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Cotton could be:
[edit] People
- Aimé Auguste Cotton (1869–1951), French scientist, discovered the Cotton effect (in 1895) and Cotton-Mouton effects
- Billy Cotton, British band leader.
- Charles Cotton, poet.
- Charles Cotton, New Zealand geologist.
- F. Albert Cotton, Inorganic Chemist
- Henry Cotton, Psychiatrist
- Mary Ann Cotton, British serial killer.
- Robert Cotton (MP), English politician
- Robert Bruce Cotton, collector of the Cottonian library
- William Cotton
- One of the Cotton Baronets
[edit] Places
[edit] Fiction
[edit] Etymology
- As a placename, "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
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