Society and history

Carolyn Comitta

Carolyn Comitta is an American Democratic politician, the Pennsylvania state senator for the 19th district since 2020, previously a state representative and mayor of West Chester.

Carolyn D. King

Carolyn D. King, also known as Carolyn Dineen King, is an American jurist on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, appointed by Jimmy Carter in 1979.

Carolyn Garcia (Mountain Girl), born 1946, née Carolyn Elizabeth Adams: Merry Prankster, Jerry Garcia's second wife, and the woman who won the 1997 Marin County probate ruling enforcing his $5 million divorce settlement.

Carolyn Hugley

Carolyn Fleming Hugley is an American Democratic politician representing Georgia's 141st district in the House of Representatives since 1993; the first African American Minority Whip (2003–2018), she was elected Minority Leader in 2024.

Carolyn Hursh

Carolyn Hursh is a Canadian business executive and fifth-generation Richardson family member who chaired James Richardson & Sons, Limited in Winnipeg from 2000 to 2021, after a first career as a social worker.

Carolyn Maloney

Carolyn Bosher Maloney, Democratic U.S. representative from New York (1993-2023), former NYC council member, chair of House Oversight and Reform and the Joint Economic Committee, lead author of the Zadroga 9/11 health law, defeated by Jerry Nadler in the 2022 primary.

Carolyn Parrish

Carolyn Parrish is a Canadian politician who became Mayor of Mississauga, Ontario, in a 2024 by-election after serving as a Liberal Member of Parliament from 1993 to 2005.

Carolyn Simpson

Carolyn Chalmers Simpson (born 1946) is a retired Australian judge of the NSW Supreme Court, its second female judge (1994), one of the 1999 first all-female appellate bench, Court of Appeal judge, and third longest serving judge in the court's history.

Carolyn Warmus

Carolyn Warmus, the "Fatal Attraction" killer, a former Westchester teacher convicted in 1992 of the 1989 murder of Betty Jeanne Solomon, her lover Paul Solomon's wife; paroled in 2019.

Carolyn Yeh

Carolyn Yeh (叶紫华, Yeh Tzu-hua) is a Taiwanese businesswoman who co-founded Multitech in 1976, the company that became Acer, and ran its finance and internal operations through its early years.

Carolynn Levy

Carolynn Levy is Chief Legal Officer of Y Combinator, the Mountain View startup accelerator, credited with inventing the SAFE, a standard instrument for early-stage startup financing.

Caron

Caron (háček), an inverted-circumflex diacritic ˇ from Czech orthography (De Orthographia Bohemica, attributed to Jan Hus); Unicode U+030C/U+02C7; used on č, š, ž, ď, ť and Pinyin third tone.

CarOnSale

CarOnSale is a Berlin-based B2B digital auction marketplace for the professional used car trade, founded in 2018 by Tom Krüger, Fabian Roth, and Oguz Özgüler.

Carousell (company)

Carousell, also known as Carousell.com, is a Singapore-headquartered online classifieds and recommerce group founded in 2012, operating brands including Mudah.my and Cho Tot across seven Asian markets.

Oct 22, 2026

Carpathian campaign

The Carpathian campaign, or Carpathian Winter War, was a series of 1915 winter battles between Austria-Hungary and Russia in the Carpathian Mountains, costing each side roughly a million casualties.

Oct 22, 2026

Carpathian Sich

The Carpathian Sich (Карпатська Січ) was a paramilitary organization of autonomous Carpatho-Ukraine, formed in November 1938. In March 1939 it became the national army of independent Carpatho-Ukraine and fought the Hungarian invasion.

Carpentras Stele

The Carpentras Stele is an Aramaic funerary inscription of unknown provenance and the earliest known Aramaic find from Egypt, dated to the Persian period after 400 BCE.

Carpetbagger

Carpetbagger: pejorative term for Northerners who moved South after the Civil War, joined the 1867 Republican parties, and held Reconstruction office; also modern slang for an outsider politician.

Carphone Warehouse

Carphone Warehouse is a British mobile phone retailer founded by Charles Dunstone in 1989, whose stores closed in 2020 as the name became a Currys online channel.

Carpi (people)

The Carpi were an ancient people of probably Dacian stock living east of the Carpathians between the Siret and Prut rivers, first named by Ptolemy; they raided Roman Dacia and Moesia in the 3rd century and were later absorbed by Germanic peoples.

Carrick Capital Partners

Carrick Capital Partners is a growth-equity investment firm founded in San Francisco in 2012 by Jim Madden and Marc McMorris, investing in software, SaaS, and technology-enabled services companies.

Carrie A. Buck

Carrie A. Buck is an American Republican politician who has served in the Nevada State Senate since 2020 and is the 2026 Republican nominee for Nevada's 1st Congressional District.

Oct 10, 2026

Carrie Best

Carrie Best (1903–2001) was a Black Canadian journalist and civil rights activist from New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, who co-founded The Clarion and publicized Viola Desmond's 1946 case.

Carrie Chapman Catt

Carrie Chapman Catt (1859–1947), American suffragist and two-time NAWSA president, led the Winning Plan campaign that won 19th Amendment ratification in 1920 and founded the League of Women Voters.

Carrie Isaac

Carrie Isaac is an American politician serving as a Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives from District 73, first elected in November 2022.

Carrie Johnson

Carrie Johnson (Caroline Louise Johnson, née Symonds, born 1988) is a British former Conservative communications chief, wife of Boris Johnson, first unmarried partner to live in Downing Street, and an animal welfare campaigner.

Carrie Lam (林郑月娥)

Carrie Lam (林郑月娥, Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor), Hong Kong's fifth-term Chief Executive 2017-2022, former Chief Secretary and 36-year civil servant; led through 2019 protests, National Security Law, US sanctions, succeeded by John Lee.

Carrie Nation

Carrie Nation (Carry A. Nation, 1846–1911), American temperance activist known as the saloon smasher who attacked Kansas bars with a hatchet, was arrested 30 times, sold souvenir hatchets, and lectured until 1911.

Carrie Woerner

Carrie Woerner is an American politician, a Democrat in the New York State Assembly's 113th district, elected in 2014 and chairing the Racing and Wagering Committee.