Charles is a boy's name of German origin. There are many famous people named Charles: Charles Aznavour, Armenian-French singer Charles Babbage, English...

Charles II (29 May 1630 – 6 February 1685) was king of England, Ireland, and Scotland from 1649 to 1685. His father was Charles I, who was executed after...

Charles I (19 November 1600 – 30 January 1649), was the king of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution. He was a son of...

Charles Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and a social critic who is regarded as one of the great English writers of the 19th...

Charles Robert Darwin (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist. He is famous for his work on the theory of evolution. Darwin's book...

Charles Hard Townes (July 28, 1915 – January 27, 2015) was an American Nobel Prize-winning physicist and educator. Townes is known for his work on the...

Charles V (24 February 1500 – 21 September 1558) was Holy Roman Emperor from 1519, King of Castile and Aragon from 1516, and Lord of the Low Countries...

Charles X (9 October 1757 – 6 November 1836) was King of France and Navarre from 1824 to 1830. He was the grandson of Louis XV and younger brother of...

Charles VIII of France (30 June 1470 — 7 April 1498) was the King of France from 1483 to 1498. He was the son of Louis XI and Charlotte of Savoy. He was...

Charles University is a university in Prague. It is one of the oldest universities in the world. King Charles IV signed an official letter to start the...

Charles the Bald (13 June 823 - 6 October 877) was King Charles II of France (843-877). He was also the Holy Roman Emperor (875-877) and King of West...

Charles Haddon (C.H.) Spurgeon (19 June 1834 – 31 January 1892) was a English Baptist preacher. People still know him as the "Prince of Preachers". In...

Charles III (17 September 879 – 7 October 929), called the Simple or the Straightforward (from the Latin Carolus Simplex), was the King of the Franks...

St. Charles (French: Saint-Charles; Spanish: "San Carlos") is a city in St. Charles County, Missouri. In 2020 there were 70,493 people living in the city...

St. Charles Parish (French: Paroisse de Saint-Charles) is a parish in the U.S. state of Louisiana. As of the 2020 census, the population was 52,549.The...

Charles John Pedersen (October 3, 1904 – October 26, 1989) was an American chemist. He received the 1987 Nobel Prize in Chemistry together with Donald...

Charles III (20 January 1716 – 14 December 1788) was a king of Spain and the oldest son of Philip V and Elisabeth Farnese. He ruled Spain from 1759 until...

James Charles Dickinson (born May 23, 1999) is an American Internet personality, beauty and make-up artist. In 2016, he became the first “ambassador”...

Charles the Fat (13 June 839 – 13 January 888) was the King of Alemannia from 876, King of Italy from 879, Holy Roman Emperor (as Charles III) from 881...

Charles VII of France (22 February 1403 – 22 July 1461), was King of France from 1422 to his death. He was not crowned as king until 1429 because England...

Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport is a large airport in France. It is in the outskirts of Paris. In 2010, it handled 58,164,612 passengers. As of 12 February...

Charles III (Charles Philip Arthur George; born 14 November 1948) is currently King of the United Kingdom and of 14 other countries and head of the Commonwealth...

Charles McArthur Ghankay Taylor (born 28 January 1948) is a Liberian politician and convicted war criminal. He was the 22nd President of Liberia from...

St. Charles County is a county in Missouri, United States. The county seat is St. Charles. In 2020, 405,262 people lived there, making it the third-most...

Pierre-Luc-Charles Cicéri (17 August 1782—22 August 1868) was a 19th century French set designer. He was born in Saint-Cloud, Hauts-de-Seine, and died...

Charles XIII & II also Carl, Swedish: Karl XIII (born 7 October 1748 in Stockholm, Sweden, dead 5 February 1818) was a Swedish monarch. He was the King...

Charles Shane Robinson (born July 2, 1964) is an American professional wrestling referee. He is currently working with the WWE where he has been working...

Charles Wade Barkley (born February 20, 1963) is a former American professional basketball player. Nicknamed '"Sir Charles" for his aggressive and outspoken...

Charles Frank Bolden, Jr. (born August 19, 1946) was the 12th Administrator of NASA from 2009 through 2017. He is a retired United States Marine Corps...

Charles Gates Dawes (August 27, 1865 – April 23, 1951) was an American banker and politician who was the 30th vice president of the United States from...

Lake Charles is the most populous city in the southwest Louisiana. It is the second most populous city in the Acadiana (after Lafayette). It is the fifth...

Charles XV & IV also Carl (Carl Ludvig Eugen); Swedish and Norwegian: Karl, born 3 May 1826, dead 18 September 1872, was a Swedish monarch. He was the...

Charles Sumner (January 6, 1811 – March 11, 1874) was an American politician, and lawyer. He was senator from Massachusetts from April 24, 1851 until...

Charles Emmanuel IV (Carlo Emanuele Ferdinando Maria; 24 May 1751 – 6 October 1819) was King of Sardinia from 1796 to 1802. He abdicated in favour of...

Charles Milles Manson (né Maddox; November 12, 1934 – November 19, 2017) was an American criminal and leader of a California cult which murdered several...

Charles Lane (born Charles Gerstle Levison; January 26, 1905 – July 9, 2007) was an American character actor. His career spanned 64 years. Lane retired...

Charles Monroe Schulz (November 26, 1922 – February 12, 2000) was an American cartoonist, whose comic strip Peanuts proved one of the most popular and...

Charles XIV & III John, also Carl John, Swedish and Norwegian: Carl Johan (26 January 1763 – 8 March 1844) was a Swedish monarch. He was the King of Sweden...

Charles Nelson Perkins, AO, (16 June 1936 – 19 October 2000) was an Australian activist and Aboriginal leader. He was also a professional football player...

Charles-Louis-Étienne Nuitter (24 April 1828 - 23 February 1899) was a French librettist, translator, and librarian. He is best remembered for having...

Charles Julius Guiteau (/ɡɪˈtoʊ/ ghih-TOH; September 8, 1841 – June 30, 1882) was an American writer and lawyer. He is best known as the person who assassinated...

Charles Jules Henri Nicolle (September 21, 1866 - February 28, 1936) was a French doctor and microbiologist. He won the 1928 Nobel Prize in Physiology...

Charles Emmanuel III (27 April 1701 – 20 February 1773) was the Duke of Savoy and King of Sardinia from 1730 until his death. He was born a Prince of...

Charles William Duncan Jr. (September 9, 1926 – October 18, 2022) is an American entrepreneur, administrator, and statesman. Duncan served as the U.S...

Charles Brenton Huggins (September 22, 1901 – January 12, 1997) was a Canadian-born American physician, physiologist, and cancer researcher at the University...

Charles de Ganahl Koch (English pronunciation: /ˈkoʊk/, "KOKE"; born November 1, 1935) is an American businessman. Koch was born in Wichita, Kansas. His...

St. Charles is a city in Illinois in the United States. In the 2020 census, St. Charles had a population of 33,081. It is located on the Fox River between...

Sir Charles Tupper, 1st Baronet, GCMG, CB, PC (July 2, 1821 – October 30, 1915) was a Canadian father of Confederation who served as the seventh Prime...

Charles I of Austria or Karl I of Austria (German: Karl Franz Josef Ludwig Hubert Georg Otto Maria, Hungarian: Karoly Ferenz Jozsef Lajos Hubert Gyorgy...

Charles Gray (born Donald Marshall Gray; 28 August 1928 – 7 March 2000) was an English actor. He was well known for roles such as Ernst Stavro Blofeld...

The Cavalier King Charles Spaniel (CKCS) is a small breed of dog of the spaniel type. Unlike their larger spaniel cousins, they are not now used for hunting...

Ray Charles (born Ray Charles Robinson) (September 23, 1930 – June 10, 2004) was an American musician. Charles was born in Albany, Georgia and was raised...

Charles Edward "Buddy" Rogers (August 13, 1904 – April 21, 1999) was an American actor and jazz musician. He was popular during the 1920s and 1930s. He...

Charles Wesley "Bobo" Shaw (September 15, 1947 – January 16, 2017) was an American jazz drummer. He worked in the free jazz genre. He was best known as...

Charles Yves Jean Ghislaine Michel (born December 21, 1975) is a Belgian lawyer and politician of the Mouvement réformateur. He was the President of the...

Charles Bernard "Charlie" Rangel (/ˈræŋɡəl/; June 11, 1930 – May 26, 2025) was an American politician. He served as the U.S. Representative for New York's...

Charles Bronson (born Charles Dennis Buchinsky; November 3, 1921 – August 30, 2003) was an American actor. He was a Purple Heart recipient. He was born...

Charles Scott Sherrington (27 November 1857 – 4 March 1952) was an English doctor. He won the 1932 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, with Edgar Douglas...

The Honorable Sir Charles Kuen Kao, GBM, KBE, FRS, FREng (November 4, 1933 – September 23, 2018) was a Chinese-born American and British electrical engineer...

Charles Boardman Hawes (January 24, 1889 – July 16, 1923) was an American writer. He wrote stories about the sea. Some of the stories were true and some...

Charles V (21 January 1338 — 16 September 1380), called the Wise (French: le Sage) was the King of France from 1364 until his death in 1380. He was a...

Charles Robert Richet (August 26, 1850 - December 4, 1935) was a French physiologist. He won the 1913 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for his work...

Charles-François Gounod (17 June 1818 – 17 October 1893) was a French composer. Gounod (pronounce: “Goo – no”) wrote many different kinds of pieces, but...

Charles Augustus Lindbergh (February 4, 1902 – August 26, 1974), known as "Lucky Lindy" and "The Lone Eagle", was a pioneering United States airplane...

Charles Emmanuel II (20 June 1634 – 12 June 1675) was the Duke of Savoy from 1638 to 1675 and under regency of his mother Christine Marie of France until...

Charles IX of France (June 27, 1550 – May 30, 1574) was a King of France and a member of the House of Valois. Charles was born in Saint-Germain-en-Laye...

Charles William Foster, Jr. (April 12, 1828 – January 9, 1904) was a U.S. Republican politician from Ohio. Foster was the 35th Governor of Ohio, and later...

Charles Bridge is the oldest stone bridge in Prague. It had been constructed from 1357 to 1400. Until 1841, this was the only bridge to connect old street...

Charles IV (18/19 June 1294 – 1 February 1328), was the King of France and Navarre (as Charles I) and Count of Champagne from 1322 to his death. Charles...

Charles VI (1 October 1685 – 20 October 1740) was Holy Roman Emperor from 12 October 1711 to 20 October 1740. He was emperor after his elder brother,...

Charles Evans Hughes, Sr. (April 11, 1862 – August 27, 1948) was an American lawyer and Republican Party politician from New York. Hughes served as the...

Charles Edward Durning (February 28, 1923 - December 24, 2012) was an American actor. Durning was born in Highland Falls, New York on February 28, 1923...

Charles "Charlie, Moose" Cahill (January 4, 1904 – June 5, 1954) was a Canadian ice hockey right winger. He was born in Summerside, Prince Edward Island...

St. Charles is a city in Idaho in the United States. This short article about a place or feature in the United States can be made longer. You can help...

Charles Perrault (12 January 1628 – 16 May 1703) was a French author who started the literary genre of fairy tales. His best known tales include the following:...

Saint-Charles-de-Percy is a former commune. It is found in the Normandy region in the Calvados department in the northwest of France. On 1 January 2016...

Charles-Augustin de Coulomb (14 June 1736-23 August 1806) was a French physicist, known for his research on the properties of electricity. He also did...

Charles Grey, 1st Earl Grey, later Baron Grey De Howick (1730-1795) was a British fighter. He fought in the American Revolutionary War. Grey was born...

Charles Hammerman Rivkin (born April 6, 1962) is an American media executive and politician. He is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Motion...

Charles James Haughey (16 September 1925 – 13 June 2006) was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician. He was Taoiseach on three different occasions: 1979 to 1981...

Charles Frederick Worth (Bourne, Lincolnshire, 13 October 1825 – Paris, 10 March 1895), widely considered the Father of Haute Couture, was an English...

Charles Edward Ives (October 30, 1874 – May 19, 1954) was an American composer. He experimented with new ways of composing which many people did not understand...

Charles County is located in the southern central portion of the U.S. state of Maryland. As of the 2020 census, the population was 166,617. The county...

Charles Louis Schultze (December 12, 1924 – September 27, 2016) was an American economist and public policy analyst. He served as the Chairperson of the...

Charles Rufus Skinner (August 4, 1844 – June 30, 1928) was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Mexico, New York. He was a Republican...

Charles Laughton (1 July 1899 – 15 December 1962) was an Anglo-American actor, screenwriter, producer, and director. He was born in Scarborough, North...

Sir Charles Lyell, 1st Baronet, (14 November 1797 – 22 February 1875) was a British geologist. He was the foremost geologist of his day, and an influence...

Cape Charles is a town in the U.S. state of Virginia, in Northampton County. This short article about a place or feature in the United States can be made...

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (2 February 1754 – 17 May 1838) was a French diplomat. He was a bishop and worked successfully for Louis XVI. He...

St. Charles, Virginia is a unincorporated town in the U.S. state of Virginia. This short article about a place or feature in the United States can be...

Charles VII (Charles Albert; 6 August 1697 — 20 January 1745) was Prince-elector of Bavaria (from 26 February 1726) and Holy Roman Emperor (from 24 January...

Alphonse Laveran (Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, 18 June 1845 – 18 May 1922) was a French military doctor. He won the 1907 Nobel Prize in Physiology...

Charles John Zwick (July 17, 1926 – April 20, 2018) was an American civil servant. He served as director of the United States' Office of Management and...

Charles Edward Stuart R (Prince Charles Edward Louis Philip Casimir Stuart R) 12-31-1720 to 1-31-1788. Charles R 3 is better known as the grandson of KING...

Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (14 February 1869 – 15 November 1959) was a Scottish physicist and meteorologist. His invention of the cloud chamber made...

Charles Roven (born August 2, 1949) is an American movie producer. He is known for his works with Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, The Dark Knight Rises...

Charles Albert Gobat (May 21, 1843 – March 16, 1914) was a Swiss lawyer, educational administrator, and politician. He jointly received the Nobel Peace...

Charles Sidney Grodin (April 21, 1935 – May 18, 2021) was an American actor, comedian, author and television talk show host. He won an Emmy Award for...

Charles VI of France (3 December 1368 – 21 October 1422) was King of France from 1380 until his death. He was not a successful king. Often he was not...

Charles IV (Charles John; 14 May 1316 – 29 November 1378) was the Holy Roman emperor from 1355 until his death in 1378. He was made King of Germany in...

Charles of Valois (March 12, 1270 – December 16, 1325) started the House of Valois as the first Count of Valois. He was the third son of Philip III of...

Walter Charles Dance, OBE (born 10 October 1946) is an English actor, screenwriter, and movie director. He is known for playing strict, authoritarian...

Charles A. Sprague (November 12, 1887 – March 13, 1969) was the elected Governor of Oregon, and an active spokesman for the progressive portion of the...

Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis (31 December 1738 – 5 October 1805) was a British Army officer, Whig politician and colonial administrator...

Ezzard Mack Charles (July 7, 1921 – May 28, 1975) was an African-American professional boxer. He was the heavyweight boxing champion from September 27...

Charles Dumont (26 March 1929 – 18 November 2024) was a French singer and composer. Dumont was best known for writing or co-writing several well-known...

Charles Mix County is a county located in the U.S. state of South Dakota. As of the 2020 census, 9,373 people lived there. Its county seat is Lake Andes...

Charles XII (Swedish: Karl XII) or Carolus Rex was the king of Sweden from 1697 to 1718. He was born on June 27, 1682. During his time as a king, he tried...

Charles Mingus Jr. (April 22, 1922 – January 5, 1979) was an American jazz musician and writer. He helped to create improvisational jazz. People say he...

Henry Charles Bukowski (born Heinrich Karl Bukowski; August 16, 1920 – March 9, 1994) was a German-American poet, novelist, and short story writer. His...

Charles Juste François Victurnien, de Beauvau, Prince of Craon (1793–1864) was a French military man and senator under Napoleon III. He was a member of...

Charles II (6 November 1661 — 1 November 1700) was the King of Spain from 1661 to 1700. He is also known as the Bewitched (Spanish: El Hechizado). He...

Edmonde Charles-Roux (17 April 1920 – 20 January 2016) was a French writer. She was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine. In 1946, she joined the...

Charles Messier (June 26, 1730 – April 12, 1817) was a French astronomer who is remembered for publishing a list of famous objects in space that came...

Charles McNeill Gray (March 7, 1807 – October 17, 1885) was an American politician who was Mayor of Chicago, Illinois (1853–1854) for the Democratic Party...

Charles "Kiki" Antenen (3 November 1929 – 20 May 2000) was a Swiss footballer. He played as a forward. He played for La Chaux-de-Fonds, winning three...

Charles deWolf "Charlie" Gibson (born March 9, 1943) is a United States former broadcast television anchor and journalist. He was born in Evanston, Illinois...

Charles Wesley (18 December 1707 – 29 March 1788) was the brother of John Wesley, the founder of Methodism. They were sons of Susanna and Samuel Wesley...

Charles L. Napier (April 12, 1936 – October 5, 2011) was an American actor. Napier was born on April 12, 1936, near Scottsville, Kentucky, Napier moved...

Charles Sturt (28 April 1795 — 16 June 1869) was a British Army officer who became an early explorer of Australia. He described the Murray, the Murrumbidgee...

Sir Charles Babbage (26 December 1791 – 18 October 1871) was an English mathematician, analytical philosopher, mechanical engineer and computer scientist...

Charles Fletcher Lummis (March 1, 1859, in Lynn, Massachusetts – November 25, 1928, in Los Angeles, California) was a United States journalist, and an...

Charles Richard Shyer (October 11, 1941 – December 27, 2024) was an American movie director, screenwriter and producer. His movies are mostly comedies...

Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, KG, PC (13 March 1764 – 17 July 1845) was a British Whig statesman and Prime Minister. Earl Grey tea, a type of tea with...

Damishah Charles (born 15 October 1997) is a Sint Maarten-born Dutch softball player. She started playing softball in Enschede from a young age. In 2021...

Louis XVII of France (Louis Charles; 27 March 1785 — 8 June 1795) was the King of France and Navarre from 1793 to 1795. He never actually ruled. He is...

Charles Curtis (January 25, 1860 – February 8, 1936) was an American politician. He was the 31st vice president of the United States from 1929 to 1933...

Charles Warren Fairbanks (May 11, 1852 – June 4, 1918) was an American politician. He was a U.S. senator from Indiana, serving from 1897 to 1905, and...

John Charles (27 December 1931 - 21 February 2004) was a Welsh football player. He has played for Wales national team. a. ^ Includes FA Cup and Coppa...

John Charles Frémont or Fremont (January 21, 1813 – July 13, 1890) was an American military officer, and explorer. He was the first candidate of the anti-slavery...

Charles Francis Richter (April 26, 1900 – September 30, 1985) was an American seismologist (someone who studies earthquakes) and a physicist. He is known...

Charles Aznavour (22 May 1924 – 1 October 2018) was an Armenian-French singer, songwriter and actor. He was one of France's most popular and long lasting...

Charles City County is a county in the U.S. state of Virginia. As of the 2020 census, 6,773 people lived there. Its county seat is Charles City. National...

Charles Cyphers (July 28, 1939 – August 4, 2024) was an American movie, television, and stage actor who was known for his role as Sheriff Leigh Brackett...

Dame Mary Eugenia Charles, DBE (15 May 1919 – 6 September 2005) was a Dominican politician and lawyer. She was the Prime Minister of Dominica serving...

Charles Rodway Clarke (born 21 September 1950) is an English Labour Party politician. He was born in London. Clarke was the Member of Parliament (MP)...

Charles Fleischer (born August 27, 1950) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, voice artist, and comedian. He is best known as the voice of Roger Rabbit...

Charles Cuthbert Powell Williams, Baron Williams of Elvel, CBE, PC (9 February 1933 – 30 December 2019) was a British businessman, cricketer and Labour...

Charles Perrot, (16 February 1929 - 11 November 2013) was a French priest, honorary professor of the Catholic Institute of Paris, a world-renowned biblist...

Pierre Charles Louis Baudin, born 18 December 1748 in Sedan, Ardennes and died 14 October 1799 in Paris, was a French revolutionary and politician. He...

Sir Charles Walter Michael Court (29 September 1911 – 22 December 2007) was the 21st Premier of Western Australia from 8 April 1974 to 25 January 1982...

Joshua Aaron Charles (born September 15, 1971) is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as Dan Rydell on the television series Sports Night...

Charles Correa (1 September 1930 – 16 June 2015) was an Indian architect, urban planner and activist. He is known for the creation of modern architecture...

Charles Edward Bradley (November 5, 1948 – September 23, 2017) was an American funk/soul/R&B singer, signed to the Daptone Records label under the Dunham...

Charles Matthew "Chuck" Geschke (September 11, 1939 – April 16, 2021) was an American businessman and computer scientist. He was best known for founding...

Charles Lawrence Robinson (July 21, 1818 – August 17, 1894) was the first Governor of Kansas. He was very important in creating Lawrence, Kansas. Robinson...

Charles Toubé (22 January 1958 – 4 August 2016) was a Cameroonian football player. He played for Tonnerre Yaoundé and Cameroon national football team...

Charles George Gordon (28 January 1833 – 26 January 1885) was a British Army officer and mercenary. He commanded the Ever Victorious Army of the Chinese...

John Charles Haines (May 26, 1818 – July 4, 1896) served as mayor of Chicago, Illinois (1858–1860) for the Democratic Party. Haines was born on May 26...

Charles Sturt University is a large Australian university. It has campuses around the world. The university has campuses at Bathurst, Canberra, Albury-Wodonga...

Charles Levin may refer to: Charles Levin (actor) (1949–2019), American actor Charles Levin (judge) (1926–2020), former Michigan jurist Charles Levi,...

James Charles Evers (September 11, 1922 – July 22, 2020) was an American civil rights activist. In 1969, he became the first African American since the...

Jamaal RaShaad Jones Charles (born December 27, 1986 in Port Arthur, Texas) is an American football former professional running back. He played parts...

This is a Chinese name; the family name is Wang. Charles B. Wang (August 19, 1944 – October 21, 2018) was an American businessman and philanthropist....

Charles M. Rice (born August 25, 1952) is an American virologist. His main area of research is hepatitis C virus. He is a professor of virology at the...

Charles I (10 November 1433 – 5 January 1477), nicknamed the Bold was Duke of Burgundy from 1467 to 1477. He was a son of John the Fearless. This short...

Jacques-Charles Dupont de l'Eure (French pronunciation: ​[ʒak ʃaʁl dypɔ̃ də lœʁ]; 27 February 1767 – 3 March 1855) was a French lawyer and statesman....

Charles Martel (c. 688 – 22 October 741) was a Frankish statesman and military leader who was Duke and Prince of the Franks. He was also mayor of the...

Charles Felix (Carlo Felice Giuseppe Maria; 6 April 1765 – 27 April 1831) was born a Prince of Savoy and was later the last mainline Savoyard monarch...

The King Charles Spaniel (also called the English Toy Spaniel, especially in the United States) is a small dog breed of the spaniel type. In 1903, the...

Charles Kay (born Charles Piff, 31 August 1930 – 8 January 2025) was an English actor. He was known for his stage roles with the Royal Shakespeare Company...

Charles of Egmond (9 November 1467 – June 30 1538) was the Duke of Guelders. He was an influential Dutch nobleman of the late 15th and early 16th century...

Charles Darrow (10 August 1889 — 28 August 1967) was one of the creators/ developers of Monopoly. In the 1930s, Charles met Lizzie Maggie, creator of...

Edwin Douglas Charles (April 29, 1933 – March 15, 2018) was an American professional baseball third baseman in Major League Baseball. He was a right-handed...

Charles Kimbrough (May 23, 1936 – January 11, 2023) was an American actor. He was known for having played the straight-faced anchorman Jim Dial on Murphy...

Charles III, Duke of Bourbon (February 17, 1490 – May 6, 1527) was a French prince from the House of Bourbon. Charles was the second son of Gilbert, Duke...

Charles Doolittle Walcott (March 31, 1850 – February 9, 1927) was an American geologist and invertebrate paleontologist. He became known for his discovery...

Charles, Knight Vandenhove (3 July 1927, Teuven – 22 January 2019, Liège) was a Belgian architect. His company Charles Vandenhove et associés is based...

Charles Bonnet (March 13, 1720 – May 20, 1793) was a Swiss naturalist and philosopher. List of biologists Mayled, Jon (2010). GCSE Religious Studies:...

Charles Juste de Beauvau, Prince of Craon (10 September 1720 – 21 May 1793), 2nd Prince of Craon (1754), Marshal of France (1783) was a French scholar...

Sir Charles Trevelyan, 1st Baronet (2 April 1807 – 19 June 1886) was a British civil servant, cabinet member, colonial administrator, and oriental scholar...

Charles Lewis Tiffany (February 15, 1812 – February 18, 1902) was an American jewelry designer. He was a leader in the nineteenth century American jewelry...

Charles Gérard (1 December 1922 – 19 September 2019) was a French actor and director. He appeared in more than fifty movies between 1957 through 2019...

Charles Boyer (August 28, 1899 in Figeac, France- August 26, 1978 in Phoenix, Arizona), was a French-American actor. He appeared in Gaslight and Algiers...

Jeannette Charles (15 October 1927 is an English actress. She was known for playing Queen Elizabeth II in many television shows and movies, due to her...

Midwin Charles (July 17, 1973 – April 6, 2021) was a Haitian-American defense attorney. Charles was born on July 17, 1973 in Brooklyn, New York, where...

Sir Charles Mackerras, (born 17 November 1925; died 14 July 2010) was an Australian conductor. He was very famous for his conducting of operas, especially...

(/ˈʃɑːrləmeɪn/ SHAR-lə-mayn; Latin: Carolus Magnus, French: Charlemagnes, English: Charles the Great, German: Karl der Große, Dutch: Karel de Grote) (c. 2 April 748...

Charles Oscar Finley (February 22, 1918 - February 19, 1996), nicknamed Charlie O or Charley O, was an American businessman. He was the owner of the Oakland...

Charles William "Charlie" Bachman III (December 11, 1924 – July 13, 2017) was an American computer scientist. He spent his entire career as an industrial...

Sir Charles Spencer "Charlie" Chaplin KBE (16 April 1889 – 25 December 1977) was an English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer. He was famous in silent...

Charles Hendry is the Member of Parliament for Wealden in East Sussex. He is a member of the Conservative Party. His predecessor in the Wealden seat was...

Charles Champaud was a Swiss gymnast. Charles competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics. He was born in 1865. Charles Champaud Charles Champaud at Olympedia...

Charles de Bourbon (2 June 1489 – 25 March 1537) was a French prince du sang and a military commander at the court of Francis I of France....

Charles Carroll of Carrollton (September 19, 1737 – November 14 1832) was a delegate to the Continental Congress and later United States Senator for Maryland...

Charles Strouse (born June 7, 1928 died May 15, 2025) is an American musician who makes music for movies and television programs. He made the music for...

Charles N'Zogbia (born 28 May 1986) is a French former professional footballer who played as a right or left winger, but also as an attacking midfielder...

Charles-Marie-Photius Maurras (/məˈræs/; French: [ʃaʁl moʁas]; 20 April 1868 – 16 November 1952) was a French author, politician, poet, and critic. His...

Sir Charles Drummond Ellis (b.Hampstead, 11 August 1895; died Cookham 10 January 1980) was a physicist and scientific administrator. His work helped scientists...

Charles Krauthammer (/ˈkraʊt.hæmər/; March 13, 1950 – June 21, 2018) was an American syndicated Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist, author, political commentator...

Charles Stanley Dutton (born January 30, 1951) is an American actor. He acts mainly in movies and television but also performs in stage plays. He acted...

Charles Paul Dewachtere (22 December 1927 – 22 July 2020) was a Belgian long-distance runner. He competed in the marathon at the 1952 Summer Olympics...

Charles Thone (January 4, 1924 – March 7, 2018) was an American politician. He was a member of the Republican Party. He served as the 34th Governor of...

Charles Fried (April 15, 1935 – January 23, 2024) was a Czech-born American jurist and lawyer of Jewish descent. He served as United States Solicitor...

Charles Martin Smith (born October 30, 1953) is an American actor, writer, and director. He is known for his roles in American Graffiti (1973), The Buddy...

John Charles Patrick Croghan Daly (February 20, 1914 – February 24, 1991) was an American journalist, personality, actor, and game show host. He was known...

Charles Keating (22 October 1941 – 9 August 2014) was a British actor and narrator of audiobooks. Keating was known for his roles in All My Children and...

Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, KG, PC (13 May 1730-1 July 1782) was a British Whig statesman. He is most notable for his two terms...

Charles Sherman Ruggles (February 8, 1886 - December 23, 1970) was a comic American character actor. In a career that spanned six decades, Ruggles appeared...

Charles Wendell "Chuck" Colson (October 16, 1931, in Boston, Massachusetts - April 21, 2012) was the chief counsel for President Richard Nixon from 1969...

Charles Moss "Charlie" Duke Jr. (born October 3, 1935), (Brig Gen, USAF, Ret.), is an American former astronaut, retired U.S. Air Force officer and test...

Charles Tyner (born June 8, 1923-November 8, 2017) is an American actor. In 1957, Tyner made his debut on Broadway, in the play Orpheus Descending. His...

The Faculty of Arts, Charles University, is one of the original four faculties of Charles University in Prague. When founded, it was named the Faculty...

Charles Osgood Wood III (January 8, 1933 – January 23, 2024), known professionally as Charles Osgood, was an American commentator and writer. Osgood was...

The Reign of Charles III as the 45th Monarch and Head of the Commonwealth began with his coronation on 8 September 2022 Charles III is head of state of...

Charles Francis "Chuck" Dolan (October 16, 1926 – December 28, 2024) was an American billionaire. He was the founder of Cablevision. Dolan's business...

Othniel Charles Marsh M.A PhD LL.D (October 29, 1831 – March 18, 1899) was one of the leading paleontologists of the 19th century. He discovered and named...

Lewis Carroll was the pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Daresbury, Cheshire, 27 January 1832 – Guildford, Surrey, 14 January 1898). Dodgson was an...

Charles Levin (March 12, 1949 – July 8, 2019) was an American actor. He was best known for the role of Elliot Novak on the series Alice and as Eddie Gregg...

Charles Raymond Offenberg (September 13, 1918 – April 6, 2015), better known as Ray Charles, was an American singer, songwriter, musician, conductor,...

Charles Simic (Serbian: Душан "Чарлс" Симић; born Dušan Simić; May 9, 1938 – January 9, 2023) was a Serbian American poet. He was the co-poetry editor...

Charles Robert Schwab Sr. (born July 29, 1937) is an American investor and financial executive. He is the founder and chairman of the Charles Schwab Corporation...

Charles Aubras was an archer from France. Aubras competed at the 1908 Summer Olympics. Charles Aubras Charles AUBRAS This short article about a sports...

Charles Peter Wuorinen ( /ˈwɔːrɪnən/; June 9, 1938 – March 11, 2020) was an American composer and educator. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1970...

Charles Ranhofer (November 7, 1836, Saint-Denis, France — October 9, 1899, New York) was the chef at the famous Delmonico's Restaurant in New York from...

Charles Barron (born October 7, 1950) is an American activist and politician. He represents the 60th District of the New York Assembly. Formerly, he represented...

Charles Dalrymple Belgrave (1894–1969) was a British citizen. He was an advisor to the rulers of Bahrain from 1926 until 1957. He first was under Shaikh...

Stephanie Charles (born May 24, 1979) is an American actress. She is best known for playing Nyla Payne in Tyler Perry's The Paynes. In 2018, she played...

Charles Bradley Templeton (October 7, 1915 – June 7, 2001) was a Canadian cartoonist, evangelist, agnostic, politician, newspaper editor, inventor, broadcaster...

Charles Brook can be: Charles Brook, Newfoundland and Labrador Charles Brook (philanthropist) (1814–1872), English businessman and philanthropist Charles...

Charles Ceccaldi-Raynaud (25 June 1925 – 18 July 2019) was a French lawyer and politician. A member of The Republicans, he was a member of the National...

Charles Kay Ogden (1 June 1889 – 21 March 1957) was an English linguist, philosopher, psycholinguist and writer. He is a well-known book writer about...

Charles VII may refer to: Karl Sverkersson (Charles VII of Sweden; 1130–1167) Charles VII of France (1403–1461), "the Victorious" Charles VII, Holy Roman...

Charles Garzarella is a retired weightlifter from Australia. Charles competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics. He was born on 10 September 1964. Charles Garzarella...

Charles City is a city in Iowa in the United States. "2020 U.S. Gazetteer Files". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved March 16, 2022. "Charles City...

Charles Mugane Njonjo (23 January 1920 – 2 January 2022) was a Kenyan lawyer and politician. He was the Attorney General of Kenya from 1963 to 1979. He...

Charles Coates was an archer from Great Britain. He was born on 5 April 1857 and died on 15 February 1922. Coates competed at the 1908 Summer Olympics...

Jack Charles (1943 – 13 September 2022), also known as Uncle Jack Charles, was an Aboriginal Australian actor. He was known for his activism for Aboriginal...

Charles Gordon (May 13, 1947 – October 31, 2020) was an American movie producer. His brother was movie producer Lawrence Gordon. He was born in Belzoni...

Charles Peter Kennedy (25 November 1959 – 1 June 2015) was a British politician. From 9 August 1999 until 7 January 2006, he was the leader of the Liberal...

Charles T. Royer (August 22, 1939 – July 26, 2024) was the 48th mayor of Seattle, Washington from 1978 to 1990. After he was the mayor of Seattle, Royer...

Charles Wood (6 August 1932 – 1 February 2020) was a British playwright and scriptwriter. He was born in Guernsey. Wood was known for his works in The...

The Charles River is a river that runs between Boston and Cambridge in Massachusetts. It is 80 miles long and starts at Hopkinton, Massachusetts and ends...

Charles Sanders Peirce (/pɜːrs/ PURSS; September 10, 1839 – April 19, 1914) was an American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist. He is...

Charles Wesley Robinson (September 7, 1919 - May 20, 2014) was an American entrepreneur. He served as United States Deputy Secretary of State from 1975...

The Prince Charles stream tree frog (Hyloscirtus princecharlesi) is a frog. It lives in Ecuador. Scientists have seen it 2794 meters above sea level....

Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (born Dublin, 30 September 1852; died London, 29 March 1924) was an Irish composer who lived in England for most of his...

Charles L. Evans (born January 15, 1958) is an American economist and banker. He is the ninth president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve...

Charles Henry Branscomb (June 16, 1822 – January 3, 1891) was a person in the New England Emigrant Aid Society. He and Charles L. Robinson helped create...

Charles Alan Murray (/ˈmɜːri/; born January 8, 1943) is an American political scientist. He is the W.H. Brady Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute...

Prince Charles of Monaco, Count of Carladés (Charles Marie Auguste; 1 January 1722 – 24 August 1749), was a Monégasque prince. He was known as the Count...

Sir Cyril Errol Melchiades Charles GCMG (born 10 December 1942) is a Saint Lucian politician who has been the Governor-General of Saint Lucia since 1...

Charles McGee (December 15, 1924 – February 4, 2021) was an American artist and educator. He was known for creating paintings, assemblages, and sculptures...

Charles McColl Portis (December 28, 1933 – February 17, 2020) was an American writer. His best known novels are Norwood (1966) and the classic Western...

on November 25, 1609. She was a Roman Catholic. Henrietta Maria married Charles I and became the Queen of England. This short article about a person or...

Charles Vanhoutte (22 November 1929 – 20 October 2022) was a French-born Belgian cyclo-cross cyclist. He also helped organizing cyclo cross races and...

Charles Duane Baker III (June 21, 1928 – November 1, 2025) was an American businessman and politician. He worked in many departmental roles in the Richard...

Charles Egbu is a Nigerian-British academic in the field of construction management. He is the current vice chancellor of Leeds Trinity University, United...

Charles A. Reich (May 20, 1928 – June 15, 2019) was an American legal and social scholar. He was a Professor at Yale Law School when he wrote the 1970...

Charles IV (11 November 1748  – 20 January 1819) was King of Spain from 14 December 1788 until his abdication on 19 March 1808. Later that year, Joseph...

Charles Sobhraj (born 6 April 1944), also known as the Bikini Killer, is a French thief, fraudster and serial killer. He preyed on Western tourists throughout...

Charles Wright (born May 16, 1961) is an American professional wrestler and businessman. He is best known for his time in the World Wrestling Federation...

Charles Louis Frederick of Mecklenburg (23 February 1708 – 5 June 1752) was a prince in the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. He is also known as Prince...

Charles Wood (born Armagh, 15 June 1866; died Cambridge, 12 July 1926) was an Irish composer and teacher. Charles Wood was born in Armagh, Ireland. His...

Charles Paul Rettig (born November 18, 1956) is an American politician and lawyer. He was the United States Commissioner of Internal Revenue from 2018...

Charles S. Kettles (January 9, 1930 – January 21, 2019) was a retired United States Army lieutenant colonel. He was a Medal of Honor recipient for his...

Charles Alexander Jencks (21 June 1939 – 13 October 2019) was an American cultural theorist, landscape designer and architectural historian. He was the...

Sir Robert James Charles ONZ KNZM CBE (born 14 March 1936) is a New Zealand professional golfer. He was born in Carterton, New Zealand. In his fifty years...

Louis, MO-IL metropolitan statistical area (MSA) and the St. Louis–St. Charles–Farmington, MO–IL combined statistical area (CSA). The MSA area is the...

Charles Miossec (25 December 1938 – 12 April 2020) was a French politician. He served as a Deputy from 1978 to 2002. He was born in Lanhouarneau, Finistère...

Charles Montgomery Plantagenet Schicklgruber Burns (also known as C. Montgomery Burns and Monty Burns, but usually said as Mr. Burns) is a fictional character...

Charles Reznikoff (August 31, 1894 – January 22, 1976) was an American poet. He was born in Brooklyn, New York and lived in New York City for most of...

Charles Frazier Stanley (September 25, 1932 – April 18, 2023) was an American religious leader who as the pastor of megachurch First Baptist Church Atlanta...

Charles Lee (1758 – June 24, 1815) was an American lawyer from Virginia. He served as United States Attorney General from 1795 until 1801. President George...

Archduke Charles of Austria (1771-1847) was one of the Austrian Empire's dukes. He fought in the Napoleonic Wars. The Austrian Empire ruled places the...

Charles Angelo Savarin (born 1943) is a Dominican politician. He became the eighth President of Dominica in October 2013. He served as President until...

St. Charles is a town in the US state of Arkansas. This short article about a place or feature in the United States can be made longer. You can help Wikipedia...

Charles Nelson Reilly (January 13, 1931 – May 25, 2007) was an American actor, comedian, singer, director and drama teacher. He was part of the original...

Charles Rainsford Jennison also known as "Doc" Jennison (June 6, 1834 – June 21, 1884) was a member of the anti-slavery group during Bleeding Kansas....

Charly B (born Charles Blanvillain, 28 September 1981) is a French reggae artist, author, composer, and interpreter, performing internationally. Born...

Herman Charles Bosman (5 February 1905 – 14 October 1951) was a South Africa short-story writer. He studied the works of Edgar Allan Poe and Mark Twain...

Charles George Reinier Corver (16 January 1936 – 10 November 2020) was a Dutch football referee. He refereed the 1982 World Cup semifinal between Germany...

Charles Spencer Chaplin III (May 5, 1925 – March 20, 1968), known professionally as Charles Chaplin Jr., was an American actor. He was the elder son of...

Charles Richard Webb (June 9, 1939 – June 16, 2020) was an American novelist. He was the author of several novels. His most famous work is the 1963 novel...

Charles Bannerman (3 July 1851 – 20 August 1930) was an Australian cricketer. He played in three Test matches between 1877 and 1879. He played 44 first-class...

Charles William Steger Jr. (June 16, 1947 – May 6, 2018) was an American architect and engineer. He was the 15th president of Virginia Polytechnic Institute...

Charles George Patrick Shaughnessy, 5th Baron Shaughnessy (born 9 February 1955) is a British actor. Shaughnessy is known for his roles on American television...

Charles Lincoln Van Doren (February 12, 1926 – April 9, 2019) was an American writer and editor. He was known for being involved in a television quiz...

Charles-Valentin Alkan (30 November 1813 - 29 March 1888) was a French-Jewish composer and pianist. His real name was Morhange. He was a virtuoso pianist...

Charles Olson (December 27, 1910 – January 10, 1970) was an American poet. Olson was born and grew up in Worcester, Massachusetts, where his father worked...

Jean-Charles Valladont is an archer from France. He was born on 20 March 1989. Valladont competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics, 2016 Summer Olympics, and...

Charles Kittel (July 18, 1916 – May 15, 2019) was an American physicist. He was a Professor at University of California, Berkeley from 1951 and was Professor...

Charles, Dead or Alive (French: Charles mort ou vif) is a 1969 Swiss drama movie directed by Alain Tanner and starring François Simon, Marcel Robert,...

Charles Stewart Parnell (27 June 1846 – 6 October 1891) was an Irish member of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. He led the Irish Parliamentary...

Charles-Louis de third, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu (18 January 1689 – 10 February 1755), was commonly known as Montesquieu. was a French political...

Charles Wesley Turnbull (February 5, 1935 – July 3, 2022), was the 27th Governor of the U.S. Virgin Islands serving from 1999 through 2007. During his...

Charles Yohane (26 August 1973 – 14 February 2022) was a Zimbabwean footballer. He played as a midfielder. Yohane played for the Zimbabwe national football...

Prince Charles of Luxembourg (Charles Jean Philippe Joseph Marie Guillaume; born 10 May 2020) is the heir apparent to the Luxembourgish throne as the elder...

General Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle (22 November 1890 - 9 November 1970) was a French military and political leader. He was president of France...

from the same country. At the centre, there was a struggle between King Charles I and the Parliament of England over how England should be ruled. The King...

Charles Wright (born August 25, 1935) is an American poet. He was awarded the National Book Award (1983) for Country Music: Selected Early Poems and the...

Charles Thomas Payne (February 20, 1925 – August 1, 2014) was an American military personal. He served in the U.S. military during World War II as a member...

Charles-Marie Widor (born Lyon, 21 February, 1844; died Paris, 12 March, 1937) was a French organist and composer. He was one of the greatest organists...

Charles Michel Mouet de Langlade (9 May 1729 – after 26 July 1801) was a fur trader and war chief in the Great Lakes. His mother was Ottawa and his father...

Charles Robert Knight (October 21, 1874 – April 15, 1953) was an American artist famous for his paintings of dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals....

Charles Joseph Whitman (born June 24, 1941 in Lake Worth, Florida – died August 1, 1966 in Austin, Texas) was a former marine and student who is best...

Charles Duncan Michener (September 22, 1918 – November 1, 2015) was an American entomologist. He was born in Pasadena, California. He was a leading expert...

Charles Pasqua (18 April 1927 – 29 June 2015) was a French businessman and Gaullist politician. He was Interior Minister from 1986 to 1988, under Jacques...

Donald Hogan "Don" Charles (September 9, 1938 – December 24, 2017) was an American photographer. He was the first African-American staff photographer...

Charles Thomas Floquet (2 October 1828 – 18 January 1896), was a French lawyer and statesman who served as Prime Minister of France from 1888 to 1889...

Charles "Chuck" McDew (June 23, 1938 – April 3, 2018) was an American civil rights activist. He was the chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating...

(French: le Prudent), was King of France from 1461 to 1483. His father was Charles VII. and his mother was Marie of Anjou. Born in Bourges, France, Louis...

General Sir Charles James Napier, GCB (August 10, 1782 – August 29, 1853) was a British general and Commander-in-Chief in India, famous for conquering...

The Faculty of Humanities, Charles University is part of Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. Its main focus is the humanities and social and...

Charles Koppelman (March 30, 1940 – November 25, 2022) was the chairman of EMI Records, an American recording label. He was once a chairman of Martha...

Charles, Duke of Orléans (French: Charles, duc d’Orléans; 24 November 1394 — 5 November 1465) was Duke of Orléans, Count of Blois and of Beaumont-sur-Ouse...

Jean-Charles Corbet is a French Chief executive officer and aviator. Graduates from École nationale de l'aviation civile (ÉNAC) of Toulouse (airline pilot...

Charles Curtis "Buck" Pattillo (June 3, 1924 – May 20, 2019) was an American Air Force lieutenant general. He was deputy commander in chief, U.S. Readiness...

Charles Higounet (13 January 1911 – 8 April 1988) was a French historian and medievalist. He specialised in bastides and the Middle Ages in the southwest...

Charles Humphrey Keating, Jr. (December 4, 1923 – March 31, 2014) was an American lawyer, real estate developer, and banker. Keating is known for his...

Charles S. Parmenter (October 12, 1933 – January 26, 2025) was an American chemist. He was a distinguished professor at the Indiana University Bloomington...

Charles Kumi Gyamfi (4 December 1929 – 2 September 2015) was a Ghanaian footballer and coach. He became the first African to play in Germany when he joined...

William Charles Wentworth (13 August 1790 – 20 March 1872) was an Australian poet, explorer, journalist and politician. He was one of the leading figures...

Charles H. Brandes is an American investor, businessman, and philanthropist. He is a disciple of the Benjamin Graham school of value investing. Brandes...

Charles Patrick "Chuck" Thacker (February 26, 1943 – June 12, 2017) was an American pioneer computer designer. He worked on the Xerox Alto, which is the...

Joevana Charles (July 1955 – 17 January 2021) was a Seychellois politician. She was a member of the National Assembly of Seychelles. She was a member...

Charles August Lindbergh, Sr. (January 20, 1859 – May 24, 1924), was a United States Congressman for 6th District of Minnesota from 1907 to 1917. Lindbergh...

Charles Bass Reed (September 29, 1941 – December 6, 2016) was an American educator. He served as Chancellor of the State University System of Florida...

Charles Andre Martinet (born September 17, 1955) is an American actor and voice artist. He is best known as being the voice of Mario in the Mario series...

Charles Fredrick Wiesenthal (1726–1789) was a German physician and inventor born in 1726. He was awarded the patent for the first known mechanical device...

Charles Quervel was an archer from France. Quervel competed at the 1908 Summer Olympics. Charles Quervel This short article about a sports person can be...

Charles Darwin wrote about twenty books, including the most famous book in biology, the Origin of Species. The books covered the natural history sciences...

Charles Robert Larson (November 20, 1936 – July 26, 2014) was an American four-star Admiral of the United States Navy. A 1958 graduate of the United States...

General Sir Charles Richard Huxtable, KCB, CBE (22 July 1931 – 26 November 2018) was a senior British Army officer. He fought in the Korean War. He was...

Charles Reis Felix (April 29, 1923 – January 25, 2017) was an America writer and teacher. He was known as a contributor to Luso-American literature. His...

Charles Oser (17 February 1902 – 29 March 1994) was a Swiss politician. He was a member of the Free Democratic Party of Switzerland (FDP) and, was the...

Louis XII of France (June 27, 1462 – January 1, 1515) was the son of Charles, Duke of Orléans and Mary of Cleves. He was born on June 27, 1462 in the...

Charles Wyrsch (July 5, 1920 – June 16, 2019) was a Swiss contemporary artist and painter. He was born in Buochs, Nidwalden. Wyrsch's artistic career...

Jean-Charles Darmon is a French literary critic born in 1961. Graduate in 1982 from the École Normale Supérieure, he first teaches at Amherst College...

Clive Michael Charles (3 October 1951 – 26 August 2003) was an English football player, coach and television announcer. He was one of five National Collegiate...

Charles Vallée was an archer from France. He was born on 18 November 1861. Vallée competed at the 1908 Summer Olympics. VALLÉE Charles Vallée This short...

The coronation of Charles III and his wife, Camilla, as king and queen of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms was held on Saturday, 6...

Charles Grandison Finney (August 29, 1792 – August 16, 1875) was a proponent of the Second Great Awakening. He preached several Gospels across the western...

Charles Jordan Urstadt (October 27, 1928 – March 3, 2020) was an American real estate executive and investor. He was New York State housing commissioner...

Charles Spence Bate, or Spence Bate, FRS (March 16, 1819 – July 29, 1889) was a British zoologist and dentist, who lived in Swansea and Plymouth. He was...

Charles Gald Sibley (August 7, 1917 – April 12, 1998) was an American ornithologist and molecular biologist. He had a big influence on the scientific...

Charles Zentai (born Károly Steiner; October 8, 1921 – December 13, 2017) was a Hungarian-born resident of Australia accused of a Holocaust-related war...

Charles Edward McGee (December 7, 1919 − January 16, 2022) was an African-American fighter pilot. He was one of the Tuskegee Airmen and a career officer...

Charles Leonard Levin (April 28, 1926 – November 19, 2020) was an American politician and lawyer. He was a Michigan Court of Appeals judge from 1966 to...

Charles Kushner (born May 16, 1954) is an American real estate developer, politician and former lawyer who has been the United States Ambassador to France...

Jean Charles Léonard de Sismondi (also known as Jean Charles Leonard Simonde de Sismondi) (French: [ʒɑ̃ ʃaʁl leɔnaʁ də sismɔ̃di]; 9 May 1773 – 25 June...

Charles Clark Reid (August 12, 1937  – June 1, 2019) was an American painter, illustrator, and teacher. He was known for his watercolor style. He has...

call and response, hand claps, body movement and a tense vocal sound. Ray Charles is said to be inventor of soul music with his song "I Got a Woman". Soul...

was a member of the British royal family. She was the first wife of King Charles III, then-Prince of Wales. She was also the mother of Prince William and...

Charles of France, Duke of Berry, (31 July 1686 – 5 May 1714) was a grandson of Louis XIV of France. The Duke of Berry was seven years heir presumptive...

Joseph Charles Jones (August 23, 1937 – December 27, 2019) was an American civil rights leader and lawyer. He was the co-founder of the Student Nonviolent...

Charles Morris Godfrey, CM OOnt (24 September 1917 – 24 July 2022), was an American-born Canadian physician, professor and politician. He was a member...

Faculty of Science, Charles University (Czech: Přírodovědecká fakulta Univerzity Karlovy, PřF UK) is one of the 17 faculties of Charles University in Prague...

Charles Russell (1817-1892), known as "Black Douglas", was an Australian bushranger, who became famous for robbing miners on the road between Bendigo...

Charles Henry Coolidge (August 4, 1921 – April 6, 2021) was a United States Army soldier. He was awarded the United States military's highest decoration—the...

Prince Charles Maurice, Count of Valentinois (14 May 1727 – 18 January 1798) was a Monégasque prince and member of the House of Grimaldi. He was known...

Charles Pence Slichter (January 21, 1924 – February 19, 2018) was an American physicist. He was best known for his work on nuclear magnetic resonance...

extinct in the 18th century, when Charles II of Spain died in 1700 and was replaced by the House of Bourbon. Charles had mental and physical handicaps...

Charles Rennie Mackintosh (7 June 1868 – 10 December 1928) was a Scottish designer who worked around the turn of the 19th/20th century. He was based in...

Massachusetts, including Milton Bradley (of game-maker Milton Bradley, Charles Goodyear (inventor of vulcanized rubber), Theodore Giesel (famous as Dr...

On Christmas Day, 800, Pope Leo III crowned Charles as "Emperor of the Romans" in Rome. Though Charles preferred the title "Emperor, king of the Franks...

Charles Marc Hervé Perceval Leclerc (French pronunciation: [ʃaʁl ləklɛʁ]; born 16 October 1997) is a Monégasque racing driver, currently competing in...

Charles Mound is a gentle, 1,235-foot (376 m) high hill in northern Jo Daviess County, Illinois, near the small town of Scales Mound and 11 miles (18 km)...

Charles Oakley (born December 18, 1963) is a retired American NBA basketball player. Oakley played for the Chicago Bulls, New York Knicks, Toronto Raptors...

Charles Brook Charles Brook is a settlement in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Charles Brook is in the electoral district Coast of Bays-Central-Notre...

Charles Brooks was the first person to be executed by lethal injection in the United States. He was executed by lethal injection by Texas on December...

Charles-Arthur Dumoulin Cannon (11 September 1905 – 23 September 1976) was a Liberal party member of the Canadian House of Commons. He was a lawyer by...

Charles Thomas Vinci Jr. (February 28, 1933 – June 13, 2018) was an American weightlifter and Olympic champion. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He won...

Charles Gain (November 1, 1923 – August 21, 2018) was an American police official. He was born in Hanford, California. He first was police chief for Oakland...

Charles Coste (8 February 1924 – 30 October 2025) was a French cyclist. He was born in Ollioules, France. He won a gold medal at the 1948 Summer Olympics...

Charles Brian Handy, CBE (25 July 1932 – 13 December 2024) was an Irish author and philosopher. His works focused in organizational behavior and management...

Charles Edmund Garrett (born 16 April 1963) is a British diplomat. He began working for the Foreign & Commonwealth Office in 1987. He was ambassador of...

Prince Charles of Luxembourg, Prince of Bourbon-Parma and Nassau (born Charles Frédéric Louis Guillaume Marie; 7 August 1927 – 26 July 1977), was a younger...

Charles James "Charlie" Liteky (February 14, 1931 – January 20, 2017), formerly known as Angelo Liteky, was an American peace activist. He received the...

Hahnville is the parish seat of St. Charles Parish, Louisiana, United States. This short article about a place or feature in the United States can be...

Charles Pierre Baudelaire (9 April 1821 – 31 August 1867) was a French poet, art critic, and translator. He was born and died in Paris. He is also known...

St. Charles is a city in Hopkins County, Kentucky, United States. As of 2020, 273 people live in the city. "2020 Decennial Census Redistricting Data (Public...

Charles Joseph Hynes (May 28, 1935 – January 29, 2019) was an American lawyer and Democratic politician. He was born in New York City. He was Kings County...

Charles Spearman (born 1863, September 10th - died 1945, September 17th) was a psychologist. He was British, born in London, England. He is known for...

Society is a society for science and scientists. It was founded in 1660 by Charles II. It is the oldest society of its kind still in existence. A Royal Charter...

The wedding between Prince Charles (later King Charles III) and Lady Diana Spencer took place on Wednesday, 29 July 1981, at St Paul's Cathedral in London...

Charles Joseph Sophy (born 1960) is an American psychiatrist. He worked as a medical director for the Department of Children and Family Services in Los...

Louis-Charles Mahé de La Bourdonnais (born on 1795 - December 1840) was a French Chess Master. He was born on the island of la Réunion in the Indian Ocean...

Royal and Distinguished Spanish Order of Charles III, originally Royal and Much Distinguished Order of Charles III (Spanish: Real y Distinguida Orden Española...

St. Charles is a village in Saginaw County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,992 at the 2020 census. This short article about a place...

Charles B. Middleton (October 3, 1874 – April 22, 1949) was an American stage and movie actor. He appeared in nearly 200 movies and many plays. He played...

Saint-Charles-la-Forêt is a commune of 190 people (1999). It is in the region Pays de la Loire in the Mayenne department in northwest France. This short...

sons: Charles and Carloman. Charles and Carloman shared the kingdom for some time. Carloman then traveled to Rome and became a monk, and Charles became...

Charles Konan Banny (11 November 1942 – 10 September 2021) was an Ivorian politician. He was the Prime Minister of Côte d'Ivoire from 7 December 2005...

Charles E. Schumer (born Charles Ellis Schumer November 23, 1950 is the senior United States Senator from New York. He is a member of the Democratic Party...

census the population was 57,701. Its county seat and largest city is Charles Town. Jefferson County is located in a Humid subtropical climate. It has...

Sir Charles Edward Kingsford Smith (February 9, 1897 - November 8, 1935) was a famous Australian airplane pilot. He is famous for being the first person...

Charles Willis Pickering Sr. (born May 29, 1937) is an American lawyer and politician. He was the Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the...

Charles Boycott (12 March 1832 – 19 June 1897) was the man after whom the modern word "boycott" was coined. The term is an eponym derived from his surname...

General Charles Clarence McDonald (October 1, 1933 – November 22, 2017) was a United States Air Force general. He served as Commander, Air Force Logistics...

Charles Bernstein (born April 4, 1950) is an American poet, essayist, editor, and literary scholar. Bernstein is the Donald T. Regan Chair in the Department...

Charles Graham "Chuck" Boyd (April 15, 1938 – March 23, 2022) was a general of the United States Air Force. Boyd was a pilot who served in Vietnam and...

Marseille-Saint-Charles (French: Gare de Marseille-Saint-Charles) is the main railway station and intercity bus station of Marseille, France. It is the...

Andrews, and due to difficulty finding records, the C. was referred to as Charles, from 1961 until a record of his marriage registration was found in 2017...

Charles Bertan Wheeler, Jr. (born August 10, 1926) was an American politician. He was a Missouri state senator and a mayor of Kansas City, Missouri from...

Charles Roberts Breyer (born November 3, 1941) is an American attorney and jurist. He is a Senior United States District Judge of the United States District...

Tsar Aleksey I of Russia (1645–1676) Tsar Feodor III of Russia (1676–1682). King Charles II of Spain (1665–1700). King Charles XI of Sweden (1660–1697)....

Philip IV of Spain (1621–1665). King Charles II of Spain (1665–1700). King Charles X of Sweden (1654–1660). King Charles XI of Sweden (1660–1697). Emperor...

Charles Brantley Aycock was an American Democratic Party politician. He was the governor of North Carolina from 1901 to 1905. While he was governor, a...

Enex Jean-Charles (French pronunciation: ​[ɛnɛks ʒɑ̃ ʃaʁl], born 18 July 1960) is a Haitian politician. He served as Prime Minister of Haiti from March...

Charles Koechlin (born Paris, November 27, 1867; died Le Canadel, December 31, 1950) was a French composer, teacher and writer on music. He wrote a very...

John Charles Fields, FRS (May 14, 1863, Hamilton, Ontario – August 9, 1932, Toronto, Ontario) was a Canadian mathematician. He is the founder of the Fields...

October 25 – The HMVA Bounty reaches Tahiti. December 14 – Accession of Charles IV, King of Spain. Georgia becomes a state. January 22 – Lord Byron, English...

Charles Koffi Diby (7 September 1957 – 7 December 2019) was an Ivorian politician. He was the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Ivory Coast from 2012...

Charles Caldwell Ryrie (March 2, 1925 – February 16, 2016) was an American writer and Christian theologian. He served as professor of systematic theology...

until 1707. James I (1603–1625), also from 1567 King James VI of Scotland Charles I (1625–1649), also King of Scotland The Civil War in England from 1642...

Charles Frédéric Petit was an archer from France. He was born on 6 May 1857 and died on 19 February 1947. Petit competed at the 1900 Summer Olympics....

Charles Joseph Colgan (September 25, 1926 – January 3, 2017) was an American politician and businessman. He served as a member of the Virginia Senate...

Charles Frederick (22 November 1728 – 10 June 1811) was Margrave, Elector and later Grand Duke of Baden (initially only Margrave of Baden-Durlach) from...

Charles Samuel Deneen (May 4, 1863 – February 5, 1940) was an American lawyer and Republican politician. He was the 23rd Governor of Illinois from 1905...

family and the heir apparent to the British throne. He is the oldest son of Charles III and the late Diana, Princess of Wales. He is the second-oldest grandson...

Sir Anthony Charles Lynton "Tony" Blair (born 6 May 1953) is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007...

Charles Byron Renfrew (October 31, 1928 – December 14, 2017) was an American federal judge and politician. He was born in Detroit, Michigan. He was a...

Charles Swenson is a producer and director. He worked with animated film for many years. In 1978 he joined Fred Wolf Films, who worked with the 1987 Teenage...

Charles Edward Maurice Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer, DL (born 20 May 1964), styled Viscount Althorp between 1975 and 1992, is a British nobleman, peer, author...

Charles Waddell Chesnutt (June 20, 1858 – November 15, 1932) was an African-American writer. He wrote several books like The Marrow of Tradition and The...

the rightful king of France, and many French people agreed. Charles VI's last son, Charles VII of France, said that he ought to be the new king, but many...

wasn't until 1960 that a Roman Catholic, John F. Kennedy, was elected. Charles Curtis was elected vice president, becoming the first Native American and...

Sunday in the Julian calendar. November 13 – Treaty of Vienna Ethan Allen – January 21 Lord Charles Cornwallis – December 31 Charles Townshend – June 21...

language used to explain complex thoughts. It has 850 words chosen by Charles Kay Ogden. Some articles in the Simple English Wikipedia use only Basic...

United Kingdom and formal head of Church of England. The current monarch is Charles III who has reigned since 2022. The king is currently the head of the UK...

Charles the Younger (772 - 4 December 811) was Frankish King of Neustria and Franken. His parents were the Frankish emperor Charlemagne and Hildegard...

Tjalling Charles Koopmans (August 28, 1910 – February 26, 1985) was a Dutch-American mathematician and economist. He was the joint winner with Leonid...

Jeh Charles Johnson (born September 11, 1957) is an American civil and criminal trial lawyer. He was born in New York City. He was the United States Secretary...

from 1350 until his death. John II was succeeded by his son, Charles, who reigned as Charles V of France, known as The Wise. Père Anselme, Histoire généalogique...

Moulton Marston (May 9, 1893 – May 2, 1947), also known by the pen name Charles Moulton (/ˈmoʊltən/) was an American psychologist and comic book writer...

Peter I of Russia (1682–1725). King Charles II of Spain (1665–1700). King Charles XI of Sweden (1660–1697). King Charles XII of Sweden (1697–1718). Daibhidh...

Charles Bennett Deane Jr. (February 21, 1937 – February 6, 2022) was an American lawyer and politician. Deane was born in Rockingham, North Carolina....

Charles Robert Jenkins (February 18, 1940 – December 11, 2017) was a former United States Army soldier. He lived in North Korea from 1965 to 2004 after...

Prince Charles, Count of Flanders Born October 10th, 1903 in Brussels, Belgium. Parents Prince Albert I, Princess Elisabeth. Future King and Queen of...

Charles Robberts Swart DMS (5 December 1894 – 16 July 1982), nicknamed Blackie, was a South African politician who served as the last Governor-General...

Charles Kirby was a British inventor known for refining the manufacture of the fishing hook during the 1650s. Most notably, he created a hook that was...

Prince Charles Stuart King Charles II of England May 15 – John Thurloe arrested for high treason after English Restoration May 23 – King Charles II of...

Charles Foster Bass (born January 8, 1952) is an American politician. He is a member of the Republican Party. He was a member of the United States House...

Charles "Chuckie" Anthony Nicoletti (December 3, 1916 – March 29, 1977), also known as "The Typewriter" and "Chuckie Typewriter", was an American mobster...

Elementary School, Andalusia Middle School, and Andalusia High School. Charles Brooks, editorial cartoonist Robert Horry, NBA player Nico Johnson, NFL...

Charles Booker (born October 20, 1984) is an American politician. He was a member of the Kentucky House of Representatives for the 43rd district from...

Charles Wilson Buttz (November 16, 1837 – July 20, 1913) was a U.S. Representative for South Carolina. He was a member of the Republican Party. He was...

(April 5, 1726– April 24, 1791) was an American revolutionary leader from Charles City County, Virginia. He was educated at the College of William and Mary...

Charles Cecil MBE (born 11 August 1962) is an English video game designer. He has worked in the interactive entertainment industry for 25 years. He is...

north-northeastern suburbs of Paris, 20.6 km (12.8 mi) from the center. It is near Charles de Gaulle Airport. This short article about a place or feature in France...

literature written in Canada, or by Canadians. Notable writers include Charles Sangster, Saul Bellow, Margaret Atwood, Mordecai Richler, Michael Ondaatje...

Charles Hillman Brough was an American Democratic Party politician. He was the governor of Arkansas from 1917 to 1921. During his time as governor, many...

the Holy Roman Empire ruled by Charles IV (1316-1378) who was the most powerful ruler in Europe at the time. Charles made Prague a great city, building...

the north of France. In 2012, 2,055 people lived there. In July 1429, Charles VII of France along with Joan of Arc and after his coronation in Reims...

to surface in the 18th century, and become the majority view in time of Charles Darwin. Before Darwin, most naturalists did not think of themselves as...

Rory Charles Graham (born 29 January 1985), better known as Rag'n'Bone Man, is a British singer and songwriter. He is known for having a deep baritone...

s-, d-, f, and p-. The word "block" was first used to describe this by Charles Janet. The p-block is on the right side of the periodic table. Elements...

Egide Charles Gustave, Baron Wappers (23 August 1803 Antwerp – 6 December 1874 Paris), better known as Gustave Wappers, was a Belgian painter. He studied...

(as Tru Kids Brands) and others. The company was founded in 1957, by Charles Lazarus. Its first store was built in April 1948. The headquarters of the...

This is a list of United States senators from Kansas. Charles Curtis served as President pro tempore on a rotating basis with Augustus O. Bacon, Jacob...

is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in St. Charles Parish, Louisiana, United States. This short article about a place or feature...

of May 15, 1968, an powerful Multi-vortex tornado hit Hansell, Hampton, Charles City, Elma and Aredale across central and northern Iowa. Unfortunately...

Catherine of Medici, wife of Henry II of France Charles Martel Charles IV of France Charles VI of France Charles IX of France Clotaire III Constance of Arles...

Charles Simonyi (/sɪˈmoʊni/; Hungarian: Simonyi Károly, pronounced [ˈʃimoɲi ˈkaːroj]; born September 10, 1948) is a Hungarian-born American software architect...

September 1760) was a Duchess of Saxony of the House of Wettin and wife of Charles III of Spain. Married to the then King of Naples, at the death of her brother...

St. Charles is a city in Iowa in the United States. This short article about a place or feature in the United States can be made longer. You can help...

in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana, United States. It is a suburb of Lake Charles. "2020 U.S. Gazetteer Files". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved March...

Corporal Charles Brown (born 1849) received the United States's highest honor for bravery. It is called the Medal of Honor. Corporal Brown was a United...

Sir Charles Antony "Tony" Richard Hoare (11 January 1934 – 5 March 2026), also known as C. A. R. Hoare, was an English computer scientist. He was probably...

Charles Edward Russell (September 25, 1860 – April 23, 1941) was an American journalist and politician. He started the National Association for the Advancement...

ISBN 9780470228999. Wohlforth, Charles P. (2007). Frommer's Alaska 2008. Frommer's. p. 434. ISBN 9780470152881. Wohlforth, Charles P. (2007). Alaska for Dummies...

Charles Kwabla Akonnor (born 12 March 1974) is a Ghanaian football manager and former player who most recently managed the Ghana national team. A former...

Philip David Charles "Phil" Collins LVO (born 30 January 1951) is an English drummer, songwriter, actor and singer. He was born in Chiswick, Hounslow...

Sir Charles Umpherston Aitchison (1832 – 1896), was a British Indian administrator. He was Lieutenant-Governor of the Punjab from 1882 to 1887. He was...

Adolphe Charles Adam (24 July 1803 – 3 May 1856) was a French composer and music critic. He composed many operas and ballets. He is best known today for...

Charles H. Pitman (October 20, 1935 – February 13, 2020) was an American politician. He was lieutenant general in the United States Marine Corps. Pitman...

Charles Samuel Braude ((1915-05-23)23 May 1915 – 5 August 1991(1991-08-05) (aged 76)) was a Norwegian-born Jewish boxer and Holocaust survivor. He was...

in the 20 minutes between Charles X's formal signature of abdication and the Dauphin's own signature. Henri d'Artois, Charles X's grandson, is said by...

began by the crowning of Charlemagne, or Charles the Great, and ended by the death of his descendant Charles the Fat. The empire can be seen as the later...

was a turning point in the Charles Darwin's thinking about evolution by natural selection. They are barely mentioned in Charles Darwin's book, On the Origin...

English doctor. He won the 1932 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Charles Scott Sherrington for the discoveries about the functions of neurons. "Biography...

the English Civil War. It began with the execution of Charles I in 1649 and ended when Charles II became king in 1660. Oliver Cromwell had died in 1658...

Charles Adams was the second born son of 2nd U.S. president John Adams and former first lady Abigail Adams (nee Smith). This short article about a person from...

Louis Charles Antoine Desaix (17 August 1768 – 14 June 1800) was a general of France. Napoleon Bonaparte created two monuments in the memory of Desaix;...

Admiral Sir Charles Howe Fremantle GCB RN (2 June 1800 – 25 May 1869) was a British Royal Navy officer. The city of Fremantle in Western Australia is...

(1682–1696) Tsar Peter I of Russia (1682–1725) King Charles II of Spain (1665–1700) King Charles XI of Sweden (1660–1697) Padshah Aurangazeb (Mughal Empire)...

Charles Linza McNary (June 12, 1874 – February 25, 1944) was a United States Republican politician from Oregon. He was a member of the U.S. Senate from...

Charles de Tornaco (June 7, 1927 - September 18, 1953) was a race car driver from Belgium. He drove in Formula One World Championship Grands Prix. He...

Charles John Perry Keene was an archer from Great Britain. He was born on 11 April 1846 and died on 29 November 1926. Keene competed at the 1908 Summer...

Charles Henry Bennett (born 1943) is an American physicist and information theorist. He is a fellow at IBM Research. Bennett's recent work at IBM focused...

Restoration" means both the events at the start of Charles II's reign and the period of time after they happened. Charles II came back to England after his exile...

current Canadian monarch and head of state is King Charles III, who has reigned since 8 September 2022. Charles' eldest son, Prince William, Prince of Wales...

monarch, currently Charles III, of the United Kingdom. They often attend events and help the monarch carry out their duty. King Charles III and Queen Camilla...

Charles Daniel Ferris (born April 9, 1933, died February 16, 2024) is an American lawyer and former government official. He was nominated by President...

about him. He served in Christianity during the years 97-105 C.E. Author Charles A. Coulombe states that he was a Jew and came from a Jewish family from...

Charles Marvin Green Jr. (October 16, 1950  better known as Angry Grandpa or simply AGP, was an American internet personality and former firefighter....

under the English Poor Law for supporting the poor people of their parish. Charles Dickens described how this worked. The parish would employ a beadle who...

of Great Britain (1714–1727). Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor (1705–1711). Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor (1711–1740). Husayn, Shah of Persia during the Safavid...

Pequossette and the Nonantum, had settlements on what is now called the Charles River. The Pequossette built a fishing weir to trap herring. This was at...

Keanu Charles Reeves (born September 2, 1964) is a Canadian actor. He is known for his roles in movies like the Bill and Ted series, The Matrix series...

Destrehan is a census-designated place (CDP) in St. Charles Parish, Louisiana, United States. As of the 2020 census, Destrehan had a population of 11...

manufacturer Macintosh and similar spellings is a surname: Charles Macintosh (Scottish inventor) Charles Rennie Mackintosh (Scottish architect and designer)...

strong enough to rule, and Charles II, the son of Charles I, was invited to come to England and be king in 1660. When King Charles II died, his brother James...

Charles "Charlie" Burrell (October 4, 1920 – June 17, 2025) was an American classical and jazz bass player. He was known for being the first African-American...

from 1328 to 1529. The kings of the House of Valois were descended from Charles of Valois who was the third son of Philip III of France. They claimed the...

Neil Armstrong Yuri Gagarin Charles Lindbergh Alan Shepard Valentina Tereshkova Wright brothers John Glenn John W. Young Charles de Gaulle Dwight D. Eisenhower...

over the UK. Anne was born during the reign of her uncle, King Charles II. After Charles' death, Anne's father James II became King of England. James was...

A Tale of Two Cities is a book written by Charles Dickens. It was published (printed) in 1859. It is set during the time of the French Revolution (1775-1793)...

Parliament serve as government. January 30 – Prince Charles Stuart declares himself King Charles II of England, Scotland and Ireland. At the time all...