Colvin (surname)

Colvin is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• Addison B. Colvin (1858–1939), American businessman, banker and politician
• Andrew Colvin, Australian police commissioner
• Andrew J. Colvin (1808–1889), American lawyer and politician from New York
• Bobby Colvin (1876–1940), Scottish footballer
• Brock Colvin (born c. 1995), American politician from Alabama
• Clare Colvin, British writer, daughter of Ian Colvin
• Claudette Colvin (1939–2026), American activist for African American rights
• D. Leigh Colvin (1880–1959), American politician, active in the temperance movement
• Dora Colvin, American trucker
• Douglas Glenn Colvin (1951–2002), real name of American musician Dee Dee Ramone
• Edwin A. Colvin (1927–2015), American politician
• Elliott Colvin (1836–1883), British Commissioner in Meerut
• Elliot Colvin (died 1940) (1861–1940), British civil servant
• Elliot James Dowell Colvin (1885–1950), British Indian Army officer
• Fred H. Colvin (1867–1965), American machinist and writer
• Harvey Doolittle Colvin (1815–1892), American politician
• Holly Colvin (born 1989), English cricketer
• Howard Colvin (1919–2007), British architectural historian and writer
• Hugh Colvin (1887–1962), British soldier
• Ian Colvin (1877–1938), British journalist
• Irene Colvin Corbett (1881–1912), American nurse and musician who died on the Titanic
• Jack Colvin (1934–2005), American actor
• James Colvin (1844–1919), New Zealand politician
• James Colvin (pseudonym), pseudonym used by Michael Moorcock
• James Morris Colquhoun Colvin (1870–1945), British Army officer
• Jim Colvin (1937–2019), American football player
• John Colvin (diplomat) (1922–2003), British diplomat and spy
• John Colvin (engineer) (1794–1871), built canals in northern India
• John O. Colvin (1946–2024), American judge
• John Russell Colvin (1807–1857), British administrator in India, and his sons:

• Sir Auckland Colvin (1838–1908), British civil servant; founder of Colvin Taluqdars' College
• Walter Mytton Colvin (1847–1908), British colonial administrator

• Kathryn Colvin (born 1945), British diplomat
• Marie Colvin (1957–2012), American journalist
• Mark Colvin (1952–2017), Australian broadcaster
• Mary Colvin (1907–1988), director of the British Women's Royal Army Corps
• Michael Colvin (1932–2000), British politician
• Mike Colvin, American politician
• Monty Colvin, American musician in the band Galactic Cowboys
• Sir Ragnar Colvin (1882–1954), British and Australian admiral
• Richard Colvin (UK MP) (1856–1936), British politician
• Richard Colvin (diplomat) (born 1969), British-born Canadian diplomat
• Rosevelt Colvin (born 1977), American football player
• Ruth Johnson Colvin (1916–2024), American philanthropist
• Sarah Colvin (born 1967), British scholar of German, literary theory, and gender studies
• Sarah Tarleton Colvin (1865–1949), American nurse and activist
• Shawn Colvin (born 1956), American musician
• Sir Sidney Colvin (1845–1927), British critic, curator, and friend of Robert Louis Stevenson
• Verplanck Colvin (1847–1920), American surveyor and champion of the Adirondacks

• Colvin G. Butler (1872–1961), American farmer, Presbyterian clergyman, and politician
• Colvin family, Anglo-Indian administrators and soldiers