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Chimaji Appa
Chimaji Appa (चिमाजी अप्पा, c. 1706–1740), younger brother of Baji Rao I and son of Balaji Vishwanath, Maratha commander who won Malwa, Gujarat, Konkan and the 1737–39 Vasai campaign against the Portuguese; died 17 December 1740.
Chingünjav
Chingünjav (Чингүнжав, 1710–1757) was a Khalkha Mongol prince of the Khotogoids of north-west Mongolia who led the 1756–1757 rebellion against Qing rule in Outer Mongolia.
Choe Yong-gon
Choe Yong-gon (최용건) was a North Korean military leader who commanded the unified military headquarters in 1947 and served as Minister of National Defense during the Korean War.
Chris Hani
Chris Hani (Martin Thembisile Hani, 1942–1993) was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary who served as chief of staff of the ANC's armed wing and was assassinated in April 1993.
Chris Kyle
Chris Kyle, also known as Christopher Scott Kyle, was a US Navy SEAL sniper credited with 160 confirmed kills in Iraq and known through his 2012 memoir American Sniper.
Chris Ryan
Chris Ryan, pen name of Colin Armstrong, is a British author and former SAS soldier (born 1961) famous as the sole escapee of the Bravo Two Zero patrol in the 1991 Gulf War and author of The One That Got Away and the Strike Back novels.
Christapor Mikaelian
Christapor Mikaelian (Քրիստափոր Միքայելյան, 1859–1905), also rendered Kristapor Mikayelian, was an Armenian revolutionary who co-founded the Armenian Revolutionary Federation and died in 1905 testing a bomb for a plot against Sultan Abdul Hamid II.
Christian Freuding
Christian Freuding (born 1971, Weiden in der Oberpfalz) is a German Army lieutenant general and the 22nd Inspekteur des Heeres since 1 October 2025, leading about 63,000 soldiers from Strausberg; formerly head of the Defense Ministry's Ukraine staff and Planning and Command Staff.
Christopher C. Miller
Christopher C. Miller is a retired Army Special Forces colonel and former NCTC director who served as Acting U.S. Secretary of Defense from November 9, 2020 to January 20, 2021, overseeing the Afghanistan drawdown, the Pentagon transition halt, and the January 6 National Guard response.
Christopher G. Cavoli
Christopher G. Cavoli, also known as Chris Cavoli, is a retired US Army four-star general who served as NATO's Supreme Allied Commander Europe from 2022 to 2025.
Christopher John Boyce
Christopher John Boyce, American convicted spy nicknamed the Falcon, sold TRW satellite secrets (RHYOLITE, Pyramider) to the USSR via courier Andrew Daulton Lee for about $70,000, escaped Lompoc prison in 1980, was recaptured in 1981, and paroled in 2002.
Christopher LaNeve
General Christopher C. LaNeve, 40th Vice Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army (since February 2026) and acting Chief of Staff (since April 2026), University of Arizona ROTC 1990, former commander of Eighth Army and the 82nd Airborne Division.
Christopher Mellon
Christopher Mellon, also known as Chris Mellon, spent nearly 20 years in the U.S. Intelligence Community before becoming a leading public advocate for government transparency on UAP.
Christopher Steele
Christopher Steele (Christopher David Steele), British ex-MI6 Kremlin expert, founded Orbis Business Intelligence in 2009; compiled the 17-memo 2016 Trump-Russia dossier for Fusion GPS, was terminated as an FBI source, and the FBI never corroborated its allegations.
Chūichi Nagumo (南雲忠一)
Chūichi Nagumo (南雲忠一), IJN admiral (1886/1887-1944), commanded the Kidō Būtai carrier force at Pearl Harbor and Midway, led carriers through Santa Cruz, and died on Saipan in July 1944.
Chun Doo-hwan (전두환)
Chun Doo-hwan (전두환), 1931–2021, South Korean general and Fifth Republic president 1980–1988; led the December 12, 1979 coup, suppressed the 1980 Gwangju uprising, was sentenced to death in 1996, and was pardoned in 1997.
Claude Auchinleck
Claude Auchinleck (1884–1981), British field marshal nicknamed the Auk, commanded Middle East Forces 1941–42, defeated Rommel at Operation Crusader and First El Alamein, then led the Indian Army through Burma support and the 1947 partition.
Claus von Stauffenberg
Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg (1907–1944), German colonel and aristocrat who led the 20 July 1944 Hitler assassination plot (Operation Valkyrie), was wounded in Tunisia in 1943, and was executed in the Bendlerblock courtyard.
Clay Allison
Robert Clay Allison (1841-1887), "Wolf of the Washita," was a Confederate veteran, Texas-New Mexico rancher and gunfighter. Known for the Griego killing at Cimarron, the Las Animas dance-hall shootout, and death in a 1887 wagon accident near Pecos.
Clint Hill (Secret Service)
Clint Hill (1932–2025), U.S. Secret Service agent 1958–1975 under Eisenhower through Ford; leapt onto JFK's limousine in Dallas on November 22, 1963, shielding Jacqueline Kennedy; later Assistant Director, 60 Minutes subject, and memoirist.
Clint Lorance
Clint Allen Lorance, former U.S. Army first lieutenant, 82nd Airborne, convicted at a 2013 court-martial of murder for a July 2012 Afghanistan motorcycle shooting, pardoned by Trump November 15, 2019; Tenth Circuit ruled pardon acceptance is not a guilt confession.
Clinton Romesha
Clinton Lavor Romesha, born in Lake City, California, is a retired U.S. Army staff sergeant and Medal of Honor recipient for leading the counterattack that retook Combat Outpost Keating in the October 3, 2009 Battle of Kamdesh, Afghanistan.
Clyde Tolson
Clyde A. Tolson (1900-1975), J. Edgar Hoover's associate director and FBI number two from 1931 to 1972; heir to most of Hoover's $551,500 estate; romantic nature of their four-decade partnership unconfirmed.
Cochise
Cochise (c. 1812–1874) was chief of the Chokonen band of the Chiricahua Apache in southeastern Arizona. Known for the Bascom Affair of 1861, the Battle of Apache Pass, and the 1872 Cochise-Howard Agreement creating the Chiricahua Reservation; not the penetration-testing tool or the county alone.
Code talker
Code talkers were American Indian soldiers who used coded versions of tribal languages for secure battlefield communications in both world wars, beginning with 19 Choctaw soldiers in France in 1918 and including about 400 Navajo Marines in the Pacific in World War II; the Navajo code was never deciphered.
Colin Bell (RAF officer)
Colin Stuart Bell (born 5 March 1921), DFC, BEM, is the last surviving RAF Mosquito pilot of the Second World War; he flew 50 raids with 608 Squadron, distinct from the footballer Colin Bell.
Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz
Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz (Goltz Paşa), Prussian field marshal and military writer (1843-1916), author of Das Volk in Waffen (The Nation in Arms), reorganizer of the Ottoman army 1883-1896, and commander of Ottoman forces at the siege of Kut in Mesopotamia, where he died in 1916.
Commandant of the Marine Corps
Commandant of the Marine Corps: highest-ranking USMC officer, appointed by the President for a four-year term, reports to the Secretary of the Navy, sits on the Joint Chiefs of Staff; 39th and current Commandant is General Eric M. Smith.
Commanding General of the United States Army
Commanding General of the United States Army, senior Army officer 1798-1903, first held by George Washington; abolished August 15, 1903 and replaced by the Army Chief of Staff and War Department General Staff.
Condottiero
Condottiero (plural condottieri) is the Italian term for the captain of a mercenary company, from condotta, the contract of hire; the compagnie di ventura captains who dominated Italian warfare from about 1300 to the early sixteenth century.