Famous People with Name Colin

Colin Lewes Hanks            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Colin Lewes Hanks: Hanks's best known film role may be in the successful teen movie Orange County (2002), with Jack Black and John Lithgow . His best known television role was as a main character (Alex Whitman) in the science fiction television series Roswell between 1999 and 2001. Hanks also made an appearance in an episode of The OC. He has appeared in the HBO series Band of Brothers. He most recently starred in the crime thriller Untraceable with Diane Lane. He played an FBI agent named Griffin who works closely with his colleague and friend in the movie, Diane Lane.

Colin Fyfe Miller            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Colin Fyfe Miller: a Scottish-born Canadian professional football coach who captained the Canadian national team several times while earning 61 caps in tota.Moving to Vancouver as a youth, Miller began his professional playing career as an 18 year old, joining the Toronto Blizzard of the NASL in 1982. After playing 23 games over three seasons with the Blizzard, Miller joined Scottish giants Rangers, where he spent the 1984-85 and 1985-86 seasons, appearing in four first-team games.

Colin Munro MacLeod            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Colin Munro MacLeod: was a Canadian-American geneticist.In his early years as a research scientist, MacLeod, together with Oswald Avery and Maclyn McCarty, demonstrated that DNA is the active component responsible for bacterial transformation—and in retrospect, the physical basis of the gene. In 1941, Avery and MacLeod had separated a crude extract from the pneumonia-causing S (‘smooth’) strain of the bacteria. The S strain extract could convert the far more benign R (‘rough’) strain of pneumocci to the disease-causing S form. Later that year, McCarty joined the Avery laboratory, and in 1942,

Colin Campbell Cooper, Jr.            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Colin Campbell Cooper, Jr.: was an American Impressionist painter.Cooper was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Dr. Colin Campbell Cooper and Emily William Cooper. He studied art at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts under Thomas Eakins, and at Académie Julian in Paris.

Colin Luther Powell            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Colin Luther Powell: is an American statesman and a retired four-star general in the United States Army. He was the 65th United States Secretary of State (2001-2005), serving under President George W. Bush. He was the first African American appointed to that position.[1][2][3][4] During his military career, Powell also served as National Security Advisor (1987–1989), as Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Army Forces Command (1989) and as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (1989–1993), holding the latter position during the Gulf War. He was the first, and so far the only, African American to serve on the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Margaret Colin            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Margaret Colin: After graduating from Hofstra University, Colin began her acting career in the soap opera The Edge of Night, playing an heiress and former terrorist. In seven months on that show, her character survived seven murder attempts and ended up marrying her stepbrother. She followed that role with a longer stint on As the World Turns, originating the role of Margo Montgomery, a character that is still part of that show more than 20 years later.