Columba (given name)

Columba is a unisex given name meaning dove which may refer to:

Religious figures

• Columba (521–597), Irish prince who evangelised the Picts, and one of Scotland's patron saints
• Columba of Rieti (1467–1501), Dominican beatified mystic
• Columba of Sens (273), saint and martyr
• Columba of Spain (died ), nun, saint and martyr
• Columba of Terryglass (died 553), saint and one of the Twelve Apostles of Ireland
• Columba the Virgin, Christian saint who probably lived in the 6th century
• Columba Cary-Elwes (1903–1994), English priest, missionary and author
• Columba de Dunbar (1435), Bishop of Moray
• Columba Marmion (1858–1923), beatified Irish monk and third abbot of Maredsous Abbey
• Columba Murphy (), Irish Roman Catholic priest
• Columba Ryan (1916–2009), Dominican priest and philosophy teacher
• Columba Stewart (born 1957), American Benedictine monk and scholar

Other

• Columba Blango (politician) (born 1956), former decathlete and Mayor of Southwark
• Columba Blango (paralympian) (born 1992), British parasports runner
• Columba Bush (born 1953), wife of former Florida Governor Jeb Bush and sister-in-law of President George W. Bush
• Columba Domínguez (born 1929), Mexican retired actress
• Columba McDyer (1921–2001), Gaelic football player
• Columba McVeigh (1958–1975), Northern Irish teenager murdered by the IRA

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