Society and history

Chuangye Zhijia (创业之家)

Chuangye Zhijia (创业之家) is a Shanghai enterprise-services company founded in 2017 that claimed USD 3 billion and USD 3.5 billion funding rounds, later exposed as fabricated.

Sep 23, 2026

Chuar rebellion

The Chuar rebellion (চুয়াড় বিদ্রোহ) was an armed resistance by tribal peoples and landlords of southwestern Bengal against East India Company land taxes, peaking in 1799.

Chubb

Chubb Limited, known as Chubb, is a Swiss-incorporated insurer headquartered in Zurich, operating in 54 countries and describing itself as the world's largest publicly traded P&C insurer.

Chubu Electric Power

Chubu Electric Power (中部電力) is a Japanese electric utility founded in 1951 that supplies over 18 million people in the five-prefecture Chubu region of central Japan.

Sep 19, 2026

Chuchat Patcharachai, also known as Chuchat Petaumpai, was a Thai financier who co-founded Muangthai Capital, the country's largest provider of loans against motorcycles, and chaired its executive committee.

ChuChu TV

ChuChu TV (ChuChu TV Studios), founded 2013 in Chennai by Vinoth Chandar, is an Indian children's animation network of YouTube nursery-rhyme channels; distinct from CoComelon, it reached billions of views with characters ChuChu, ChaCha, Chiku, Chika.

Sep 19, 2026

Chuck Akre

Chuck Akre, also known as Charles Akre, is an American value investor who founded Akre Capital Management in Middleburg, Virginia, in 1989 and created the Akre Focus Fund.

Chuck Baldwin

Chuck Baldwin (born 1952, La Porte, Indiana) is a Baptist pastor and Constitution Party politician, its 2004 vice-presidential nominee and 2008 presidential nominee with Darrell Castle, winning over 200,000 votes; he leads Liberty Fellowship in Kalispell, Montana.

Chuck Brannan

Chuck Brannan is an American politician and Republican member of the Florida House of Representatives from District 10, which includes Baker, Bradford, Columbia, and Union counties.

Sep 19, 2026

Chuck del Prado

Chuck del Prado (Charles Dean del Prado) is a Dutch business executive who served as chief executive officer of semiconductor equipment maker ASM International from 2008 to 2020.

Chuck Edwards

Chuck Edwards is an American Republican politician and businessman who has represented North Carolina's 11th District in the U.S. House since 2023, after three terms in the state Senate.

Chuck Efstration

Chuck Efstration is an American Republican politician, a former felony prosecutor elected to the Georgia House in 2013 who became its Majority Leader in November 2022.

Chuck Feeney

Chuck Feeney, born Charles F. Feeney, was an American businessman who co-founded Duty Free Shoppers and secretly gave away his $8 billion fortune to charity.

Chuck Fleischmann

Chuck Fleischmann, born in 1962, is an American Republican politician and former attorney who has represented Tennessee's 3rd congressional district in the U.S. House since 2011.

Chuck Grassley

Chuck Grassley (born 1933) is the Republican U.S. senator from Iowa since 1981, Senate president pro tempore, Judiciary chair, co-author of the 1986 False Claims Act amendments and the First Step Act, and the longest-serving Republican senator.

Chuck Gray (Wyoming politician)

Chuck Gray is an American politician serving as Wyoming's Secretary of State, elected in 2022, and the Republican nominee for Wyoming's at-large U.S. House seat in 2026.

Chuck Hagel

Chuck Hagel (Charles Timothy Hagel, born 1946) is a Republican former senator from Nebraska (1997-2009) and Vietnam veteran with two Purple Hearts who served as the 24th U.S. Secretary of Defense under Obama, 2013-2015, the first enlisted combat veteran in that post.

Chuck Hufstetler

Chuck Hufstetler is an American politician, a Republican Georgia state senator for the 52nd district who chairs the Senate Finance Committee and was named Vice-Chair of NCSL's State and Local Taxation Task Force in 2026.

Chuck Kopp

Chuck Kopp is an American Republican politician in the Alaska House of Representatives, representing South Anchorage from 2017 to 2020 and returning in 2025 as House Majority Leader.

Chuck Missler

Chuck Missler, born Charles W. Missler, was an American businessman and evangelical Bible teacher who founded the Koinonia House prophecy ministry in 1974 and died in New Zealand in 2018.

Chuck Payne

Chuck Payne is an American Republican politician elected in 2017 to the Georgia State Senate from the 54th district, where he chairs the Committee on Veterans, Military and Homeland Security.

Chuck Plunkett

Chuck Plunkett is an American journalist and educator who led the 2018 Denver Rebellion against hedge-fund owner Alden Global Capital, then resigned from The Denver Post.

Chuck Robb

Chuck Robb (Charles Spittal Robb, born 1939), Virginia Democrat, Marine veteran, and son-in-law of Lyndon B. Johnson; 64th governor 1982–1986 and U.S. senator 1989–2001, DLC co-founder, defeated by George Allen in 2000.

Chuck Schumer

Chuck Schumer (born 1950), Brooklyn-born Democratic U.S. senator from New York since 1999; Senate Democratic leader since 2017, Majority Leader 2021-2025 passing the IRA and CHIPS Act, Minority Leader again from 2025 facing 2026 midterm leadership questions.

Chuck Smith (pastor)

Chuck Smith, known as Pastor Chuck Smith, was an American evangelical pastor who built Calvary Chapel in Costa Mesa, California, into a movement of hundreds of churches.

Chuck Swindoll

Chuck Swindoll, born Charles R. Swindoll in 1934, is an American evangelical pastor and radio Bible teacher who founded Insight for Living and led Dallas Theological Seminary.

Chuck Todd

Chuck Todd, American political journalist, NBC News political director from 2007, moderator of Meet the Press 2014-2023, later chief political analyst; left NBC in January 2025.

Chud (чудь белогла́зая) (folklore)

Chud beloglazaya (чудь белогла́зая) is the white-eyed Chud, a mythical first people of Russian and Finno-Ugric folklore of the Russian North, Urals, and Siberia who vanished, often by self-burial underground with cursed treasures, when Russians or the White Tsar arrived.