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Christmas market
Christmas market (Weihnachtsmarkt, Christkindlmarkt): a seasonal street market of stalls selling gifts, ornaments, sweets, and hot drinks during Advent. Originated in German-speaking Europe, with Dresden's Striezelmarkt (1434) among the oldest; most German markets began after 1970.
Christmas music
Christmas music, also called holiday or yuletide music, spans carols, hymns, and pop seasonal songs. Key facts: the carol emerged in the second millennium, "Silent Night" is the most recorded song, and the modern US canon dates to the 1940s.
Christmas pudding
Christmas pudding, also called plum or figgy pudding, is a British steamed dessert of dried fruit, suet, breadcrumbs, spices and brandy, flambéed at Christmas dinner. It evolved from medieval savory plum pottage, was named by Eliza Acton in 1845, and spread through the British Empire.
Christmas tree
Christmas tree: decorated evergreen central to Christmas, originating in German-speaking Europe (Freiburg 1419, Strasbourg 1605), spread via the 1848 Victoria and Albert engraving, electrified from 1882, with real-versus-artificial and fire-safety considerations.
Christmas with the Kranks
Christmas with the Kranks is a 2004 American Christmas comedy film starring Tim Allen and Jamie Lee Curtis, directed by Joe Roth from John Grisham's novel Skipping Christmas.
Christo and Jeanne-Claude
Christo and Jeanne-Claude (Christo Vladimirov Javacheff, Jeanne-Claude de Guillebon) were a collaborative artist duo known for large-scale temporary installations, including wrapping the Reichstag and The Gates in Central Park, both born June 13, 1935.
Christoph Hein
Christoph Hein, born 1944 in Silesia, is a German novelist, playwright, and essayist known for the novella Der fremde Freund (1982) and as a chronicler of German-German relations.
Christoph Martin Wieland
Christoph Martin Wieland (1733–1813) was a German Enlightenment poet and novelist, for a time the most widely read German author and a forerunner of Weimar Classicism.
Christoph Sanders
Christoph Sanders (born 1988, North Carolina) is an American actor known as Kyle Anderson on Last Man Standing and Ned Banks on Ghost Whisperer, with film roles in Talladega Nights, Big Kill, and Faith Based.
Christoph Schneider
Christoph "Doom" Schneider (born 1966, East Berlin) is the German drummer and founding member of Rammstein, formerly of Die Firma and Feeling B, known for simple, steady, song-serving drumming.
Christoph Waltz
Christoph Waltz, Austrian-German actor born 1956 in Vienna, won two Best Supporting Actor Oscars for Quentin Tarantino's Hans Landa in Inglourious Basterds and Dr. King Schultz in Django Unchained; also directed Georgetown and operas.
Christoph Willibald Gluck
Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714–1787), German opera composer, reformer of 18th-century opera with Calzabigi's Orfeo ed Euridice (1762), Alceste, and Paris tragédies lyriques including Iphigénie en Tauride (1779).
Christophe
Christophe, born Daniel Bevilacqua in 1945, was a French singer-songwriter whose 1965 hit "Aline" made him a yé-yé idol; he died in 2020 at 74.
Christophe de Menil
Christophe (Marie-Christophe) de Menil, 1933–2025, French-born American costume designer, couturière, and jewelry designer; eldest de Menil child, Robert Wilson collaborator; five stage credits 1983–2002 and Met Costume Institute holdings.
Christophe Lemaire (fashion designer)
Christophe Lemaire, French fashion designer, founded his label in 1991 and led Lacoste, Hermès womenswear, and Uniqlo U; he now co-leads the independent house LEMAIRE with Sarah-Linh Tran.
Christopher (film)
Christopher is a 2023 Malayalam vigilante action thriller directed by B. Unnikrishnan, written by Udayakrishna, starring Mammootty as an encounter-specialist cop. Released 9 February 2023 to mixed reviews; moderate box-office success.
Christopher (singer)
Christopher (Christopher Lund Nissen), born 1992, Danish pop singer behind Colours, CPH Girls, and the Netflix film A Beautiful Life; major following in South Korea and China.
Christopher Abbott
Christopher Abbott (born 1986, Greenwich, Connecticut) is an American actor known for Charlie in Girls, Yossarian in Catch-22, indie leads like James White, Broadway's Death of a Salesman, Netflix's East of Eden, and Professor X in X-Men (2028).
Christopher Alexander
Christopher Wolfgang John Alexander (1936-2022), Vienna-born Berkeley architect, created the pattern language concept in A Pattern Language (1977), founded the Center for Environmental Structure, built over 200 buildings, and influenced software design patterns.
Christopher and Philip Booth
Christopher and Philip Booth, British-Canadian identical twin musicians and filmmakers born 1960 in Halifax, England; creators of the lostwave song "Ulterior Motives" ("Everyone Knows That") and Spooked paranormal documentaries. Philip died June 11, 2026.
Christopher Atkins
Christopher Atkins (Christopher Atkins Bomann), American actor born 1961 in Rye, New York; film debut as Richard Lestrange in The Blue Lagoon (1980), later The Pirate Movie, A Night in Heaven, and Dallas.
Christopher Ayres
Christopher Owen Ayres (1965-2021), American voice actor, ADR director, and scriptwriter; English voice of Frieza in Dragon Ball Z Kai, Super, and Broly; also Kei Kurono in Gantz; died of COPD.
Christopher Bailey (fashion designer)
Christopher Bailey, British fashion designer, Burberry creative leader 2001-2018 (Design Director, Chief Creative Officer 2009, CEO 2014-2017); distinct from the brand consultant Chris Bailey and actor Jonathan Bailey; transformed Burberry into a global luxury brand.
Christopher Biggins
Christopher Kenneth Biggins (born 1948, Oldham, Lancashire) is an English actor, presenter, and pantomime dame known for Porridge's Lukewarm, Nero in I, Claudius, I'm a Celebrity 2007, and annual panto seasons since 1965.
Christopher Boykin
Christopher "Big Black" Boykin (1972–2017), also known as Big Black and BB, was an American TV personality and musician, co-star of MTV's Rob & Big with Rob Dyrdek, later on Fantasy Factory and Ridiculousness; died of a heart attack in Plano, Texas.
Christopher Brennan
Christopher John Brennan (1870–1932) was an Australian poet, scholar, and critic who brought the French Symbolist influence of Mallarmé into English verse and became Australia's first Professor of Comparative Literature.
Christopher Briney
Christopher Briney (born 1998) is an American actor known as Conrad Fisher in The Summer I Turned Pretty (2022–2025), Aaron Samuels in Mean Girls (2024), and James in Dalíland, his film debut.
Christopher Buckley (novelist)
Christopher Buckley (b. 1952), American novelist and political satirist, son of William F. Buckley Jr.; author of Thank You for Smoking, Little Green Men, and Boomsday; distinct from the poet Christopher Buckley.
Christopher Cazenove
Christopher Cazenove (Christopher de Lerisson Cazenove), British stage, film, and TV actor (died 7 April 2010), best known as Ben Carrington on Dynasty, Lt Richard Gaunt in The Regiment, and John Thatcher in A Knight's Tale.
Christopher Chaplin
Christopher James Chaplin (born 1962) is a British avant-garde composer and electronic musician, youngest child of Charlie Chaplin and Oona O'Neill; Fabrique Records albums, Roedelius collaborations.