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), 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 duo 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, 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

  • , 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)