Colvill

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Colvill may refer to:

  • David Colvill Anderson VRD QC (1916–1995), Scottish law lecturer, advocate, Unionist MP, Solicitor General for Scotland, and judge
  • Aoife Colvill (born 2000), Irish Australian football forward
  • Clerk Colvill, fictional character in Child ballad 42 who dies after being seduced by a mermaid
  • William Colvill (1612–1675), 17th-century Scottish minister, scholar, Principal of the University of Edinburgh from 1662 to 1675
  • William J. Colvill (1830–1905), American Union colonel in the American Civil War who led the 1st Minnesota Volunteer Infantry in the Battle of Gettysburg
  • Lord Colvill of Ochiltree, title in the Peerage of Scotland, created by the exiled King Charles II on 4 January 1651

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