Columbia Information

Columbia may refer to:

General use

• Columbia (name), a poetic name for the Americas, and the feminine personification of the United States of America
• All pages with titles containing "Columbia"

Companies

Music and entertainment

• Columbia Records, an American record label founded in 1888, now owned by Sony Music Entertainment
  • Columbia Symphony Orchestra, a former part of the Columbia Records company
• Columbia Graphophone Company, a now-defunct British record company and label
• Columbia Music Entertainment, a Japanese record company
• Columbia Pictures
  • Columbia Pictures Television
    • CBS Columbia Square, in Hollywood, California, West Coast home of CBS radio and television
    • Columbia TriStar Television

Companies and organizations

• Columbia Aircraft, taken over by Cessna
• Columbia Aircraft Corp, originally Columbia Air Liners Inc.
• Columbia Bicycles of Hartford, Connecticut
  • Columbia Automobile Company (1899–1913), originally expanded from the bicycle line
• Columbia Brewery in Canada
• Columbia Broadcasting System, CBS radio and television networks
  • Columbia Artists Management
• Columbia Comics
• Columbia Data Products
• Columbia Forest Products
• Columbia Games
• Columbia Gas Transmission, a gas pipeline between the U.S. Gulf Coast and New York
• Columbia Helicopters, based in Aurora, Oregon
• Columbia Industries
• Columbia Insurance Group
• Columbia Management Group
• Columbia Motors of Detroit, Michigan (1917–1924)
• Columbia Power Corporation, Canada
• Columbia Railway, historic Washington, D.C. streetcar company
• Columbia Sportswear, formerly the Columbia Hat Company
  • Team Columbia, a professional cycling team sponsored by Columbia Sportswear
• Columbia Transit, bus company serving Columbia, Missouri
• Columbia University Press, affiliated with Columbia University and publisher of Columbia Encyclopedia

Music

• "Columbia", a song on the 1994 Oasis album Definitely Maybe
• "Columbia", a song by Paul van Dyk on the 2000 album Out There and Back
• "Columbia", a song on the Eric Johnson album Bloom
• Columbia: Live at Missouri University, a 1993 live album by American power pop group Big Star
• "Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean", an American patriotic song
• "Hail, Columbia", an American patriotic song and unofficial national anthem until 1931

People

• Al Columbia, American artist, writer and cartoonist
• Columbia Lancaster (1803–1893), a delegate from the Territory of Washington
• Columbia, a fictional character in The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Places

United States

• Columbia (municipality), name of municipalities in several states

California

• Columbia, San Diego, California, a neighborhood

District of Columbia

• District of Columbia, the federal district in which the capital of the United States is located

Other geographical uses

• Columbia (electoral district), a provincial electoral district in British Columbia
• Columbia (supercontinent)
• Columbia City (disambiguation), in several states
• Columbia County (disambiguation), in several states
• Columbia Island (disambiguation), in New York and the District of Columbia
• Columbia Mall (disambiguation), in several states
• Columbia Township (disambiguation), in several states
• 327 Columbia, an asteroid discovered in 1892
• Camp Columbia, a United States Army post in Australia during World War II

Schools

• Columbia University, New York City
  • Columbia College (Columbia University), the first main undergraduate college
  • Columbia School of Engineering and Applied Science, the second main undergraduate college
  • Columbia University School of General Studies, the undergraduate college for non-traditional students
  • Columbia Law School, New York City
  • Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York City
  • Teachers College, Columbia University, New York City
  • Columbia Business School, New York City
    • Columbia Institute for Tele-Information, New York City
• Columbia International University, Columbia, South Carolina
• Columbia College (disambiguation)
• Columbia Bible College (Abbotsford, British Columbia)
• Columbia Theological Seminary, formerly in Columbia, now in Decatur, Georgia
• Columbia Grammar & Preparatory School, New York City
• Columbia High School (disambiguation)
• Columbia Independent School, Columbia, Missouri
• Columbia Middle School in Grovetown, Georgia
• Columbia University, a former name of the University of Portland

School districts

• Columbia Elementary School District, Redding, California
• Columbia School District (Mississippi)
• Columbia Public Schools, Columbia, Missouri

Transportation

Ships

• Columbia (Arrow Lakes sternwheeler)
• Columbia (barque), in the service of the Hudson's Bay Company on the Columbia River and Pacific Northwest coast
• USS Columbia, any of several ships of the US Navy
  • Columbia-class cruiser, a group of two protected cruisers used by the United States Navy, 1890–91
  • CSS Columbia, a Confederate (and later U.S. Navy) ironclad ram during the Civil War
• HMCS Columbia, any of several commissioned vessels of the Canadian Navy
• Columbia (yacht), any of several America's Cup race winners/contenders
• Lightship Columbia, the first lightship on the Pacific coast of the United States, docked in Astoria, Oregon
• MV Columbia, a large passenger and automobile ferry in the Alaska Marine Highway System fleet
• SS Columbia, a historic excursion steamer docked in Ecorse, Michigan, United States
• Columbia Rediviva, a ship under Captain Robert Gray, best known for going to the Pacific Northwest of America

Spacecraft

• Space Shuttle Columbia
• Columbia (Star Trek), a fictional starship in the series Star Trek: Enterprise
• Columbia, the Command/Service Module for the Apollo 11 mission
• Columbia, a fictional battlestar from both versions of the Battlestar Galactica TV series

Other transportation

• Columbia JL, a large amphibian aircraft built only as three prototypes
• Wright-Bellanca WB-2 Columbia, the airplane piloted by Clarence Duncan Chamberlin, the second person to fly solo across the Atlantic
• Columbia, another name for the 2-4-2 classification of steam locomotives, named for an early locomotive of this type called Columbia

Amusement parks

• Columbia Carousel, carousels in amusement parks
• Sailing Ship Columbia, a themed ride at Disneyland in California

Publications

• Columbia Encyclopedia, one-volume encyclopedia published by Columbia University Press
• Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art, annual literary journal founded in 1977 and published by Columbia University

Other uses

• Columbia (sheep), an American breed of sheep
• Columbia (supercomputer), named for the space shuttle
• Columbia (BioShock), a fictional location in the video game BioShock Infinite
• Columbia Airlines, fictional airline from the film Airport 1975

See also

• Colombia (disambiguation)
• Columba (disambiguation)
• Columbiad, a type of large-caliber cannon from the 19th century
• Columbian (disambiguation)
• Columbiana (disambiguation)
• Columbus (disambiguation)
• Saint Columba
• Saint Columbanus
• Columbium, former name for the element Niobium

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