| Catiline (c. 108–62 B.C.), prime mover in the conspiracy known by his name |
| Catinat (d. 1705), Camisard leader |
| Nicolas Catinat (1637–1712), Marshal of France |
| George Catlin (1796–1872), American ethnologist |
| Cato the Elder (234–149 B.C.), Roman statesman |
| Cato the Younger (95–46 B.C.), Roman philosopher |
| Dionysius Cato, supposed author of the Dionysii Catonis Disticha de Moribus ad Filium |
| Publius Valerius Cato (b. c. 100 B.C.), Roman poet and grammarian |
| Jacob Cats (1577–1660), Dutch poet and humorist |
| Carlo Cattaneo (1801–1869), Italian philosopher and patriot |
| George Cattermole (1800–1868), English painter |
| Gaius Valerius Catullus (c. 84–c. 54 B.C.), greatest lyric poet of Rome |
| Catulus, name of a distinguished family of ancient Rome of the gens Lutatia |
| Louis Augustin François Cauchois-Lemaire (1789–1861), French journalist |
| Pierre Cauchon (c. 1371–1442), French Bishop |
| Augustin Louis, Baron Cauchy (1789–1857), French mathematician |
| Armand-Augustin-Louis, Marquis de Caulaincourt (1773–1827), French general and diplomatist |
| Armand Pierre Caussin de Perceval (1795–1871), French orientalist |
| Sir Proby Thomas Cautley (1802–1871), English engineer and palæontologist |
| Sir Pierre Louis Napoleon Cavagnari (1841–1879), British military administrator |
| Eugène Cavaignac (1802–1857), French general |
| Jean-Baptiste Cavaignac (1765–1829), French politician |
| Guido Cavalcanti (1255?–1300), Italian poet and philosopher |
| Giovanni Battista Cavalcaselle (1819–1897), Italian art critic |
| Jean Cavalier (1681–1740), famous chief of the Camisards |
| Emilio de’ Cavalieri (1550–1602), Italian musical composer |
| Pier Francesco Cavalli (1602–1676), Italian musical composer |
| Pietro Cavallini (c. 1259–1344), Italian painter |
| Tiberius Cavallo (1749–1809), Anglo-Italian electrician and natural philosopher |
| Felice Cavallotti (1842–1898), Italian politician, poet and dramatic author |
| Antonio José Cavanilles (1745–1804), Spanish botanist |
| Edward Cave (1691–1754), English printer |
| George Cave (1856–1928), British politician and lawyer |
| William Cave (1637–1713), English divine |
| Giacomo Cavedone (1577–1660), Italian painter |
| Edith Cavell (1865–1915), British nurse |
| Cavendish (1831–1899), English author |
| George Cavendish (c. 1500–1561), English writer |
| Henry Cavendish (1731–1810), English chemist and physicist |
| Sir William Cavendish (c. 1505–1557), founder of the English noble house of Cavendish |
| Enrico Caviglia (1862–1945), Italian general |
| Camillo Benso, conte di Cavour (1810–1861), Italian statesman |
| William Caxton (c. 1415–1491), first English printer |
| Arthur Cayley (1821–1895), English mathematician |
| Anne Claude Philippe, Comte de Caylus (1692–1765), French archæologist and man of letters |
| Jacques-Antoine-Marie de Cazalès (1758–1805), French orator and politician |
| Henri Cazalis (1840–1909), French poet and man of letters |
| Jean-Charles Cazin (1841–1901), French landscape-painter |
| Jacques Cazotte (1719–1792), French author |
| Ceawlin (d. 593), King of the West Saxons |
| Cebes, name of two Greek philosophers |
| Cecco d’Ascoli (1269–1327), famous Italian encyclopædist and poet |
| Svatopluk Čech (1846–1908), Czech poet |
| Cecil, name of a famous English family |
| Lord Hugh Cecil (1869–1956), English politician |
| Richard Cecil (1748–1810), English clergyman |
| Lord Robert Cecil (1864–1958), English lawyer and statesman |
| Saint Cecilia (d. 230), patron saint of music and of the blind |
| Cecrops, traditionally the first King of Attica |
| Rémy Ceillier (1688–1761), Benedictine monk |
| Madame Céleste (1814–1882), French dancer and actress |
| Celestine, name of five popes |
| Alfred Cellier (1844–1891), English musical composer |
| Benvenuto Cellini (1500–1571), Italian artist, metal worker and sculptor |
| Anders Celsius (1701–1744), Swedish astronomer |
| Celsus (c. 178 A.D.), opponent of Christianity |
| Konrad Celtis (1459–1508), German humanist and Latin poet |
| Beatrice Cenci (1577–1599), Roman woman, famous for her tragic story |
| Censorinus (Third Century A.D.), Roman grammarian and miscellaneous writer |
| Susanna Centlivre (1667?–1723), English dramatic writer and actress |
| Cephisodotus, Greek sculptors |
| Cerdic (d. 534), founder of the West Saxon kingdom |
| Petillius Cerialis (First Century A.D.), Roman general |
| Cerinthus (c. 100 A.D.), early Christian heretic |
| Henri Cernuschi (1821–1896), Italian politician and economist |
| Joseph-Antoine-Joachim Cérutti (1738–1792), French author and politician |
| Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547–1616), Spanish novelist, playwright and poet |
| Pascual Cervera y Topete (1839–1909), Spanish admiral |
| Andrea Cesalpino (1524/5–1603), Italian natural philosopher |
| Giuseppe Cesari (1568–1640), Italian painter |
| Melchiorre Cesarotti (1730–1808), Italian poet |
| Luigi Palma di Cesnola (1832–1904), Italian-American soldier and archæologist |
| Pablo de Céspedes (1538–1608), Spanish poet, painter, sculptor and architect |
| Gonzalo de Céspedes y Meneses (1585?–1638), Spanish novelist |
| Antonio Cesti (1623–1669), Italian musical composer |
| Lucius Cestius (fl. First Century B.C.–First Century A.D.), Latin rhetorician |
| Cethegus, name of a Roman family |
| Gutierre de Cetina (1518?–1554?), Spanish poet and soldier |
| Cetywayo (1826–1884), King of the Zulus |
| François Chabot (1759–1794), French revolutionist |
| Georges Antoine Chabot (1758–1819), French jurist and statesman |
| Philippe Chabot (c. 1492–1543), Admiral of France |
| Chabrias (c. 420–357 B.C.), celebrated Athenian general |
| Emmanuel Chabrier (1841–1894), French composer |
| Saint Chad (d. 672), abbot |
| Laurence Chaderton (1536?–1640), Puritan divine |
| Edwin Chadwick (1800–1890), English sanitary reformer |
| Chaeremon (Fourth Century B.C.), Athenian dramatist |
| Chaeremon of Alexandria (First Century A.D.), Stoic philosopher and grammarian |
| Adna Romanza Chaffee (1842–1914), American general |
| Joseph Chalier (1747–1793), French Revolutionist |
| John Chalkhill (fl. 1600?), English poet |
| Laonikos Chalkokondylēs (c. 1430–c. 1490), the only Athenian Byzantine writer |
| Augustin Challamel (1818–1894), French historian |
| Paul-Armand Challemel-Lacour (1827–1896), French statesman |
| Richard Challoner (1691–1781), English Roman Catholic prelate |
| Alexander Chalmers (1759–1834), Scottish writer |
| George Chalmers (1742–1825), Scottish antiquarian and political writer |
| George Paul Chalmers (1833–1878), Scottish painter |
| James Chalmers (1841–1901), Scottish missionary to New Guinea |
| Thomas Chalmers (1780–1847), Scottish divine |
| Sir Thomas Chaloner (1521–1565), English statesman and poet |
| Heinrich Moritz Chalybäus (1796–1862), German philosopher |
| Sir Austen Chamberlain (1863–1937), English statesman |
| Joseph Chamberlain (1836–1914), British statesman |
| Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain (1828–1914), American soldier and educationalist |
| Sir Neville Chamberlain (1820–1902), British field-marshal |
| William Chamberlayne (1619–1689), English poet |
| Charles Haddon Chambers (1860–1921), British playwright |
| Ephraim Chambers (c. 1680–1740), English encyclopædist |
| George Chambers (1803–1840), English marine painter |
| Julius Chambers (1850–1920), American journalist |
| Robert Chambers (1802–1871), Scottish author and publisher |
| Robert William Chambers (1865–1933), American author |
| Sir William Chambers (1723–1796), British architect |
| Henri-Charles-Ferdinand-Marie-Dieudonné d’Artois, comte de Chambord (1820–1883), the “King Henry V.” of the French legitimists |
| Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort (1740?–1794), French man of letters |
| Frederick Chamier (1796–1870), English novelist |
| Michel Chamillart (1652–1721), French statesman |
| Cécile Chaminade (1857–1944), French musical composer |
| Adelbert von Chamisso (1781–1838), German poet and botanist |
| Counts of Champagne |
| Jean-Baptiste Nompère de Champagny (1756–1834), French politician |
| Philippe de Champaigne (1602–1674), Belgian painter of the French school |
| William of Champeaux (c. 1070–1122), French philosopher and theologian |
| Champfleury (Jules François Félix Husson) (1821–1889), French author |
| Jean-Étienne Championnet (1762–1800), French general |
| Samuel de Champlain (1567–1635), French explorer and colonial pioneer |
| Marie Champmeslé (1642–1698), French actress |
| Jean-François Champollion (1790–1832), French Egyptologist |
| Jacques-Joseph Champollion-Figeac (1778–1867), French archæologist |
| Chand Bardai (fl. c. 1200), Hindu poet |
| Mary Chandler (1687–1745), English poet |
| Henry William Chandler (1828–1889), English scholar |
| Richard Chandler (1738–1810), British antiquary |
| Samuel Chandler (1693–1766), English Nonconformist divine |
| William Eaton Chandler (1835–1917), United States Senator from New Hampshire |
| Zachariah Chandler (1813–1879), American politician |
| Barons and Dukes of Chandos |
| Sir John Chandos (d. 1370), one of the most celebrated English commanders of the 14th century |
| Chandragupta Maurya (d. c. 297 B.C.), founder of the Maurya empire and first paramount ruler of India |
| Nicolas Anne Théodule Changarnier (1793–1877), French general |
| William Ellery Channing (1780–1842), American divine and philanthropist |
| Henri Chantavoine (1850–1918), French man of letters |
| Sir Francis Chantrey (1781–1841), English sculptor |
| Antoine-Eugène-Alfred Chanzy (1823–1883), French general |
| Jean Chapelain (1595–1674), French poet and man of letters |
| Henry, Viscount Chaplin (1841–1923), English statesman |
| Elizabeth Rachel Chapman (fl. Late Nineteenth Century), British novelist and poetess |
| George Chapman (1559?–1634), English poet and dramatist |
| Hester Chapone (1727–1801), English essayist |
| Claude Chappe (1763–1805), French engineer |
| William Chappell (1809–1888), English writer on music |
| Jean-Antoine-Claude Chaptal, Comte de Chanteloup (1756–1832), French chemist and statesman |
| Jean Martin Charcot (1825–1893), French physician |
| John Rouse Merriott Chard (1847–1897), British soldier |
| Jean Baptiste Siméon Chardin (1699–1779), French genre painter |
| Sir John Chardin (1643–1713), French traveller |
| Chares (fl. 366 B.C.), Athenian general |
| Chares of Lindos (Third Century B.C.), noted sculptor |
| Chares of Mytilene (Fourth Century B.C.), Greek belonging to the suite of Alexander the Great |
| Charibert (d. 567), King of the Franks |
| Charidemus (d. 333 B.C.), Greek mercenary leader |
| Flavius Sosipater Charisius (Fourth Century), Latin grammarian |
| Chariton, author of a Greek romance |
| Charlemagne (c. 742–814), Roman Emperor and King of the Franks |
| Armand Charlemagne (1753–1838), French dramatic author |
| James Caulfeild, Lord Charlemont (1728–1799), Irish statesman |
| Charles the Bald (823–877), Roman Emperor and King of the West Franks |
| Charles the Fat (839–888), Roman Emperor and King of the West Franks |
| Charles IV. (1316–1378), Roman Emperor and King of Bohemia |
| Charles V. (1500–1558), Roman Emperor and King of Spain |
| Charles VI. (1685–1740), Roman Emperor |
| Charles VII. (1697–1745), Roman Emperor |
| Charles I. (1600–1649), King of Great Britain and Ireland |
| Charles II. (1630–1685), King of Great Britain and Ireland |
| Charles I. and II., Kings of France |
| Charles III. (879–929), King of France |
| Charles IV. (1294–1328), King of France, called The Fair |
| Charles V. (1338–1380), King of France, called The Wise |
| Charles VI. (1368–1422), King of France |
| Charles VII. (1403–1461), King of France |
| Charles VIII. (1470–1498), King of France |
| Charles IX. (1550–1574), King of France |
| Charles X. (1757–1836), King of France |
| Charles I. (1288–1342), King of Hungary |
| Charles I. (1226–1285), King of Naples and Sicily and Count of Anjou |
| Charles II. (1250–1309), King of Naples and Sicily |
| Charles II. (1332–1387), King of Navarre and Count of Evreux |
| Charles III. (1361–1425), King of Navarre and Count of Evreux |
| Charles II. (1661–1700), King of Spain |
| Charles III. (1716–1788), King of Spain |
| Charles IV. (1748–1819), King of Spain |
| Charles IX. (1550–1611), King of Sweden |
| Charles X. (1622–1660), King of Sweden |
| Charles XI. (1655–1697), King of Sweden |
| Charles XII. (1682–1718), King of Sweden |
| Charles XIII. (1748–1818), King of Sweden and Norway |
| Charles XIV. (1763–1844), King of Sweden and Norway |
| Charles XV. (1826–1872), King of Sweden and Norway |
| Charles (c. 1319–1364), Duke of Brittany |
| Charles the Bold (1433–1477), Duke of Burgundy |
| Charles (c. 1084–1127), Count of Flanders |
| Charles I. (c. 950–c. 992), Duke of Lower Lorraine |
| Charles II. (d. 1431), Duke of Lorraine, called The Bold |
| Charles III. or II. (1543–1608), Duke of Lorraine |
| Charles IV. or III. (1604–1675), Duke of Lorraine |
| Charles V. or IV. (1643–1690), Duke of Lorraine |
| Charles II. (1799–1883), Duke of Parma |
| Charles, Archduke of Austria (1771–1847), Duke of Teschen |
| Charles, Cardinal of Lorraine (1525–1574), French statesman |
| Charles, Prince of Lorraine (1712–1780), youngest son of Leopold, Duke of Lorraine |
| Charles (1270–1325), Count of Valois, of Maine, and of Anjou |
| Charles I. (1887–1922), Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary |
| Charles (1421–1461), Prince of Viana, sometimes called Charles IV. King of Navarre |
| Elizabeth Rundle Charles (1828–1896), English author |
| Jacques Alexandre César Charles (1746–1823), French mathematician and physicist |
| Thomas Charles (1755–1814), Welsh Nonconformist divine |
| Charles Albert (1798–1849), King of Sardinia |
| Charles Augustus (1757–1828), Grand-duke of Saxe-Weimar |
| Saint Charles Borromeo (1538–1584), Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church |
| Charles d’Orléans (1394–1465), French poet |
| Charles Edward (1720–1788), English Prince, called the “Young Pretender” |
| Charles Emmanuel I. (1562–1630), Duke of Savoy |
| Charles Martel (c. 688–741), Frankish ruler |
| Nicolas-Toussaint Charlet (1792–1845), French designer and painter |
| Pierre-François-Xavier de Charlevoix (1682–1761), French Jesuit traveller and historian |
| Désiré Charnay (1828–1915), French traveller and archæologist |
| Job Charnock (d. 1693), English founder of Calcutta |
| Robert Charnock (c. 1663–1696), English conspirator |
| Charondas, celebrated lawgiver of Catina in Sicily |
| François Charpentier (1620–1702), French archæologist and man of letters |
| Gustave Charpentier (1860–1956), French operatic composer |
| Isabelle de Charrière (1740–1805), Swiss author |
| Pierre Charron (1541–1603), French philosopher |
| Alain Chartier (c. 1392–c. 1430), French poet and political writer |
| Salmon Portland Chase (1808–1873), American statesman and jurist |
| Samuel Chase (1741–1811), American jurist |
| William Merritt Chase (1849–1916), American painter |
| Philarète Chasles (1798–1873), French critic and man of letters |
| François, Marquis de Chasseloup-Laubat (1754–1833), French general and military engineer |
| Théodore Chassériau (1819–1856), French painter |
| Pierre de Boscosel de Chastelard (1540–1562), French poet |
| Georges Chastellain (1405?–1475), Burgundian chronicler |
| François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand (1768–1848), French author |
| François Louis de Rousselet, Marquis de Château-Renault (1637–1716), French admiral |
| Marie Anne de Mailly-Nesle, Duchesse de Châteauroux (1717–1744), mistress of Louis XV. of France |
| Châtillon, name of a French family |
| Bankim Chandra Chatterji (1838–1894), Indian novelist |
| Thomas Chatterton (1752–1770), English poet |
| Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340–1400), English poet |
| Guillaume Amfrye de Chaulieu (1639–1720), French poet and wit |
| Pierre-Gaspard Chaumette (1763–1794), French revolutionist |
| Isaac Chauncey (1772–1840), American naval commander |
| Charles Chauncy (1592–1672), President of Harvard College |
| Bernard-François, Marquis de Chauvelin (1766–1832), French diplomatist and administrator |
| Étienne Chauvin (1640–1725), French Protestant divine |
| Pafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev (1821–1894), Russian mathematician |
| Ezekiel Cheever (1614–1708), American educator |
| Sir John Cheke (1514–1557), English classical scholar |
| Frederick Thesiger, Baron Chelmsford (1794–1878), Lord Chancellor of England |
| Martin Chemnitz (1522–1586), German Lutheran theologian |
| Charles-Julien Lioult de Chênedollé (1769–1833), French poet |
| Thomas Chenery (1826–1884), English scholar and editor of The Times |
| John Vance Cheney (1848–1922), American librarian and poet |
| André Chénier (1762–1794), French poet |
| Marie-Joseph de Chénier (1764–1811), French poet, dramatist and politician |
| Cheops, King who built the Great Pyramid in Egypt |
| Victor Cherbuliez (1829–1899), French novelist and miscellaneous writer |
| Chersiphron (fl. 600 B.C.?), Cretan architect |
| Luigi Cherubini (1760–1842), Italian musical composer |
| Adolphe Chéruel (1809–1891), French historian |
| William Cheselden (1688–1752), English surgeon |
| Pierre Charles Chesnelong (1820–1899), French politician |
| Charles Cornwallis Chesney (1826–1876), British soldier and military writer |
| Francis Rawdon Chesney (1789–1872), British general and explorer |
| George Tomkyns Chesney (1830–1895), English general |
| Earls of Chester |
| Philip Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield (1694–1773), English statesman and letter-writer |
| Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936), English journalist and author |
| Henry Chettle (c. 1564–c. 1607), English dramatist and miscellaneous writer |
| Albert Chevalier (1861–1923), English comedian |
| Michel Chevalier (1806–1879), French economist |
| Ulysse Chevalier (1841–1923), French bibliographer |
| Jean-Louis-Anne-Madeleine Lefebvre de Cheverus (1768–1836), French ecclesiastic |
| Langdon Cheves (1776–1857), American statesman |
| Michel Eugène Chevreul (1786–1889), French chemist |
| George Cheyne (1671–1743), Scottish physician |
| Thomas Kelly Cheyne (1841–1915), English divine and biblical critic |
| Antoine Léonard de Chézy (1773–1832), French orientalist |
| Gabriello Chiabrera (1552–1638), Italian poet |
| Henry Chicheley (1362?–1443), English Archbishop, founder of All Souls College, Oxford |
| Arthur Chichester, Baron Chichester of Belfast (1563–1625), Lord-deputy of Ireland |
| Chigi-Albani, name of a Roman princely family |
| Petr Aleksandrovich Chikhachev (1808–1890), Russian naturalist and geologist |
| Sir Francis Child (1642–1713), English banker |
| Francis James Child (1825–1896), American scholar and educationist |
| Sir John Child (d. 1690), Governor of Bombay |
| Sir Josiah Child (1630–1699), English merchant, economist and governor of the East India Company |
| Lydia Maria Child (1802–1880), American author |
| Childebert, name of three Frankish kings |
| Childeric, name of three Frankish kings |
| Hugh Culling Eardley Childers (1827–1896), British statesman |
| Robert Cæsar Childers (1838–1876), English Oriental scholar |
| George William Childs (1829–1894), American publisher |
| William Chillingworth (1602–1644), English divine and controversialist |
| Chilon of Sparta (fl. Sixth Century B.C.), one of the Seven Sages of Greece |
| Chilperic, name of two Frankish kings |
| Thomas Chippendale (1718–1779), most famous of English cabinet-makers |
| Hugh Chisholm (1866–1924), editor of the Encyclopædia Britannica |
| Sir Joseph William Chitty (1828–1899), English judge |
| Józef Chłopicki (1771–1854), Polish general |
| Bogdan Chmielnicki (c. 1594–1657), Hetman of the Cossacks |
| Joseph Hodges Choate (1832–1917), American lawyer and diplomat |
| Rufus Choate (1799–1859), American lawyer and orator |
| Jan Karol Chodkiewicz (1560–1621), Polish general |
| Daniel Chodowiecki (1726–1801), German painter and engraver |
| Choerilus, Athenian tragic poet |
| Georgius Choeroboscus, deacon and professor at the oecumenical school at Constantinople |
| César, Duc de Choiseul du Plessis-Praslin (1598–1675), French marshal and diplomatist |
| Étienne François, Duc de Choiseul (1719–1785), French statesman |
| Claude-Antoine-Gabriel, Duc de Choiseul-Stainville (1760–1838), French soldier |
| François Timoléon, Abbé de Choisy (1644–1724), French author |
| Henry Cholmondeley-Pennell (1837–1915), English poet and author |
| Frédéric Chopin (1810–1849), Polish musical composer and pianist |
| Choricius of Gaza (Sixth Century), Greek sophist and rhetorician |
| Aaron Chorin (1766–1844), Hungarian rabbi and pioneer of religious reform |
| Chorizontes, Alexandrian critics |
| Henry Fothergill Chorley (1808–1872), English musical critic |
| Chosroes, name borne by a famous king of Iranian legend |
| Florent Chrestien (1541–1596), French satirist and Latin poet
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