Columbine may refer to:

Places

Columbine, Colorado Columbine is a census-designated place (CDP) in and governed by Jefferson County, Colorado, Jefferson and Arapahoe County, Colorado, Arapahoe counties in Colorado, United States. The CDP is a part of the Denver–Aurora–Lakewood, CO Metropo ...

, a census-designate place in Jefferson and Arapahoe counties in Colorado, United States **

Columbine High School Columbine High School (CHS) is a public high school in Columbine, Colorado, United States, in the Denver metropolitan area. It is part of the Jefferson County Public Schools district. In 1999, it became the scene of an infamous mass shooti ...

, a high school in Columbine, Colorado, United States ***

Columbine Memorial The Columbine Memorial is a memorial in Littleton, Colorado, that honors the deceased and injured victims, survivors, rescuers, and all who were affected by the Columbine High School massacre on April 20, 1999. The memorial is located in Clem ...

, a memorial in Columbine, Colorado, United States, commemorating the Columbine High School massacre *

Columbine, Routt County, Colorado Columbine or Columbine Gold Camp is a former gold mining community in Routt County, Colorado, United States (near Clark, Colorado). Now it is an unincorporated community, historic district, and a rental cabin resort. It dates from around 1895. ...

, an unincorporated community and historic district in Routt County, Colorado, United States * Columbine Peak, a mountain in California

Massacres

Columbine High School massacre A school shooting and attempted bombing occurred on April 20, 1999, at Columbine High School in Columbine, Colorado, United States. The perpetrators, twelfth-grade students Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, murdered 13 students and one teach ...

, a 1999 school shooting in Columbine, Colorado *

Columbine Mine massacre The Columbine Mine massacre occurred in 1927, in the town of Serene, Colorado. In the midst of the 1927–1928 Colorado Coal Strike across the state, workers had been picketing one of the few remaining operating mines, in Serene. A fight br ...

, occurring during a 1927 strike by coal miners

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictitious characters

Columbine (stock character) Columbine (Italian: Colombina; French: Colombine; ) is a stock character in the commedia dell'arte. She is Harlequin's mistress, a comic servant playing the tricky slave type, and wife of Pierrot. Rudlin and Crick use the Italian spelling Colom ...

or Columbina, a stock character in the Commedia dell'arte * Columbine, a stock character in ''Harlequinade''

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

* ''Columbine'' (album), an album by Aura Dione * ''Columbine'' (book), a 2009 book about the school shooting * ''Columbine'', a 1950 painting by

Max Beckmann Max Carl Friedrich Beckmann (February 12, 1884 – December 27, 1950) was a German painter, drawing, draftsman, printmaker, sculpture, sculptor, and writer. Although he is classified as an Expressionist artist, he rejected both the term and the m ...

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Bowling for Columbine ''Bowling for Columbine'' is a 2002 documentary film written, produced, directed, and narrated by Michael Moore. The documentary film explores what Moore suggests are the primary causes for the Columbine High School massacre in 1999 and other a ...

'', a 2002 film about the school shooting * , a French hip-hop band

Biology

Columbine (plant) ''Aquilegia'', commonly known as columbines, is a genus of perennial flowering plants in the family Ranunculaceae (buttercups). The genus includes between 80 and 400 taxa ( described species and subspecies) with natural ranges across the Northe ...

or ''Aquilegia'', a genus of flowers * ''

Stiboges nymphidia ''Stiboges nymphidia'', the columbine, is a small but striking butterfly found in the Indomalayan realm that belongs to metalmark butterflies (family Riodinidae), related to Punches and Judies. It is the sole member of the genus ''Stiboges'' B ...

'' or columbine, a metalmark butterfly * Columbine, pertaining to birds of the family ''

Columbidae Columbidae is a bird Family (biology), family consisting of doves and pigeons. It is the only family in the Order (biology), order Columbiformes. These are stout-bodied birds with small heads, relatively short necks and slender bills that in ...

'' (doves and pigeons)

People

* Edward H. Columbine, British naval officer

Transportation

* ''Columbine'', a locomotive of the

Grand Junction Railway The Grand Junction Railway (GJR) was an early railway company in the United Kingdom, which existed between 1833 and 1846. The line built by the company, which opened in 1837, linked the Liverpool and Manchester Railway to Birmingham via Warri ...

* ''Columbine'', a former passenger service operated by

Union Pacific Railroad The Union Pacific Railroad is a Railroad classes, Class I freight-hauling railroad that operates 8,300 locomotives over routes in 23 U.S. states west of Chicago and New Orleans. Union Pacific is the second largest railroad in the United Stat ...

* ''Columbine II'' and ''Columbine III'', the

Lockheed Constellation The Lockheed Constellation ("Connie") is a propeller-driven, four-engined airliner built by Lockheed Corporation starting in 1943. The Constellation series was the first civil airliner family to enter widespread use equipped with a pressurized cab ...

presidential aircraft used by US president Dwight D. Eisenhower * HMS ''Columbine'', a list of ships of the Royal Navy ** HMS ''Columbine'' (1806), an 18-gun Cruizer-class brig-sloop * HMS ''Wild Swan'' (1876) or HMS ''Columbine'', an Osprey-class screw sloop

Other uses

* Columbine, a racehorse in the

1842 Grand National The 1842 Grand Liverpool Steeplechase was the fourth official annual running of a steeplechase, later to become known as the Grand National Steeplechase, a horse race Horse racing is an equestrian performance activity, typically in ...

Columbine effect The Columbine effect is the legacy and impact of the Columbine High School massacre ("Columbine"), which occurred on April 20, 1999, at Columbine High School in Columbine, Colorado. The shooting has had an effect on school safety, policing t ...

, the legacy and impact of the Columbine High School massacre