Colin Powell suna ne da ya dace da ke nufin sunan mutum, don haka, ba a jera shi a cikin ƙamus a matsayin kalma mai ma'ana ta musamman ba.Duk da haka, Colin Powell sananne ne. suna a siyasar Amurka da tarihin soja. Ya kasance Janar mai tauraro hudu a cikin sojojin Amurka kuma ya kasance sakataren harkokin wajen Amurka na 65 a karkashin shugaba George W. Bush daga 2001 zuwa 2005. Shi ne Ba’amurke na farko da ya rike wannan mukamin. Colin Powell kuma an san shi da jagorancinsa a lokacin yakin Gulf a 1991, inda ya yi aiki a matsayin shugaban hafsan hafsoshin soja.