Society and history

Caribbean Basin Initiative

The Caribbean Basin Initiative is a US trade program, announced by President Reagan in 1982, granting duty-free access to the US market for Caribbean and Central American goods.

Caribbean Community

The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is an organization of 15 Caribbean member states, established by the Treaty of Chaguaramas in 1973 to promote regional integration and a single market.

Caribbean Court of Justice

The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), based in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, is the final court of appeal for five Caribbean states, inaugurated in 2005.

The Caribbean Development Bank is a treaty-based regional development bank headquartered in Barbados, founded in 1970 to promote economic growth, poverty reduction, and regional integration across the Caribbean.

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Caribbean Free Trade Association

The Caribbean Free Trade Association (CARIFTA) was a free trade area of English-speaking Caribbean countries, operating from 1968 until it was replaced by the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) in 1973.

Caribbean guilder

The Caribbean guilder is the currency of Curaçao and Sint Maarten, issued by the CBCS and legal tender since March 2025, replacing the Netherlands Antillean guilder one-to-one.

Caribbean Hindustani

Caribbean Hindustani is a group of Indo-Aryan koiné languages formed among indentured laborers from northern India, with varieties called Sarnami, Trinidad Bhojpuri, and Guyanese Bhojpuri.

CARICOM Single Market and Economy

The CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) is a single economic space among Caribbean Community members, launched in 2006 for free movement of goods, services, people, and capital.

Caril Ann Fugate

Caril Ann Fugate, later Caril Ann Clair, was the 14-year-old companion of Charles Starkweather convicted of first degree murder in the 1958 Nebraska-Wyoming killing spree, sentenced to life, paroled in 1976 after claiming hostage status.

Carina Letong Hong

Carina Letong Hong (洪乐潼) is a Chinese-born mathematician who left Stanford graduate study to found the AI mathematics startup Axiom Math in Palo Alto in 2025, raising $264 million.

Carine Werner

Carine Werner is an American politician and Republican member of the Arizona Senate from the 4th district since 2025, after serving on the Scottsdale Unified School District board.

Carinus

Carinus (Marcus Aurelius Carinus) was a Roman emperor from 282 to 285, the elder son of Carus, defeated and killed by Diocletian at the battle of the Margus.

Carl Benedikt Frey

Carl Benedikt Frey is an economist at the University of Oxford who studies technology and labor markets, best known for the 2013 Frey and Osborne automation study.

Carl Benjamin

Carl Benjamin, aka Sargon of Akkad, is a British YouTuber and political commentator who rose during Gamergate, stood unsuccessfully for UKIP in the 2019 European elections, and directs the Lotus Eaters podcast.

Carl Bernstein

Carl Bernstein (born 1944) is an American investigative journalist who with Bob Woodward broke the Watergate scandal for The Washington Post, won the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, co-wrote All the President's Men, and wrote the 1977 CIA-and-media exposé.

Carl Bertheau

Carl Bertheau (1836–1910) was a German Lutheran theologian and pastor who served Hamburg's Hauptkirche St. Michaelis for over four decades and led the inner mission from 1897.

Carl Borrebaeck

Carl A. K. Borrebaeck is a Swedish professor of immunotechnology in Lund whose antibody research produced spin-out companies beginning with BioInvent in 1983 and including Alligator Bioscience and Immunovia.

Carl Brashear

Carl Brashear (1931–2006), also Carl Maxie Brashear, was a U.S. Navy master chief boatswain's mate, first African American Master Diver (1970) and first amputee recertified as a Navy diver (1968) after losing his leg in the 1966 Palomares hydrogen-bomb recovery; subject of Men of Honor.

Carl C. Plehn

Carl C. Plehn (1867–1945) was an American economist of public finance at the University of California, Berkeley, who wrote the widely adopted textbook Introduction to Public Finance in 1896.

Carl Cashman

Carl Cashman is a British Liberal Democrat politician, leader of the Lib Dem group on Liverpool City Council for Church ward since 2023, formerly Knowsley councillor and 2017 Liverpool City Region mayoral candidate; distinct from Lord Michael Cashman.

Carl Cavers

Carl Cavers is a British video-game executive who co-founded Sumo Digital in Sheffield in 2003 and served as chief executive of Sumo Group until retiring in 2025.

Carl Christian Clemen

Carl Christian Clemen (1865–1940) was a German Lutheran theologian and historian of religion who taught at Bonn, becoming the first director of its Religionswissenschaftliches Seminar in 1920.

Carl D. Thoma

Carl D. Thoma is an American private equity investor, founder and managing partner of the software-focused buyout firm Thoma Bravo, and a pioneer of the buy-and-build strategy.

Carl DeMaio

Carl DeMaio is an American Republican politician, a member of the California State Assembly from the 75th district who was elected to the San Diego City Council in 2008.

Carl E. Douglas

Carl E. Douglas (Carl Edwin Douglas, born 1955) is a Los Angeles trial lawyer, O.J. Simpson Dream Team defense attorney, and founding partner of Douglas/Hicks Law, known for police misconduct cases and the $4.9 billion GM verdict.

Carl E. Stewart

Carl E. Stewart, born in 1950, is a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1994.

Carl Eschenbach

Carl Eschenbach is an American enterprise-software executive and venture capitalist at Sequoia Capital, known for leading its investments in Zoom and Snowflake, who served as Workday's CEO from 2022 to 2026.

Carl Eugene Watts

Carl "Coral" Eugene Watts (1953-2007), the "Sunday Morning Slasher," an American serial killer who attacked women in Texas, Michigan, and Ontario; received 1982 Texas immunity for confessed killings, was later convicted of two Michigan murders, and died of prostate cancer in custody.

Carl Ferenbach

Carl Ferenbach is an American investor who co-founded Berkshire Partners, a Boston-based middle-market private equity firm, in 1984, and later became a full-time environmental philanthropist.