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Camila Batmanghelidjh

Camila Batmanghelidjh, also known as Kamylā Batmanghelych, was an Iranian-born British psychotherapist and charity leader who founded Kids Company in London in 1996 and led it until its 2015 closure.

Camilism

Camilism (camilismo) is the Christian revolutionary current named for Camilo Torres Restrepo (1929–1966), Colombian priest-sociologist and ELN guerrilla killed in his first combat; the ELN renamed itself Unión Camilista-ELN in 1987, and the current shaped Golconda and Chilean Christians for Socialism.

Camilla Hall

Camilla Hall (1945-1974), also called Camilla Christine Hall or Gabi, was a Minnesota-born social worker and artist who joined the Symbionese Liberation Army with Patricia Soltysik, took part in the 1974 Patty Hearst kidnapping and Hibernia Bank robbery, and died in the May 17, 1974 Los Angeles police shootout.

Camilla Laureti

Camilla Laureti, born in Rome in 1975, is an Italian Democratic Party politician and Member of the European Parliament since 2022, serving as Vice-Chair of the Socialists and Democrats group.

Camilla Richards

Camilla Richards is a venture capital investor who is Partner and Head of Investor Relations at Atomico, the London-based venture capital firm, where she oversees fundraising.

Camilla Waltersson Grönvall

Camilla Waltersson Grönvall is a Swedish politician of the Moderaterna party who served as Minister for Social Services from 2022 to 2026, the first minister dedicated to social services.

Camille Chamoun

Camille Chamoun (كميل شمعون) was a Lebanese politician who served as President of Lebanon from 1952 to 1958, and whose 1958 request for American intervention brought US forces to Beirut.

Camille Étienne

Camille Étienne (born 1998) is a French climate and social justice activist, Sciences Po and Oxford alumna, spokesperson of On Est Prêt, author of Pour un soulèvement écologique (2023), and PFAS campaigner.

Camille Galliard-Minier

Camille Galliard-Minier is a French politician serving as Minister delegate for Autonomy and Persons with Disabilities since February 2026, after a career as a lawyer.

Camille L. Vélez-Rivé

Camille L. Vélez-Rivé, born Camille Lizette Vélez-Rivé in 1968, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the District of Puerto Rico since 2022.

Camille Lilly

Camille Y. Lilly is an American Democratic politician serving in the Illinois House of Representatives since 2010 for the 78th district, and serves as Assistant Majority Leader.

Camille Paglia

Camille Paglia (Camille Anna Paglia, born 1947) is an American critic and University Professor Emerita at the University of the Arts, Philadelphia, author of Sexual Personae (1990) and dissident feminist essays on sex, art, and culture.

Camille Vasquez

Camille Vasquez, American litigator, Depp v. Heard 2022 attorney at Brown Rudnick, now Sheppard Mullin Orange County managing partner; defamation and reputation practice, clients PepsiCo, Korean Air, Amazon.

Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour

Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour (Turin 1810–1861), Piedmontese prime minister, diplomat, and free-trade reformer, drove Italian unification: Crimean diplomacy, the French alliance of 1858–59, the 1860 plebiscites, and the Kingdom of Italy of 1861.

Camillo Castiglioni

Camillo Castiglioni (1879–1957) was an Austrian financier and industrialist, born in Trieste, who rose from rubber salesman to briefly the richest man in Central Europe and financed BMW's early growth.

Camillo Renato

Camillo Renato, also known as Paolo Ricci, was an Italian radical reformer born in Sicily who contested baptism and sacraments in the Grisons, active 1540 to 1570.

Camilo Cienfuegos

Camilo Cienfuegos Gorriarán (1932–1959), Cuban Rebel Army comandante, Granma survivor, Hero of Yaguajay, and army chief of staff, who disappeared on a flight from Camagüey to Havana in October 1959.

Camilo Henríquez

Camilo Henríquez, born José Camilo Henríquez, was a Chilean friar and journalist who edited La Aurora de Chile, Chile's first newspaper, and championed independence from Spain.

Camilo Ponce Enríquez

Camilo Ponce Enríquez was an Ecuadorian lawyer and politician who served as President of Ecuador from 1956 to 1960 and founded the Social Christian Party.

Camilo Torres Restrepo

Camilo Torres Restrepo (1929–1966), Colombian Catholic priest, sociologist, and ELN guerrilla; co-founded Colombia's first sociology faculty, led the Frente Unido, and died in his first combat; precursor of liberation theology.

Camilo Torres Tenorio

Camilo Torres Tenorio (1766–1816) was a New Granadan jurist and independence leader who wrote the Memorial de Agravios and twice headed the executive of the United Provinces of New Granada.

Camino de Santiago

The Camino de Santiago, or Way of Saint James, is a network of pilgrimage routes in Spain converging on the shrine of Saint James at Santiago de Compostela.

CAMM (missile family)

CAMM, the Common Anti-air Modular Missile, is an MBDA surface-to-air missile family fielded by the United Kingdom as the Sea Ceptor naval system and Sky Sabre land system.

Cammels

Cammels is a surname and place name: the Cammels of Shapwick and Glastonbury, Campbell's (Cammels) inn on the Ribble at Preston, Cammels Town in Mississippi, and a café in Kenya.

Camorra

The Camorra is a Neapolitan mafia-type criminal organization based in Naples and Campania, made up of autonomous clans rather than a single hierarchy, dating to the early 19th century.

Camp (style)

Camp (style): an aesthetic sensibility of exaggeration, artifice, irony, and theatricality, defined by Susan Sontag's 1964 essay "Notes on 'Camp'" and rooted in queer culture; distinct from kitsch, and showcased in the Met's 2019 Camp: Notes on Fashion exhibition.

Camp Bondsteel

Camp Bondsteel is the main US Army base in Kosovo, near Ferizaj/Uroševac, built in 1999 under KFOR. Named for Medal of Honor recipient James L. Bondsteel, it hosts NATO's Regional Command East.

Camp Bucca

Camp Bucca was a US-led theater internment facility near Umm Qasr, Iraq, established by British forces in March 2003, transferred to US control in April 2003, and closed 17 September 2009; over 100,000 detainees passed through, including Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and other future Islamic State leaders.

Camp Chapman attack

Camp Chapman attack: December 30, 2009 suicide bombing at FOB Chapman, Khost, Afghanistan, by Jordanian triple agent Humam Khalil al-Balawi, killing seven CIA personnel and one Jordanian officer, the CIA's second-deadliest day.

Camp Cropper

Camp Cropper was a US military detention facility near Baghdad International Airport, opened in 2003 for high-value detainees including Saddam regime figures, handed to Iraq in July 2010, and later known as Al-Karkh Central Prison.