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César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández
César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández is an American scholar and law professor at Ohio State University, among the ten most-cited immigration law scholars in the United States, known for crimmigration.
César de Bus
César de Bus (1544–1607) was a French Catholic priest from Cavaillon who founded the Congregation of the Fathers of Christian Doctrine in 1592 and was canonized by Pope Francis in 2022.
César Gaviria
César Gaviria Trujillo (born 1947, Pereira), Colombian Liberal economist; president 1990–1994 (1991 Constitution, economic apertura, Pablo Escobar's surrender and death), OAS secretary general 1994–2004, later Liberal Party leader.
César Luena
César Luena is a Spanish Socialist Workers' Party politician, born in Logroño, who has been a Member of the European Parliament since 2019 and chairs the Delegation for relations with the Korean Peninsula.
Cesare Baronius
Cesare Baronius, also known as Cesare Baronio (1538–1607), was an Italian Oratorian priest, cardinal, and church historian whose twelve-volume Annales ecclesiastici answered the Protestant Magdeburg Centuries.
Cesare Beccaria
Cesare Beccaria Bonesana (Cesare Beccaria; 1738–1794), Milanese jurist and economist of the Lombard Enlightenment, author of Dei delitti e delle pene (On Crimes and Punishments, 1764), which argued for proportionality, certainty over severity, abolition of torture and the death penalty, and shaped modern criminal law.
Cesare Borgia
Cesare Borgia (1475/1476-1507), duke of Valentinois and Romagna, son of Pope Alexander VI, conquered the Romagna 1499-1503 and became the contested exemplum of Machiavelli's The Prince, chapter 7.
Cesare Lombroso
Cesare Lombroso (1835-1909), Italian psychiatrist and founder of criminal anthropology at Turin, author of L'uomo delinquente (1876) and the born-criminal atavism theory, leader of the Italian Positive School with Ferri and Garofalo.
Cesare Terranova
Cesare Terranova was an Italian magistrate and parliamentarian who, as investigating judge in Palermo, handled Mafia cases and was killed by Cosa Nostra in 1979.
Ceslaw Bojarski
Ceslaw Bojarski was a Polish counterfeiter who produced fake French banknotes in the Paris suburbs. He made his own paper, plates, and presses, operating for over thirteen years.
Cesnola Phoenician inscriptions
The Cesnola Phoenician inscriptions are Phoenician texts from Cyprus, excavated by Luigi Palma di Cesnola in the 1860s and 1870s and held mainly at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Cession
Cession: the consensual transfer of sovereignty over territory between states, usually by treaty, with the ceding state's consent; distinguished from forcible annexation. Covers treaty elements, timing, effects on property and nationality, and historical examples.
Cession of Fiji
The Cession of Fiji was the 1874 transfer of the Fiji Islands to the British Crown by Ratu Seru Cakobau and other high chiefs, making Fiji a Crown Colony.
Cession of Sarawak
The Cession of Sarawak was the 1946 transfer of Sarawak on Borneo from the third White Rajah, Vyner Brooke, to the British Crown, making it a colony.
Cession of Sidi Ifni
The Cession of Sidi Ifni was the 1969 transfer of the Spanish territory of Ifni on Morocco's Atlantic coast to the Kingdom of Morocco by treaty.
Ceteris paribus
Ceteris paribus, meaning "other things being equal," is a Latin phrase economists use to state laws about one factor while holding all other factors constant, popularized by Alfred Marshall.
Ceto (Κητώ)
Ceto (Κητώ), primordial Greek sea goddess, daughter of Pontus and Gaia, wife of Phorcys; mother of the Gorgons, Graiae, Echidna, and Ladon; also called Crataeis.
Cetshwayo
Cetshwayo (uCetshwayo kaMpande, c. 1826 to 1884) was king of the Zulu from 1872 until the British victory at Ulundi in 1879, and was reinstalled over part of Zululand in 1883.
Cetus (mythology)
Kētos (κῆτος, Latin cetus) is the generic Greek term for any huge sea creature; in myth it names two monsters, Perseus's Ethiopian ketos and the ketos of Troy slain by Herakles, and survives in the constellation Cetus and the word cetacean.
Cetus Corporation (biotechnology company)
Cetus Corporation was an American biotechnology company founded in Berkeley, California, in 1971, widely described as the first biotechnology company; it invented PCR and merged into Chiron in 1991.
Cevallos expedition
The Cevallos expedition refers to two Spanish campaigns against Portuguese positions in the Río de la Plata, led by Pedro de Cevallos in 1762–1763 and 1776–1777.
Cevian Capital
Cevian Capital is a Stockholm-based active ownership investment firm founded in 2002 by Lars Förberg and Christer Gardell, which takes large stakes in underperforming European public companies and is Europe's largest activist investor.
Cevital
Cevital is a privately held Algerian food-processing and industrial conglomerate founded in 1998 by Issad Rebrab, and is Algeria's largest privately held company, operating one of the world's largest sugar refineries.
Ceylonese advocates elevated to the judicial bench
Ceylonese advocates elevated to the judicial bench spans Richard Francis Morgan, first local judge in 1857, and Sir Harry Dias, first Sinhalese, to Chief Justice Sir Edwin Wijeyewardene in 1949.
Ceyuan Ventures
Ceyuan Ventures is a Beijing-based early-stage venture capital firm focused on IT and emerging-growth companies in China, led by founding partner Bo Feng and managing partner Ye Yuan.
CEZ Group
CEZ Group is a Czech energy group, one of the largest in Central and Eastern Europe, majority owned by the Czech state and listed in Prague and Warsaw.
Cezayirli Gazi Hasan Pasha
Cezayirli Gazi Hasan Pasha (جزايرلي غازي حسن پاشا), nicknamed Palabiyik, was an Ottoman grand admiral who rebuilt the fleet after Cheshme in 1770 and became grand vizier in 1789.
Cezzar Ahmed Pasha
Cezzar Ahmed Pasha (جزّار أحمد پاشا) was a Bosnian-born Ottoman governor who ruled Sidon from Acre for 29 years and repelled Napoleon's siege of Acre in 1799.
CF PharmTech (长风药业)
CF PharmTech (长风药业) is a Chinese developer of inhaled respiratory drugs for asthma and COPD, headquartered in Suzhou and listed in Hong Kong in 2025.
CFA franc
The CFA franc, or Francs CFA, is the name shared by two African currencies, the West African (XOF) and Central African (XAF) CFA francs, both pegged to the euro.