Charles Wilson
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Government and Politics
- Charles Wilson (Texas politician) (1933–2010), U.S. Congressman from Texas, 1973–1997; previously State Representative then State Senator
- Charlie Wilson's WarCharlie Wilson's WarCharlie Wilson's War is a 2007 American biographical comedy drama film recounting the true story of U.S. Congressman Charlie Wilson who partnered with "bare knuckle attitude" CIA operative Gust Avrakotos to launch Operation Cyclone, a program to organize and support the Afghan mujahideen in their...
, a 2007 book and film about the aforementioned politician's career
- Charlie Wilson's War
- Charlie Wilson (Ohio politician)Charlie Wilson (Ohio politician)Charles A. "Charlie" Wilson is the former U.S. Representative for . He is a member of the Democratic Party. He previously served in the Ohio State Senate and the Ohio House of Representatives...
(born 1943), former U.S. Congressman 2007–2010, previously State Representative then State Senator - Charles H. WilsonCharles H. WilsonCharles Herbert Wilson was a California Democratic politician from the Los Angeles area. He served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1963 to 1981.-Early life:...
(1917–1984), U.S. Congressman from California, 1963–1981; State Assemblyman, 1954–1962 - Charles Erwin WilsonCharles Erwin WilsonCharles Erwin Wilson , American businessman and politician, was United States Secretary of Defense from 1953 to 1957 under President Eisenhower. Known as "Engine Charlie", he previously worked as CEO for General Motors. In the wake of the Korean War, he cut the defense budget significantly.-Early...
(1890–1961), United States Secretary of Defense (1953–1957) and Head of General Motors (also known as "Engine Charlie") - Charles E. Wilson (executive)Charles E. Wilson (executive)Charles Edward Wilson was a CEO of General Electric. He left school at age 12 to work as a stock boy at Sprague Electrical Works, which was acquired by General Electric, taking night classes and working up to president in 1939.During World War II he served on the War Production Board as executive...
, CEO of GE and member of the Truman Administration (also known as "Electric Charlie") - Charles Wilson (Canadian politician)Charles Wilson (Canadian politician)Charles Wilson was a Canadian businessman and politician.-Background:Wilson was born in Coteau-du-Lac, Quebec, son of a Scottish immigrant and a French-Canadian mother....
(1808–1877), member of the Legislative Council of Quebec in Lower Canada, Canadian Senator - Charles Wilson (British Columbia politician)Charles Wilson (British Columbia politician)Charles Wilson was an English-born lawyer and political figure in British Columbia. He represented Cariboo from 1882 to 1886 as an Independent member and Vancouver City from 1903 to 1906 as a Conservative in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia.He was born in London and was educated in...
, 19th-century member of the British Columbia Legislative Assembly, first leader of the British Columbia Conservative PartyBritish Columbia Conservative PartyThe British Columbia Conservative Party is a political party in British Columbia, Canada. First elected as the government in 1903, the party went into decline after 1933... - Charles Wilson (New Zealand)Charles Wilson (New Zealand)Charles Wilson was a New Zealand politician of the Liberal Party.Thomas Wilford of the Liberal Party won the Wellington Suburbs seat in the 1896 election, but he was declared guilty of corrupt practices after an electoral petition and the election was declared void.At the...
(1857–1932), New Zealand politician - Charles Wilson, 1st Baron NunburnholmeCharles Wilson, 1st Baron NunburnholmeCharles Henry Wilson, 1st Baron Nunburnholme , was a prominent English shipowner who became head of the Thomas Wilson Sons & Co. shipping business.- Life :...
(1833–1907), English shipowner, Liberal Member of Parliament (MP) - Charles Wilson, 2nd Baron NunburnholmeCharles Wilson, 2nd Baron NunburnholmeCharles Henry Wellesley Wilson, 2nd Baron Nunburnholme, CB, DSO, , was a British peer, and one of the heirs to the Thomas Wilson Sons & Co., a Hull-based shipping company that built a near-monopoly over affordable travel packages from Scandinavia and the Baltic.He was the eldest son of Charles...
(1875–1924), son of the 1st Baron, Liberal MP for Hull West, 1906–1907 - Sir Charles Henry Wilson (Conservative politician)Charles Henry Wilson (Conservative politician)Charles Henry Wilson was a British politician. He was the Conservative Member of Parliament for Leeds Central, 26 July 1923–30 May 1929.-References:...
(1859–1930), MP for Leeds Central - Charles WilsonnCharles WilsonnCharles Edward Wilsonn was an English stationer and bookbinder and Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1814 to 1818....
(1752–1829), Member of Parliament for Bewdley, 1814–1818 - Charles R. Wilson (judge) (born 1954), U.S. Court of Appeals Judge
- Charles Rivers WilsonCharles Rivers WilsonSir Charles Rivers Wilson was a British civil servant and financier.Wilson was born in London on 19 February 1831. He studied at Eton College and Balliol College, Oxford. He entered the Treasury in 1856, and was private secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1868 to 1873...
(1831–1916), British civil servant and financier - Charles Kendall WilsonCharles Kendall WilsonCharles Kendall Wilson was a Reform Party Member of Parliament in New Zealand.He was elected to the Taumarunui electorate in the 1911 general election, but was defeated in 1914....
(1862–1934), Reform Party Member of Parliament in New Zealand - Charles-Avila WilsonCharles-Avila WilsonCharles-Avila Wilson was a Canadian lawyer, politician, and judge.Born in Île Bizard, Quebec, Wilson was a lawyer by profession. He was elected to the Canadian House of Commons for the electoral district of Laval in the 1908 federal election. A Liberal, he was re-elected in the 1911 federal election...
(1869–1936), Canadian lawyer, politician, and judge - Charles Burnett Wilson (1850–1926), Marshal of the Kingdom of Hawaii
Music
- Charles Wilson (composer)Charles Wilson (composer)Charles Mills Wilson is a Canadian composer, choral conductor, and music educator.-Biography:Wilson began studying piano at age six with Wilfred Powell and later studied organ with Charles Peaker. He studied composition with Godfrey Ridout at the University of Toronto, earning a Bachelors of Music...
(born 1931), Canadian composer and choral conductor - Charlie Wilson (singer) (born 1953), American R&B singer-songwriter-producer and lead singer of The Gap Band (also known as "Uncle Charlie")
- Chuck Wilson (jazz musician) (born 1948), American jazz musician
- Chuck Wilson (musician and music educator) (born 1969), American musician (jazz and classical), successful music educator in Texas
Sports
- Charles Plumpton WilsonCharles Plumpton WilsonCharles Plumpton Wilson was an English amateur footballer who played at wing-half. He made two appearances for England in 1884...
(1859–1938), former England footballer - Charles Wilson (cricketer)Charles Wilson (cricketer)Charles Geldart 'Gillie' Wilson was an Australian first-class cricketer who represented Victoria and played with Otago and Wellington in New Zealand...
(1869–1952), Australian cricketer who played mainly in New Zealand - Charles Wilson (American football) (born 1968), former NFL wide receiver
- Charlie Wilson (baseball)Charlie Wilson (baseball)Charles Woodrow Wilson was an infielder in Major League Baseball. He played for the Boston Braves and St. Louis Cardinals.-External links:...
(1905–1970), former St. Louis Cardinals baseball player - Charles Wilson (fencer)Charles Wilson (fencer)Charles Wilson was a British Olympic fencer. He competed in the individual and team sabre events at the 1908 Summer Olympics.-References:...
(1865–1950), British Olympic fencer - Charlie Wilson (footballer born 1877), played for Liverpool and Stockport County
- Charlie Wilson (footballer born 1895)Charlie Wilson (footballer born 1895)Charles "Charlie" Wilson born 30 March 1895 in Atherstone, Warwickshire) was a former professional footballer, who played in the Football League for Tottenham Hotspur, Huddersfield Town and Stoke City.-Career:...
, played for Tottenham Hotspur, Huddersfield Town and Stoke City - Charlie Wilson (footballer born 1905)Charlie Wilson (footballer born 1905)Charles "Charlie" Wilson was an English footballer who played as an inside forward.- Biography :Wilson was born in Heeley, Sheffield. He joined West Bromwich Albion as an amateur in December 1920 and turned professional two years later. In February 1928 he moved to Sheffield Wednesday for a £3,000...
(1905–1985), played for West Bromwich Albion, Sheffield Wednesday and several other clubs
Science and engineering
- Charles Wilson, 1st Baron Moran (1882–1977), British physician
- Charles Coker Wilson, architect who worked on the exterior of the South Carolina State HouseSouth Carolina State HouseThe South Carolina State House is the building housing the government of the U.S. state of South Carolina. The building houses the South Carolina General Assembly and the offices of the Governor and Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina. Until 1971, it also housed the Supreme Court...
- Charles Thomson Rees WilsonCharles Thomson Rees WilsonCharles Thomson Rees Wilson, CH, FRS was a Scottish physicist and meteorologist who received the Nobel Prize in physics for his invention of the cloud chamber.- Biography:...
(1869–1959), Scottish physicist and Nobel Prize winner
Others
- Charles Wilson (architect)Charles Wilson (architect)Charles Wilson was a Scottish architect from Glasgow.-Biography:Charles Wilson was the younger son of a Glasgow-based master mason and builder. After working for his father, he was articled to the architect David Hamilton in 1827...
(1810–1861), Scottish architect - Charles Wilson (journalist)Charles Wilson (journalist)Charles Wilson is a Scottish journalist and newspaper executive.Charlie Wilson was Managing Director of Mirror Group plc from 1992 to 1998, having been Editorial Director of Mirror Group Newspapers from 1991 to 1992...
, Scottish-born editor of The Times, 1985–1990 and The Independent, 1995–1996 - Charles Wilson (sailor)Charles Wilson (sailor)Charles Wilson was a sailor in the United States Navy during the American Civil War.-Biography:Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Wilson enlisted on October 15, 1861, at Chicago, Illinois. Assigned to the gunboat USS Carondelet—commanded by Commander Henry A...
(born 1836), U.S. Navy sailor, American Civil War - Charles Frederick (Charlie) Wilson (Train Robber), member of the gang that executed the 1963 Great Train Robbery
- Charles Edward WilsonCharles Edward WilsonCharles Edward Wilson was an England rugby international and British Army officer who was killed during the First World War....
(1871–1914), British military officer killed in the First World War - Charles William WilsonCharles William WilsonSir Charles William Wilson K.C.B., K.C.M.G., F.R.S., D.C.L., LL.D., M.E. was a British military officer and geographer.-Biography:...
(1836–1905), British geographer and military officer, for whom Jerusalem's Wilson's ArchWilson's Arch (Jerusalem)Wilson's Arch is the modern name for the ancient stone arch whose top is still visible today, where it is supported against the Northeast corner of Jerusalem's Western Wall, so that it appears on the left to visitors facing the Wall...
is named - Charles Banks WilsonCharles Banks WilsonCharles Banks Wilson is an American artist. Wilson was born in Arkansas in 1918, his family eventually moving to Miami, Oklahoma, where he spent his childhood...
(born 1918), American artist - Charles Wilson (political scientist)Charles Wilson (political scientist)Sir Charles Haynes Wilson Kt was a Scottish political scientist and university administrator. As Principal of University College Leicester, he led the institution to university status in 1957 and served as the first Vice-Chancellor of the new University of Leicester, before becoming Principal of...
(1909–2002), Scottish political scientist and university administrator - Chuck Wilson (multimedia executive)Chuck Wilson (multimedia executive)Chuck Wilson is a multimedia executive. He is currently the CEO of Triumph Media Holdings, a multimedia company formed to explore media opportunities that target African Americans. Wilson is also the founder of Babygrande Records. He has served as the executive producer on over 100 titles...
(born 1968), Multimedia Executive - Chuck Wilson (radio host), regular host of GameNightGameNightGameNight is a weekend sports talk radio show hosted by John Seibel. GameNight is regarded as being the flagship series of ESPN Radio, being the network's first longform program and airing every night since the network's 1992 debut until July 21, 2008. On that day the weeknight run was replaced by...
on ESPN RadioESPN RadioESPN Radio is an American sports radio network. It was launched on January 1, 1992 under the original banner of "SportsRadio ESPN." ESPN Radio is located at ESPN headquarters in Bristol, Connecticut...