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Chaz Molder
Chaz Molder is an American Democratic politician and twice-elected mayor of Columbia, Tennessee, now the 2026 Democratic nominee for the U.S. House in Tennessee's 5th District.
Che (Ч ч) (Cyrillic)
Che (Ч ч) is a Cyrillic letter, U+0427/U+0447, representing the affricate /tʃ/ (English "ch") in most Slavic languages and /tɕ/ in Russian; transliterated Ch or Č; from the Greek-based Cyrillic alphabet of the First Bulgarian Empire.
Che 8 Xiche
Che 8 Xiche (车8洗车) was a Chinese door-to-door car-washing platform operated by Beijing Pinyou Technology in Beijing, launched in March 2015 during the car-wash subsidy war and shut down in July 2015.
Che Bong Nga
Po Binasuor, better known as Chế Bồng Nga, was king of Champa from about 1360 to 1390, leading the kingdom to its height of military power.
Che Bong Nga's wars with Dai Viet
Che Bong Nga's wars with Dai Viet were Champa's campaigns against Dai Viet from the 1360s to 1390, ending when Tran Khat Chan killed Che Bong Nga.
Che Gai Pavilion Poem Case
The Che Gai Pavilion Poem Case (车盖亭诗案) was a 1089 Northern Song literary inquisition in which former chief councilor Cai Que was banished for ten pavilion poems.
Che Guevara
Che Guevara (Ernesto Guevara de la Serna, 1928–1967), Argentine-born Marxist revolutionary and Castro's second in command in the Cuban Revolution; author of foco guerrilla theory, Cuban minister, failed Congo and Bolivia campaigns, executed in Bolivia October 9, 1967.
Che Haoduo Group (车好多集团)
Che Haoduo Group (车好多集团) is a Chinese auto e-commerce group founded by Yang Haoyong in 2015, operating the Guazi Used Cars marketplace and Maodou New Cars retail platform.
Chế Mân
Chế Mân, known in Cham sources as Jaya Simhavarman III, was king of Champa until his death in 1307, remembered for his marriage to the Đại Việt princess Huyền Trân.
Che-Chia Wei (魏哲家)
Che-Chia Wei (魏哲家), known professionally as C.C. Wei, is a Taiwanese semiconductor executive who joined TSMC in 1998, became CEO in 2018, and has been chairman and CEO since 2024.
Chea Sim
Chea Sim (ជា ស៊ីម) was a Cambodian politician, founding president of the ruling Cambodian People's Party from 1991 and President of the Senate from 1999 until his death in 2015.
Cheating
Cheating: secretly or deliberately violating a fair, shared rule to gain advantage over others in a cooperative relationship, across academia, sport, business, and relationships; distinct from lying and fraud, driven by moral disengagement, and reduced by honesty oaths.
Chechen language
Chechen (Нохчийн мотт, noxchiin mott), a Nakh Northeast Caucasian language co-official in Chechnya with about 1.5 million speakers, six noun classes, 40-plus consonants, ergative grammar, and a Cyrillic orthography adopted in the 1930s.
Chechen Republic of Ichkeria
Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (Нохчийн Республик Ичкери, ChRI), unrecognized secessionist state declared in 1991 under Dzhokhar Dudayev; de facto independent 1996–1999 after the Khasavyurt Accord, reconquered by Russia in the 1999–2000 war, now a government in exile under Akhmed Zakayev.
Chechen Revolution
The Chechen Revolution of autumn 1991: the national movement's seizure of power in Grozny, Dzhokhar Dudayev's election as president, and Chechnya's declaration of independence from Russia, leading to the 1994-1996 war.
Chechen–Russian conflict
The Chechen–Russian conflict comprises two wars between Russia and Chechen separatists: the first (1994–1996) ended with de facto independence, the second (1999–2009) restored Russian control under Ramzan Kadyrov, with roughly 100,000 deaths and major terrorist attacks in Russia.
Checheno-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
The Checheno-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (Чечено-Ингушская АССР) was an autonomous republic of the Russian SFSR, created for the Chechen and Ingush peoples with its capital at Grozny.
Chechens
Chechens (Nokhchiy), a Northeast Caucasian people of the North Caucasus speaking a Nakh language, with teip clan structure, Sufi Islamic tradition, the 1944 deportation to Central Asia, and the Chechen wars with Russia.
Check digit
A check digit is a single digit appended to a number and computed from the other digits so common copying errors produce an invalid number.
Check kiting
Check kiting: bank fraud cycling insufficient-funds checks between two or more accounts to exploit the float; prosecuted under 18 U.S.C. §1344, up to 30 years and $1,000,000 fine.
Check mark
Check mark (✓), also called tick: a stroke marking items correct, done, or selected. Encoded as U+2713 in Unicode's Dingbats block; in Japan, Finland, and Sweden it can mean wrong, with circles used for correct.
Checkers speech
The Checkers speech, also called the Fund speech, was Richard Nixon's September 23, 1952 televised defense of an $18,235 political fund that saved his 1952 vice-presidential nomination, named for his family's cocker spaniel.
Checkmate Pharmaceuticals
Checkmate Pharmaceuticals was a clinical-stage immuno-oncology company in Cambridge, Massachusetts, founded in 2015, whose drug vidutolimod was acquired by Regeneron in 2022 for about $250 million.
Checkout.com
Checkout.com is a London-based global payments company founded by Guillaume Pousaz, which began as Opus Payments in Singapore in 2009 and processed over $300 billion in 2025.
Checkpoint Charlie
Checkpoint Charlie was the best-known Allied border checkpoint between East and West Berlin during the Cold War, at Friedrichstrasse and Zimmerstrasse, site of the 1961 tank standoff.
Checkr
Checkr, Inc. is a San Francisco company, founded in 2014 by Daniel Yanisse, selling AI-powered background checks and identity, income, and credential verification for hiring and lending.
Cheddi Jagan
Cheddi Jagan (1918–1997) was a Guyanese politician and dentist who founded the People's Progressive Party, served as Premier of British Guiana, and became President of Guyana in 1992.
Chedrick Greene
Chedrick Greene is an American Democratic politician and Marine veteran who won a May 2026 special election to represent Michigan's 35th Senate district, filling a long-vacant seat.
Chee Gaik Yap rape and murder
Chee Gaik Yap rape and murder: January 2006 killing of a 25-year-old marketing executive in Sungai Petani, Kedah. Shahril Jaafar, acquitted in 2013, was convicted in 2015 and remains on death row after the 2024 Federal Court re-sentencing review failed.
Chee Soon Juan
Chee Soon Juan, Singapore Democratic Party secretary-general since 1993, former NUS psychology lecturer, human-rights advocate; bankrupted by defamation suits (2006), jailed over permit-free speeches, SDP seatless since 1997, best result 46.81% in Sembawang West at GE2025.