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Char Fontane Char "Kaci" Fontane (January 12, 1952 – April 1, 2007) was an American actress and singer. She was born in Los Angeles, to singer Tony Fontane and his wife, actress Kerry Vaughn Fontane. Early in her career, Fontane worked as an assistant t ...

, American actress * Char Margolis, American spiritualist * René Char (1907–1988), French poet *The Char family of Colombia: ** Fuad Char, Colombian senator ** Alejandro Char Chaljub, mayor of Barranquilla **

Arturo Char Chaljub Arturo Char Chaljub (born 5 November 1967) is a former Senator of Colombia. Prior to his appointment he served as First Secretary of the Colombian Embassy in London. Family Arturo comes from a well established and influential, Syrian- Arab-C ...

, Colombian senator ** David Char Navas, Colombian senator **Sofia Daccarett Char, better known as Sofia Carson, American actress and singer * Char (musician), stage name of Japanese musician Hisato Takenaka (born 1955)

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* River Char, a river in Dorset, England *

Char (chemistry) Char is the solid material that remains after light gases (e.g. coal gas) and tar have been driven out or released from a carbonaceous material during the initial stage of combustion, which is known as carbonization, charring, devolatilizatio ...

, the solid material that forms during the initial stage of combustion of a carbonaceous material *

Char (fish) ''Salvelinus'' is a genus of salmonid fish often called char or charr; some species are called "trout". ''Salvelinus'' is a member of the subfamily Salmoninae within the family Salmonidae. The genus has a northern circumpolar distribution, and m ...

, a common name for fishes in the genus ''Salvelinus'', including Arctic char * Char ''(Ninjago)'', a character in ''Ninjago'' *

Char Aznable , born and also known as , is a fictional character from the ''Gundam'' franchise. He is originally one of the main antagonists in ''Mobile Suit Gundam'' working for the Principality of Zeon, named after his late father Zeon Zum Deikun, with ...

, a fictional character from the ''Mobile Suit Gundam'' series *A char in ANSI/ISO C is a value holding one byte (which was the size of a character in legacy encodings such as ASCII) *A common slang term for

tea Tea is an aromatic beverage prepared by pouring hot or boiling water over cured or fresh leaves of '' Camellia sinensis'', an evergreen shrub native to East Asia which probably originated in the borderlands of south-western China and nor ...

throughout the British Empire in the 19th and 20th centuries *A

charwoman Charwoman, chargirl, charlady and char are occupational terms referring to a paid part-time worker who comes into a house or other building to clean it for a few hours of a day or week, as opposed to a maid, who usually lives as part of the ho ...

, a cleaning woman *A

characteristic (algebra) In mathematics, the characteristic of a ring , often denoted , is defined to be the smallest positive number of copies of the ring's multiplicative identity () that will sum to the additive identity (). If no such number exists, the ring is said ...

of a ring in mathematics *Any French tank (from ''char d'assaut''), but more specifically one with a short designation such as: **

Char B1 The Char B1 was a French heavy tank manufactured before World War II. The Char B1 was a specialised break-through vehicle, originally conceived as a self-propelled gun with a 75 mm howitzer in the hull; later a 47 mm gun in a turret ...

, a French heavy tank manufactured before the Second World War **

Char 2C The char 2C, also known as the FCM 2C, was a French post WWI heavy tank landship, later considered a super-heavy tank. It was developed during World War I but not deployed until after the war. It was, in total volume or physical dimensions, the ...

, a super-heavy French tank developed during the First World War **

Char D1 The Char D1 was an Interwar period, Interwar French light tank. The French plan of 1926, calling for the creation of a Tanks in France#Inter War, Light Infantry Support Tank, led to the development of the existing Renault NC1 prototype into the ...

, a pre-World War II French tank ** Char D2, a French tank of the Interbellum ** Char G1, a French replacement project for the Char D2 medium tank

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