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Chester W. Nimitz
Chester W. Nimitz (1885–1966), Fleet Admiral, USN, commanded the Pacific Fleet and Pacific Ocean Areas in World War II, signed the 1945 Japanese surrender, and served as Chief of Naval Operations 1945–1947.
Chester Zoo
Chester Zoo, also called the North of England Zoological Society zoo, is a conservation charity zoo at Upton-by-Chester, England, founded by George Mottershead in 1931 as a 'zoo without bars'; it holds 30,000+ animals of 520+ species across 130 acres and drew a record 2.1 million visitors in 2025.
Chesterfield (cigarette)
Chesterfield is an American cigarette brand introduced in 1873 by the Drummond Tobacco Company of St. Louis, now owned by Philip Morris USA and Philip Morris International.
Chesty Puller
Chesty Puller (Lewis Burwell Puller, 1898–1971) was a U.S. Marine Corps lieutenant general, the most decorated Marine in history, earning five Navy Crosses in Nicaragua, World War II, and Korea.
Chet C. Sherwood
Chet C. Sherwood is an American biological anthropologist and neuroscientist at George Washington University who studies how the human brain evolved to differ from other primates' brains.
Chet Huntley
Chet Huntley (Chester Robert Huntley, 1911–1974), American broadcaster who co-anchored NBC's Huntley-Brinkley Report with David Brinkley, 1956–1970, 20 million viewers at peak; later developed Big Sky, Montana.
Chet Rām
Chet Rām (चेत राम, 1835?–1894) was an Arora Hindu shopkeeper who founded the Chetrami sect after reporting a night vision of Jesus Christ commanding him to build a church.
Chetaka
Chetaka was the Ganaraja Pramukha of the Licchavi republic at Vaishali. He led a league of confederate kings against the kingdom of Magadha.
Chetan Bhatt
Chetan Bhatt is a sociologist and professor at the London School of Economics since 2010, known for work on racism, nationalism, the far right, and Hindu nationalism.
Chetanya Kasyap
Chetanya Kasyap is an Indian Bharatiya Janata Party politician, MLA from Ratlam since 2013 and a Madhya Pradesh minister holding the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises portfolio.
Chetniks (Четници)
Chetniks (Četnici): Serbian guerrilla fighters from Ottoman times, formed by Serbia in Macedonia, active in the Balkan Wars and WWI; best known as Mihailović's royalist Serb nationalist movement in WWII Yugoslavia, later Allied-recognized, then collaborating with the Axis, defeated by the Partisans.
Chetong Cloud (车通云)
Chetong Cloud (车通云) is a Chinese B2B auto-parts supply-chain platform based in Shanghai, connecting collision-repair shops, insurers, and parts suppliers; it raised a Series C+ round in 2019.
Cheugy
Cheugy: American slang adjective (pronounced chew-gee) for something dated or trying too hard to be trendy, coined 2013 by Gaby Rasson, viral on TikTok in 2021 as Gen Z slang mocking millennial tastes.
Cheung Wing-sing (张永成)
Cheung Wing-sing (张永成, Zhāng Yǒngchéng, 1897–1960) was the wife of Wing Chun grandmaster Ip Man, mother of Yip Chun and Yip Ching, and a central character in the Ip Man film series.
Chevie Kehoe
Chevie Kehoe (born 1973) is an American white supremacist who founded the Aryan Peoples' Republic and was convicted in 1999 of RICO and three § 1959 murders of the Mueller family, receiving life without release.
Chevron (insignia)
Chevron insignia: V-shaped military rank stripes, from French for rafter. Used in heraldry since the 12th century; French service badges 1777, British rank use 1803, US Army since 1821, points up since 1902.
Chevron U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc.
Chevron U.S.A., Inc. v. NRDC, 467 U.S. 837 (1984), the Supreme Court case establishing Chevron deference to agency interpretations of ambiguous statutes, overruled by Loper Bright in 2024.
Chewa language
Chewa, also called Chichewa or Chinyanja, is a Bantu language (zone N31) of Malawi, Zambia, Mozambique, and Zimbabwe; Malawi's national language from 1968, with noun classes, two-level tone, and free word order.
Chewbacca defense
Chewbacca defense: satirical term coined in South Park's 1998 episode "Chef Aid" for a legal strategy that confuses a jury with irrelevant nonsense, a red herring or ignoratio elenchi, parodying Johnnie Cochran's O. J. Simpson closing argument.
Chey Chettha II
Chey Chettha II was king of Cambodia from 1618, whose marriage to the Vietnamese princess Ngoc Van led to the first official Vietnamese settlement on Cambodian soil in 1623.
Chey Chettha IV
Chey Chettha IV, also known as Jayajetthā III (Ang Sûr), was a king of Cambodia who reigned from 1675 to 1695 and later periods ending in 1706.
Cheyenne
The Cheyenne (Tsitsistas/Suhtai) are a Central Algonquian-speaking Plains Indian people of Wyoming, Colorado, Nebraska, and Kansas, now the Northern Cheyenne Tribe of Montana and the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma.
Cheyenne East High School
Cheyenne East High School is a public high school in Cheyenne, Wyoming, serving grades 9 through 12 with about 1,566 students and teams known as the Thunderbirds.
Cheyenne oral literature
Cheyenne oral literature is the body of stories, songs, and sacred narratives transmitted by speech among the Cheyenne people of the Great Plains, centered on prophets like Sweet Medicine and documented since 1890.
Cheyne Capital
Cheyne Capital is a London-based alternative asset manager founded in 2000 by Jonathan Lourie and Stuart Fiertz, investing across the capital structure with a focus on credit and real estate.
Chezhibao
Chezhibao (车置宝), legally Jiangsu Chezhibao Information Technology Co., Ltd., was a Nanjing-based Chinese online used-car auction platform founded in 2010 that inspected consumers' cars and auctioned them to dealers nationwide.
Chhagan Bhujbal
Chhagan Bhujbal, born 1947, is a Maharashtran OBC politician from the Mali community who rose in the Shiv Sena, defected in 1991 to Congress, joined the NCP, served as deputy chief minister, and was arrested by the ED in 2016 and discharged in 2026.
Chhath
Chhath, also called Chhath Puja, is a four-day Hindu festival honoring the sun god Surya, celebrated with fasting and river offerings in Bihar and Nepal.
Chhatrapal Singh Gangwar
Chhatrapal Singh Gangwar, born in 1956, is an Indian politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party who has represented Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, in the Lok Sabha since 2024.
Chhatrapati (छत्रपति)
Chhatrapati (छत्रपति) is the Sanskrit-derived Maratha imperial title meaning lord of the umbrella, or sovereign. Shivaji assumed it at his 6 June 1674 Raigad coronation by Gaga Bhatt; successors Sambhaji, Rajaram, and Shahu held it before Peshwa ascendancy.