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Christophe Gbenye
Christophe Gbenye (1927–2015) was a Congolese politician and Lumumbist revolutionary, interior minister in Patrice Lumumba's 1960 government and leader of the MNC after Lumumba's death.
Christophe Hansen
Christophe Hansen is a Luxembourgish politician serving as European Commissioner for Agriculture and Food since 2024, where he works on the competitiveness and sustainability of EU agriculture.
Christophe Jurczak
Christophe Jurczak is a French quantum physicist turned venture investor who co-founded Quantonation, the Paris-based quantum venture firm, and the neutral-atom quantum computing company Pasqal.
Christophe Mirmand
Christophe Mirmand (born 1961, Constantine, Algeria), French prefect and ENA Michel de Montaigne alumnus; Monaco's 26th Minister of State from 21 July 2025; formerly prefect of PACA region and chief of staff to the overseas minister.
Christophe Naegelen
Christophe Naegelen, born 1983, is a French UDI politician, deputy for Vosges's 3rd constituency since 2024 and president of the LIOT parliamentary group.
Christopher
Christopher, from Greek Christophoros (Χριστόφορος) meaning 'bearing Christ', a masculine given name tied to Saint Christopher, patron of travellers; peaked at US rank #2 in 1980 and 60,021 US births in 1984, now declining (#68 US, #203 England and Wales in 2025).
Christopher A. Boyko
Christopher A. Boyko, born 1954 in Cleveland, is a senior United States district judge for the Northern District of Ohio, appointed by President George W. Bush in 2005.
Christopher A. Pissarides
Christopher A. Pissarides is a Cypriot-British labor economist, Regius Professor at the London School of Economics, and co-winner of the 2010 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
Christopher A. Sims
Christopher A. Sims (1942–2026) was an American economist at Princeton University who shared the 2011 Nobel Prize in Economics for empirical research on cause and effect in the macroeconomy.
Christopher A. Wray
Christopher A. Wray (born 1967) is an American lawyer, eighth Director of the FBI from August 2, 2017 to January 20, 2025, and earlier Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division (2003-2005) under George W. Bush.
Christopher B. Barrett
Christopher B. Barrett is a development economist at Cornell University known for work on poverty traps, food security, and index-based livestock insurance, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2022.
Christopher Bagshaw
Christopher Bagshaw (1552?–1625?) was an English Roman Catholic priest and doctor of the Sorbonne who led the secular clergy's protest in the Wisbech Stirs and the archpriest controversy.
Christopher Bainbridge
Christopher Bainbridge (1462/3–1514) was an English canon lawyer and diplomat who became Archbishop of York and a cardinal, spent his archiepiscopate as Henry VIII's ambassador in Rome, and died there, poisoned, in 1514.
Christopher Báthory
Christopher Báthory (Hungarian: Báthory Kristóf; 1530–1581) was a Hungarian magnate of the Somlyó Báthory family who governed Transylvania as voivode from 1576 until his death, as deputy for his brother Stephen.
Christopher Baum
Christopher F. (Kit) Baum, born 1951, is an American econometrician at Boston College, author of widely used Stata software and founder of the SSC archive.
Christopher Belt
Christopher Belt is an American Democratic politician who has represented Illinois' 57th Senate district since 2018, after an 18-year law enforcement career and service on the Cahokia school board.
Christopher Blazejewski
Christopher R. Blazejewski is an American Democratic politician from Providence who represents District 2 in the Rhode Island House and became its speaker in May 2026.
Christopher C. McMahon
Christopher C. McMahon, known as Chris McMahon, is an American investment banker who serves as Managing Director and Chairman of Baird Global M&A, joining the firm in 2002.
Christopher C. Miller
Christopher C. Miller is a retired Army Special Forces colonel and former NCTC director who served as Acting U.S. Secretary of Defense from November 9, 2020 to January 20, 2021, overseeing the Afghanistan drawdown, the Pentagon transition halt, and the January 6 National Guard response.
Christopher Cabaldon
Christopher Cabaldon is an American Democratic politician and educator, elected to the California State Senate in 2024 after serving two decades as Mayor of West Sacramento.
Christopher Carpenter (economist)
Christopher (Kitt) Carpenter is an American health and labor economist at Vanderbilt University, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2022, known for research on minimum drinking age laws.
Christopher Carroll
Christopher Carroll is an American macroeconomist, Professor of Economics at Johns Hopkins University, whose buffer-stock theory of saving and work on precautionary saving and the marginal propensity to consume are widely used in central-bank policy analysis.
Christopher Codrington
Christopher Codrington (1668–1710) was a Barbados-born British soldier, colonial governor, and slave-owning planter whose will endowed Codrington College in Barbados and the All Souls College Library, Oxford.
Christopher Coke
Christopher "Dudus" Coke, Jamaican drug lord and Shower Posse leader from Tivoli Gardens, West Kingston, led the gang from 1992 until his 2010 extradition, which triggered the deadly Tivoli incursion; he is serving 23 years in the US, due for release January 2028.
Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus (Cristoforo Colombo, 1451–1506), Genoese navigator sailing for Spain, made four transatlantic voyages (1492–1504), reaching the Bahamas on October 12, 1492, and opening sustained European contact with the Americas.
Christopher Columbus Langdell
Christopher Columbus Langdell was an American legal scholar who, as dean of Harvard Law School from 1870 to 1895, introduced the case method of teaching law.
Christopher Darden
Christopher A. Darden, American lawyer and deputy district attorney, co-lead prosecutor with Marcia Clark in the 1995 O.J. Simpson murder trial; famous for the failed glove demonstration, author of In Contempt, later a defense attorney.
Christopher Dorner shootings and manhunt
Christopher Dorner shootings and manhunt: February 2013 revenge attacks in Southern California by dismissed LAPD officer Christopher Jordan Dorner, who killed four people, and the nine-day multiagency pursuit ending in his death in a burning Big Bear cabin.
Christopher Emdin
Christopher Emdin is an American education scholar at Teachers College, Columbia University, known for the #HipHopEd movement, the Science Genius rap competition, and reality pedagogy.
Christopher F. Koller
Christopher F. Koller is an American health policy leader who was Rhode Island's first health insurance commissioner (2005–2013) and president of the Milbank Memorial Fund from 2013 to 2025.