The Colonel or the Colonels can refer to:

People

• Colonel Sanders, the founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC)
• Colonel Tom Parker, Elvis Presley's manager
• Jean-Charles Langlois, a 19th-century French soldier and painter

Arts

• The Colonel (play), an 1881 play by F.C. Burnand
• The Colonel (1917 film), a film directed by Michael Curtiz
• The Colonel (1974 film), a film directed by Chatrichalerm Yukol
• The Colonel (2006 film), a film directed by Laurent Herbiet
• The Colonel (2016 film), a film directed by Tim Williams
• The Colonel (Monty Python), a recurring character in Monty Python's Flying Circus, played by Graham Chapman
• The Colonel (One Hundred and One Dalmatians), character in the story One Hundred and One Dalmatians
• "The Colonel" (The Americans), the thirteenth episode of the television series The Americans
• The Colonel, a character in the Conker series of video games
• The Colonel, the alias used by Colin Moulding of the band XTC for the 1980 single release of Too Many Cooks in the Kitchen
• The Colonel, the nickname of a character in the John Green novel Looking for Alaska
• The Colonel, a novel by Mahmoud Dowlatabadi
• The Colonel, the short form of the title for Alanna Nash's book The Colonel: The Extraordinary Story of Colonel Tom Parker and Elvis Presley

Other

• The Colonel, informal name for anyone with the military rank of colonel, whether actively serving or retired. See also Kentucky colonel
• The Colonel (horse), a thoroughbred racehorse

The Colonels

• The Colonels, a 1986 novel by W.E.B. Griffin
• The Colonels, the regime of Polish colonels during the period 1926-1939
• The Colonels, the Greek military junta of 1967–1974
• The Colonels, rule by senior military officials, see military junta

See also

• Colonel (disambiguation)