• Chosen people
  Chosen people
  Throughout history and even today various groups of people have considered themselves as chosen by a deity for some purpose such as to act as the deity's agent on earth. In monotheistic faiths, like Abrahamic religions, references to God are used in constructs such as "God's Chosen People"...
  
  , people who believe they have been chosen by a higher power to do a certain thing including
  • Jews as a chosen people
    Jews as a chosen people
    In Judaism, "chosenness" is the belief that the Jews are the Chosen People, chosen to be in a covenant with God. This idea is first found in the Torah and is elaborated on in later books of the Hebrew Bible...
    
    

Korean

• Chosen, a Japanese name for Korea that also appeared in English sources when Korea was under Japanese rule
  Korea under Japanese rule
  Korea was under Japanese rule as part of Japan's 35-year imperialist expansion . Japanese rule ended in 1945 shortly after the Japanese defeat in World War II....
  
  
• Chosen people or Joseon people, a term for Korean people, especially Koreans in China
• Chosen Army of Japan
  Chosen Army of Japan
  The was an army of the Imperial Japanese Army, forming a garrison force in Korea under Japanese rule.-History:Japanese forces occupied large portions of the Empire of Korea during the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905, and a substantial was established in Seoul to protect the Japanese embassy and...
  
  , a part of the Imperial Japanese Army, responsible for the garrison of and operations on the Korean Peninsula
• Chosen Soren, an organization for ethnic Koreans living in Japan

Cryptanalysis

• Chosen-ciphertext attack
  Chosen-ciphertext attack
  A chosen-ciphertext attack is an attack model for cryptanalysis in which the cryptanalyst gathers information, at least in part, by choosing a ciphertext and obtaining its decryption under an unknown key. In the attack, an adversary has a chance to enter one or more known ciphertexts into the...
  
  , an attack model
• Indifferent chosen-ciphertext attack, a form of chosen-ciphertext attack
• Adaptive chosen-ciphertext attack
  Adaptive chosen-ciphertext attack
  An adaptive chosen-ciphertext attack is an interactive form of chosen-ciphertext attack in which an attacker sends a number of ciphertexts to be decrypted, then uses the results of these decryptions to select subsequent ciphertexts...
  
  , an interactive form of chosen-ciphertext attack
• Chosen-plaintext attack
  Chosen-plaintext attack
  A chosen-plaintext attack is an attack model for cryptanalysis which presumes that the attacker has the capability to choose arbitrary plaintexts to be encrypted and obtain the corresponding ciphertexts. The goal of the attack is to gain some further information which reduces the security of the...
  
  , an attack model

Popular culture

• "Chosen" (Buffy episode), the final episode of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• The Chosen (Ricardo Pinto)
  The Chosen (Ricardo Pinto)
  The Chosen is a fantasy novel by Ricardo Pinto, and also his first novel. It is the first part of the series, The Stone Dance of the Chameleon. A 2000 Locus poll ranked it 14th in the Best First Novel category....
  
  , a fantasy novel by Ricardo Pinto
• The Chosen (Chaim Potok)
  The Chosen (Chaim Potok)
  The Chosen is a novel written by Chaim Potok. It was published in 1969. It follows the main character Reuven Malter and his friend Daniel Saunders, as they grow up in New York in the 1940s. A sequel featuring Reuven's young adult years is titled The Promise.-Plot:The Chosen is set in the 1900s, in...
  
   is a novel by Chaim Potok, published in 1967
• The Chosen (Shannara), fictional characters in Shannara novels