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Charles (surname)

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Charles is a given name

Given name

A given name is a personal name that specifies and differentiates between members of a group of individuals, especially in a family, all of whose members usually share the same family name ....
for males, and has its origins in the Common Germanic term Churl

Churl

A churl , in its earliest Old English language meaning, was simply "a man", but the word soon came to mean "a non-servile peasant", still spelt ceorle, and denoting the lowest rank of freemen....
, where it originally was used to indicate a free man, but not one belonging to the nobility.

Derivations of Charles include Charlie

Charlie

Charlie is a given name in English-speaking countries, usually a nickname for Charles, which is derived from the Germanic language name Karl, meaning "man" or of a beastly manner....
and Chuck

ChucK

ChucK is a concurrent, strongly-timed audio programming language for real-time synthesis, composition, and performance, which runs on Mac OS X, Linux, and Microsoft Windows....
. The Greek variant of the name is Karolos. The Spanish variant of the name is Carlos

Carlos

Carlos is an Iberian name, the Portuguese and Spanish equivalent of Charles....

Female

Female

Female is the sex of an organism, or a part of an organism, which produces mobile ovum . The ova are defined as the larger gametes in a heterogamous reproduction system, while the smaller, usually motile gamete, the spermatozoon, is produced by the male....
versions of this name include Charlotte

Charlotte (name)

Charlotte is a female given name, a female form of the male name Charles....
, Lotte, Charlotta, Carolyn

Carolyn

Carolyn is a female name in English speaking countries, originally an alteration of the more ancient name Caroline. Caroline itself is one of the feminine forms of Charles, which goes back to a Germanic word that meant "free man"....
, Caroline

Caroline

Caroline or Carolyne is a given name for women.Notable Carolines include:*Caroline of Ansbach , queen consort of George II of Great Britain...
, Lotta

Lotta

Lotta is a character from the children's animation series and children's books, Charlie and Lola.Lotta is Lola Sonner's best friend....
and Charlene

Charlene

Charlene may refer to:* Charlene * Charlene & Natasha, a singing duo from Malta* Charlene by Anthony Hamilton* Charlene , people with the given name Charlene...
.

Charles may also refer to:

People

Nobility

In Austrian nobility:

Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen
Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen

Archduke Charles of Austria, Duke of Teschen was an Austrian field-marshal, the son of emperor Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor and his wife Infanta Maria Luisa of Spain....
, son of Leopold II
Charles I of Austria, the first Emperor of Austria

In Bohemian nobility:

Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor
Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor

Charles IV , born Wenceslaus , was the eleventh king of Bohemia from the House of Luxembourg, and Holy Roman Emperor.He was the eldest son and heir of John of Bohemia, who died on 26 August 1346, thus Charles inherited the Count of Luxembourg and the King of Bohemia....
, King of Bohemia and King of the Romans
Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor
Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor

Charles VI was Holy Roman Emperor, King of Hungary from 1711 to 1740, Archduke of Austria. From 1703 to 1711 he was an active claimant to the List of Spanish monarchs as Charles III....
, Holy Roman Emperor from 1711 to 1740 and the second son of Leopold I with his third wife

In British nobility:

Charles I of England
Charles I of England

Charles I was List of English monarchs, List of monarchs of Scotland and King of Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his capital punishment on 30 January 1649....
, King of England, Scotland, and Ireland
Charles II of England
Charles II of England

Charles II was the Monarchy of Kingdom of England, Kingdom of Scotland, and Kingdom of Ireland.His father Charles I of England Regicide#The regicide of Charles I of England at Palace of Whitehall on 30 January 1649, at the climax of the English Civil War....
, the King of England, King of Scots, and King of Ireland
Charles Edward Stuart
Charles Edward Stuart

Charles Edward Stuart was the exiled Jacobitism claimant to the thrones of England, Scotland, and Kingdom of Ireland. He is commonly known in English and Scots language as Bonnie Prince Charlie....
, the exiled claimant to the thrones of England, Scotland, and Ireland
Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis
Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis

Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, Knight of the Garter was a Kingdom of Great Britain army officer and colonial administrator. In the United States and Britain, he is best remembered as one of the leading generals in the American War of Independence....
, English military commander and colonial governor
Charles, Prince of Wales
Charles, Prince of Wales

The Prince Charles, Prince of Wales is the eldest child of Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, making him heir apparent, equally and separately, to the thrones of Commonwealth realm....
, the eldest son of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

In French nobility:

Charlemagne
Charlemagne

Charlemagne was List of Frankish kings from 768 to his death. He expanded the Franks kingdoms into a Carolingian Empire that incorporated much of Western Europe and Central Europe....
(Charles I of France), 1st Holy Roman Emperor, son of King Pippin the Short and Bertrada of Laon
Charles the Bald
Charles the Bald

File:Charles le Chauve denier Bourges after 848.jpgCharles the Bald , Holy Roman Emperor and King of West Francia , was the youngest son of the Emperor Louis the Pious by his second wife Judith, daughter of Welf....
, the youngest son of Emperor Louis the Pious
Charles the Fat
Charles the Fat

Charles the Fat was the Duke of Swabia from 876, King of Italy from 879, Carolingian Empire from 881, King of Germany from 882, and King of France from 884....
, son of Louis the German
Charles the Simple
Charles the Simple

Charles III , called the Simple or the Straightforward , was a member of the Carolingian dynasty who ruled as List of French monarchs from 893 to 922/923....
, member of the Carolingian dynasty who ruled as King of France
Charles IV of France
Charles IV of France

Charles IV , was the List of French monarchs and List of Navarrese monarchs and Count of Champagne from 1322 to his death: he was the last French king of the House of Capet....
, member of the Capetian Dynasty
Charles V of France
Charles V of France

Charles V , called the Wise, was List of French monarchs from 1364 to his death and a member of the House of Valois. His reign marked a high point for France during the Hundred Years' War, with his armies recovering much of the territory ceded to England at the Treaty of Br?tigny....
, king of France from 1364 to 1380 and a member of the Valois Dynasty
Charles VI of France
Charles VI of France

Charles VI , called the Well-loved and the Mad , was the List of French monarchs from 1380 to 1399, as a member of the House of Valois....
, member of the Valois Dynasty
Charles VII of France
Charles VII of France

File:Charles VII Franc a cheval 1422 1423.jpgCharles VII , called the Victorious or the Well-Served , was List of French monarchs from 1422 to his death, though he was initially opposed by Henry VI of England, whose Regent ruled much of France from Paris....
, king of France from 1422 to 1461
Charles VIII of France
Charles VIII of France

Charles VIII, called the Affable, , was List of French monarchs from 1483 to his death. Charles was a member of the House of Valois. His invasion of Italy initiated the long series of Italian Wars which characterized the first half of the 16th century....
, King of France from 1483 to his death
Charles IX of France
Charles IX of France

Charles IX born Charles-Maximilien, was King of France, ruling from 1560 until his death. He is best known as king at the time of the St....
, the son of King Henri II of France and Catherine de Medici
Charles X of France
Charles X of France

Charles X ruled as List of French monarchs and List of Navarrese monarchs from 20 May 1824 until the July Revolution, when he Abdication. He was the last king of the senior House of Bourbon line to reign over France....
, the grandson of Louis XV and his Polish queen
Charles Joseph Bonaparte
Charles Joseph Bonaparte

Charles Joseph Bonaparte was a member of the United States United States Cabinet, serving appointments by President Theodore Roosevelt as United States Secretary of the Navy, then as Attorney General of the United States....
, grandson of Jérôme Bonaparte
Napoleon Francis Joseph Charles Bonaparte
Napoleon II of France

Napol?on Fran?ois Joseph Charles Bonaparte, Duke of Reichstadt was the son of Napoleon I of France and his second wife, Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma....
, the son of Napoleon Bonaparte
Charles Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleon III of France

Napol?on III, also known as Louis-Napol?on Bonaparte was the first President of the French Republic and the only emperor of the Second French Empire....
, President of France from 1849 to 1852
Napoléon Joseph Charles Paul Bonaparte
Napoléon Joseph Charles Paul Bonaparte

Napol?on Joseph Charles Paul Bonaparte, Prince Fran?ais, Count of Meudon, Count of Moncalieri ad personam was the second son of Jerome Bonaparte, king of Westphalia, by his wife Catharina of W?rttemberg....
, the son of Jerome Bonaparte and Catharina of Württemberg
Charles I of Sicily
Charles I of Sicily

Charles I , commonly called Charles of Anjou, was the List of monarchs of Naples and Sicily by conquest from 1266, though he had received it as a Pope grant in 1262 and was expelled from the island in the aftermath of the Sicilian Vespers of 1282....
Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu
Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu

Charles-Louis de Secondat, baron de La Br?de et de Montesquieu , was a France social commentator and Political philosophy who lived during the Age of Enlightenment....
, French political thinker who lived during the Enlightenment
Charles, Count Léon, the illegitimate son of Emperor Napoleon I of France and Catherine Eléonore Denuelle de la Plaigne
Charles, duc d'Orléans
Charles, duc d'Orléans

Charles of Valois was Duke of Orl?ans from 1407, following the murder of his father, Louis of Valois, Duke of Orl?ans on the orders of John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy....
, Duke of Valois, Count of Beaumont and of Blois, lord of Coucy, and the inheritor of Asti in Italy via his mother Valentina Visconti
Charles, Duke of Brittany
Charles, Duke of Brittany

Charles of Blois , claimed the title duke of Brittany, from 1341 to his death.Charles is the son of Guy I of Blois-Ch?tillon, count of Blois, by Margaret of Valois, a sister of king Philip VI of France....
, the son of Guy I of Blois-Châtillon
Charles I, Duke of Burgundy
Charles I, Duke of Burgundy

Charles the Bold or Charles the Rash , baptised Charles Martin, was Duke of Burgundy from 1467 to 1477.Known as Charles the Terrible to his enemies, he was the last House of Valois Duke of Duchy of Burgundy and his early death was a pivotal, if under-recognised, moment in European history....
, the son of Philip III, Duke of Burgundy and Isabella of Portugal, Duchess of Burgundy
Charles I, Duke of Bourbon
Charles I, Duke of Bourbon

Charles I of Bourbon was Count of Clermont-en-Beauvaisis from 1424, and Duke of Bourbon and Rulers of Auvergne from 1434 to his death, although due to the imprisonment of John I, Duke of Bourbon after the Battle of Agincourt, he acquired control of the duchy more than eighteen years before his father's death....
, Count of Clermont-en-Beauvaisis
Charles II, Duke of Bourbon
Charles II, Duke of Bourbon

File:COA Cardinal Charles II de Bourbon.svgCharles II, Duke of Bourbon , the son of Charles I, Duke of Bourbon and Agnes of Burgundy, was a member of the House of Bourbon....
, clergyman, Cardinal and Archbishop of Lyon
Charles III, Duke of Bourbon
Charles III, Duke of Bourbon

Charles III of Bourbon-Montpensier, Eighth Duke of Bourbon was Count of Montpensier and Rulers of Auvergne. His father, Gilbert, Count of Montpensier, died in 1496, and his elder brother Louis II, Count of Montpensier in 1501, at which time he inherited the family lands in Auvergne ....
, Count of Montpensier and Dauphin of Auvergne
Charles II, Duke of Lorraine
Charles II, Duke of Lorraine

File:Pierre Woeiriot08.jpgCharles II , called the Bold was the duke of Lorraine from 1390 to his death and constable of France from 1418 to 1425....
, the duke of Lorraine from 1390 to his death and constable of France from 1418 to 1425
Charles III, Duke of Lorraine
Charles III, Duke of Lorraine

Charles III , known as the Great, was Duke of Lorraine from 1545 until his death....
, the eldest surviving son of Francis I, Duke of Lorraine and Christina of Denmark
Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine
Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine

File:Charles IV de Lorraine.JPGCharles IV was Duke of Lorraine from 1624 to 1634, when he abdicated under French pressure in favor of his younger brother, and again from 1661 until 1675....
, European nobility
Charles of Lorraine, Duke of Mayenne, French nobleman and military leader
Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine
Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine

Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine was the son of Leopold, Duke of Lorraine, Duke of Duchy of Lorraine and ?lisabeth Charlotte d'Orl?ans....
, the son of Leopold Joseph

In German nobility:

Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor

Charles V was ruler of the Holy Roman Empire from 1519 and, as Charles I of Spain, of the Spanish realms from 1516 until his abdication in 1556....
, Holy Roman Emperor, King of Aragon, Castile, Naples, and Sicily, and ruler of the Burgundian territories
Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor
Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor

Emperor Charles VII Albert , a member of the Wittelsbach family, was Prince-elector of Bavaria from 1726 and Holy Roman Emperor from January 24, 1742 until his death in 1745....
, member of the Wittelsbach family

In Hungarian nobility:

Charles I of Hungary
Charles I of Hungary

Charles I of Hungary , , is also known as Charles Robert, Charles Robert of Anjou, and Charles Robert of Anjou-Hungary, King of Hungary ....
, the grandson of King Charles II of Naples
Charles III of Naples
Charles III of Naples

Charles the Short was Monarchs of Naples and Sicily and titular King of Jerusalem from 1382 to 1386 as Charles III, and List of Hungarian rulers from 1385 to 1386 as Charles II....
, the son of Louis of Durazzo and Margherita of Sanseverino

In Spanish nobility:

Charles II of Navarre
Charles II of Navarre

Charles II , called "Charles the Bad," was King of Navarre 1349-1387 and Count of ?vreux 1343-1387.Besides the Pyrenees Kingdom of Navarre, he had extensive lands in Normandy, inherited from his father, Count Philip III of Navarre, and his mother, Queen Joan II of Navarre, who had received them as compensation for resigning her claims...
, one of the nobles involved in the repression of the Jacquerie
Charles III of Navarre
Charles III of Navarre

Charles III , called the Noble, was King of Navarre from 1387 to his death and Count of ?vreux from 1387 to 1404, when he exchanged it for the title Duke of Nemours....
, Navarrese monarch
Charles I of Spain, King of Aragon, King of Castile, King of Naples and Sicily, Archduke of Austria, Duke of Burgundy, and was also Holy Roman Emperor as Charles V)
Charles II of Spain
Charles II of Spain

Charles II , was the last Habsburg Spain of Spain and the ruler of nearly all of Italy , the Spanish territories in the Southern Low Countries, and Spanish empire, stretching from Mexico to the Philippines....
, the only surviving son of his Habsburg predecessor, King Philip IV of Spain and his second Queen
Charles III of Spain
Charles III of Spain

Charles III was list of Spanish monarchs 1759?88 , King of Kingdom of Naples and Kingdom of Sicily 1735?59 , and Duchy of Parma 1732?35 . He was a proponent of enlightened absolutism....
, the first son of the second marriage of Philip V with Elizabeth Farnese of Parma
Charles IV of Spain
Charles IV of Spain

Charles IV was list of Spanish monarchs from December 14, 1788 until his abdication on March 19, 1808....
, King of Spain from December 14, 1788 until his abdication on March 19, 1808
Juan Carlos I of Spain
Juan Carlos I of Spain

Juan Carlos I is the reigning List of Spanish monarchs of Spain. His name, while rarely Anglicisation, is rendered as John Charles Alphonse Victor Mary of Bourbon and Bourbon-Two Sicilies....
, the reigning King of Spain

In Italian nobility:

Charles I of Savoy
Charles I of Savoy

Charles I , surnamed the Warrior, was the Duke of Savoy from 1482 to 1490 and titular Kingdom of Cyprus, Kings of Jerusalem, and Monarchs of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia from 1485 to 1490....
, the Duke of Savoy from 1482 to 1490 and titular king of Cyprus, Jerusalem, and Armenia from 1485 to 1490
Charles II of Savoy
Charles II of Savoy

Charles II or Charles John Amadeus , was the Duke of Savoy from 1490 to 1496 but his mother Blanche of Montferrat was the actual ruler as a Regent....
, the Duke of Savoy from 1490 to 1496
Charles III, Duke of Savoy
Charles III, Duke of Savoy

Charles III of Savoy , often called Charles the Good, was Duke of Savoy from 1504 to 1553, although most of his lands were ruled by the French between 1536 and his death....
, Duke of Savoy from 1504 to 1553
Charles Albert of Sardinia
Charles Albert of Sardinia

Charles Albert was the Kingdom of Sardinia-Sardinia from 1831 to 1849. He succeeded his distant cousin Charles Felix of Sardinia, and his name is bound with the first Italian statute and the First Italian War of Independence....
, the Duke of Savoy, Piedmont, Aosta and King of Sardinia from 1831 to 1849
Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy
Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy

Charles Emmanuel I , , surnamed the Great, was the Duke of Savoy from 1580 to 1630. He was also nicknamed Testa d' feu for his rashness and military attitudes....
, the Duke of Savoy from 1580 to 1630
Charles Emmanuel II, Duke of Savoy
Charles Emmanuel II, Duke of Savoy

Charles Emmanuel II was the Duke of Savoy from 1638 to 1675 and under regency of his mother Christine Marie of France until 1663. He was also Marquis of Saluzzo, Count of Aosta, Count of Geneva, Moriana and Nice, as well as claimant king of King of Cyprus and King of Jerusalem....
, the Duke of Savoy from 1638 to 1675
Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia
Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia

Charles Emmanuel III was the Duke of Savoy and King of Sardinia from 1730 until his death....
, the Duke of Savoy and King of Sardinia from 1730 to 1773
Charles Emmanuel IV of Sardinia
Charles Emmanuel IV of Sardinia

Charles Emmanuel IV was Kingdom of Sardinia from 1796 to 1802....
, King of Sardinia from 1796 to 1802
Charles Felix of Sardinia
Charles Felix of Sardinia

Charles Felix I of Sardinia was the Duke of Savoy, Piedmont , Aosta and King of Sardinia from 1821 to 1831.He was the eleventh child and fifth son born to Victor Amadeus III of Sardinia and Maria Antonietta of Spain....
, the Duke of Savoy, Piedmont, Aosta and King of Sardinia from 1821 to 1831
Charles I of Sicily
Charles I of Sicily

Charles I , commonly called Charles of Anjou, was the List of monarchs of Naples and Sicily by conquest from 1266, though he had received it as a Pope grant in 1262 and was expelled from the island in the aftermath of the Sicilian Vespers of 1282....
, the posthumous son of Louis VIII of France and Blanche of Castile
Charles II of Naples
Charles II of Naples

Charles II, known as "the Lame" , was List of monarchs of Naples and Sicily, titular Kings of Jerusalem, and Prince of Salerno....
, son of Charles I of Naples

In Monaco nobility:

Charles I of Monaco, the first true Lord of Monaco
Charles III, Prince of Monaco
Charles III, Prince of Monaco

Charles III, Prince of Monaco was the ninth reigning Prince of Monaco and the ninth Duke of Valentinois from 20 June 1856 to his death. He was the founder of the famous casino in Monte Carlo....
, the founder of the famous casino in Monte Carlo

In Romanian nobility:

Charles I of Romania, the first ruler of the Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen dynasty which would rule the country until the proclamation of a republic in 1947
Charles II of Romania, eldest son of Ferdinand I

In Swedish nobility:

Charles VII of Sweden
Charles VII of Sweden

Charles I Sverkersson, or Karl Sverkersson in Swedish language , was ruler of Gothenland, and then King of Sweden from circa 1161 to 1167, when he was assassinated....
, King of Sweden and Earl of Götaland from circa 1161 to 1167
Charles VIII of Sweden
Charles VIII of Sweden

Charles II of Sweden, Charles I of Norway, a.k.a Karl Knutsson , king of Sweden ; king of Norway .Referring to Karl Knutsson as Charles VIII is a later invention....
, King of Sweden
Charles IX of Sweden
Charles IX of Sweden

Charles IX , was King of Sweden from 1604 until his death. He was the youngest son of King Gustav I of Sweden and his second wife, Margaret Leijonhufvud, brother of Eric XIV of Sweden and John III of Sweden, and uncle of Sigismund III Vasa king of both Sweden and Poland....
, King of Sweden, the youngest son of Gustav Vasa and Margareta Leijonhufvud
Charles X Gustav of Sweden
Charles X Gustav of Sweden

Charles X Gustav was Monarch of Sweden from 1654 until his death. He was the son of John Casimir, Count Palatine of Kleeburg, Count Palatine of Zweibr?cken-Kleeburg and Catharina of Sweden....
, the second Wittelsbach King of Sweden after Christopher of Bavaria
Charles XI of Sweden
Charles XI of Sweden

Charles XI was Monarch of Sweden from 1660 until his death, in an unruly period in Swedish history known as the Swedish empire .Charles was the only son of King Charles X of Sweden and Hedwig Eleonora of Holstein-Gottorp....
, King of Sweden, the only son of Charles X of Sweden and Hedwig Eleonora of Holstein-Gottorp
Charles XII of Sweden
Charles XII of Sweden

Charles XII was the Monarch of Sweden from 1697 to 1718.Charles was the only surviving son of King Charles XI of Sweden and Ulrike Eleonora of Denmark, and he assumed the crown at the age of fifteen, at the death of his father....
, the fourth King of the Wittelsbach dynasty in Sweden
Charles XIII of Sweden
Charles XIII of Sweden

Charles XIII & II , was Monarch of Sweden from 1809 and King of Norway from 1814 until his death. He was the second son of King Adolf Frederick of Sweden and Louisa Ulrika of Prussia, sister of Frederick the Great....
, King of Sweden, the second son of King Adolf Frederick of Sweden and Louisa Ulrika of Prussia
Charles XIV John of Sweden
Charles XIV John of Sweden

Charles XIV & III John , born Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, later renamed Jean-Baptiste Jules Bernadotte was King of Sweden and King of Norway from 1818 until his death....
, King of Sweden and Norway. Former Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, Marshal of France
Charles XV of Sweden
Charles XV of Sweden

Charles XV & IV was King of Sweden and King of Norway from 1859 until his death.Referring to Carl as Charles XV is a modern invention. The Swedish kings Erik XIV of Sweden and Charles IX of Sweden took their numbers after studying a highly fictitious History of Sweden....
, King of Sweden, the eldest son of King Oscar I and Josephine of Leuchtenberg
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden

}|}Carl XVI Gustaf has been Monarch of Sweden since 15 September 1973. He is the only son of the late Prince Gustav Adolf, Duke of V?sterbotten and Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha....
, Charles XVI Gustaf of Sweden, King of Sweden

In other nobility:

Prince Charles of Belgium
Prince Charles of Belgium

Prince Charles, Count of Flanders, Prince of Belgium was the second son of Albert I of Belgium and Elisabeth of Bavaria . Born in Brussels, he reigned in lieu of his older brother Leopold III of Belgium from 1944 until 1950 as Prince Regent until Leopold could return to the throne....
, the second son of King Albert I of Belgium and Queen Elizabeth
Charles I of Portugal, second last King of Portugal and Algarves
Charles Martel
Charles Martel

Charles "The Hammer" Martel was proclaimed Mayor of the Palace and ruled the Franks in the name of a Titular ruler. Late in his reign he proclaimed himself Duke of the Franks and by any name was de facto ruler of the Frankish Realms....
, the mayor of the palace and duke of the Franks

Acting

Charles Bowers
Charles Bowers

Charles R. Bowers was an United States cartoonist and slapstick comedy during the silent film and early "talkie" era. He was forgotten for decades and his name was notably absent from most histories of the Silent Era, although his work was enthusiastically reviewed by Andr? Breton and a number of his contemporaries....
, American cartoonist and early film-maker
Charles Boyer
Charles Boyer

Charles Boyer was a four-time Academy Award-nominated France-born actor. Boyer started on the stage, but he found his success in European and Hollywood movies during the 1930s, and continued to act in films, television and theatre over the next several decades....
, French-American actor
Roger Charles Carmel
Roger C. Carmel

Roger Charles Carmel was an American actor.Of his hundreds of roles, he is best remembered for playing the flamboyant and hapless criminal Harry Mudd on the original Star Trek: The Original Series....
, American character actor
Charlie Chaplin
Charlie Chaplin

Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin, Jr. Order of the British Empire , better known as Charlie Chaplin, was an Academy Award-winning England comedy film actor and filmmaker....
, English comedy actor, famous for silent film acting
Charley Chase
Charley Chase

Charley Chase was an United States comedian, screenwriter and film director, best known for his work in Hal Roach short film comedies. He was the older brother of comedian/director James Parrott....
, American silent film comedian and writer
Charles Dance
Charles Dance

Charles Dance, Order of the British Empire is an England actor, screenwriter and Film director. Dance typically plays assertive bureaucrats or villains....
, English actor
Charles Durning
Charles Durning

Charles Durning is an Academy Award- and Emmy Award-nominated United States actor of stage and screen....
, American actor
Charles Gray (actor)
Charles Gray (actor)

Charles Gray was an England actor whose well-known roles include playing the arch-villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld in the James Bond film Diamonds Are Forever and as the narrator of the cult classic The Rocky Horror Picture Show in 1975....
, English actor
Charles Grodin
Charles Grodin

Charles Grodin is an United States actor, comedian, author and former cable talk show host....
, American actor and cable talk show host
Charles Herbert
Charles Herbert

Charles Herbert was an United States film and TV child actor of the 1950s and 1960s.Before reaching his teens, Herbert was renowned by a generation of moviegoers for an on-screen broody, mature style and wit that enabled him to go one-on-one with some of the biggest names in the industry, and his appearances in a handful of films in the sc...
, American child actor of the '50s and '60s
Charlton Heston
Charlton Heston

Charlton Heston was an United States actor of film, theater and television.Heston is known for having played heroic roles, such as Moses in The Ten Commandments , Colonel George Taylor in Planet of the Apes , El Cid in El Cid , and Judah Ben-Hur in Ben-Hur , for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor....
(born John Charles Carter), American actor
Charles Laughton
Charles Laughton

Charles Laughton was an England Academy Award-winning Theatre and film actor, screenwriter, Film producer and one-time Film director.While best known for his historical roles in films, he started his career as a remarkable stage actor....
, English actor
Chas Licciardello
Chas Licciardello

'Chas John Licciardello' is a comedian from Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, best known for being a member of satirical team The Chaser. A former student of Sydney Grammar School and a law graduate of The University of Sydney, Licciardello has appeared as a regular in the two series of CNNNN, as well as on The Chaser's War on Everythi...
, Australian comedian and a member of The Chaser
Charles Stanton Ogle
Charles Stanton Ogle

Charles Stanton Ogle was an United States silent film actor.Born in Steubenville, Ohio, Ogle first performed in theatre, making his first appearance on Broadway theatre in 1905....
, silent film actor
Charles Nelson Reilly
Charles Nelson Reilly

Charles Nelson Reilly was an United States actor, comedian, film director and drama teacher known for his comedic roles in movies, children's television, animated cartoons, and as a panelist on the game show Match Game....
, American comic actor and game show regular
Charles Reisner
Charles Reisner

Charles "Chuck" Reisner was an United States film director and actor of the 1920s and 1930s.He directed over 60 films between 1920 and 1950 and acted in over 20 films between 1916 and 1929....
, American actor and film director
Charles Knapp
Charles Knapp

Charles Knapp was an United States classical scholar, born in City of New York; he graduated from Columbia University in 1887, then received the degree of Ph.D....
, British Actor

Art

Charles Addams
Charles Addams

Charles Samuel Addams was an United States cartoonist known for his particularly black humor and macabre characters. Some of the recurring characters, who became known as The Addams Family, became the basis for two live-action television series, two cartoon series, and many motion pictures....
, American cartoonist known for his particularly black humor and macabre characters
Charles Dellschau
Charles Dellschau

Charles August Albert Dellschau was an American Outsider art of Prussian birth....
, Prussian-American artist of airships
Charles Gough
Charles Gough

Charles Gough may refer to:*Charles Gough , , artist of the romantic period*Charles John Stanley Gough, VC , soldier who won the Victoria Cross during the Sepoy mutiny...
, English artist
Charles R. Knight
Charles R. Knight

Charles Robert Knight was an United States artist best known for his influential paintings of dinosaurs and other prehistory animals. His works have been reproduced in many books and are currently on display at several major museums in the United States....
, wildlife artist, known for prehistoric restorations
Charles Schulz, creator of the comic strip Peanuts

Crime & Law Enforcement

(Charles Arthur) Pretty Boy Floyd
Pretty Boy Floyd

Charles Arthur "Pretty Boy" Floyd was an United States bank robbery and alleged killer, romanticized by the press and by folk singer Woody Guthrie in his song "Pretty Boy Floyd"....
, American bank robber
Charles Gibbs
Charles Gibbs

Charles Gibbs was an American pirate who was one of the last active in the Caribbean during the early-19th century and was among the last persons executed for piracy by the United States....
, 19th Century pirate
Charles Langford
Charles Langford

Charles Douglas Langford was an United States lawyer and politician who served as an Alabama state senator and was a lawyer for Rosa Parks. Langford received a bachelor's degree from Tennessee State University and a law degree from Catholic University....
, American attorney
Charles Manson
Charles Manson

Charles Milles Manson is an United States criminal who led what became known as the Manson Family, a quasi-Commune that arose in California in the late 1960s....
, American cult leader, convicted murder conspirator
Charles Moose
Charles Moose

Charles Alexander Moose is an United States law enforcement official and author. A native of New York City who grew up in North Carolina, he has served as the chief of police for Montgomery County, Maryland, and Portland, Oregon....
, an American law enforcement official and author
Charles Ponzi
Charles Ponzi

Charles Ponzi was one of the greatest swindlers in American history. His aliases include Charles Ponei, Charles P. Bianchi, Carl and Carlo....
, Italian-American con-man, gave name to Ponzi scheme
Charley Ross
Charley Ross

Charley Ross was the primary victim of the first kidnapping for ransom in USA to receive widespread attention from the media. Charley Ross should not be confused with Charles Sherman Ross, a completely unrelated adult kidnapping/murder victim five decades later....
, 1st American kidnapping for ransom victim
Charles Sobhraj
Charles Sobhraj

Hatchand Bhaonani Gurumukh Charles Sobhraj , better known as Charles Sobhraj, is a France serial killer of Indian and Vietnamese origin, who preyed on Western tourists throughout Southeast Asia during the 1970s....
, Indian serial killer
Charles "Tex" Watson, another member of Charles Manson's 'family'

Fictional

Charles in Charge
Charles in Charge

Charles in Charge is an American situation comedy television series which stars Scott Baio as Charles, a 19-year-old Rutgers University student working as a live-in babysitter in New Jersey....
, American TV sitcom
Chuck
ChucK

ChucK is a concurrent, strongly-timed audio programming language for real-time synthesis, composition, and performance, which runs on Mac OS X, Linux, and Microsoft Windows....
, American TV series
Chuck Bass
Chuck Bass

Charles Bartholomew "Chuck" Bass is a fictional character in the best-selling Gossip Girl series of novels, and is portrayed by Ed Westwick in the Gossip Girl ....
, character from Gossip Girl
Charlie Brown
Charlie Brown

Charles "Charlie" Brown is the main character in the comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz.Charlie Brown and his creator have a common connection in that they are both the sons of barbers, but whereas Schulz's work is described as the "most shining example of the American success story", Charlie Brown is an example of "the great Amer...
, character from the Peanuts comic strip
Charles Montgomery Burns, a character on The Simpsons, usually called "Mr. Burns" or "Monty Burns"
Chuck E Cheese, mouse mascot for pizza chain of same name
Chuckie Finster
Chuckie Finster

Charles "Chuckie" Crandall Finster is a fictional character from the Nickelodeon animated television series' Rugrats and All Grown Up!....
, character from the Nickelodeon animated television series Rugrats and All Grown Up!
Charles Foster Kane, character from the Orson Welles' film Citizen Kane
Charles Gunn
Charles Gunn

Charles Gunn is a fictional character created by Joss Whedon for the cult television series, Angel . The character is portrayed by J. August Richards, and was named by Whedon after filmmaker James Gunn and actor Sean Gunn, both of whom had worked with Whedon....
, major character of the TV show Angel
Charlie Horse, one of Shari Lewis' puppets
Charles Logan (24 character)
Charles Logan (24 character)

Charles Logan is a fictional character played by Gregory Itzin in the television series 24 . During the show's fourth season, Logan is the Vice President of the United States of America who is sworn into office as Acting President of the United States after President of the United States John Keeler is critically injured in a terrorist at...
, a fictional character in the TV series 24
Charlie McCarthy, Edgar Bergen's ventriloquist's dummy
Chucky Pancamo
Chucky Pancamo

Charles "Chucky The Enforcer" Pancamo is a fictional character, played by Chuck Zito, on the HBO series Oz ....
, character from Oz played by Chuck Zito
Charles Tucker III
Charles Tucker III

Charles "Trip" Tucker III , played by Connor Trinneer, is a fictional character in the television series Star Trek: Enterprise.Tucker was the chief engineer on the Enterprise , and also briefly served as chief engineer aboard the Columbia ....
, fictional character in the television series Star Trek: Enterprise
Charley Weaver, character of comedian Cliff Arquette
Major Charles Emerson Winchester III, character on M*A*S*H
Charles Xavier
Charles Xavier

Charles Xavier may refer to:*Professor X, aka Professor Charles Xavier, leader of the Marvel Comics superhero team the X-Men*Charles Xavier, fictional character in Vladimir Nabokov's novel Pale Fire...
(Professor 'X'), character from X-Men
Charles, character on the cartoon Duckman
Duckman

Duckman: Private Dick/Family Man is an animated sitcom created by Everett Peck and developed by Peck, Jeff Reno and Ron Osborn, based on characters created by Peck in his Dark Horse Comics comic....
Charles, wrestler in Shakespeare's As You Like It
As You Like It

As You Like It is a pastoral comedy by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in 1599 or early 1600 and first published in the folio of 1623....
Charles "Chachi" Arcola, character on Happy Days
Happy Days

Happy Days is an Television in the United States television sitcom that originally aired from 1974 in television to 1984 in television on American Broadcasting Company....
and Joanie Loves Chachi
Joanie Loves Chachi

Joanie Loves Chachi was an United States television Spinoff of the popular American sitcom Happy Days that was originally broadcast on American Broadcasting Company from March 23, 1982 to September 13, 1983....
Charlie Bucket, title character of the children's novel, Charlie and The Chocolate Factory
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a children's literature by Norway-United Kingdom author Roald Dahl. This story of the adventures of young Charlie Bucket inside the chocolate factory of eccentric candymaker Willy Wonka is often considered one of the most beloved children's stories of the 20th century....
Charles Morse, Anthony Hopkins's character in The Edge (film)
The Edge (film)

The Edge is a 1997 survival and relationship drama film directed by Lee Tamahori starring Anthony Hopkins as billionaire magazine publisher Charles Morse and Alec Baldwin as Bob Green, one of his ambitious employees....
(1997)
Ensign Charles Parker (played by Tim Conway), on McHale's Navy
McHale's Navy

McHale's Navy is an Television of the United States television sitcom series which ran for 138 half-hour episodes from September 11, to August 20, on the American Broadcasting Company network....
Charles Palantine, character from the film Taxi Driver
Taxi Driver

Taxi Driver is a 1976 in film directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Paul Schrader. The movie is set in early post?Vietnam War Era New York City and stars Robert De Niro and features a young Jodie Foster, Albert Brooks, Harvey Keitel, Leonard Harris , Peter Boyle and Cybill Shepherd....
Charles Stewart, character from Mona Lisa Smile
Mona Lisa Smile

Mona Lisa Smile is a 2003 in film United States film that was produced by Revolution Studios and Columbia Pictures, directed by Mike Newell , written by Lawrence Konner and Mark Rosenthal , and starring Julia Roberts, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Kirsten Dunst, and Julia Stiles....

Literature

Charles Bukowski
Charles Bukowski

Henry Charles Bukowski , was a German American poet, novelist and short story. Bukowski's writing was heavily influenced by the geography and atmosphere of his home city of Los Angeles, California, and is marked by an emphasis on the ordinary lives of marginalized poor Americans, the act of writing, alcohol, relationships with women, the dru...
, American poet and novelist
Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens

Charles John Huffam Dickens, Royal Society of Arts , pen-name "Boz", was the most popular English people novelist of the Victorian era, as well as a vigorous Reform movement....
, English novelist
Charles Dodgson (pen-name: Lewis Carroll), English clergyman, writer and mathematician
Charles G. Finney
Charles G. Finney

Charles G. Finney was an American fantasy novelist and newspaperman. His full name was Charles Grandison Finney, evidently in honor of the famous evangelist Charles Grandison Finney....
, novelist, author of The Circus of Dr. Lao
Charles Henri Ford
Charles Henri Ford

Charles Henri Ford was an United States novelist, poet, filmmaker, photographer, and collage artist best known for his editorship of the Surrealist magazine View in New York City, and as the partner of the artist Pavel Tchelitchew....
, American poet, photographer, and writer
Charles Fort
Charles Fort

Charles Hoy Fort was an United States writer and researcher into anomaly .Jerome Clark writes that Fort was "essentially a Satire hugely skeptical of human beings ? especially scientists ? claims to ultimate knowledge"....
, American writer and researcher into anomalous phenomena
Charles Grant
Charles Grant

Charles Grant may refer to:*Charles Grant , American professional American football player*Charles Grant , Australian Senator*Charles Grant , British politician...
, American science-fiction author
Charles Olson
Charles Olson

Charles Olson , was an important 2nd generation United States poetry modernist poetry poet who was a crucial link between earlier figures like Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams and the The New American Poetry 1945-1960, a rubric which includes the New York School, the Black Mountain poets, the Beat generation poets, and the San Francis...
, American poet
Charles Webb
Charles Webb

Charles Webb is the author of several novels, mainly known for his most famous work, The Graduate . The novel was eventually made into an enormously successful The Graduate....
, American author of The Graduate
"Charles (short story)
Charles (short story)

"Charles" is a short story by Shirley Jackson, first published in Mademoiselle in July 1948 in literature. It was later included in her 1949 in literature collection, The Lottery and Other Stories, and her 1953 in literature novel, Life Among the Savages....
", a popular short story by Shirley Jackson

Music

Charles Aznavour
Charles Aznavour

Charles Aznavour, Order of Canada is an Armenian-France singer, songwriter, actor and public activist. Besides being one of France's most popular and enduring singers, he is also one of the most well-known singers in the world....
, French-Armenian ballad singer.
Charles Brown
Charles Brown

Charles Brown is the name of:...
,a blues musician
Chuck Berry
Chuck Berry

Charles Edward Anderson "Chuck" Berry is an American guitarist, singer and songwriter.Chuck Berry is an influential figure and one of the pioneers of rock and roll music....
, American guitarist, singer, and composer
Charlie Daniels
Charlie Daniels

Charlie Daniels is an United States musician famous for his contributions to country music and southern rock music. He is known primarily for his Number One country hit "The Devil Went Down to Georgia", and multiple other songs he has performed and written....
, American country music figure
Charlie Haden
Charlie Haden

Charles Edward Haden is an American jazz musician. He is a double bassist, probably best known for his long association with saxophonist Ornette Coleman....
, American Jazz bassist and composer
Buddy Holly
Buddy Holly

Charles Hardin Holley, known professionally as Buddy Holly was an American singer-songwriter and a pioneer of rock and roll. Although his success lasted only a year and a half before his The Day the Music Died, Holly is described by critic Bruce Eder as "the single most influential creative force in early rock and roll." His works and...
's real name was Charles Hardin Holley
Charles Ives
Charles Ives

Charles Edward Ives was an American musical modernism composer. He is widely regarded as one of the first American composers of international significance....
, American Composer
Chuck Mangione
Chuck Mangione

Charles Frank "Chuck" Mangione is an American flugelhorn player and composer who achieved international success in 1978 with his jazz-pop single, "Feels So Good "....
, American jazz artist
Charles Mingus
Charles Mingus

Charles Mingus was an United States jazz bassist, composer, bandleader, and occasional pianist. He was also known for his activism against racism....
, American Jazz bassist and composer
Charlie Parker
Charlie Parker

Charles Parker, Jr. was an American jazz saxophonist and composer.Parker is widely considered one of the most influential of jazz musicians, along with Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington....
, American Jazz saxophonist
Charles Schuldiner
Chuck Schuldiner

Charles Michael "Chuck" Schuldiner was an American singer, songwriter and guitarist.Schuldiner was the singer, songwriter, and rhythm and lead guitarist of the band Death , which he founded in 1983, initially under the name Mantas....
, American guitarist, singer, and composer
Charles Davis Tillman
Charles Davis Tillman

Charles Davis Tillman ?also known as Charlie D. Tillman, Charles Tillman, Charlie Tillman, and C. D. Tillman?was a popularizer of the gospel song....
(1861-1943), pioneer of southern gospel music
Sean Charles Watkins, one-third of the progressive bluegrass band Nickel Creek
Charlie Watts
Charlie Watts

Charles Robert "Charlie" Watts is the drummer of The Rolling Stones. He is also a jazz bandleader and commercial artist. Watts is sometimes referred to as "The Wembley Whammer" when introduced by Mick Jagger during a concert....
, English drummer for the rock group The Rolling Stones

Political

Charles Francis Adams, Sr.
Charles Francis Adams, Sr.

Charles Francis Adams, Sr. , was an United States lawyer, politician, diplomat and writer. He was the son of President John Quincy Adams and Louisa Adams and the grandson of President John Adams and Abigail Adams....
, American congressman and ambassador, grandson of John Adams
Charles Edward Bennett
Charles Edward Bennett

Charles Edward Bennett was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Florida from 1949 to 1993. He was a United States Democratic Party....
, Democratic U.S. Congressman from Florida
Charles Bent
Charles Bent

Charles Bent was appointed as the first Governor of New Mexico of the newly acquired New Mexico Territory by Governor Stephen Watts Kearny in September, 1846....
, first Governor of New Mexico Territory, assassinated in 1847
Charles Joseph Bonaparte
Charles Joseph Bonaparte

Charles Joseph Bonaparte was a member of the United States United States Cabinet, serving appointments by President Theodore Roosevelt as United States Secretary of the Navy, then as Attorney General of the United States....
, former U. S. Attorney General
Charles Bradlaugh
Charles Bradlaugh

Charles Bradlaugh was a political activist and one of the most famous England atheism of the 19th century. He founded the National Secular Society in 1866....
, British political activist and militant atheist, founder of the National Secular Society
Charles Carroll of Carrollton
Charles Carroll of Carrollton

Charles Carroll of Carrollton, Maryland was a delegate to the Continental Congress and later United States United States Senate for Maryland. He was the only Catholicism signer of the United States Declaration of Independence....
, last living signer of the Declaration of Independence (died 1832)
Charles Colson
Charles Colson

Charles Wendell Colson was the chief counsel for President of the United States Richard Nixon from 1969 to 1973.He was commonly named as one of the Watergate Seven, but was never charged with, or prosecuted for, any crime related to the Watergate break-in or its cover-up, although he did plead guilty to obstruction of justice in another c...
, U.S. President Nixon's Chief Counsel, involved in the Watergate scandal
Charles Magill Conrad
Charles Magill Conrad

Charles Magill Conrad was an United States political figure.He was born in Winchester, Virginia, Virginia, in 1804; moved to Mississippi with his family as a boy and later moved to Louisiana....
, former American Secretary of War
Charles Curtis
Charles Curtis

Charles Curtis was a United States United States House of Representatives, a longtime United States Senate from Kansas elected to Senate Majority Leader, as well as the List of Vice Presidents of the United States Vice President of the United States....
, 31st American Vice President, under Herbert Hoover
Charles G. Dawes
Charles G. Dawes

Charles Gates Dawes was an American banker and politician who was the List of Vice Presidents of the United States Vice President of the United States....
, 30th American Vice President, under Calvin Coolidge
Charles Devens
Charles Devens

Charles Devens was an United States lawyer, jurist and statesman. He also served as a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War....
, former U. S. Attorney General
Charles de Gaulle
Charles de Gaulle

Charles Andr? Joseph Marie de Gaulle , , was a French people general and statesman who led the Free French Forces during World War II. He later founded the French Fifth Republic in 1958 and served as its first President of France from 1959 to 1969....
, French military leader and statesman
James Charles Evers
Charles Evers

James Charles Evers is an important civil rights advocate in the United States. The older brother of civil rights martyr Medgar Evers, Charles Evers is a leading civil rights spokesman within the Republican Party in his native Mississippi....
, civil rights figure, older brother of Medgar Evers
Charles W. Fairbanks
Charles W. Fairbanks

Charles Warren Fairbanks was a United States Senate from Indiana and the List of Vice Presidents of the United States Vice President of the United States....
, 26th American Vice President, under Theodore Roosevelt
Charles A. Ford
Charles A. Ford

Charles Arthur Ford is a United States diplomat, a former United States Ambassador to Honduras, and is currently the Business Engagement Advisor to the Commander, United States Southern Command....
, American diplomat
Charles Gibbs (Alberta politician)
Charles Gibbs (Alberta politician)

Charles Lionel Gibbs was a politician in Alberta, Canada. He served as a municipal councillor in Edmonton from 1924 until his death and, concurrently, a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1926 until his death....
, Canadian politician
Charles Harper
Charles Harper

Charles Harper may refer to:*Charles Harper , pastoralist, newspaper proprieter and politician in colonial Western Australia*Charles Harper , Western Australian businessman and mayor of two local governments...
, Australian politician and newspaperman
Charles Harper (Mayor), Australian politician
Charles Evans Hughes
Charles Evans Hughes

Charles Evans Hughes Sr. was a lawyer and United States Republican Party politician from the State of New York. He served as Governor of New York , United States Secretary of State , Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States and Chief Justice of the United States ....
, former U. S. Secretary of State
Charles Humphreys
Charles Humphreys

Charles Humphreys was an United States miller and statesman from Haverford Township, Pennsylvania. He served as a delegate for Pennsylvania to the Continental Congress from 1774 to 1776....
, Pennsylvania delegate to Continental Congress; refused to sign Declaration of Independence due to his Quaker beliefs
Chuck Larson
Chuck Larson

Charles W. 'Chuck' Larson, Jr. is a politician from Iowa. He was the Iowa Senate from the 19th District from 2003 ? 2007 and is a former chairman of the Republican Party of Iowa....
, current (2008) U.S. ambassador to Latvia
Charles Lee
Charles Lee (Attorney General)

Charles Lee was an United States lawyer from Virginia. He served as United States Attorney General from 1795 until 1801.Charles was born to Henry_Lee_II and Lucy Lee on his father's plantation of Leesylvania in Prince William County, Virginia....
, former U. S. Attorney General
Karolos Papoulias
Karolos Papoulias

Dr. Karolos Papoulias is the current List of Presidents of Greece of the Greece . He is a former government minister and member of parliament....
, President of the Hellenic Republic (Greece)
Charles Stewart Parnell
Charles Stewart Parnell

Charles Stewart Parnell was an Irish people Church of Ireland landowner, Irish Nationalism politician, Irish Land League agitator, Irish Home Rule bills Member of Parliament in the Palace of Westminster of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and founder and leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party....
, Irish political leader.
Charles Pearson
Charles Pearson

Charles Pearson was Solicitor to the City of London and an early promoter of the need for an underground railway in central London.Pearson was born in the City of London, the son of an upholsterer and feather merchant....
, former Solicitor for The City of London, and early railway advocate
Chuck Robb
Chuck Robb

Charles Spittal "Chuck" Robb is an United States politician. He served as governor of Virginia from 1982 to 1986, and as a United States Senate from 1989 until 2001....
, former Governor of Virginia & U.S. Senator
Charlie Rose (congressman)
Charlie Rose (congressman)

Charles Grandison "Charlie" Rose III was a Democratic Party United States Congress who served from 1973 to 1997.File:Rep. Charlie Rose.jpgRose was born in Fayetteville, North Carolina....
, American congressman (D, N.C.)
Charles Scott (governor of Kentucky)
Charles Scott (governor of Kentucky)

Charles Scott was an American soldier and politician who served as Governor of Kentucky from 1808 to 1812. Orphaned at an early age, Scott served under Edward Braddock and George Washington in the French and Indian War....
, also George Washington's Chief of Intelligence during the American Revolution
Charles Harding Smith
Charles Harding Smith

Charles Harding Smith was a Ulster loyalism leader in Northern Ireland and the first effective leader of the Ulster Defence Association ....
, Irish politician
Charles G. Taylor, former president of Liberia
Charles Thomson
Charles Thomson

File:CharlesThomson.jpgCharles Thomson was a Patriot leader in Philadelphia during the American Revolution and the secretary of the Continental Congress throughout its existence....
, secretary of the Continental Congress
Charles Wilson (Texas politician), Texas congressman, subject of 2007 movie Charlie Wilson's War

Religion

Saint Charles Borromeo, saint and cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
Charles Davis Tillman
Charles Davis Tillman

Charles Davis Tillman ?also known as Charlie D. Tillman, Charles Tillman, Charlie Tillman, and C. D. Tillman?was a popularizer of the gospel song....
(1861-1943), pioneer of southern gospel music
Charles Grandison Finney
Charles Grandison Finney

Charles Grandison Finney was a Christian minister who became an important figure in the Second Great Awakening. His influence during this period was enough that he has been called "The Father of Modern Revivalism"....
, American evangelist, was a major leader of the Second Great Awakening in America
Charles W. Penrose
Charles W. Penrose

Charles William Penrose was a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from July 7, 1904....
(1832–1925), leader in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Reformed Baptist preacher
Charles Wesley
Charles Wesley

Charles Wesley was a leader of the Methodist movement, the younger brother of John Wesley. Despite their closeness, Charles and his brother did not always agree on questions relating to their beliefs....
, co-founder of the Methodist Church and writer of many hymns still in use today

Science

Charles Babbage
Charles Babbage

Charles Babbage, Royal Society was an England mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer who originated the concept of a programmable computer....
, English mathematician, philosopher, mechanical engineer and computer scientist
Charles L. Bennett
Charles L. Bennett

Dr. Charles L. Bennett is an American observational astrophysicist and a Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the Johns Hopkins University. He is the Principal Investigator of NASA highly successful Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe....
, American astrophysicist
Charles Best
Charles Best

Charles Herbert Best, Order of Canada was a medical scientist. He was one of the co-discoverer of insulin.Born in West Pembroke, Washington County, Maine, Maine, the son of Luella Fisher Best and Herbert Huestis Best, his parents were Canadians from Nova Scotia....
, one of the two men who discovered insulin
Charles Thomas Bolton
Charles Thomas Bolton

Charles Thomas or Tom Bolton is an American astronomer who was the first astronomer to present irrefutable evidence of the existence of a black hole....
, astronomer who proved the existence of black holes
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin

Charles Robert Darwin Royal Society was an English people natural history who realised and presented compelling evidence that all species of life have evolution over time from common descent, through the process he called natural selection....
, British naturalist
Charles Dawson
Charles Dawson

Charles Dawson was an amateur British archaeologist who is credited and blamed with discoveries that turned out to be imaginative frauds, including that of the Piltdown man , which he presented in 1912....
, English archaeologist, involved in the Piltdown Man hoax
Charles Fleming, New Zealand ornithologist
Charles Thomas Jackson
Charles Thomas Jackson

Charles Thomas Jackson was an USA physician and scientist who was active in medicine, chemistry, mineralogy, and geology....
, American geologist
Charles T. Kowal
Charles T. Kowal

Charles Thomas Kowal is an American astronomer.He discovered two natural satellite of Jupiter : Leda in 1974 and Themisto in 1975, although the latter was lost and not rediscovered until 2000....
, American astronomer, discoverer of Chiron and 2 moons of Jupiter
Charles Lyell
Charles Lyell

Sir Charles Lyell, 1st Baronet, Order of the Thistle, Fellow of the Royal Society was a Scotland lawyer, geologist, and protagonist of Uniformitarianism ....
, Scottish scientist, founder of modern geology
Othniel Charles Marsh
Othniel Charles Marsh

Othniel Charles Marsh was one of the pre-eminent paleontologists of the 19th century, who discovered and named many fossils found in the American West....
, American paleontologist
Charles Wright Mills, American sociologist
Edward Charles Pickering
Edward Charles Pickering

Edward Charles Pickering was an United States astronomer and physicist, brother of William Henry Pickering.Along with Hermann Carl Vogel, Pickering discovered the first spectroscopic binary stars....
, American astronomer
Charles Hazelius Sternberg
Charles Hazelius Sternberg

Charles Hazelius Sternberg , was an United States fossil collector and amateur paleontology. His older brother, Dr. George M. Sternberg was a military surgeon assigned to Fort Harker near Ellsworth, Kansas and brought the rest of Sternberg family to Kansas to live on his ranch about 1868....
, American fossil collector, involved in the Bone Wars
Charles Mortram Sternberg
Charles Mortram Sternberg

Charles Mortram Sternberg was an American-Canadian fossil collector and paleontology, son of Charles Hazelius Sternberg.Late in his career, he collected and described Pachyrhinosaurus, Brachylophosaurus, Parksosaurus and Edmontonia....
, son of above, also a fossil collector & paleontologist
Charles Tilly
Charles Tilly

Charles Tilly was an United States sociology, political science, and historian who has written books on the relationship between politics and society....
, American sociologist
Charles Doolittle Walcott
Charles Doolittle Walcott

Charles Doolittle Walcott was an United States invertebrate paleontologist. He became known for his discovery in 1909 of well-preserved fossils in the Burgess shale formation of British Columbia, Canada....
, American paleontologist and Director of the Smithsonian Institute
Charles Thomson Rees Wilson
Charles Thomson Rees Wilson

Charles Thomson Rees Wilson Order of the Companions of Honour was a British physicist and meteorologist who received the Nobel Prize in physics for his invention of the cloud chamber....
, Scottish physicist

Sports

Charles Barkley
Charles Barkley

Charles Wade Barkley is an American retired professional basketball player and aspiring politician. Nicknamed "Sir Charles" for his aggressive and outspoken demeanor, and "The Round Mound of Rebound," for his unusual build and talent as a player, Barkley established himself as one of the National Basketball Association's most dom...
, former NBA forward and a current NBA color commentator for TNT
Charles Daniels (swimmer)
Charles Daniels (swimmer)

Charles Meldrum Daniels was a freestyle swimming swimmer from the United States, who won a total number of five Olympic golds during his career....
(1885-1973), American freestyle swimmer
Charlie Fleming
Charlie Fleming

Charles "Charlie" Fleming was a Scotland football who played for Blairhall Colliery, East Fife F.C., Sunderland A.F.C. and the Scotland national football team....
; Scottish footballer
Chuck Hayes
Chuck Hayes

Charles Edward Hayes, Jr. is an American professional basketball player currently with the Houston Rockets of the NBA. He usually plays as power forward....
, American basketball player who currently plays for the Houston Rockets
Charles Landon
Charles Landon

Charles Whittington Landon was a first class cricketer who played 6 games for Lancashire CCC in 1874 and 1875 and 9 for Yorkshire County Cricket Club between 1878 and 1882....
, English cricketeer
Charles Lefrançois
Charles Lefrançois

Charles Lefran?ois is a retired high jumper from Canada, who represented his native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Athletics at the 1996 Summer Olympics....
, Canadian high jumper
Charles Madrid "Dr. Charles", one of the founding fathers of sport compact racing
Charlie McCarthy (hurler)
Charlie McCarthy (hurler)

Charlie McCarthy is a retired Irish people sportsperson. He played hurling with his local club St. Finbarr's GAA and with the Cork GAA senior inter-county team from 1965 until 1980....
, Irish hurler
Charles Oakley
Charles Oakley

Charles Oakley is an United States retired professional basketball player who played Power forward in the National Basketball Association as a member of the Chicago Bulls, New York Knicks, Toronto Raptors, Washington Wizards and Houston Rockets....
, American basketball forward
Charles Radbourn
Charles Radbourn

Charles Gardner "Old Hoss" Radbourn was a pitcher in Major League Baseball from 1880 to 1891. He was born in Rochester, New York.As a starting pitcher for the Providence Grays , Atlanta Braves , Boston Reds and Cincinnati Reds , Radbourn compiled a 309-195 career record....
, early Major League Baseball pitcher
Charles Robinson
Charles Robinson

Charles Robinson may refer to:*Charles Robinson , physician and politician in Ontario, Canada*Charles Robinson , American professional wrestling referee...
, professional wrestling referee
Charles Fernando Basílio da Silva
Charles Fernando Basílio da Silva

Charles Fernando Bas?lio da Silva or simply Charles , is a Brazilian Football positions#Offensive Midfielder. He currently plays for Club Bol?var ....
, a Brazilian midfielder
Charles Sifford, first African American golfer to play in a PGA tour

Other people

Charles McLean Andrews
Charles McLean Andrews

Charles McLean Andrews was one of the most distinguished United States historians of his time and widely recognized as a leading authority on American colonial history....
, American historian and professor
Chuck Barris
Chuck Barris

Charles Hirsch "Chuck" Barris is an American game show producer and presenter who was responsible for many of the best known game shows of the 1960s and 1970s....
, American game show producer
Charles Black
Charles Black

Charles L. Black, Jr. was a noted scholar of constitutional law, which he taught as professor of law from 1947 to 1999. He is best known for his role in the historic Brown v....
, American constitutional law professor and jazz fan
Charles Bolton, American shuttle astronaut
Charles Conrad
Charles Conrad

Charles Conrad may refer to:*Pete Conrad , real name Charles Conrad, Jr., American astronaut*Charles Magill Conrad , 22nd United States Secretary of War...
, American astronaut, 3rd man to walk on the moon
Charles DeRudio
Charles DeRudio

Charles Camillo DeRudio was an Italian people aristocrat, attempted assassin, and later a career U.S. Army officer who fought in the 7th U.S. Cavalry at the Battle of the Little Bighorn....
, Italian-American soldier of fortune, survivor of The Battle of the Little Big Horn
Charles Harding Firth
Charles Harding Firth

Sir Charles Harding Firth was a United Kingdom historian.Born in Sheffield, he was educated at Clifton College and at Balliol College, Oxford....
, British historian
Charles Floyd (explorer)
Charles Floyd (explorer)

Charles Floyd was a United States explorer, a non-commissioned officer in the U.S. Army, and quartermaster in the Lewis and Clark Expedition....
, only casualty of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
Charles Furnas
Charles Furnas

Charles *Charley* W. Furnas was born in West Milton, Ohio, Miami County, Ohio, Ohio, the second son of Tanzy and Elizabeth Furnas. He is chiefly remembered for his work as a mechanic in the Wright Brothers and being the world's first aeroplane passenger....
, world's first airplane passenger
Charles Gibson
Charles Gibson

Charles "Charlie" deWolf Gibson is the anchor of ABC World News with Charles Gibson, the network's flagship evening newscast.He became anchor on May 29, 2006, when the program was known as ABC World News Tonight....
, American television journalist
Chuck Jones
Chuck Jones

Charles Martin "Chuck" Jones was an American animator, cartoon artist, screenwriter, film producer, and film director of animation films, most memorably of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts for the Warner Bros....
, American animator
Charles Keating
Charles Keating

Charles Humphrey Keating Jr. is an United States athlete, lawyer, real estate developer, banker, and financier, most known for his role in the savings and loan scandal of the late 1980s....
, American financier, instigator of the 'Keating 5 scandal'
Charles Kuralt
Charles Kuralt

Charles Kuralt was an award-winning United States journalist. He was most widely known for his long career with CBS, first for his "On the Road" segments on CBS Evening News, and later as the first anchor of CBS News Sunday Morning, a position he held for fifteen years....
, American television journalist
Charles Larson (producer), television producer and writer
Charles Lindbergh
Charles Lindbergh

Charles Augustus Lindbergh was an United States aviator, author, inventor and explorer.On May 20?21, 1927, Lindbergh emerged instantaneously from virtual obscurity to world fame as the result of his Orteig Prize-winning solo non-stop flight from Roosevelt Field, Long Island in New York City to Paris - Le Bourget Airport in Paris in the s...
, first to fly solo non-stop across the Atlantic Ocean
Karolos Koun
Karolos Koun

Karolos Koun was a Greece theater director, widely known for his lively staging of Ancient Greece plays. He had been praised all over Europe for his bawdy, colorful stagings of the 5th century BC political comedies of Aristophanes....
, Greek stage director
"Lonesome" Charley Reynolds
Charley Reynolds

"Lonesome" Charley Reynolds was a scout in the U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment who was killed in the Battle of the Little Bighorn in the Montana Territory....
, U. S. Western scout
Charlie Rose
Charlie Rose

Charlie Rose is an American television interviewer and journalist.Since 1991, he has hosted Butterfield, an interview Television show produced by the New York metropolitan area public broadcasting#Television television station WNET....
, American PBS TV interview show host
Charlie Smith (centenarian)
Charlie Smith (centenarian)

Charlie Smith was a centenarian noted for claiming to be the oldest person in the United States, although his claim has since been debunked. Smith stated that he had been born in Liberia in 1842 and came to the United States as a slavery....
(died 1979), who claimed to be the oldest person in the United States
Charles M. Schwab
Charles M. Schwab

Charles Michael Schwab was an United States steel magnate. Under his leadership, the Bethlehem Steel Corporation became the second largest steel maker in the United States, and one of the most important heavy manufacturers in the world....
, founder of Bethlehem Steel
Charles R. Schwab
Charles R. Schwab

Charles Robert Schwab, Jr. is the founder and chief executive officer of the Charles Schwab Corporation.On the 2008 Forbes 400 list, Schwab is listed as the 55th richest person in the United States with a fortune of approximately United States dollar6.2 billion....
, stock-broker & founder of eponymous company
Charles Upham
Charles Upham

Captain Charles Hazlitt Upham Victoria Cross & Medal bar was a New Zealand soldier who earned the Victoria Cross twice during the Second World War: in Crete in May 1941, and at Ruweisat Ridge, Egypt, in July 1942....
, VC and Bar. Most decorated Commonwealth serviceman of WW2
Charles Varnum
Charles Varnum

Charles Albert Varnum was a career United States Army officer. He was most noted as the commander of the scouts for George Armstrong Custer in the Battle of the Little Bighorn during the Black Hills War, as well as being awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions in a conflict following the Battle of Wounded Knee....
, US Army, survivor of the Battle of the Little Big Horn
Charles Webb (architect)
Charles Webb (architect)

Charles Webb He is probably best noted for his designs of the iconic Hotel Windsor , Royal Arcade, South Melbourne Town Hall and Tasma Terrace, all listed on the Victorian Heritage Register....
, Australian architect
Charles Winters
Charles Winters

Charles "Charlie" Thompson Winters was an United States businessman and Zionist who volunteered during the 1948 Arab?Israeli War. He was imprisoned for 18 months for helping smuggle three B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bombers to Israel in the late 1940s, but Pardon#United States posthumously by President George W....
, American jailed for smuggling B-17 bombers to Israel
Chuck Yeager
Chuck Yeager

Charles Elwood "Chuck" Yeager is a former Brigadier general in the United States Air Force and noted test pilot. In 1947, he became the first pilot to travel sound barrier....
, American test pilot. First man to break the sound barrier

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Charles Bridge
Charles Bridge

Charles Bridge is a famous historical bridge that crosses the Vltava river in Prague, Czech Republic. Absolute Location: . Its construction started in 1357 under the auspices of King Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor, and finished in the beginning of 15th century....
in the Czech Republic
Charles City
Charles City

Charles City is the name of two places in the United States of America:*Charles City, Iowa*Charles City County, Virginia...
, several places of this name
Charles Island
Charles Island

Charles Island is a 14 acre island located roughly 0.5 mile off the coast of Milford, Connecticut, in Long Island Sound centered at .Charles Island is accessible from shore via a tombolo , which is exposed at low tide....
, Connecticut
Charles River
Charles River

The Charles River is a river in Massachusetts, United States. It travels through 22 cities and towns in eastern Massachusetts, from Hopkinton, Massachusetts to Boston, Massachusetts on the Atlantic Ocean....
in Boston, Massachusetts
Charles, Providence, Rhode Island
Charles, Providence, Rhode Island

Charles is a neighborhood in northern Providence, Rhode Island. Along with Wanskuck, Providence, Rhode Island, it comprises what is sometimes referred to as the North End....
, a neighborhood in Providence, Rhode Island
Charles Town, West Virginia
Charles Town, West Virginia

Charles Town is a city in Jefferson County, West Virginia, West Virginia USA. The population was 2,907 at the 2000 census. Due to its similar name, travelers have sometimes confused this city with the state's capital, Charleston, West Virginia....
Charlestown, Boston, Massachusetts, section of Boston, Massachusetts
Charles University in Prague
Charles University in Prague

Charles University in Prague is the oldest and largest university in the Czech Republic. Being founded in 1347, it was the first one in the Holy Roman Empire and in Central Europe in general....
Charleston
Charleston

Charleston may refer to:...
, several places of this name, including:

Charleston, South Carolina
Charleston, South Carolina

Charleston is a city in Charleston County, South Carolina in the U.S. state of South Carolina. It is the largest city and county seat of Charleston County....
Charleston, West Virginia
Charleston, West Virginia

Charleston is the Capital and largest city of the U.S. state of West Virginia. It is located at the Confluence of the Elk River and Kanawha River Rivers in Kanawha County, West Virginia....
Charlestown, Massachusetts
Charlestown, Massachusetts

Charlestown is a part of the city of Boston, Massachusetts, Massachusetts located on a peninsula north of Boston proper. Charlestown was originally a separate town and the first capital of the Massachusetts Bay Colony; it became a city in 1847 and was annexed by Boston on January 5, 1874....

Charles (crater), a lunar crater

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HMS Charles
HMS Charles

HMS Charles has been the name of more than one ship of the English or British Royal Navy:*HMS Charles , a 16-gun pinnace launched in 1586 and sold in 1616...
, the name of various ships of the British Royal Navy
USS Charles (ID-1298)
USS Charles (ID-1298)

Note: This ship should be confused with patrol vessel USS Harvard , which was in commission at the same time.USS Charles , briefly USS Harvard in 1918 and 1920, was a transport that served in the United States Navy from 1918 to 1920....
, a United States Navy troop transport in commission from 1918 to 1920

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Hurricane Charley (disambiguation)
Hurricane Charley (disambiguation)

The name Charley or Charlie was used for nine tropical cyclones and one subtropical cyclone in the Atlantic Ocean.The 2004 storm caused the most destruction, and Charley was retired for use as the name of the storm after the 2004 hurricane season....
, for storms of that name (either spelling). The name was retired after the major storm of 2004.

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