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Chloe x Halle

Chloe x Halle, the R&B duo of sisters Chloe and Halle Bailey from Atlanta, rose via YouTube covers of Beyoncé, signed to Parkwood, and released The Kids Are Alright (2018) and Ungodly Hour (2020), earning five Grammy nominations.

Chloé Zhao (赵婷)

Chloé Zhao (赵婷), born Zhao Ting in Beijing in 1982, is a Chinese filmmaker; her films Songs My Brothers Taught Me, The Rider, Oscar-winning Nomadland, Marvel's Eternals, and Hamnet trace an indie-to-blockbuster career.

Chlorine dioxide in food packaging

Chlorine dioxide in food packaging, or ClO2 active packaging, generates chlorine dioxide gas in-package from sodium chlorite precursors to kill microbes and extend shelf life; covered by FDA GRAS notices GRN 62 and GRN 161.

Cho Hyun-ju (조현주)

Cho Hyun-ju (조현주), also Player 120, is a fictional transgender woman in Netflix's Squid Game Seasons 2-3, played by Park Sung-hoon; a former ROK Special Forces soldier seeking gender-affirming surgery funds, killed by Myung-gi in Season 3.

Cho Ji-hun

Cho Ji-hun (조지훈; born Jo Dong-tak, 1920 to 1968) was a Korean poet and scholar of Korean literature, a Korea University professor known for poems like "Seungmu".

Cho Jun-young

Cho Jun-young (조준영), South Korean actor born 2002, SM Entertainment, debuted 2020 in JTBC's Live On; leads in All That We Loved, Spirit Fingers!, and tvN's 2026 Spring Fever.

Cho Kyu-hyun (조규현)

Cho Kyu-hyun (조규현, Kyuhyun, 규현; born 1988) is a South Korean singer, musical theater actor, and TV personality; Super Junior's main vocalist and maknae, the first member to go solo (At Gwanghwamun, 2014), a prolific musical star, and since 2023 an Antenna artist for solo work.

Cho Ramaswamy

Cho Ramaswamy (சோ ராமசாமி), 1934–2016, Indian lawyer, playwright, actor and editor, born Srinivasa Iyer Ramaswamy; founded the Tamil weekly Thuglak (1970), wrote the satire Muhammad bin Tughlaq, acted in about 190 Tamil films, and served as a Rajya Sabha member.

Cho Sang-woo (조상우) (Squid Game)

Cho Sang-woo (조상우), Player 218 in Netflix's Squid Game, played by Park Hae-soo: a Seoul National University graduate and banker who embezzled 650 million won, entered the deadly games as a fugitive, and killed himself in the final round so Gi-hun could win.

Cho Seung-woo (조승우)

Cho Seung-woo (조승우), South Korean actor born 1980, debuted in Im Kwon-taek's Chunhyang (2000); known for Marathon, Tazza, Secret Forest, Strangers Again, and musicals like Jekyll & Hyde and The Phantom of the Opera.

Cho Yeo-jeong (조여정)

Cho Yeo-jeong (조여정), South Korean actress, magazine model debut 1997, acting 1999; best known as Yeon-kyo in Bong Joon-ho's Parasite, cast after Obsessed; later Hidden Face, Zombie Daughter, The Report, and 2026 Coupang Play drama.

Cho'lpon

Cho'lpon ("morning star") was the pen name of Uzbek poet, playwright, and translator Abdulhamid Yunusov, born in Andijan in 1897 and executed in Tashkent in 1938 during Stalin's purges.

Chobani

Chobani, American food company founded by Hamdi Ulukaya in 2005 in New Berlin, New York; top U.S. Greek yogurt brand, owner of La Colombe and Daily Harvest; $800 million Keurig Dr Pepper stake buyback in 2026.

Chobits (ちょびっツ)

Chobits (ちょびっツ) is a CLAMP manga serialized in Weekly Young Magazine 2000–2002, 88 chapters in 8 volumes, about ronin Hideki Motosuwa and the persocom Chi; adapted into a TBS anime in 2002.

Chōbunsai Eishi

Chōbunsai Eishi (鳥文斎栄之, 1756–1829) was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist of the late Edo period, born into the samurai class, who painted tall, elegant courtesans and founded the Hosoda school.

Choco pie

Choco pie (초코파이) is a Korean marshmallow-filled, chocolate-coated snack cake launched by Orion in 1974 and also made by Lotte, Crown, and Haitai; the name is generic, and Orion's version sells in 60+ countries with 84% of sales overseas.

Chocolat (2000 film)

Chocolat (2000 film), directed by Lasse Hallström, adapts Joanne Harris's 1999 novel; Juliette Binoche, Johnny Depp, Judi Dench star in the Miramax fable about a chocolate shop in 1959 France, with five Oscar nominations. Distinct from Claire Denis's 1988 Chocolat and Chabrol's Merci pour le chocolat.

Chocolate

Chocolate is a food made from fermented, roasted, ground Theobroma cacao seeds, consumed in the Americas for thousands of years before the first solid bar was made in 1847.

Chocolate (2005 film)

Chocolate (Chocolate: Deep Dark Secrets), 2005 Hindi crime thriller, Vivek Agnihotri's directorial debut, an unofficial remake of The Usual Suspects starring Anil Kapoor, Suniel Shetty, Irrfan Khan, and Emraan Hashmi as Indians implicated in London.

Chocolate and Cheese

Chocolate and Cheese: fourth album by Ween (Aaron Freeman, Mickey Melchiondo), released September 27, 1994 on Elektra; 16 tracks, first professional-studio Ween record, with 2024 30th-anniversary deluxe reissue.

Chocolate bar

Chocolate bar: solid molded confection of cocoa solids, cocoa butter, and sugar; first made by Joseph Fry in 1847; mass-produced by Hershey (1900) and Cadbury Dairy Milk (1905); types defined by legal cocoa minimums.

Chocolate brownie

Chocolate brownie: dense American bar cookie of chocolate, butter, sugar, eggs, and flour. Credited to Chicago's Palmer House for the 1893 World's Fair; fudgy, chewy, and cakey styles differ by fat, flour, and leavening ratios.

Chocolate cake

Chocolate cake, or torta al cioccolato-style layer cakes, is a cake flavored with cocoa powder or chocolate. Early 19th-century American versions were yellow cake with chocolate frosting; the 1828 cocoa press and 1902 recipe pamphlets popularized chocolate-flavored cakes.

Chocolate chip cookie

Chocolate chip cookie, or Toll House cookie: American drop cookie with chocolate pieces, invented by Ruth Graves Wakefield at the Toll House Inn, Whitman, Massachusetts, late 1930s; recipe published 1938, licensed to Nestlé in 1939, chips marketed from 1940.

Chocolate milk

Chocolate milk is cow's milk flavored with cocoa and sweeteners such as sugar or high-fructose corn syrup. Also sold in plant-based forms; keeps milk's calcium, protein, and vitamin D but adds about 12 grams of added sugar per cup, roughly matching soda ounce for ounce.

Chocolate Rain

Chocolate Rain is a 2007 song and YouTube video by Tay Zonday (Adam Nyerere Bahner), a University of Minnesota grad student. Known for its baritone vocals, the 'I move away from the mic to breathe in' caption, and lyrics about institutional racism, it won the 2007 YouTube best music video award.

Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water

Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water is Limp Bizkit's third studio album (2000, Flip/Interscope), a nu metal record that sold over 1,054,511 US copies in week one, hit number one in the UK, and was certified 6x Platinum by the RIAA.

Chocolate truffle

Chocolate truffle: round ganache confection (chocolate and cream), coated in couverture or cocoa; named for the fungus; documented from 1883, origin legend Petruccelli, Chambéry 1895; shelf life governed by water activity.

Chocolate-coated marshmallow treats

Chocolate-coated marshmallow treats (Flødeboller, teacakes, Schwedenbombe, Krembo) are biscuit-based confections with marshmallow or egg-white foam filling under a hard chocolate shell, invented in 19th-century Denmark with many national variants.

Choe Myeong-gil

Choe Myeong-gil (崔鳴吉, 1586–1647), pen name Changnang, was a Joseon dynasty Chief State Councillor best known for advocating peace with the Manchus in the wars of 1627 and 1636.