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Chamar
Chamar (चमार) is a Dalit caste of northern India and the Nepal Terai, listed as a Scheduled Caste in statewise lists under India's Constitution. Distinct from unrelated namesakes, it is known for the Ad Dharm movement in Punjab and Chamar pride identity.
Chamorro people
Chamorro (CHamoru) people: indigenous people of Guam and the Mariana Islands, settled from Island Southeast Asia about 3,600 years ago, decimated under Spanish rule from 1668, now a U.S. territory population.
Chams
The Chams are an Austronesian (Malayo-Polynesian) people of the former kingdom of Champa in central and southern Vietnam, now living mainly in Vietnam and Cambodia, with Cham Islam, Cham Bani, and Cham Ahiér religious communities.
Chandler David Hendry
Chandler David Hendry (Chuck), 1999-2026, American LDS content creator and founder of the Restored Truth podcast; died August 7, 2026 as sole fatality of a three-vehicle crash in Lehi, Utah, hours after posting a video on the afterlife.
Chandra Bahadur Dangi (चन्द्र बहादुर डाँगी)
Chandra Bahadur Dangi (चन्द्र बहादुर डाँगी), Nepalese weaver (1939–2015), verified by Guinness World Records in 2012 as the shortest adult ever measured at 54.6 cm; met Sultan Kösen in 2014.
Chandraseniya Kayastha Prabhu
Chandraseniya Kayastha Prabhu (CKP, Chandraseniya Prabhu) is a caste of Maharashtra and Gujarat, a regional Kayastha sub-group of scribes and warriors, ritually high, with documented Shilahara-era history and disputed Chandrasen origin legends.
Chang and Eng Bunker
Chang and Eng Bunker, the Bunker brothers, were Thai-born conjoined twins whose touring exhibitions gave English the term Siamese twins; they died in North Carolina in 1874.
Change detection task
The change detection task is a visual perception paradigm measuring visual working memory capacity, introduced by Luck and Vogel in 1997, typically about 3 to 4 items.
Change.org
Change.org is an online petition platform where anyone can start and sign petitions for free, used by more than 500 million people and funded by member contributions.
Charisma
Charisma (Greek charisma, "God's gift") is an exceptional personal quality inspiring devotion; Max Weber made it a type of legitimate authority, and modern research treats it as learnable signaling, effective up to a point.
Charitable organization
Charitable organization: legally defined institution advancing public benefit (poverty relief, education, health, religion). UK Charities Act 2011 public-benefit test; US 501(c)(3) tax exemption; distinct from nonprofits, NGOs, foundations; over 7% of US workforce.
Charlatan
Charlatan: a person falsely claiming knowledge or skill, especially medical; from Italian ciarlatano (ciarlare "chatter" plus Cerreto, an Umbrian village of quacks); English from 1595-1605; originally a mountebank selling remedies.
Charlayne Hunter-Gault
Charlayne Hunter-Gault (born 1942) is an American journalist who desegregated the University of Georgia with Hamilton Holmes in 1961, then worked at the New York Times, The New Yorker, PBS NewsHour, NPR, and CNN, winning two Emmys and two Peabody Awards.
Charles F. Westoff
Charles F. Westoff is an American demographer, emeritus professor at Princeton University, known for his work on wanted and unwanted fertility and unmet need for family planning.
Charles Hatfield
Charles Mallory Hatfield (1876-1958), American rainmaker and sewing machine salesman, hired by San Diego in 1915 for $10,000 to fill Morena Reservoir; the resulting 1916 flood killed dozens and he was never paid.
Charles Horton Cooley
Charles Horton Cooley (1864-1929) was a University of Michigan sociologist who coined the looking-glass self (1902) and primary group (1909), founded Michigan sociology, and co-founded the American Sociological Society.
Charles Lwanga
Charles Lwanga (Kaloli Lwanga), Ugandan Catholic martyr and chief of the royal pages under King Mwanga II of Buganda, burned at Namugongo 3 June 1886; beatified 1920, canonized 1964 among the twenty-two Uganda Martyrs, patron of African youth.
Charles Manners, Marquess of Granby
Charles Manners, Marquess of Granby (1754–1787), 4th Duke of Rutland and Pitt's first Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (1784–1787), friend and patron of William Pitt the younger; managed the failed 1785 commercial propositions, died in Dublin aged 33.
Charles Moore, Baron Moore of Etchingham
Charles Moore, Baron Moore of Etchingham, is an English journalist and author who wrote the three-volume authorized biography of Margaret Thatcher and became a non-affiliated peer in 2020.
Charles Mzingeli
Charles Mzingeli (1905–1980) was a Zimbabwean labor activist and politician whose Reformed Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union dominated African urban politics in Salisbury, now Harare, from 1945 to the early 1950s.
Charles Ryu
Charles Ryu (Cheol Ryu, born 1994) is a North Korean defector who escaped twice as a teen, resettled in the US, and became a Westmont College developer and founder of the Freedom Bridge Foundation.
Charles Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer
Charles Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer (born 1964), British historian, broadcaster, and younger brother of Diana, Princess of Wales; delivered her 1997 funeral eulogy, owns Althorp, and wrote A Very Private School and Swan Song.
Charlotte Augusta Haig
Charlotte Augusta Haig was an American heiress of the Astor family. After a divorce scandal in 1892, she married George Ogilvy Haig and lived in London and Paris.
Charlotte Kretschmann
Charlotte Kretschmann (Lotte, 1909-2024), German supercentenarian born in Breslau, died at 114 years 268 days in Kirchheim unter Teck; oldest person ever to have resided in Germany, validated by GRG, LongeviQuest, and ESO.
Charlotte Laws
Charlotte Laws, American author and anti-revenge porn activist, 'Erin Brockovich of revenge porn'; fought Hunter Moore's isanyoneup.com after her daughter's hacked photo appeared there, and championed California SB 255.
Chatham House Rule
Chatham House Rule: a meeting protocol from the 1927 London think tank allowing free use of information while barring attribution of speakers or participants; distinct from the Vegas Rule.
Chauvinism
Chauvinism is exaggerated, blind devotion to a group one belongs to, usually one's nation, involving perceived superiority and xenophobia; it is named for a French soldier.
Chav
Chav: British pejorative for a young person stereotyped as low-class, brash, and flashily dressed in branded sportswear. Entered the OED mid-2000s, OUP's first Word of the Year; disputed Romani or charver etymology; regional equivalents include ned, scally, charver.
Cheating
Cheating: secretly or deliberately violating a fair, shared rule to gain advantage over others in a cooperative relationship, across academia, sport, business, and relationships; distinct from lying and fraud, driven by moral disengagement, and reduced by honesty oaths.
Chechens
Chechens (Nokhchiy), a Northeast Caucasian people of the North Caucasus speaking a Nakh language, with teip clan structure, Sufi Islamic tradition, the 1944 deportation to Central Asia, and the Chechen wars with Russia.