People

Elaine Chao

The first Asian-American woman to serve in the United States cabinet, Elaine Chao (born 1953) was named U.S. Secretary of Labor by President George W. Bush in 2001. After the 2004 ...

Charlie Chaplin

Born: April 16, 1889 London, England Died: December 25, 1977 Vevey, Switzerland English actor, director, and writer T...

Dave Chappelle

Comedian, actor, and writer Born August 24, 1973, in Washington, DC; son of William Chappelle (a voice teacher and college professor) and Yvonne Seon (a Unitarian minister and ...

The Film and TV Charity

Other

The Film and TV Charity, formerly the CTBF (Cinema and Television Benevolent Fund), is the leading UK charity for people who work in the film, cinema and television industries, who

StepChange Debt Charity

Audit and Consulting

StepChange Debt Charity, formerly the Consumer Credit Counselling Service (CCCS), is the trading name of the Foundation for Credit Counselling, and is a debt counselling chari

Charlemagne

Born: c. 742 Died: January 28, 814 Aachen (now in Germany) Frankish king and ruler Charlemagne, or Charles the Great, was king of the ...

Ray Charles

Born: September 23, 1932 Albany, Georgia African American musician and pianist The African American musician Ray Charles was widely admired as a singer...

Ray Charles

Born Ray Charles Robinson, September 23, 1930, in Albany, GA; died of liver disease, June 10, 2004, in Beverly Hills, CA. Singer. Blind from the age of seven, Ray Charles became an influen...

Prince of Wales Charles

Born: November 14, 1948 London, England English prince Charles, Prince of Wales, is next in line for the British throne. He was probably the most...

Paul Charron

President and Chief Executive Officer of Liz Claiborne Born Paul Richard Charron, August 24, 1942, in Schenectady, NY; son of Richard Armand and Helen Marie (Barringer) Charron; m...

Standard Chartered

Financial services

Standard Chartered plc is a British multinational banking and financial services company headquartered in London, England. It operates a network of more than 1,200 branch

JPMorgan Chase

Banks and investments

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is an American multinational investment bank and financial services holding company headquartered in New York City. JPMorgan Chase is r

ChatGPT

Computers and software

ChatGPT (Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer) is a chatbot launched by OpenAI in November 2022. It is built on top of OpenAI's GPT-3 family of large la

Geoffrey Chaucer

Born: c. 1345 London, England Died: October 1400 London, England English poet, author, and courtier Called the father...

Dennis Chavez

Born: April 8, 1888 Los Chavez, United States Mexican Territory (present-day New Mexico) Died: November 18, 1962 Washington, D.C. Hi...

Linda Chavez

Born: June 17, 1947 Albuquerque, New Mexico Hispanic American civil rights activist and author Throughout her career Hispanic American civil rights acti...

John Cheever

Born: May 27, 1912 Quincy, Massachusetts Died: June 18, 1982 Ossining, New York American writer and author American w...

Anton Chekhov

Born: January 17, 1860 Taganrog, Russia Died: July 2, 1904 Badenweiler, Germany Russian dramatist and author The Russ...

Dick Cheney

Born: January 30, 1941 Lincoln, Nebraska American vice president, secretary of defense, congressman, and government official Dick Cheney is the...

Mary Boykin Chesnut

Born: March 31, 1823 Statesburg, South Carolina Died: November 22, 1886 Camden, South Carolina American diarist and writer ...