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Chris Kourakis

Chris Kourakis (Christopher John Kourakis) is an Australian jurist, ninth Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of South Australia 2012-2026, former Solicitor-General 2003-2008, first Greek Australian in the role, appointed Companion of the Order of Australia in 2026.

Chris Rosenberg

Chris Rosenberg, also known as Harvey Rosenberg, was a Gambino crime family associate. He was killed in Brooklyn in 1979 after stealing from a Cuban drug cartel.

Christa Pike

Christa Gail Pike, Tennessee's only female death row inmate, was sentenced to death in 1996 for the 1995 Job Corps murder of Colleen Slemmer at age 18; she survived a failed September 30, 2026 lethal injection.

Christian Gerhartsreiter

Christian Gerhartsreiter, also known as Clark Rockefeller, Christopher Chichester, and Christopher Crowe, is a German-born impostor and murderer who posed for decades as an American blueblood, kidnapped his daughter in 2008, and was convicted in 2013 of the 1985 murder of John Sohus.

Christian Longo

Christian Michael Longo is an American murderer who killed his wife and three children on the Oregon coast in December 2001 and was sentenced to death.

Christian Porter

Christian Porter (born 1970, Perth) is an Australian former Liberal minister: WA Attorney-General and Treasurer, federal Social Services minister, Attorney-General 2017-2021, later a Perth barrister after Robodebt and a 2021 resignation.

Christian Schwarzenegger

Christian Schwarzenegger, Swiss criminal law and criminology professor at the University of Zurich, its Vice President Faculty Affairs since 2014, stepping down 31 July 2026 to become Universitas 21 provost; not the Augsburg media scholar of the same name.

Christie Michelle Scott

Christie Michelle Scott (born 1978) is an Alabama death row inmate convicted of capital murder for the 2008 house fire that killed her six-year-old son Mason in Russellville; her jury recommended life, but Judge Terry Dempsey overrode it and sentenced her to death in 2009.

Christina A. Snyder

Christina A. Snyder, born in 1947, is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge of the Central District of California since 2016.

Christina Bobb

Christina Bobb, also Christina Gabrielle Bobb, is an American attorney, former Marine Corps judge advocate, OAN host, Trump lawyer, RNC election integrity counsel, and Arizona fake-elector case defendant.

Christina C. Reiss

Christina Clair Reiss is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the District of Vermont since 2009, nominated by President Barack Obama.

Christine and Léa Papin

Christine and Léa Papin, French maids who murdered their employer's wife and daughter in Le Mans on 2 February 1933; tried September 1933; the case inspired Genet's The Maids and Lacan's analysis.

Christine M. Arguello

Christine M. Arguello (born 1955) is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge for the District of Colorado, appointed by George W. Bush in 2008.

Christine P. O'Hearn

Christine Patricia O'Hearn, born 1969 in Camden, New Jersey, is a United States district judge for the District of New Jersey, appointed by President Biden in 2021.

Christine Paolilla

Christine Marie Paolilla, American woman convicted of capital murder in the 2003 Clear Lake Massacre in Houston, Texas, where she and boyfriend Christopher Snider killed four friends; convicted 2008, sentenced to life, appeal affirmed 2011.

Christman Genipperteinga

Christman Genipperteinga is a legendary German bandit and serial killer of 1581 pamphlets, said to have murdered 964 people before his execution in the Rhineland.

Christopher A. Boyko

Christopher A. Boyko, born 1954 in Cleveland, is a senior United States district judge for the Northern District of Ohio, appointed by President George W. Bush in 2005.

Christopher A. Wray

Christopher A. Wray (born 1967) is an American lawyer, eighth Director of the FBI from August 2, 2017 to January 20, 2025, and earlier Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division (2003-2005) under George W. Bush.

Christopher Coke

Christopher "Dudus" Coke, Jamaican drug lord and Shower Posse leader from Tivoli Gardens, West Kingston, led the gang from 1992 until his 2010 extradition, which triggered the deadly Tivoli incursion; he is serving 23 years in the US, due for release January 2028.

Christopher Columbus Langdell

Christopher Columbus Langdell was an American legal scholar who, as dean of Harvard Law School from 1870 to 1895, introduced the case method of teaching law.

Christopher Darden

Christopher A. Darden, American lawyer and deputy district attorney, co-lead prosecutor with Marcia Clark in the 1995 O.J. Simpson murder trial; famous for the failed glove demonstration, author of In Contempt, later a defense attorney.

Christopher M. Carr

Christopher M. "Chris" Carr is an American Republican politician who has served as Attorney General of Georgia since 2016, after leading the state's economic development agency.

Christopher Paul Neil

Christopher Paul Neil, known as Mr Swirl, is a Canadian former English teacher identified through INTERPOL's first global public appeal and arrested in Thailand in 2007.

Christopher R. Cooper

Christopher R. Cooper, also known as Christopher Reid Cooper, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the District of Columbia since 2014.

Christopher R. Wolfe

Christopher R. Wolfe, born 1972 in Lubbock, Texas, is a United States district judge for the Western District of Texas, appointed by President Trump in 2026.

Christopher Scarver

Christopher Scarver, also known as Christopher J. Scarver Sr., is an American convicted murderer serving three life sentences for killing Jeffrey Dahmer and Jesse Anderson in 1994.

Christopher Vialva

Christopher Andre Vialva (c. 1981-2020), American federal death-row prisoner executed September 24, 2020 at Terre Haute for the 1999 carjacking murders of Todd and Stacie Bagley near Fort Hood, Texas; first African American executed in the modern federal death penalty era.

Christopher Wilder

Christopher Bernard Wilder (1945–1984), the "Beauty Queen Killer" or "Snapshot Killer," was an Australian-born American real estate investor and race car driver who posed as a photographer to abduct and murder young women in a 1984 US spree, dying in New Hampshire.

Christy C. Wiegand

Christy C. Wiegand, born Christy Criswell Wiegand in 1975, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Western District of Pennsylvania since 2020.

Christy Kinahan

Christy Kinahan (Christopher Vincent Kinahan Sr., the 'Dapper Don'), Irish founder of the Kinahan Organised Crime Group, a Dubai-based drug-trafficking cartel sanctioned by the US in April 2022 with $5 million rewards; no criminal charges, UAE visa cancelled 2026.