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Carlos Martín Urriza

Carlos Martín Urriza is a Spanish politician of Sumar who chairs the Congress of Deputies' Budgets Committee, serves as its economic spokesperson, and briefly co-led the party in 2025.

Carlos Menem

Carlos Saúl Menem (1930–2021), Argentine Peronist lawyer-politician, president 1989–1999; convertibility peso–dollar peg, privatizations, 1994 reform, later arms-smuggling conviction contested by Reuters; senator until death.

Carlos P. Garcia

Carlos P. Garcia (1896–1971), Filipino statesman from Talibon, Bohol; eighth Philippine president (1957–1961) after Magsaysay's death, known for the Filipino First economic nationalist policy and austerity program; died as 1971 Constitutional Convention president.

Carlos P. Romulo

Carlos Pena Romulo (1899-1985), Filipino journalist, soldier, diplomat, and author, Pulitzer Prize winner, first Asian president of the UN General Assembly (1949), UN Charter signatory, Philippine foreign minister, and National Artist for Literature (1982).

Carlos Pellas Chamorro

Carlos Pellas Chamorro is a Nicaraguan businessman who controls Grupo Pellas, a Managua conglomerate known for Flor de Caña rum, and became Nicaragua's first billionaire in 2014.

Carlos Pellegrini

Carlos Pellegrini (1846–1906) was an Argentine lawyer and statesman who served as president from 1890 to 1892, taking office after the Revolution of the Park and stabilizing public finances.

Carlos Prío Socarrás

Carlos Prío Socarrás (1903–1977) was a Cuban lawyer and politician who served as president of Cuba from 1948 to 1952, until Fulgencio Batista's coup of March 10, 1952 removed him.

Carlos R. Tobar

Carlos R. Tobar (1853–1920) was an Ecuadorian conservative diplomat, foreign minister, and writer, author of the 1907 Tobar Doctrine on non-recognition of de facto governments.

Carlos Saavedra Lamas

Carlos Saavedra Lamas (1878-1959), Argentine jurist and foreign minister 1932-1938, first Latin American Nobel laureate: Peace Prize 1936 for the 1933 Anti-War Pact and Chaco War mediation between Bolivia and Paraguay; later rector of the University of Buenos Aires.

Carlos Salinas de Gortari

Carlos Salinas de Gortari (born 1948), Mexican PRI economist and president 1988-1994; disputed 1988 election, privatizations, NAFTA, EZLN uprising, Colosio assassination, and the December 1994 peso crisis.

Carlos Sheinbaum Yoselevitz

Carlos Sheinbaum Yoselevitz (1933–2013) was a Mexican chemical engineer and industrialist who co-founded Sintacrom de México, the first plant in Mexico to produce basic chromium sulfate for tanning.

Carlos Smith (Florida politician)

Carlos Guillermo Smith is an American Democratic politician elected in 2024 to the Florida Senate from the Orlando-area 17th district, where he has sponsored health care, water safety, and ballot-measure legislation.

Carlos T. Bea

Carlos T. Bea, born in Spain in 1934, is an American jurist who served on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals from 2003 until taking senior status in 2019.

Carlos the Jackal

Carlos the Jackal (Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, born 1949), Venezuelan militant of the PFLP who attacked OPEC ministers in Vienna in 1975 and bombed French targets, captured in Sudan in 1994, serving three French life sentences.

Carlos Vaz Ferreira

Carlos Vaz Ferreira (1872–1958) was a Uruguayan philosopher, regarded as Uruguay's leading twentieth-century philosopher, whose "lógica viva" analyzed how people fall into error in ordinary reasoning.

Carlos, Prince of Asturias

Don Carlos (1545-1568), Prince of Asturias, heir of Philip II of Spain; imprisoned by his father in January 1568, died that July, and became a Black Legend figure and the subject of Schiller's play and Verdi's opera.

Carlota Joaquina

Carlota Joaquina (Carlota Joaquina de Borbón) was a Spanish infanta who became queen consort of Portugal as the wife of John VI, known for her failed 1808–1814 bid to rule Spain as regent.

Carlotta Baumann

Carlotta Baumann (born 1987) is a German business executive and managing owner of Finetech, a Berlin manufacturer of high-precision die-bonding equipment, who won the EY Entrepreneur of the Year award in 2024.

Carlsmed

Carlsmed is a Carlsbad, California-based medical technology company, founded in 2018, that makes AI-planned, patient-specific 3D-printed titanium implants for spine fusion surgery through its aprevo Technology Platform.

Carlton Club

Carlton Club, London gentlemen's club founded by Tories in 1832 after the 1831 election defeat, closely tied to the Conservative Party; based at 94 Pall Mall until a 1940 bomb, now at 69 St James's Street.

Carlton Leach

Carlton Leach, also known as "The Footsoldier", is an English former West Ham ICF football hooligan, doorman, and author born in 1959 in Canning Town, London, whose autobiography Muscle inspired the 2007 film Rise of the Footsoldier.

Carlton Pearson

Carlton Pearson, also known as Bishop Carlton Pearson, was an American Pentecostal minister who led a Tulsa megachurch and was declared a heretic in 2004 for teaching universal salvation.

Carlton W. Reeves

Carlton Wayne Reeves, born 1964, is a United States district judge for the Southern District of Mississippi, appointed by Barack Obama in 2010 and chair of the United States Sentencing Commission since 2022.

Carly Fiorina

Carly Fiorina, born Cara Carleton Sneed, is an American executive who was CEO of Hewlett-Packard from 1999 to 2005, leading its contested $19 billion Compaq merger.

Carmageddon

Carmageddon (1997) is a vehicular combat racing game by Stainless Games and SCi where players win races by completing laps, destroying rivals, or killing pedestrians; it sparked censorship, sold millions, and spawned a series.

CarMax

CarMax is the largest national used-car retailer in the United States, selling vehicles at fixed no-haggle prices from 250 stores and financing purchases through CarMax Auto Finance.

Carmel Partners

Carmel Partners is a San Francisco real estate private equity firm founded by Ron Zeff in 1996 that invests in United States multifamily residential properties, with $7.98 billion in assets under management.

Carmel School, Perth

Carmel School is a co-educational Modern Orthodox Zionist Jewish day school in Dianella, Perth, founded in 1959 and serving about 440 students from pre-kindergarten to Year 12.

Carmel Tebbutt

Carmel Tebbutt, NSW Labor politician, first female Deputy Premier of New South Wales (2008), MLC 1998-2005 and Member for Marrickville 2005-2015, later CEO of Odyssey House NSW and 2024 Drug Summit co-chair.

Carmela Conroy

Carmela Conroy is an American politician and former U.S. Foreign Service officer who is the Democratic 2026 nominee for Washington's 5th District House seat, rematching Republican incumbent Michael Baumgartner.