Cham or CHAM may refer to:

Ethnicities and languages

Chams The Cham ( Cham: ''Čaṃ'') or Champa people ( Cham: , ''Urang Campa''; vi, Người Chăm or ; km, ជនជាតិចាម, ) are an Austronesian ethnic group. From the 2nd century to 1832 the Cham populated Champa, a contiguous territo ...

, people in Vietnam and Cambodia **

Cham language Cham (Cham: ꨌꩌ) is a Malayo-Polynesian language of the Austronesian family, spoken by the Chams of Southeast Asia. It is spoken primarily in the territory of the former Kingdom of Champa, which spanned modern Southern Vietnam, as well ...

, the language of the Cham people ***

Cham script The Cham script is a Brahmic abugida used to write Cham, an Austronesian language spoken by some 245,000 Chams in Vietnam and Cambodia. It is written horizontally left to right, just like other Brahmic abugidas. History The Cham script i ...

*** Cham (Unicode block), a block of Unicode characters of the Cham script *

Cham Albanians Cham Albanians or Chams ( sq, Çamë; el, Τσάμηδες, ''Tsámidhes''), are a sub-group of Albanians who originally resided in the western part of the region of Epirus in northwestern Greece, an area known among Albanians as Chameria. ...

, also spelled Çam, a people originating in northern Greece of Albanian descent **

Cham Albanian dialect The Cham Albanian dialect ( sq, Çamërisht, Dialekti çam), also called ''Cham Tosk'' or ''Arvanitika'' , is the dialect of the Albanian language spoken by the Cham Albanians, an ethnic Albanian minority in the Epirus region of northwestern Gre ...

People

Cham (singer) Cham (born Damian Beckett, 24 February 1979) is a Jamaican-born dancehall singer-songwriter and actor, mostly known for his 2006 single " Ghetto Story" from his major label debut album of the same name, a song which led to multiple "story" song ...

(born 1979), Jamaica reggae singer known for the single "Ghetto Story" *Cham., standard author abbreviation for botanist

Adelbert von Chamisso Adelbert von Chamisso (; 30 January 178121 August 1838) was a German poet and botanist, author of '' Peter Schlemihl'', a famous story about a man who sold his shadow. He was commonly known in French as Adelbert de Chamisso (or Chamissot) de Bo ...

(1781–1838) *

Chamillionaire Hakeem Temidayo Seriki (born November 28, 1979), better known by his stage name Chamillionaire (), is an American rapper. He was the founder and an original member of The Color Changin' Click from 2001 until the group split in 2005. He began hi ...

(born 1979), American rapper *

Cham Prasidh Cham Prasidh ( km, ចម ប្រសិទ្ធ; born 15 May 1951) is the Cambodian Minister of Industry, Science, Technology and Innovation. His Chinese name is 黃裕德虎. Mr Prasidh previously served as a Senior Minister and Minister of ...

(born 1951), Cambodian Minister of Trade *

Adongo Agada Cham King Adongo Agada Akwai Cham (January 1, 1959 – November 30, 2011) was King of the approx. 96,000 Anuak people of South Sudan and the corresponding Western Ethiopian border region. He is the 23rd King of the Anuak Nyiudola Royal Dynasty and was c ...

(1959–2011), king of the Anuak people of Sudan and Ethiopia * Jorge Cham (born 1976), comic-book artist *

Patrick Cham Patrick Cham (born May 18, 1959 in Saint-Claude, Guadeloupe) is a French former professional basketball player. Professional career Cham was the French 2nd Division French Player's MVP in 1992, while playing with Levallois Sporting Club The Lev ...

(born 1959), French basketball player * Amédée de Noé (1818–1879), French artist whose pseudonym was "Cham" *

Ham (son of Noah) Ham (in ), according to the Table of Nations in the Book of Genesis, was the second son of Noah and the father of Cush, Mizraim, Phut and Canaan. Ham's descendants are interpreted by Flavius Josephus and others as having populated Africa and ...

, also spelt Cham *Cham, a variant in Gambia of the surname Thiam

Places

Cham, Germany Cham (; cs, Kouba) is the capital of the district of Cham in the Upper Palatinate in Bavaria in Germany. Location Cham lies within the Cham-Furth lowland, which is bordered on the south by the Bavarian Forest and on the north by the Ober ...

, town * Cham (district), Germany * Cham, Switzerland, a city in the Canton of Zug, Switzerland *

Cham, Iran (disambiguation) Cham ( fa, چم) may refer to: *Cham, Hamadan *Cham, Isfahan *Cham, Falavarjan, Isfahan Province *Cham, Nain, Isfahan Province *Cham, Behbahan, Khuzestan Province *Cham, Izeh, Khuzestan Province *Cham, Ramshir, Khuzestan Province *Cham, Yazd See al ...

Chàm Islands The Cham Islands ( vi, Cù lao Chàm) constitute a group of 8 small islands of Quảng Nam, which form a part of the Cu Lao Cham Marine Park, a world Biosphere Reserve recognized by UNESCO, in the South China Sea (East Sea) in Vietnam. The ...

, of Vietnam *Cham, a colloquial name for the French mountain town of

Chamonix Chamonix-Mont-Blanc ( frp, Chamôni), more commonly known as Chamonix, is a commune in the Haute-Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of southeastern France. It was the site of the first Winter Olympics in 1924. In 2019, it ha ...

*Al Cham, French spelling for Al Sham (comprises Israel, Syria, Lebanon and Jordan)

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* Centro de Humanidades, NOVA FCSH * ''Cham'' (novel), by British writer Jonathan Trigell set in Chamonix Mont Blanc * Cham Bank, a Syrian bank * Cham dance, a masked dance associated with some sects of Buddhism * Cham Palaces and Hotels, a Syria hotel chain based in Syria * CHAM (radio station), a radio station in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada * Cham Wings Airlines, a privately owned Syrian airline *

Children's Hospital at Montefiore The Children's Hospital at Montefiore (CHAM) is a nationally ranked pediatric acute care children's teaching hospital located in the Bronx, New York. The hospital has 193 pediatric beds and is affiliated with the Albert Einstein College of Med ...

, in New York *Cham, an archaic spelling of

Khan Khan may refer to: *Khan (inn), from Persian, a caravanserai or resting-place for a travelling caravan *Khan (surname), including a list of people with the name *Khan (title), a royal title for a ruler in Mongol and Turkic languages and used by ...

*''Cham.'', taxonomic author abbreviation of German botanist

(1781–1838) * Cham or

Kopi Cham ''Yuenyeung'' (, often transliterated according to the Cantonese language pronunciation ''yuenyeung'', ''yinyeung'', or ''yinyong''; yuanyang in Mandarin), coffee with tea, is a popular beverage in Hong Kong. The drink is made from a mixture ...

, Malaysian beverage of coffee and tea * CHAM! was a fictional J-Pop group in the animated film

Perfect Blue is a 1997 Japanese animated psychological thriller film directed by Satoshi Kon. It is based on the novel by Yoshikazu Takeuchi, with a screenplay written by Sadayuki Murai. Featuring the voices of Junko Iwao, Rica Matsumoto, Shiho Niiy ...

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