Coligny
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Coligny may refer to:
People
- Coligny Brainerd Metheny (1889-1960), played football and basketball for Carnegie Tech
- House of Coligny, a French noble family, and its most famous members:
- Gaspard I de Coligny (1465/1470–1522), known as the Marshal of Châtillon, a French soldier
- Odet de Coligny (1517–1571), French cardinal of Châtillon, bishop of Beauvais
- Gaspard II de Coligny (1519–1572), Seigneur (Lord) de Châtillon, admiral of France and Protestant leader
- François de Coligny d'Andelot (1521–1569), one of the leaders of French Protestantism during the French Wars of Religion
- Louise de Coligny (1555-1620), daughter of Gaspard II de Coligny
- François de Coligny (1557–1591), Protestant general during the Wars of Religion
- Gaspard III de Coligny (1584–1646), Protestant general
- Jean de Coligny-Saligny (1617–1686), French nobleman and army commander
- Henriette de Coligny de La Suze (1618-1673), French writer
Places
- Coligny, Ain, a commune in France
- Canton of Coligny, a administrative division in the Ain department, France, disbanded in 2015
- Colligny, formerly spelled Coligny, a municipality in the Moselle department, France
- Coligny, North West, a maize farming town between Lichtenburg and Johannesburg, North West Province, South Africa
Other
- Coligny calendar, a 1st-century lunisolar calendar
- Coligny Commando, a light infantry regiment of the South African Army
- Fort Coligny, a fortress founded by Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1555
- Coligny-Welch signal lamp, as used on Railway semaphore signal
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