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Chiu Lo-huo
Chiu Lo-huo (邱罗火), born in 1949, is a Taiwanese venture capitalist known as one of the "Four Heavenly Kings" of Taiwanese venture capital; he founded 富鑫创投 in Taipei in 1995.
Chiune Sugihara (杉原千畝)
Chiune Sugihara (杉原千畝, Sempo), Japanese consul in Kaunas, Lithuania 1939–1940; defied Tokyo to issue about 2,140 transit visas saving an estimated 6,000 Jewish refugees; named Righteous Among the Nations in 1984.
Chivalry
Chivalry (chevalerie): the martial, aristocratic, and Christian ethos of medieval European mounted knights, from the Old French chevalier; core values were prowess, honor, and piety, with codes limiting violence within the warrior elite.
Chixoy massacre
The Chixoy massacre was a series of five killings of the Maya Achi community of Río Negro, Guatemala, by the army and civil patrols in 1980 and 1982.
Chlodio
Chlodio (Chlogio), king of the Salian Franks in the mid-fifth century and first recorded Merovingian; captured Cambrai, reached the Somme, defeated at Vicus Helena by Aetius around 428, ancestor of Merovech.
Chloe
Chloe (Greek Χλόη, "green shoot") is a feminine given name originally an epithet of Demeter, borne by a woman in 1 Corinthians 1:11, in English use since the Reformation, and the top girls' name in England and Wales 1997–2002.
Chloe Malle
Chloe Malle, daughter of Candice Bergen and Louis Malle, is an American journalist named head of editorial content at Vogue US on September 2, 2025, after 14 years there, succeeding Anna Wintour's day-to-day role while reporting to her.
Chlöe Swarbrick
Chlöe Swarbrick, Green Party of Aotearoa co-leader since March 2024 and MP for Auckland Central since 2020; former 2016 Auckland mayoral candidate, finance and climate spokesperson, ejected from Parliament in August 2025 over Gaza sanctions remarks.
Chludov Psalter
The Chludov Psalter (Хлудовская псалтырь) is a mid-9th-century Byzantine illuminated marginal Psalter made in Constantinople, held in Moscow, whose 208 marginal miniatures offer the clearest manuscript evidence of the Iconoclasm controversy.
Cho Bong-am
Cho Bong-am (조봉암) was a Korean independence activist and politician who founded the Progressive Party and was executed in 1959 on espionage charges posthumously overturned in 2011.
Cho Byeong-ok
Cho Byeong-ok (조병옥; 1894–1960) was a Korean independence activist and politician who served as interior minister of the First Republic and led the opposition Democratic Party from 1956 to 1960.
Cho Doo-soon case
Cho Doo-soon case (조두순 사건): 2008 Ansan kidnapping and rape of an 8-year-old girl; 12-year sentence citing intoxication sparked outrage and the Cho Doo-soon Prevention Act; release in 2020 and later ankle-monitor violations.
Cho Hee-dae (조희대)
Cho Hee-dae (조희대, Jo Hee-de), born 1957 in Gyeongju, is the 17th Chief Justice of South Korea's Supreme Court since December 2023; former justice nicknamed 'Mr. Minority Opinion,' presided over the 2025 Lee Jae-myung election law remand.
Cho Hyun (South Korean politician)
Cho Hyun is a South Korean diplomat and politician serving as Minister of Foreign Affairs since July 2025 in the administration of President Lee Jae Myung.
Cho Jeong-sik
Cho Jeong-sik is a South Korean politician who has served as Speaker of the National Assembly since June 2026, after six terms representing Siheung-B in Gyeonggi Province.
Cho Jung-ho
Cho Jung-ho (조정호, born 1958) is a South Korean businessman who chairs Meritz Financial Group, a bank-less insurance-led holding company he built into Korea's second-largest financial group.
Cho Kuk (조국)
Cho Kuk (조국, 曺國), South Korean politician and ex-Seoul National University law professor, was Justice Minister for 35 days in 2019 before resigning over his family's admissions and investment scandal, was sentenced to two years in prison in 2022, and founded the Rebuilding Korea Party, which won 12 seats in 2024.
Cho Man-ho
Cho Man-ho (조만호, born 1983) is a South Korean entrepreneur who founded Musinsa as a high-school sneaker community in 2001 and remains its controlling shareholder and co-leader.
Cho Man-sik
Cho Man-sik (조만식) was a Korean independence activist, educator, and politician known for leading the product promotion movement in Pyongyang and nationalist politics after the 1945 liberation.
Cho So-ang
Cho So-ang (조소앙, born Cho Yong-eun, 1887–1958) was a Korean independence activist and political theorist who formulated the Principle of Three Equalities, the founding ideology of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea.
Cho Tak Wong
Cho Tak Wong (曹德旺, Cao Dewang), born 1946 in Shanghai, is the founder of Fuyao Glass, the Chinese automotive glass maker with the world's largest market share.
Choate Rosemary Hall
Choate Rosemary Hall: coeducational boarding and day school for grades 9-12 and postgraduate in Wallingford, Connecticut, formed by the 1974 merger of Rosemary Hall (1890) and The Choate School (1896); about 860 students, 300+ courses.
Chobanid dynasty
The Chobanid dynasty, descended from the Mongol amir Čobān, ruled Azarbaijan and parts of Persia from 1335 until its last ruler, Malek Ašraf, was killed in 1357.
Chobanids of Kastamonu
The Chobanids of Kastamonu (Çobanoğulları) were a Turkmen dynasty that ruled Kastamonu in northwestern Anatolia from about 1211 until the Candarids took over around 1307 to 1309.
Choctaw
The Choctaw (Chahta), a Muskogean-speaking people of Mississippi and nearby states, were the first tribe removed under the 1830 Indian Removal Act via the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek; today the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma and Mississippi Band remain federally recognized.
Choctaw Academy
Choctaw Academy was a federally funded boarding school for Native American boys operated from 1825 to 1845 on Colonel Richard Mentor Johnson's farm in Kentucky.
Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma
The Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, headquartered in Durant, is the third-largest federally recognized U.S. tribe with over 230,000 citizens, a 10,864-square-mile southeastern Oklahoma reservation, a three-branch government under its 1984 constitution, and a $4.1 billion 2023 economic impact.
Choe Chang-ik
Choe Chang-ik (최창익; 崔昌益, 1896–1957) was a Korean independence activist and communist politician who led the Yan'an faction and served as finance minister of North Korea.
Choe Chiwon
Choe Chiwon (최치원), also known by the courtesy name Goun, was a Silla scholar and poet who studied in Tang China and founded Korean literary Chinese writing.
Choe Chung
Choe Chung (최충, 984–1068) was a Goryeo civil official and Confucian scholar who rose to chancellor under King Munjong and founded the Gujae Academy, forerunner of Korean private schools.