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Chesney Hawkes
Chesney Lee Hawkes (born 1971, Windsor, Berkshire) is an English pop singer and actor, son of Tremeloes singer Len 'Chip' Hawkes, whose 1991 Nik Kershaw-written single 'The One and Only' from Buddy's Song topped the UK chart for five weeks; later albums include Living Arrows (2025).
Chespirito
Chespirito (Roberto Gómez Bolaños, 1929-2014) was a Mexican comedian, writer, actor, and creator of El Chavo del Ocho and El Chapulín Colorado; his shows drew 55-60 rating points in 1970s Mexico and are watched across Latin America.
Chespirito: Not Really on Purpose
Chespirito: Not Really on Purpose (Chespirito: Sin querer queriendo) is an eight-episode 2025 HBO Max biographical series about Mexican comedian Roberto Gómez Bolaños, written by his children and based on his 2012 memoir.
Chess (musical)
Chess the musical: 1984 concept album by ABBA's Andersson and Ulvaeus with lyricist Tim Rice; Cold War chess-championship love story; London 1986 ran 1,209 performances, Broadway 1988 ran 68; hits 'One Night in Bangkok' and 'I Know Him So Well'; 2025 Broadway revival with Danny Strong book.
Chess pie
Chess pie, also known as Jefferson Davis pie, is a very sweet Southern American dessert pie with a dense custard filling of eggs, butter, and sugar.
Chess Records
Chess Records, Chicago blues and R&B label founded 1950 by Leonard and Phil Chess (born Czyż) from Aristocrat Records; home of Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Chuck Berry, Etta James; 2120 S. Michigan Ave studio; sold to GRT 1969, now Universal Music catalog.
Chest Pain (I Love)
Chest Pain (I Love) is a 2024 single by Malcolm Todd (Malcolm Hobert), released by Columbia and written with Jonah Cochran and Charlie Ziman; it went viral on TikTok, peaked at number 68 on the Billboard Hot 100, and led his 2025 debut album.
Chester Bennington
Chester Bennington (1976–2017), American singer from Phoenix, Arizona, lead vocalist of Linkin Park (1999–2017) and earlier Grey Daze; also Dead by Sunrise and Stone Temple Pilots; died by suicide in Palos Verdes Estates, California.
Chester Brown
Chester Brown (born 1960, Montreal) is a Canadian alternative cartoonist, creator of Yummy Fur, Ed the Happy Clown, Louis Riel, Paying for It, and Mary Wept Over the Feet of Jesus, published by Drawn & Quarterly.
Chester Mystery Plays
The Chester Mystery Plays are a cycle of medieval mystery plays from Chester, dramatizing the Bible from Creation to Last Judgment, performed by the city's craft guilds.
Chester Thompson
Chester Thompson is an American drummer and percussionist. He is best known for his live work with Genesis from 1977 to 2007 and his touring with Phil Collins.
Chester Young
Chester Young is the project name of an American-born future house and electro house producer, born in Chicago in 1992 and based in Russia, best known for the 2019 single "Pyro".
Chet Atkins
Chet Atkins (Chester Burton Atkins, 1924-2001), American country guitarist and RCA producer known as "Mr. Guitar," co-created the Nashville Sound, won 14 Grammys, and designed Gretsch and Gibson signature guitars.
Chet Baker
Chet Baker (Chesney Henry Baker Jr., 1929-1988), American jazz trumpeter and vocalist of West Coast cool jazz; star of Gerry Mulligan's pianoless quartet and Chet Baker Sings (1954); died in Amsterdam in 1988 after a hotel fall.
Chet Baker discography
Chet Baker discography: recorded output of the American cool jazz trumpeter and singer (1929–1988), from the 1952 Trade Winds session and Chet Baker Sings (1954) to over 3,100 Discogs-listed releases and ongoing posthumous archival albums.
Chet Faker
Chet Faker is the stage name of Australian singer, songwriter, and producer Nicholas James Murphy (born 1988, Melbourne), also recording as Nick Murphy. Known for the viral 2011 "No Diggity" cover, the 2014 ARIA number-one debut Built on Glass, and reviving the alias in 2020.
Chet Hanks
Chet Hanks (Chester Marlon Hanks, also Chet Haze), American actor and musician, son of Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson; known for Empire, Shameless, Your Honor, and Travis Bugg in Netflix's Running Point (2025).
Chetan Anand (चेतन आनंद) (director)
Chetan Anand (चेतन आनंद), Hindi film director, producer, and screenwriter (1915 or 1921–1997), brother of Dev Anand; his debut Neecha Nagar won the Grand Prix at the first Cannes Film Festival in 1946, and he later made Haqeeqat and Heer Raanjha.
Chetan Bhagat (चेतन भगत)
Chetan Bhagat (चेतन भगत), born 1974, is an Indian novelist and columnist, author of Five Point Someone, 2 States, and Half Girlfriend, India's bestselling English-language fiction writer with film adaptations like 3 Idiots.
Chetan Hansraj
Chetan Hansraj, Indian film and TV actor born 1972 in Mumbai; child actor in B.R. Chopra's Mahabharat (young Balram), known as Sasha in Kahaani Ghar Ghar Kii and Garv in Kkusum; plays Sumali in Nitesh Tiwari's Ramayana.
Chetavani
Chetavani (चेतावनी) is a Hindi literary title associated with Bharatendu Harishchandra, the father of modern Hindi literature, whose era is dated 1850–1885 and who wrote rajabhakti and rashtriya-bhakti verse.
Chevalier (2022 film)
Chevalier (2022) is a Searchlight biographical drama directed by Stephen Williams, written by Stefani Robinson, starring Kelvin Harrison Jr. as composer-fencer Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges; premiered at TIFF 2022, released April 21, 2023, 76% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Chevalier de Saint-Georges
Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges (1745–1799), Guadeloupe-born French composer, virtuoso violinist, conductor of the Concert des Amateurs, and champion fencer; led the orchestra that commissioned Haydn's Paris symphonies; often mislabeled "Black Mozart".
Chevelle (band)
Chevelle: American alternative metal band formed 1995 in Grayslake, Illinois by Loeffler brothers. Albums Point #1 through Bright as Blasphemy; Wonder What's Next went platinum; hits The Red, Send the Pain Below.
Chevengur
Chevengur (Чевенгур) is a novel by Soviet writer Andrei Platonov, his only completed novel, written in the late 1920s but published in full only in 1988, about revolutionaries establishing communism in a steppe town.
Chevy Chase
Chevy Chase, born Cornelius Crane Chase in 1943, is an American comedian and actor, original Saturday Night Live cast member and Weekend Update anchor, later star of Caddyshack, Fletch, and the Vacation films.
Chewbacca
Chewbacca (Chewie) is the Wookiee warrior and Han Solo's co-pilot in Star Wars, 2.28 m tall, from Kashyyyk, armed with a bowcaster; played by Peter Mayhew from 1977 and Joonas Suotamo from The Last Jedi, with a Ben Burtt animal-recording voice.
Chewbacca Mask Lady
Chewbacca Mask Lady, or Chewbacca Mom, is the nickname of Texas mother Candace Payne, whose May 2016 laughing Chewbacca-mask video became the most viewed Facebook Live video then.
Chewin' the Fat
Chewin' the Fat was a Scottish BBC sketch comedy show (1999-2005) created by and starring Ford Kiernan and Greg Hemphill with Karen Dunbar, produced by The Comedy Unit, whose characters Jack and Victor spawned Still Game.
Chewing gum
Chewing gum, a chewable confection of insoluble gum base with sweeteners and flavors; ancient birch-bark tar and chicle origins, Thomas Adams and Wrigley industry, sugar-free dental benefits, synthetic polymer base.