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Chino or El Chino may refer to:


Art, entertainment, and media

* ''Chino'' (1973 film), an Italian film starring Charles Bronson * ''Chino'' (1991 film), a Nepali film


Places

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Chino, California Chino ( ; Spanish for "Curly") is a city in the western end of San Bernardino County, California, United States, with Los Angeles County to its west and Orange County to its south in the Southern California region. Chino's surroundings ha ...
, a city in San Bernardino County, California, US *
Chino, Nagano is a Cities of Japan, city located in Nagano Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 55,673 in 23,236 households, and a population density of 210 persons per km². The total area of the city is . Geography Chino is located ...
, a city in Nagano prefecture, Japan * Chino Hills, a mountain range on the border of Orange, Los Angeles, and San Bernardino counties, California * Chino Hills, California, a city in San Bernardino County, California, US * Chino Valley, Arizona, a town in Yavapai County, Arizona, US


People

Ultimately derived from the word ''
China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With population of China, a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the list of countries by population (United Nations), second-most populous country after ...
'', Chino is sometimes used in Spanish to denote a person of mixed racial identity or foreign appearance, either as a label or nickname.


People nicknamed "Chino"

* Chino Cadahia (born 1957), Cuban baseball coach * Chino Herrera (1903–1983), Mexican actor and comedian * Chino Moreno (born 1973), American musician * Chino Pozo (1915–1980), Cuban drummer * David Rheem, US poker player * Chino Roque (born 1990), Filipino space cadets * Javi Chino (born 1987), Spanish footballer * Chino Smith (1903–1932), Negro league baseball player * Jesús Alberto Miranda Pérez, one half of the Venezuelan pop due Chino & Nacho * César Huerta (born 2000), Mexican footballer


People nicknamed "El Chino"

* Alberto Fujimori (1938–2024), Peruvian president * Jorge José Benítez (born 1950), Argentine footballer * Daniel Canónico, (1916–1975), Venezuelan baseball player * José Meléndez (1908–1985), Nicaraguan baseball player * Manuel Flores (born 1965), Salvadoran politician * Roberto Losada (born 1976), Spanish footballer *
Marcos Maidana Marcos René Maidana (born 17 July 1983) is an Argentine former professional boxer who competed from 2004 to 2014. He held the WBA (Regular) super lightweight title from 2011 to 2012, and the WBA (Regular) welterweight title from 2013 to 2014. A ...
, Argentine boxer *
Álvaro Recoba Álvaro Alexánder Recoba Rivero (; born 17 March 1976; nickname "El Chino"
(born 1976), Uruguayan footballer *
Marcelo Ríos Marcelo Andrés Ríos Mayorga (; born 26 December 1975) is a Chilean former professional tennis player. He was ranked as the world No. 1 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), the first Latin American to reach the t ...
(born 1975), Chilean tennis player * David Silva (born 1986), Spanish footballer * Melissa Calderon née Melissa Margarita Calderon Ojeda, Mexican cartel leader nicknamed "La China" * "El Chino", photographer whose photos are used in the Netflix TV series '' Narcos''


People with this name

* Chino Darín (born 1989), Argentine actor and film producer * Chino 'Fats' Williams (1933–2000), American actor * Chino Rodriguez (1954–2022), American musician


People with this surname

*, Japanese civil servant * Wendell Chino (1923–1998), leader of the Mescalero Apache nation *, Japanese former football player * Vera Chino (1943), Native American potter * Tom Chino, Californian farmer


Other uses

* Chino (''Is the Order a Rabbit?''), a character in the manga series ''Is the Order a Rabbit?'' * Chinotto (soft drink) or Chino, a carbonated soft drink * Chino cloth, a twill fabric * California Institution for Men, a prison in Chino, San Bernardino County, California nicknamed "Chino"


See also

* Cino (disambiguation) {{disambiguation, geo Japanese-language surnames