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Christer Strömholm

Christer Strömholm (1918–2002) was a Swedish photographer best known for his night portraits of the transgender community around Paris's Place Blanche, published as Les amies de Place Blanche.

Christian Aaron Boulogne

Christian Aaron Boulogne, called Ari Boulogne (1962–2023), French photographer, actor, and writer, son of singer Nico; claimed Alain Delon as his unrecognized father; paternity suit rejected as time-barred in 2025.

Christian Audigier

Christian Audigier (1958–2015), French fashion designer and entrepreneur behind Von Dutch's revival and the Ed Hardy tattoo-streetwear brand, sold Ed Hardy to Iconix for $62 million in 2011.

Christian Bach

Christian Bach (Adela Christian Bach Bottino, 1959-2019) was an Argentine-born actress and producer famous in Mexican telenovelas such as Bodas de odio, Encadenados, and La Patrona; she co-founded ZUBA Producciones with Humberto Zurita.

Christian Bale

Christian Bale (born 1974, Haverfordwest, Wales) is a British actor famous for extreme physical transformations in American Psycho, The Machinist, Nolan's Batman trilogy, and his Oscar-winning role in The Fighter; four Oscar nominations, one win.

Christian Bale filmography

Christian Bale filmography: Welsh-born actor (born 1974) with over 45 feature films since Empire of the Sun (1987), known for American Psycho, the Dark Knight trilogy, The Machinist, and an Oscar for The Fighter (2010).

Christian Boltanski

Christian Boltanski (1944–2021), French installation artist of memory, death, and archives; works include Les Archives de C.B., Théâtres d'ombres, Le Cœur, Animitas; partner of Annette Messager.

Christian Borle

Christian Borle (born 1973, Pittsburgh) is an American stage and screen actor, two-time Tony winner for Peter and the Starcatcher and Something Rotten!, Grammy winner for Some Like It Hot, and Tom Levitt on NBC's Smash.

Christian Brando

Christian Devi Brando (1958-2008), eldest son of Marlon Brando and Anna Kashfi, welder and minor actor; convicted of voluntary manslaughter in the 1990 shooting of Dag Drollet, served five years, later pleaded to spousal abuse, died of pneumonia.

Christian Camargo

Christian Camargo (born Christian Minnick, 1971, New York City) is an American actor, director, and producer, son of Victoria Wyndham, known for Dexter's Ice Truck Killer, See, Penny Dreadful, and Shakespearean stage roles.

Christian Campbell

Christian Campbell (Christian Bethune Campbell, born 1972, Toronto) is a Canadian actor known for Gabriel in Trick (1999), Jimmy Harper in Reefer Madness on stage and on Showtime, and Greg Ivey in Big Love; distinct from the child actor Christian Micah Campbell and other namesakes.

Christian Clemenson

Christian Clemenson (born Christian Dayton Clemenson, 1958) is an American character actor from Humboldt, Iowa; Emmy-winning as lawyer Jerry "Hands" Espenson on Boston Legal, and known for United 93, Apollo 13, and The Big Lebowski.

Christian Convery

Christian Convery is an American-Canadian actor born in 2009. He is best known for playing Gus in the Netflix series Sweet Tooth and Young Victor Frankenstein.

Christian Cooke

Christian Cooke (born 1987, Leeds) is an English actor, writer, and director known for Where the Heart Is, The Promise, Magic City, Rematch as Kasparov, and directing Embers and EDITH. Distinct from sound mixer Christian T. Cooke.

Christian Copyright Licensing International

Christian Copyright Licensing International (CCLI), founded 1988 by Howard Rachinski, is a church copyright licensing company offering the Church Copyright License, Streaming License, and SongSelect, covering 600,000+ worship songs for about 230,000 churches in 80+ countries.

Christian Coulson

Christian Coulson (born 1978, Manchester) is an English actor and director best known as teenage Tom Riddle in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002); also The Hours, Nashville, stage work, and Audie-nominated audiobook narration.

Christian Cowan

Christian Cowan (born 1994) is a British fashion designer, born in Spain and raised in England, founder of his New York-based womenswear label (2017), a 2018 CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund finalist known for celebrity party wear and downtown NYFW shows.

Christian Death

Christian Death is an American gothic rock/deathrock band formed in Orange County in 1979 by Rozz Williams. Debut Only Theatre of Pain (1982) founded deathrock; after Williams's 1985 exit Valor Kand led the band through a famous name feud.

Christian death metal

Christian death metal, nicknamed "life metal": death metal played with Christian lyrics and identity, pioneered by Vengeance Rising (1987) and Mortification (1990), carried by labels like R.E.X., Intense, Tooth & Nail, and Solid State.

Christian dietary laws

Christian dietary laws: unlike kosher and halal, Christianity has few permanent food rules; Acts 15 set minimal restrictions, and most obligations are Orthodox, Catholic, and Adventist fasting and abstinence practices.

Christian Dior

Christian Ernest Dior was a French fashion designer, born in 1905, who founded the House of Dior in 1946 and transformed postwar fashion with his 1947 New Look.

Christian Fürchtegott Gellert

Christian Fürchtegott Gellert (1715–1769) was a German poet and Leipzig professor whose fables and sacred songs made him one of the most-read authors of his century.

Christian Kane

Christian Kane, born Christopher Michael Short in 1972 in Dallas, Texas, is an American actor and singer-songwriter known for Eliot Spencer in Leverage and Jake Stone in The Librarians.

Christian Keyes

Christian Keyes (born 1975, Detroit; raised in Flint, Michigan) is an American actor, singer, screenwriter, and producer known for Saints & Sinners, In Contempt, Supernatural, The Boys, and creating All the Queen's Men.

Christian Lacroix

Christian Lacroix (born 1951, Arles) is a French fashion designer who founded his couture house in 1987 after Jean Patou, defined 1980s color and baroque embellishment, led Pucci 2002-2005, and designs opera, ballet, and theater costumes.

Christian LeBlanc

Christian Jules LeBlanc (born 1958) is an American actor, three-time Daytime Emmy-winning Lead Actor, who has played attorney Michael Baldwin on CBS's The Young and the Restless since 1991; not the lawyer Christian Leblanc of Fasken or actor Matt LeBlanc.

Christian Lee Hutson

Christian Lee Hutson, American indie folk singer-songwriter born 1990 and raised in Santa Monica, with three ANTI- albums co-produced with Phoebe Bridgers (Beginners 2020, Quitters 2022, Paradise Pop. 10 2024) and writing credits for boygenius and Better Oblivion Community Center.

Christian Löffler

Christian Löffler is a German electronic producer and visual artist, born in 1985 in Greifswald, known for melancholic melodic techno and co-founding Ki Records in 2009.

Christian Lorenz

Christian "Flake" Lorenz, born 1966 in East Berlin, is the keyboardist of Rammstein (joined 1994) and formerly of the GDR punk band Feeling B, author of Der Tastenficker and Heute hat die Welt Geburtstag.

Christian Louboutin

Christian Louboutin (born 1963, Paris) is the French shoe designer and founder of the Louboutin luxury house, famous for red-lacquered soles (Pantone 18-1663TP), a trademark upheld in US and EU courts, and an independent brand valued at €2.25 billion in 2021.