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List of combat losses of United States military aircraft since the Vietnam War
A list of U.S. military aircraft combat losses since the Vietnam War ended in 1973, covering the Gulf War, the Balkans, Iraq, and the 2026 Iran war.
List of comedians
List of comedians: surveys comedian rosters and rankings. Also known as comedian directories or stand-up rankings; covers working databases (Open Comedy 14,089+), ranked lists (Dave survey won by Daniel Kitson, Rolling Stone top ten), and gender imbalance in comedy lists.
List of comedy television series
Comedy television series lists rank scripted series with recurring characters and comic situations; the sitcom, recorded as a term in 1956, tops polls (Seinfeld, Fawlty Towers) and measured indexes (30 Rock, Fleabag).
List of comets by type
List of comets by type explains how comets are sorted by orbital period (short-period, Jupiter-family, Halley-type, long-period), by IAU designation prefix, and by composition, with about 4,080 known comets.
List of commando units
List of commando units: survey of commando formations from the Boer origin of the term through British WWII Commandos, LRDG, SAS, SBS, Chindits, X Troop, Australian independent companies, and modern UK Commando Force and US special operations units.
List of commercial failures in video game consoles
Commercial failures in video game consoles: Atari Jaguar (~125,000 sold), Virtual Boy (770,000), Sega Saturn (9.5M vs 102.5M PlayStation), Apple Pippin (42,000), Ouya, and Wii U (13.56M), with causes and the 1983 crash.
List of commercial failures in video games
Commercial failures in video games: titles whose sales fall far below costs, from Atari's E.T. and Pac-Man 2600 (1982-83 crash) to Concord, Skull and Bones, and recent write-downs at Sony, Hasbro, Warner Bros., and Paradox.
List of commercial video games with available source code
The list of commercial video games with available source code catalogs games sold commercially whose source code later became public, through official release, leaks, or community reconstruction.
List of common Chinese surnames
Common Chinese surnames, the Baijiaxing: Wang, Li, Zhang, Liu, Chen lead about 6,150 surnames in use; the top 100 cover about 85% of China's population, with regional and historical detail.
List of common Japanese surnames
A list of Japan's most common surnames, topped by Satō (佐藤), Suzuki (鈴木), and Takahashi (高橋); most families took surnames only after an 1875 Meiji law.
List of common misconceptions
Common misconceptions: widely held false beliefs, including misattributed quotes (Let them eat cake), the Salem ergot theory, and Napoleon's height; how misinformation psychology and fact-checking explain their spread and correction.
List of common misconceptions about arts and culture
Common misconceptions about arts and culture: the Dark Ages myth, golden ratio and Parthenon optical-correction claims, the genuineness effect, ambiguous-image personality tests, and modern art, each corrected with cited research.
List of common misconceptions about history
Common misconceptions about history are debunked claims such as the medieval flat-Earth myth, Washington's wooden teeth, and the heroic Alamo narrative, with their origins and how to evaluate historical sources.
List of common misconceptions about science, technology, and mathematics
A list of common misconceptions about science, technology, and mathematics, such as the myth of one scientific method, theories becoming laws, misread p-values, and division by zero.
List of common physics notations
The list of common physics notations, also known as physics symbols, collects the symbols for quantities, units, operators, and constants, from F for force to c for the speed of light.
List of common Spanish surnames
Common Spanish surnames ranked by Spain's INE: García leads with 1,446,937 first-surname holders (1 Jan 2025), followed by Rodríguez, González, Fernández, and López, mostly patronymics in -ez, under the two-surname system fixed by the 1889 Civil Code.
List of common trees and shrubs of Sri Lanka
List of common trees and shrubs of Sri Lanka: a 704-species, 95-family checklist based on Ashton et al.'s 1997 Field Guide, marking native (N) and introduced (I) species, with home-garden and rainforest tree data.
List of commonly used taxonomic affixes
Taxonomic affixes are prefixes and suffixes from Latin and Greek used in scientific names of organisms, with suffixes such as -idae and -aceae signaling the taxon's rank.
List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants
French communes with over 20,000 inhabitants are ranked using INSEE populations de référence (population municipale), produced by a five-year rotating census, authenticated by decree, and effective each 1 January.
List of communist ideologies
List of communist ideologies: overview of Marxism, Leninism, Marxism-Leninism, Stalinism, Trotskyism, left and council communism, anarchist communism, and Maoism, with their defining disputes and the remaining Marxist-Leninist ruling parties.
List of communist parties
List of communist parties: parties of the communist party family, from Comintern sections founded after 1919 under the Twenty-one Conditions to ruling Leninist parties like the CCP and electoral parties such as the PCP and KKE.
List of Community characters
List of Community characters: the Greendale study group (Jeff Winger, Abed Nadir, Troy Barnes, Annie Edison, Britta Perry, Pierce Hawthorne, Shirley Bennett), faculty such as Dean Pelton, Ben Chang, Buzz Hickey, and Frankie Dart, and their cast and arcs.
List of Community episodes
The list of Community episodes covers the sitcom's 110 episodes, from its 2009 NBC debut under creator Dan Harmon to its 2015 finale on Yahoo Screen.
List of companies based in London
The list of companies based in London covers the city's major firms, including HSBC, Shell, AstraZeneca, Rolls-Royce, and Unilever, the five largest FTSE 100 constituents.
List of companies based in Minneapolis–Saint Paul
The Minneapolis–Saint Paul metro hosts one of America's densest concentrations of large-company headquarters, with 17 Fortune 500 firms in 2025, led by UnitedHealth Group and Target.
List of companies based in Seattle
The list of companies based in Seattle covers major local firms including Amazon, Starbucks, and Costco, in a metro with 17 Fortune 500 headquarters across technology, retail, and aerospace.
List of companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area
The list of companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area covers firms headquartered across nine counties, led by Apple and Alphabet and including 73 Fortune 1000 companies.
List of companies in Houston
The list of companies in Houston covers the metro's major firms, including 26 Fortune 500 headquarters in 2025, dominated by energy companies such as ExxonMobil, Phillips 66, and ConocoPhillips.
List of companies in the Chicago metropolitan area
The list of companies in the Chicago metropolitan area covers major corporate headquarters such as Walgreens, United Airlines, McDonald's, Archer Daniels Midland, and State Farm, with counts varying by definition.
List of companies in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex
The list of companies in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex covers its 24 Fortune 500 and 49 Fortune 1000 headquarters across 11 cities, led by Irving-based McKesson, with Dallas hosting 21 Fortune 1000 firms.