serving or retired. See also Kentucky colonel
 * The Colonel (horse), a thoroughbred racehorse

The Colonels

 * The Colonels, a 1986 novel by W.E.B. Griffin
 * The Colonels, the regime of Polish colonels during the period 1926-1939
 * The Colonels, the Greek military junta of 1967–1974
 * The Colonels, rule by senior military officials, see military junta