Christopher is the name that corresponds to the Greek name/word Christophoros. The latter consists of words for 'Christ' and "to bear" (pherein). It was popular with early Christians who believed they "carried" Christ in their hearts. The name also became associated with the apocryphal story of a giant who physically carried the Christ-child across a river. See Saint Christopher. The truncations Chris, Christo, Christoph, and Christy are also used as names. Nicknames derived from Christopher include Chris, Pher (pronounced Fur), Kit, Kester and Topher, Toph (mostly New English), and Pher Pher (pronounced Fur Fur). Any of these names may refer to:

In television and film:

• Chris Carter (screenwriter), American screenwriter and producer
• Chris Daughtry, American singer, rock musician, and television actor
• Topher Grace, American actor
• Chris Jericho, Canadian actor, radio host, rock musician and professional wrestler
• Christopher Knight, American actor best known for playing Peter Brady on the 1970s series, The Brady Bunch
• Christopher Lambert, French/American actor
• Christopher Lee, legendary and prolific English actor known for his versatility, his professional longevity, and his distinctive basso delivery
• Christopher Lloyd, American character actor
• Christopher McDonald, American actor
• Christopher Reeve, American actor, director, producer and writer renowned for his film portrayal of Superman/Clark Kent in four films from 1978-1987, for his wide body of stage work, and for his humanitarian efforts in the treatment of spinal cord injury and other neurological disorders
• Chris Rock, American stand-up comedian and actor
• Chris Synnes, DBS Help Desk
• Chris Tucker, American actor and comedian who has appeared in a number of hit movies
• Christopher Walken, Academy Award-winning American film and theatre actor

In wrestling:

• Chris Adams, English professional wrestler
• Christopher Daniels, American professional wrestler
• Chris Benoit, French-Canadian professional wrestler currently wrestling for World Wrestling Entertainment on its SmackDown! brand
• Chris Candido, American professional wrestler best known for his participation in the World Wrestling Federation tag team known as The Bodydonnas
• Chris Mordetsky, Polish-American professional wrestler best known by his stage name Chris Masters on WWE's RAW brand
• Chris Parks, the American professional wrestler best known by his stage name Abyss
• Chris Von Erich, American professional wrestler

In literature:

• Christopher Hitchens, author, journalist and literary critic
• Christopher Marlowe, English dramatist, poet, and translator of the Elizabethan era
• Chris Masters (writer), journalist on Four Corners on the ABC in Australia

In sports:

• Chris Adams, English cricketer who represented his nation at Test and one-day international level
• Cris Carter, former American football player
• Chris Chelios, American defenseman for the Detroit Red Wings of the NHL
• Chris Fydler, former freestyle swimmer from Australia
• Chris Renaud, former backstroke swimmer from Canada
• Chris Young (baseball outfielder), baseball player for the Arizona Diamondbacks franchise
• Chris Young (baseball starting pitcher), Major League Baseball player
• Chris Young (football player), American football player who currently plays for the Denver Broncos

In music:

• Chris Carter (musician), English musician
• Chris Carter (producer/disc jockey), Los Angeles-based disc jockey and music/film producer who started his music career as a founding member and bass player with alternative rock/power pop band Dramarama
• Chris Cester, drummer for Australian rock band Jet
• Chris Chaney, the bass player in the last incarnation of Jane's Addiction
• Chris Cornell, American guitarist/singer-songwriter most well-known for being the lead singer of Soundgarden and Audioslave
• Chris "Mack Daddy" Kelly, a member of the rap/hip hop duo Kriss Kross
• Christoph Willibald Gluck, German composer
• Chris "Mack Daddy" Smith, a member of the rap/hip hop duo Kriss Kross
• Chris Wolstenholme, the bassist for the English rock band Muse
• Chris Young (musician), singer and songwriter
• Kriss Kross, early 90's young rap/hip hop duo most famous for wearing their clothes backwards

In fiction:

• Christopher Boone, narrator of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
• Christopher Pike, character in the fictional Star Trek universe
• Christopher Robin (Winnie the Pooh), character in the Winnie-the-Pooh stories

In religion:

• Saint Christopher, saint venerated by Roman Catholics
• Friedrich Christoph Oetinger, German theosophist

In exploration:

• Kit Carson, American frontiersman
• Christopher Columbus, explorer and trader who crossed the Atlantic Ocean and reached the Americas on October 12, 1492 under the flag of Castile

In politics:

• Kit Bond, the former governor and current senior United States Senator of Missouri
• Chris Carter (politician), New Zealand politician and a member of Cabinet
• Christopher Robinson (politician), a British loyalist who was a politician in Upper Canada
• Christopher Robinson, a lawyer for the Canadian government who even went to trial against the USA over the boundries of Alaska

In other fields:

• Christo Javacheff, artist
• Christopher Sholes, American who contributed to the development of the typewriter
• Christopher Awdry, son of the Rev. W. Awdry

In other languages:

• Latin: Christophorus
• Greek: Χριστόφορος (Christóphoros)
• Polish: Krzysztof
• German: Christoph
• Spanish: Cristóbal
• Finnish: Risto
• French: Christophe
• Hungarian: Kristóf
• Czech & Slovak: Kryštof
• Italian: Cristoforo
• Swedish: Kristoffer
• Latvian: Kristaps
• Bulgarian: Христо (Hristo)
• Portuguese: Cristóvāo
• Russian: Христофор (Khristofor)
• Welsh: Llcrhifers
• Japanese: クリストファー
• Chinese: 克里斯托弗
• Korean: 크리스토퍼
• Arabic: كرستوفر

See also:

• Christy

Given names

External links:

• Behind the Name entry

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