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Chad Gable

Chad Gable (Charles Betts) is a WWE wrestler and 2012 US Olympic Greco-Roman wrestler from Minneapolis; American Alpha and Alpha Academy member, El Grande Americano, and Intercontinental Champion from SummerSlam 2026.

Chad Hedrick

Chad Hedrick, American speed skater born 1977 in Texas, five-time Olympic medalist and 2006 5,000 m gold medalist, who first won 50 inline skating world titles with the double-push technique.

Chad Henne

Chad Henne, former NFL quarterback (Miami Dolphins, Jacksonville Jaguars, Kansas City Chiefs 2008-2022), Michigan's all-time passing leader, retired February 2023 with two Super Bowl rings as Patrick Mahomes's backup.

Chad Johnson

Chad Johnson, also Chad Ochocinco, NFL wide receiver born 1978, Bengals franchise leader with 751 catches and 10,783 yards, six Pro Bowls, Ring of Honor 2023.

Chad Kelly

Chad Kelly, nephew of Jim Kelly, is a quarterback from Buffalo, New York: Ole Miss record-holder and 2016 Sugar Bowl MVP, Mr. Irrelevant of the 2017 NFL Draft, now Toronto Argonauts CFL quarterback.

Chad le Clos

Chad le Clos, South African swimmer, 2012 Olympic 200m butterfly champion who beat Michael Phelps by 0.05s; record 21 Commonwealth Games medals, four Olympic medals, and 16 world titles.

Chad Mendes

Chad Mendes "Money" (born 1985), American featherweight MMA fighter, 18-5, two-time UFC title challenger vs Jose Aldo and Conor McGregor, two-time NCAA D-I All-American at Cal Poly, Team Alpha Male, retired 2019.

Chad Morris

Chad Morris, American college football coach, Clemson offensive coordinator (2011-14, 2026), SMU head coach 2015-17, Arkansas head coach 2018-19 with an 18-40 FBS record and 0-14 SEC mark, ex-Texas high school legend.

Chad Muska

Chad Muska, American pro skateboarder, artist, and shoe designer; 'The Muska' of late-1990s Shorty's and Tony Hawk's Pro Skater fame; Supra Skytop designer and founder of Muska Footwear Co.

Chad Patrick

Chad Patrick (Chandler Allen Patrick, born 1998) is an American right-handed pitcher for the Milwaukee Brewers; 2021 fourth-round draftee from Purdue Northwest, 2024 International League Triple Crown winner, MLB debut 2025.

Chad Pennington

Chad Pennington, James Chadwick Pennington, former NFL quarterback (Jets, Dolphins, 2000-2010), Marshall star, 66.0% career completion, two-time AP Comeback Player of the Year, now a Kentucky high school head coach.

Chad Reed

Chad Reed, the Hunter Valley Hurricane, Australian motocross and supercross racer; two-time AMA Supercross champion (2004, 2008), 44 wins, record 265 main event starts, WSX advisor after retirement.

Chadwicks Wexford Park

Chadwicks Wexford Park, formerly Wexford Park, is the GAA county stadium on Clonard Road, Wexford, Ireland. Home of Wexford GAA; named for sponsor Chadwicks since 2019; circa €3 million in recent upgrades.

Chae Ji-Hun

Chae Ji-Hun (채지훈, Chae Ji-Hoon), born 1974 in Seoul, is a retired South Korean short track speed skater, 1994 Olympic 500 m champion and 1995 world allround champion, later a US team coach and ISU technical committee member.

Chael Sonnen

Chael Sonnen is an American retired mixed martial artist and ESPN analyst who competed from 1997 to 2019, twice challenging Anderson Silva for the UFC middleweight championship.

Chaeyoung Kang

Chaeyoung Kang (강채영, born 1996) is a South Korean recurve archer: 2025 world champion at Gwangju, Tokyo 2020 Olympic team gold medallist, two-time 72-arrow world record holder (691, 692), nicknamed The Destroyer.

Chaima Toumi

Chaima Toumi (شيماء التومي), born 2003, Tunisian taekwondo fighter in women's -57 kg; two-time African champion, 2023 African Games gold medalist, and Paris 2024 Olympian placed joint seventh.

Chain Chomp

Chain Chomp: chained, ball-shaped metal guard-dog enemy of Bowser's army in Nintendo's Super Mario franchise; debuted in Super Mario Bros. 3 (1988), inspired by Miyamoto's childhood dog encounter, also an item in Mario Kart and Bow Wow in Link's Awakening.

Chain Chronicle (チェインクロニクル)

Chain Chronicle (チェインクロニクル, チェンクロ) is SEGA's 2013 free-to-play smartphone tower-defense RPG set in Yggdra; over five million downloads, global version closed, Japanese version still running.

Chained block

Chained Block (チェンブロ, Chenburo) is a Nikoli pencil logic puzzle: shade grid cells into numbered blocks joined corner-to-corner in chains, with no repeated block shape per chain; its decision problem is NP-complete.

Chainmail (game)

Chainmail (Chainmail: Rules for Medieval Miniatures) is a 1971 medieval miniature wargame by Gary Gygax and Jeff Perren, published by Guidon Games and later TSR, whose Fantasy Supplement and combat rules directly seeded Dungeons & Dragons.

Chairlift

A chairlift is an aerial ropeway carrying passengers on chairs hung from a circulating rope, used mainly at ski resorts; the first was built at Sun Valley, Idaho, in 1936.

Chalet Girl

Chalet Girl (German title Powder Girl) is a 2011 British-Austrian-German romantic comedy directed by Phil Traill, starring Felicity Jones as a former skateboarder who becomes a chalet maid, learns snowboarding, and enters the Ticket to Ride contest while falling for Ed Westwick's character.

Challenge Cup

Challenge Cup is the oldest trophy in rugby league, a knockout competition organized by the Rugby Football League since 1896/97. Finals are traditionally held at Wembley Stadium in London.

Challenge Tour

Challenge Tour (HotelPlanner Tour since 2025), Europe's second-tier professional golf tour, founded 1989 as the Satellite Tour. Its Road to Mallorca rankings send the leading players to the DP World Tour; graduates include Kaymer, Koepka, and Fleetwood.

Challengers (film)

Challengers (2024) is Luca Guadagnino's tennis drama starring Zendaya, Josh O'Connor, and Mike Faist, written by Justin Kuritzkes; a love triangle culminates at a New Rochelle Challenger tournament, released April 26, 2024.

Chamari Athapaththu

Chamari Athapaththu (Athapaththu Mudiyanselage Chamari Jayangani, born 1990) is a Sri Lankan left-handed batting all-rounder and women's T20I captain, first Sri Lankan woman at No. 1 in ODI rankings, with 195 and 178 record innings.

Chameleons

Chameleons: name shared by several games, chiefly The Chameleon (Big Potato social deduction party game, 3-8 players, secret-word bluffing), Chameleons (Chris Huntoon 2000 abstract capture game), Chameleon (2003 Hex-family connection game), and Meccha Chameleon (2026 Steam hide-and-seek hit).

Chaminda Vaas (චමින්ද වාස්)

Chaminda Vaas (චමින්ද වාස්), born 1974, Sri Lankan left-arm fast-medium bowler; 355 Test and 400 ODI wickets, 1996 World Cup winner, first ODI hat-trick off the first three balls (2003).

Chamique Holdsclaw

Chamique Holdsclaw (born 1977) is an American retired basketball player, Tennessee three-time NCAA champion (39-0 in 1998), 1999 WNBA No. 1 pick and Rookie of the Year, 2000 Olympic gold medalist, and Naismith Hall of Fame inductee (2026) and mental health advocate.