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Christopher Ruhm

Christopher J. Ruhm is an American health and labor economist, professor at the University of Virginia since 2010, known for research showing mortality falls when the economy weakens.

Christopher Scarver

Christopher Scarver, also known as Christopher J. Scarver Sr., is an American convicted murderer serving three life sentences for killing Jeffrey Dahmer and Jesse Anderson in 1994.

Christopher Skase

Christopher Skase (1948–2001) was an Australian businessman whose $2 billion Qintex empire collapsed into receivership with $1.6 billion of debts in 1989; he fled to Majorca, evading extradition until his death.

Christopher Steele

Christopher Steele (Christopher David Steele), British ex-MI6 Kremlin expert, founded Orbis Business Intelligence in 2009; compiled the 17-memo 2016 Trump-Russia dossier for Fusion GPS, was terminated as an FBI source, and the FBI never corroborated its allegations.

Christopher Street Day

Christopher Street Day (CSD) is the name used in Germany and Switzerland for yearly Pride marches, named for the 1969 Stonewall rebellion near Christopher Street in New York.

Christopher T. Calio

Christopher T. Calio, known as Chris Calio, is an American business executive serving as president and CEO of RTX Corporation since May 2024 and chairman since April 2025.

Christopher Thomas Knight

Christopher Thomas Knight, known as the North Pond Hermit, lived alone in the Maine woods for 27 years until his 2013 arrest for about 1,000 cabin burglaries.

Christopher Vialva

Christopher Andre Vialva (c. 1981-2020), American federal death-row prisoner executed September 24, 2020 at Terre Haute for the 1999 carjacking murders of Todd and Stacie Bagley near Fort Hood, Texas; first African American executed in the modern federal death penalty era.

Christopher Voss

Christopher Voss, also known as Chris Voss, is a former FBI hostage negotiator, author of the 2016 bestseller Never Split the Difference, and founder of the Black Swan Group.

Christopher W. Kuzawa

Christopher W. Kuzawa is an American biological anthropologist who studies how early life environments shape adult health, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2018.

Christopher Waller

Christopher J. Waller is an American economist and Federal Reserve governor since 2020, formerly research director at the St. Louis Fed, known for advocating rate cuts in 2024 and 2025.

Christopher Weaver

Christopher Weaver is a video game industry executive who founded Bethesda Softworks in 1986 and co-founded ZeniMax Media with Robert A. Altman in 1999, leaving in 2002.

Christopher Wharton

Christopher Wharton was an English Catholic priest of the Yorkshire gentry, trained at Reims, executed for treason at York in 1600 and beatified in 1987.

Christopher Wilder

Christopher Bernard Wilder (1945–1984), the "Beauty Queen Killer" or "Snapshot Killer," was an Australian-born American real estate investor and race car driver who posed as a photographer to abduct and murder young women in a 1984 US spree, dying in New Hampshire.

Christopher Zucchero

Christopher Zucchero, also known as Chris Zucchero, is an American restaurateur who co-owns Mr. Beef on Orleans, the Chicago sandwich shop that inspired The Bear.

Christos Dimas

Christos Dimas (Greek: Χρίστος Δήμας, born 1980) is a Greek New Democracy politician and lawyer, member of parliament for Corinthia, serving as Minister of Infrastructure and Transport.

Christos Senekis

Christos Senekis, born 1977, in Larnaca, is a Cypriot Democratic Party politician, an MP for Famagusta from 2021 to 2026, and Minister of Agriculture since 2026.

Christos-Georgios Skertsos

Christos-Georgios Skertsos, known as Akis Skertsos, is a Greek New Democracy politician serving as Minister of State under Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, coordinating government work and presenting the government's record since 2019.

Christy C. Wiegand

Christy C. Wiegand, born Christy Criswell Wiegand in 1975, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Western District of Pennsylvania since 2020.

Christy Clark

Christy Clark, Canadian politician, 35th Premier of British Columbia (2011-2017) leading the B.C. Liberal Party; first woman elected Premier in B.C. (2013) and first re-elected in Canadian history (2017); resigned August 2017 after NDP-Green confidence defeat.

Christy Kinahan

Christy Kinahan (Christopher Vincent Kinahan Sr., the 'Dapper Don'), Irish founder of the Kinahan Organised Crime Group, a Dubai-based drug-trafficking cartel sanctioned by the US in April 2022 with $5 million rewards; no criminal charges, UAE visa cancelled 2026.

Christy Peterson

Christy Peterson is an American politician and Republican nominee for the U.S. House in Colorado's 1st Congressional District in the November 2026 election, after winning the June primary.

Christy Walton

Christy (Tallant) Walton, born 1949, is an American Walmart heiress and widow of Sam Walton's son John T. Walton, whose fortune she inherited after his 2005 plane crash.

Chrodegang

Chrodegang, also Hrodegandus, was Bishop of Metz from 742 until 766, a chancellor under Charles Martel and Pepin the Short, and author of the earliest rule for cathedral clergy.

Chroma Medicine

Chroma Medicine was a Boston-based biotechnology company, founded in 2020, that developed single-dose epigenetic editing therapies that regulate genes without cutting DNA; it merged into nChroma Bio in December 2024.

ChromaCon

ChromaCon, also known as YMC ChromaCon, is a Zurich-based life-science tools company founded in 2006 as an ETH Zurich spin-off and acquired by Japan's YMC in 2019.

ChromaScape

ChromaScape, formally ChromaScape Holdings, LLC, is an American producer of color dispersions and additives headquartered in Independence, Ohio, founded in 1998, which acquired Kemira's colorants business in 2023.

Chrome River (now Emburse)

Chrome River, also known as Chrome River Technologies, was a Los Angeles software company selling cloud-based expense and invoice automation; it merged with Certify in 2019 to form Emburse.

Chromesthesia

Chromesthesia (coloured hearing, sound-to-color synesthesia) is a form of synesthesia in which sound, especially music, involuntarily and consistently evokes color experiences; accounts include the 1812 Sachs case, hyperconnectivity and disinhibited feedback theories, and an 18.50% share of color-synesthesia variants.

Chronemics

Chronemics is the study of time use in nonverbal communication, also called temporal communication. It covers punctuality, waiting, pauses, and response latency, Hall's monochronic versus polychronic cultural time orientations, and chronemic cues in computer-mediated communication.