The main road and railway line connecting Prague and Kolín pass through Běchovice.
Jarda (Jaroslav) Svoboda (born May 31, 1966 in Kolín) is a Czech singer, guitarist, lyricist and composer best known as the frontman of the bands Otcovy děti and Traband.
Petr "Kafé" Kašpar (born 26 June 1960 in Kolín) is a retired Czech football defender and currently executive currently serving as Director General of Slovak football club Slovan Bratislava.
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Born in Kolín, Bohemia (now Czech Republic), Deburau was the son of a Czech servant, Kateřina Králová (or Catherine Graff), and a former French soldier, Philippe-Germain Deburau, a native of Amiens.
Refineries bombed during the Oil Campaign of World War II included those at Brüx, Bratislava (Apollo refinery), Dubová, Kralupy, Kolín, and Pardubice (Fanto Werke).
In the 1970s, Kolin was an avid participant in third-party donations to museums encouraged by the Tax Reform Act of 1969.
Samuel ben Nathan Ha-Levi Loew (Kelin or Kolin) (also “Lōw” or “Löw”, Hebrew: שמואל בן נתן נטע הלוי קעלין; ca. 1720–1806) was a Talmudist and Halakhist (“Authority on Jewish law”), son of Nathan Naṭe ha-Levi, born at Kolin, Bohemia.