Cotton (disambiguation)
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Cotton could be:
- Cotton, the textile fiber
- Gossypium, the cotton plant
- Cotton (video game), a series of video games
- Cotton (motorcycle), British motorcycle manufacturer
[edit] 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
- Henry Cotton, British golfer
- Mary Ann Cotton, British serial killer
- Robert Cotton, various
- William Cotton, various
- Cotton Mather, 17th century Puritan minister
- One of the Cotton Baronets
[edit] Places
- Coton, Staffordshire
- Cotton, Suffolk
[edit] 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
[edit] 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.
[edit] See also
de:Cottonfr:Cotton it:Cotone ja:コットン (曖昧さ回避) pl:Cotton
