Cotton_(disambiguation)

Cotton could be:

• Cotton, the textile fiber
• Gossypium, the cotton plant
• Cotton (video game), a series of video games
• Cotton (motorcycle), British motorcycle manufacturer

People

• Aimé Auguste Cotton (1869–1951), French scientist, discovered the Cotton effect (in 1895) and Cotton-Mouton effects
• Antony Cotton - British actor
• Arthur Cotton, British general and engineer famous for his work in India
• Billy Cotton, British band leader
• Bill Cotton, British Television Executive
• Charles Cotton, poet
• Charles Cotton (geologist), New Zealand geologist
• Émile Cotton, French mathematician, discoverer of the Cotton tensor
• F. Albert Cotton, inorganic chemist
• Fearne Cotton, English television presenter and DJ
• George W. Cotton, South Australian politician
• Henry Cotton, British golfer
• James Cotton (musician), American blues musician (harmonica)
• James Cotton (basketball), American basketball player
• James Cotton (football player), American football player (defensive end)
• Mary Ann Cotton, British serial killer
• Paul Cotton (diplomat), New Zealand diplomat
• Paul Cotton (musician), American guitar player
• Robert Cotton, various
• William Cotton, various
• Cotton Mather, 17th century Puritan minister
• One of the Cotton Baronets

Places

• Coton, Staffordshire
• Cotton, Suffolk

Fiction

• Cotton, the family of Hobbits
• Cotton Hill, a character on King of the Hill
• Cotton (Pirates), a character in the "Pirates of the Caribbean" film trilogy

Etymology

• As a place name, "Cotton" came from Anglo-Saxon cot-tūn = "cottage farmstead".
• As a surname, it came from the placename.
• As the plant and the textile, it came from Arabic quţun.

See also

• List of Old English (Anglo-Saxon) surnames
• Coton

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