Coligny

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, an 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 near Lichtenburg, North West Province, South Africa
• Coligny Beach Park, an oceanside park with landscaped walking & biking paths on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina.

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

See also

• Cologny
• Cologna (disambiguation)
• Cologne (disambiguation)
• Cologno (disambiguation)