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Chip Wilson
Dennis "Chip" Wilson is a Canadian billionaire entrepreneur who founded Lululemon in Vancouver in 1998, stepped down as chairman in 2013, and remains one of its largest shareholders.
Chipko movement
Chipko movement (चिपको, Hindi 'to hug'), a non-violent forest conservation movement begun in 1973 in Garhwal, Uttarakhand, India, where village women led by Gaura Devi hugged trees to block commercial logging, winning a 15-year felling ban in 1980.
Chipone
Chipone (集创北方) is a Chinese fabless chip designer founded in Beijing in 2008, known for the world's top share in LED display driver chips from 2019 to 2024.
Chipper Cash
Chipper Cash is a pan-African cross-border payments fintech founded in 2018 by Ham Serunjogi and Maijid Moujaled, known for its no-fee peer-to-peer money transfer app across Africa.
Chipping Norton set
The Chipping Norton set: media, political, and show-business circle around David Cameron and Rebekah Brooks with homes near Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire; famous after the 2011 phone hacking scandal, coined by Stephen Glover, dissolved after Leveson.
Chips & Technologies
Chips & Technologies was an American semiconductor company founded in 1984 that made chipsets and graphics controllers for IBM PC-compatible computers, and was acquired by Intel in 1997.
Chiquita Brooks-LaSure
Chiquita Brooks-LaSure is an American health policy official who served as Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services from 2021 to 2025, the first Black woman to lead the agency.
Chirag Chadha
Chirag Chadha is an Indian venture capitalist and Partner at Elevation Capital, where he leads early- and growth-stage investments in consumer brands such as Wakefit and Country Delight.
Chirag Paswan (चिराग कुमार पासवान)
Chirag Paswan (चिराग कुमार पासवान), born 1982, is an Indian politician leading Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas), Union Minister of Food Processing Industries, and Hajipur MP, son of Ram Vilas Paswan and a former actor in Miley Naa Miley Hum (2011).
Chiranjivi (चिरञ्जीवि)
Chiranjivi (चिरञ्जीवि), also Chiranjeevins, are seven immortal figures of Hindu mythology, including Hanuman, said to remain on Earth guiding humanity until the end of Kali Yuga.
Chirathivat family
The Chirathivat family (ตระกูลจิราธิวัฒน์) is the Hainanese-Thai family that owns Central Group, Thailand's biggest mall developer, founded by Tiang Chirathivat, an emigrant from Hainan, who opened his first Bangkok shop in 1927.
Chiribaya culture
The Chiribaya culture was a pre-Hispanic Andean society of the Late Intermediate Period in southern Peru's Osmore Valley, flourishing from around AD 900 to the mid-1300s.
Chiricahua
The Chiricahua, an Apache division of southern Arizona, New Mexico, and northern Mexico, fought the U.S. Army from 1861 to Geronimo's 1886 surrender, then endured 27 years of exile; descendants form the Fort Sill Apache Tribe and part of the Mescalero Apache Tribe.
Chirlane McCray
Chirlane McCray is an American writer and activist who served as First Lady of New York City from 2014 to 2021, leading the mental health initiative ThriveNYC.
Chiron (Χείρων)
Chiron (Χείρων, Kheiron), the wise centaur of Greek mythology: immortal son of Cronus and Philyra, teacher of Achilles, Asclepius, and Jason on Mount Pelion, wounded by Heracles' Hydra-poisoned arrow, and set among the stars as Centaurus.
Chiron Corporation
Chiron Corporation was a biotechnology company in Emeryville, California, founded in 1981, known for the first genetically engineered hepatitis B vaccine and identifying the hepatitis C virus.
Chisholm v. Georgia
Chisholm v. Georgia, 2 U.S. 419 (1793): Supreme Court case in which executor Alexander Chisholm sued Georgia over an unpaid Revolutionary War debt; the 4-1 Court allowed the suit, prompting the Eleventh Amendment.
Chishti Sufi order
The Chishti Sufi order (سلسلہ چشتیہ) is a Sufi brotherhood of the Indian subcontinent, named after Chisht near Herat and established at Ajmer by Mu'in al-Din Chishti.
Chit fund
A chit fund is an Indian rotating savings arrangement, also called a chitty or kuri, where members pool installments and one member takes the pot each period.
Chithira Thirunal Balarama Varma
Chithira Thirunal Balarama Varma (ചിത്തിര തിരുനാൾ ബാലരാമവർമ്മ) was the last ruling Maharaja of Travancore in southern India, reigning from 1931 to 1949 and known for the 1936 Temple Entry Proclamation.
Chitimacha
Chitimacha (Sitimaxa): federally recognized Louisiana tribe near Charenton, St. Mary Parish; language isolate revived from Swadesh recordings; ~1,300 members, 963 acres, river cane basketry.
Chitnis
The chitnis (चितनीस) was the secretary of correspondence of the Maratha state, the office charged with writing and answering official despatches; Shivaji's first chitnis was Balaji Avaji.
Chitnis Bakhar
Chitnis Bakhar (चित्नीस बखर) is a Marathi chronicle of the Maratha state, written by Malhar Ramrao Chitnis between 1808 and 1812 at the command of Chhatrapati Shahu of Satara.
Chitpavan Brahmin community
The Chitpavan Brahmins (चित्पावन ब्राह्मण), also called Konkanastha Brahmins, are a Brahmin subcaste from the Konkan coast of Maharashtra whose Balaji Vishwanath became Peshwa in 1713.
Chitra Sarwara
Chitra Sarwara (चित्रा सरवारा), independent politician from Ambala Cantt, Haryana; daughter of Nirmal Singh; former Congress, AAP leader; runner-up to Anil Vij in 2019 and 2024 assembly elections.
Chitragupta (चित्रगुप्त)
Chitragupta (चित्रगुप्त) is the Hindu divine record-keeper of every being's thoughts, words, and deeds, secretary to Yama in the Garuda Purana judgment scene, mythic ancestor of the Kayastha community, and deity of Chitragupta Puja on Bhai Dooj.
Chitraratha (चित्ररथ)
Chitraratha (चित्ररथ), also Angaraparna, is a Gandharva king of Hindu mythology, son of Kashyapa and Muni, defeated by Arjuna on the Ganga in the Mahabharata's Chaitraratha Parva and named best of Gandharvas in Bhagavad Gita 10.
Chittagong armory raid
The Chittagong armory raid (চট্টগ্রাম অস্ত্র আহরণ), also called the Chittagong uprising, was an armed 1930 anti-colonial attack in Chittagong, Bengal, led by Surya Sen.
Chittagong Stock Exchange PLC
The Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) is Bangladesh's second stock exchange, headquartered in Chattogram. Founded in 1995, it trades equities, mutual funds, and bonds alongside the larger Dhaka Stock Exchange.
Chittaranjan Das
Chittaranjan Das (Deshbandhu, 1870-1925), also known as C.R. Das, was a Calcutta barrister, poet, and nationalist leader who defended Aurobindo in the Alipore case, led the Swaraj Party with Motilal Nehru, and became Calcutta's first elected mayor.