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Christopher Jones

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 18, 2025
Entity authorityQ350189
Source-derived summary

Christopher or Chris Jones may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Film, TV, theatre

Chris Jones (filmmaker) (born 1967), British filmmaker, author, film director, screenwriter and educator

Christopher Jones (actor, born 1941) (1941–2014), American actor

Christopher Jones (actor, born 1982), American actor and dancer

Gaming

Chris Jones (Access Software) (born 1955), American co-creator of the Tex Murphy detective adventure game series

Chris Jones (game developer), founder of Obsidian Entertainment, a computer game company

Music

Christopher Michael Jones (born 1969), American hip hop and R&B record producer

Chris Jones (British singer) (born 1985), British singer and songwriter

Chris Jones (American musician) (1958–2005), American musician and composer

Chris Jones (bluegrass musician), American singer/guitarist, leader of the Night Drivers

Writing

Chris Jones, editor of the Australian newspaper The Courier-Mail

Christopher Jones (comics) (born 1969), American comic book artist

Chris Jones (drama critic) (born 1963), American journalist and drama critic

Politics

Chris Jones (Arkansas politician) (born 1976), 2022 Arkansas gubernatorial candidate

Chris Jones (Virginia politician) (born 1958), American politician in the Virginia House of Delegates

Sports

Baseball

Chris Jones (1980s outfielder) (born 1957), former outfielder in Major League Baseball, 1985–1986

Chris Jones (1990s outfielder) (born 1965), former outfielder in Major League Baseball, 1991–2000

Basketball

Chris Jones (basketball, born 1991), American basketball player

Chris Jones (basketball, born 1993), American basketball player

Cricket

Chris Jones (cricketer) (born 1990), English cricketer

Christopher Jones (cricketer) (born 1973), former English cricketer

Association football

Chris Jones (footballer, born 1989), Welsh footballer

Chris Jones (footballer, born 1956), Jersey born England under-21 international footballer

Chris Jones (footballer, born 1945), English footballer

Chris Roosevelt Jones (born 1991), Liberian footballer

Gridiron football

Chris Jones (center) (born 1964), American football player

Chris Jones (cornerback) (born 1995), American football player

Chris Jones (football coach) (born 1967), head coach and general manager in the Canadian Football League

Chris Jones (punter) (born 1989), American football player for the Dallas Cowboys

Chris Jones (defensive tackle, born 1990), American football defensive tackle who is currently a free agent

Chris Jones (defensive tackle, born 1994), American football defensive tackle for the Kansas City Chiefs

Chris Jones (wide receiver, born 1972), American player of Canadian football

Chris Jones (wide receiver, born 1982), Canadian football wide receiver

Chris T. Jones (born 1971), former American football player for the Philadelphia Eagles

Other sports

Christopher Jones (cyclist) (born 1979), American cyclist

Chris Jones (gymnast) (born 1987), British gymnast

Chris Jones (racing driver) (born 1987), American racing driver

Chris Jones (rugby union) (born 1980), English rugby union footballer

Chris Jones (sprinter) (born 1973), American sprint athlete

Chris Jones (sprinter, born 1976), American sprinter, 1997 All-American for the Houston Cougars track and field team

Chris Jones (sprinter, born 1977), American sprinter, 1998 All-American for the Illinois Fighting Illini track and field team

Christopher Jones (water polo) (1884–1937), British gold medalist in the 1920 Olympics

Chris Jones (mountain climber) (1939–2024), British-American mountain climber

Other people

Christopher Jones (Mayflower captain) (c. 1570–1622), English sailor, master of the Mayflower

Christopher Jones (Anglican bishop) (born 1964), Australian Anglican assistant bishop in the Anglican Diocese of Tasmania

Christopher Jones (Roman Catholic bishop) (1936–2018), Irish Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Elphin

Christopher Jones (biologist) (born 1976), American naturalist, inventor and writer on evolutionary medicine

Chris Braithwaite, aka "Chris Jones" (c.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Christopher Jones” as wikimedia disambiguation page. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1967, 1941, 2014, 1982—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Christopher, Jones and Wikimedia can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as wikimedia disambiguation page. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 18, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q350189. The first chronological checks are 1967, 1941, 2014 and 1982.

Critical limits

The absence of detail may reflect summary conventions rather than a lack of surviving documentation. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from Christopher Jones” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.