Chino

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

• Chino, California, a city in San Bernardino County, California, US
• Chino, Nagano, 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, 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), was a 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

People nicknamed "El Chino"

• Alberto Fujimori (born 1938), Peruvian president
• Jorge José Benítez (born 1950), Argentine footballer
• Daniel Canónico, (1916–1975), Venezuelan baseball player
• Manuel Flores (born 1965), Salvadoran politician
• Roberto Losada (born 1976), Spanish footballer
• Marcos Maidana, Argentine boxer
• Álvaro Recoba (born 1976), Uruguayan footballer
• Marcelo Ríos (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

• Tadao Chino (千野ちの 忠男ただお, 1934–2008), Japanese civil servant
• Wendell Chino (1923–1998), leader of the Mescalero Apache nation
• Toshiki Chino (千野ちの 俊樹としき, born 1985), 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)