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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, a city in the U.S. State of Georgia

Columbus may also refer to:

Places

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-most populous 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)

Persons with the name

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

Arts, entertainment, and media

Films

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

Music

Opera

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

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

* Columbus (novel), ''Columbus'' (novel), a 1941 novel about Christopher Columbus by Rafael Sabatini
* Columbus (Bartholdi), ''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 ship), ''Columbus'' (1824), a disposable ship built to transport lumber from North America to Britain
* MS Columbus, MS ''Columbus'', a cruise ship owned by Plantours & Partner GmbH
* MV Columbus, MV ''Columbus'', a cruise ship owned by Seajets
* SS Christopher Columbus, SS ''Christopher Columbus'', Great Lakes excursion liner (1893–1933)
* SS City of Columbus, SS ''City of Columbus'', a passenger steamer that sailed from Boston to Savannah and sank off Martha's Vineyard in 1884
* SS Columbus (1873), SS ''Columbus'' (1873), an American merchantman converted in 1878 into the Russian cruiser ''Asia''
* SS Columbus (1924), SS ''Columbus'' (1924), a transatlantic ocean liner for the North German Lloyd steamship line
* USS Columbus, USS ''Columbus'', various ships of the US Navy

Other uses

* Columbus hops, a List of hop varieties#Columbus, 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

See also

* Christopher Columbus (disambiguation)
* Columbus City Hall (disambiguation)
* Columba
* Columbia (disambiguation)
* Columbus Day
* List of places named for Christopher Columbus
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