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Christopher Ryan

Christopher Ryan (born Christopher Papazoglou, 1950, Bayswater, London) is an English actor known for Mike in The Young Ones, Dave Hedgehog in Bottom, Marshall Turtle in Absolutely Fabulous, Tony Driscoll in Only Fools and Horses, and Doctor Who roles as Kiv and Sontaran General Staal.

Christopher Ryan (American author and podcaster)

Christopher Ryan is an American author and podcaster based in Barcelona, co-author with Cacilda Jethá of Sex at Dawn (2010), a New York Times bestseller arguing that pre-agricultural humans were largely promiscuous.

Christopher Sean

Christopher Sean (Christopher Sean Friel, born 1985) is an American actor from Oak Harbor, Washington, known for Paul Narita on Days of Our Lives, Kazuda Xiono in Star Wars Resistance, and Ken Sato in Ultraman: Rising.

Christopher Smart

Christopher Smart (1722–1771) was an English poet best known for the religious poems A Song to David and Jubilate Agno, written largely during his confinement for mental illness.

Christopher Stone (actor)

Christopher Stone (Thomas Edward Bourassa, 1940-1995) was an American actor known for Dr. Pooch Hardin on The Interns, Dallas, Days of our Lives, The Howling, and Cujo with wife Dee Wallace.

Christopher Timothy

Christopher Timothy (born 1940, Bala, Wales) is a Welsh actor, son of Goon Show announcer Andrew Timothy, known as James Herriot in All Creatures Great and Small (1978-1990) and Dr Mac McGuire in Doctors (2000-2024).

Christopher Titus

Christopher Todd Titus (born 1964) is an American stand-up comedian and actor, star and co-creator of the Fox sitcom Titus (2000-2002), creator of the one-man show Norman Rockwell is Bleeding, ten-plus 90-minute comedy specials, and the Armageddon Update/Titus Podcast.

Christopher Tolkien

Christopher John Reuel Tolkien (1924–2020), C. J. R. Tolkien, English medievalist and youngest son of J.R.R. Tolkien; Oxford Old and Middle English professor, drew The Lord of the Rings maps, literary executor from 1973, editor of The Silmarillion and the twelve-volume History of Middle-earth.

Christopher Walken

Christopher Walken, born Ronald Walken in 1943 in Queens, New York, is an American actor with 100+ screen credits, an Oscar for The Deer Hunter (1979), the Weapon of Choice dance video, and recent roles in Severance and Dune.

Christopher Williams (singer)

Christopher Williams (Troy Christopher Williams, born 1967, Bronx) is an American R&B singer and actor of the new jack swing era, known for the #1 hit "I'm Dreamin'" and his role as Kareem Akbar in New Jack City, now returning with "Good Enough" and the album War and Peace.

Christos Dantis

Christos Dantis (Χρήστος Δάντης) is a Greek singer, songwriter, and record producer who broke through with the 1990 album Daktylika Apotypomata and co-wrote "My Number One", Greece's 2005 Eurovision winner.

Christos Mastoras

Christos Mastoras (Χρήστος Μάστορας) is a Greek singer, lead vocalist and frontman of the pop-rock band Melisses, one of Greek radio's most-played acts, with a parallel solo career.

Christos Tsiolkas

Christos Tsiolkas is a Greek-Australian novelist, playwright, and screenwriter, born in Melbourne in 1965, whose fourth novel The Slap sold over one million copies worldwide.

Christy (2025 American film)

Christy is a 2025 American biographical sports drama directed by David Michôd. It stars Sydney Sweeney as Christy Martin, the boxer who rose to fame in the 1990s.

Christy (2025 Irish film)

Christy (2025) is Brendan Canty's debut feature, an Irish coming-of-age drama about a foster-care teenager moving in with his half-brother in Cork, starring Danny Power; distinct from the Sydney Sweeney boxing biopic of the same year.

Christy Brown

Christy Brown (1932–1981), Irish writer, painter, and poet with cerebral palsy who controlled only his left foot; author of My Left Foot (1954) and Down All the Days (1970); subject of Jim Sheridan's 1989 Oscar-winning film.

Christy Canyon

Christy Canyon (born Melissa Kaye Bardizbanian in 1966) is an American retired adult film performer and radio personality, a leading star of the 1980s video era.

Christy Carlson Romano

Christy Carlson Romano (born 1984) is an American actress and author known as Ren Stevens on Disney Channel's Even Stevens, the Emmy-nominated voice of Kim Possible, and Cadet Kelly's Jennifer Stone; author of the 2026 memoir Once Upon a Trainwreck.

Christy Chung (钟丽缇)

Christy Chung (钟丽缇), Canadian actress born 1970 in Montréal; entered Hong Kong film via the 1993 Miss Chinese International pageant; known for The Bodyguard from Beijing, Mermaid, Jan Dara, and later mainland variety TV.

Christy Hall

Christy Hall (born 1985) is an American playwright and filmmaker, writer-director of Daddio (2024, Black List 2017) and screenwriter of It Ends With Us; distinct from the Brighton writer and other namesakes.

Christy Mack

Christy Mack (Christine Mackinday), American former adult film performer and tattoo model, 2014 XBIZ Best New Starlet winner, known for surviving a 2014 assault by ex-boyfriend War Machine and later advocacy.

Christy Moore

Christy Moore (born 1945, Newbridge, County Kildare) is an Irish folk singer-songwriter who founded Planxty and Moving Hearts and records political and traditional songs including Ride On and Lisdoonvarna.

Christy Turlington

Christy Turlington (born 1969), also Christy Turlington Burns, American supermodel and maternal health advocate; face of Calvin Klein Eternity since 1988, January 1990 British Vogue cover, founder of Every Mother Counts.

Chrisye

Chrisye, born Christian Rahadi and later known as Chrismansyah Rahadi (1949–2007), was an Indonesian singer famed for the 1977 Badai Pasti Berlalu soundtrack.

Chrms

Chrms is the alias of Veer Kowli, an Indian electronic producer and visual artist from Mumbai whose 2018 track "Heart Rates" was reposted by The Chainsmokers.

Chroma key

Chroma key (green screen, blue screen) is a compositing technique that makes a chosen color range transparent so a new background appears behind the subject. Invented film mattes led to Petro Vlahos's blue-screen color difference process; digital Bayer sensors favored green.

Chromakopia

Chromakopia (CHROMAKOPIA) is Tyler, The Creator's eighth studio album, released October 28, 2024 on Columbia Records; 14 tracks, 53 minutes, narrated partly by his mother Bonita Smith, debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and nominated for the 2026 Album of the Year Grammy.

Chromakopia: The World Tour

Chromakopia: The World Tour was a 2025 concert tour by Tyler, the Creator supporting his album Chromakopia, running from February to September 2025 across 60 cities.

Chromatic scale

Chromatic scale: the twelve-note scale of Western music, moving entirely in semitones within an octave; basis of all other scales, spelled sharps ascending and flats descending, tuned in 12-tone equal temperament.

Chromatica

Chromatica is Lady Gaga's sixth studio album, released May 29, 2020 on Interscope; a 16-track, 43-minute return to 1990s house and dance-pop with Ariana Grande and Elton John, reaching No. 1 on the Billboard 200.