Cham facts for kids

Cham or CHAM may refer to:

Ethnicities and languages

• Chams, people in Vietnam and Cambodia
  • Cham language, the language of the Cham people
    • Cham script
    • Cham (Unicode block), a block of Unicode characters of the Cham script
• Cham Albanians, also spelled Çam, a people originating in northern Greece of Albanian descent
  • Cham Albanian dialect

People

• Cham (singer) (born 1979), Jamaica reggae singer known for the single "Ghetto Story"
• Cham., standard author abbreviation for botanist Adelbert von Chamisso (1781–1838)
• Chamillionaire (born 1979), American rapper
• Cham Prasidh (born 1951), Cambodian Minister of Trade
• Adongo Agada Cham (1959–2011), king of the Anuak people of Sudan and Ethiopia
• Jorge Cham (born 1976), comic-book artist
• Patrick Cham (born 1959), French basketball player
• Amédée de Noé (1818–1879), French artist whose pseudonym was "Cham"
• Ham (son of Noah), also spelt Cham
• Cham, a variant in Gambia of the surname Thiam

Places

• Cham, Germany, town
• Cham (district), Germany
• Cham, Switzerland, a city in the Canton of Zug, Switzerland
• Cham, Iran (disambiguation)
• Chàm Islands, of Vietnam
• Children's Hospital at Montefiore
• Cham, a colloquial name for the French mountain town of Chamonix
• Al Cham, French spelling for Al Sham (comprises Israel, Syria, Lebanon and Jordan)

Other uses

• 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
• Children's Hospital at Montefiore, in New York
• Cham Wings Airlines, a privately owned Syrian airline
• Cham, an archaic spelling of Khan
• Abbreviation of German botanist Adelbert von Chamisso (1781–1838)
• Cham or Kopi Cham, Malaysian beverage of coffee and tea

See also

In Spanish: Cham para niños