List of Famous people with last name Collins
Eileen Collins
Eileen Marie Collins is a retired NASA astronaut and United States Air Force colonel. A former military instructor and test pilot, Collins was the first female pilot and first female commander of a Space Shuttle. She was awarded several medals for her work. Colonel Collins has logged 38 days 8 hours and 20 minutes in outer space. Collins retired on May 1, 2006, to pursue private interests, including service as a board member of USAA.
Zaven Collins
Zaven Collins is an American football linebacker for the Arizona Cardinals of the National Football League. He played college football at Tulsa, where he was named a unanimous All-American and won several defensive player of the year awards in 2020. He was drafted by the Cardinals in the first round of the 2021 NFL Draft.
Geoff Collins
William Geoffrey Collins is an American football coach and former player. On December 7, 2018, Collins was announced as the head coach at Georgia Tech. He was previously the head coach at Temple University, and had served in the past as defensive coordinator for the University of Florida and Mississippi State University.
Edwyn Collins
Edwyn Stephen Collins is a Scottish musician, producer and record label owner from Edinburgh, Scotland. Collins was the lead singer for the 1980s post-punk band Orange Juice, which he co-founded. After the group split in 1985, Collins started a solo career. His 1995 single "A Girl Like You" was a worldwide hit.
Corny Collins
Corny Collins is a former German stage, film and television actress. She was married to the actor Christian Wolff.
James Collins
James Michael Collins is a Welsh former professional footballer who played as a defender.
Judy Collins
Judith Marjorie Collins is a Grammy Award-winning American singer and songwriter with a career spanning over 60 years. She is known for her eclectic tastes in the material she records and for her social activism. Collins has released 28 studio albums, 4 live albums, numerous compilation albums and 4 holiday albums.
Bill Collins
William Roderick Collins was an Australian film critic and film historian, radio and television presenter, journalist, author and lecturer best known for presenting Hollywood films on television in Australia. He specialised in the Classical Hollywood cinema, and his favourite film was Gone with the Wind. He was well known for his association with Network 10, presenting Bill Collins' Golden Years of Hollywood for fifteen years, and later with Foxtel, presenting movies on the cable channel FOX Classics from 1995 to 2018.
Steve Collins
Stephen Collins is an Irish former professional boxer who competed from 1986 to 1997. Known as The Celtic Warrior Collins is the most successful Irish boxer in recent professional boxing history, having held the WBO middleweight and super-middleweight titles simultaneously and never losing a fight as champion.
Peter Collins
Peter John Collins was a British racing driver. He was killed in the 1958 German Grand Prix, just weeks after winning the RAC British Grand Prix. He started his career as a 17-year-old in 1949, impressing in Formula 3 races, finishing third in the 1951 Autosport National Formula 3 Championship.