All over the world, Colonel (Colonel 
, เอกพัน 
, Colonnello 
) is quite a rare masculine given name. The first name Colonel is characteristic of Thailand, where it is a rare masculine name, Ethiopia, and Pakistan. Much less frequently, Colonel is the last name as well as the forename.
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| Colonel | Kenya, Pakistan, United Kingdom, United States, United Arab Emirates |
| เอกพัน | Thailand |
| Colonnello | Italy, France, United States, South Africa, Argentina |
Colonel is also a prevalent name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Colonel Kurtz , the main antagonist of Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now; Colonel Fitzwilliam , the fictional character from Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Pride & Prejudice; Colonel Hathi , the fictional elephant from Disney's "The Jungle Book"; Colonel Forster , the fictional character from Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and Colonel Race , the Hercule Poirot, Death on the Nile, and in many other works.
| colonel otto schulman, 1.lord of lydershagen, elmenhorst, tumala and roobaka 29 Sep 1601 Saaremaa Osilia, Estonia - 24 Nov 1653 Stockholm (b. 1601) |
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| colonel mauritz andersån, 1.lord of ekströmmen, governor of kronoberg 10 May 1603 - 26 Mar 1655 Ekströmmen, Rappestad, Ostrogothia, Sweden (b. 1603) |
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| colonel vincentz bildt, lord of ness 1606 - 15 Mar 1658 (b. 1606) |
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| colonel richard newman English Barrister (b. 1625) |
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| colonel david christoph montgomery - 1708 (b. 1642) |
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| colonel walter smith (1655-1711) (b. 1654) |
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| colonel otto ernesti taube, co-heir of pyhäljärvi 1682 - 5 Feb 1732 Kangasala, northern Tavastia (b. 1682) |
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| colonel cole digges (1692-1744) (b. 1692) |
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| colonel william daingerfield, jr (1710-1769) (b. 1709) |
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| colonel george carrington, sr (1711-1785) (b. 1711) |
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| colonel augustine claiborne (1721-1787) (b. 1721) |
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| colonel frederick Pseudonym of the 18th-century author of Memoirs of Corsica (b. 1725) |
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| colonel charles pinckney American politician (b. 1732) |
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| colonel jeptha atherton American politician and soldier, US (b. 1733) |
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| colonel david vance American army commander, US (b. 1745) |
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