List of Famous people named Charles

Name Charles is among the most common names in USA, France, England, Canada. Often it's a shorthand for Karl. Similar names: Karl, Charlize. Here are some famous Charleses:

Charles Grenfell

First Name Charles
Last Name Grenfell
Born on April 4, 1790
Died on March 21, 1867 (aged 76)

Charles Pascoe Grenfell was a British businessman and Liberal Party politician.

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Charles Austin ffrench, 3rd Baron ffrench of Castle ffrench

First Name Charles
Last Name Ffrench
Born on April 9, 1786
Died on September 25, 1860 (aged 74)
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Charles Sheldon Whitehouse

First Name Charles
Last Name Whitehouse
Born on November 5, 1921
Died on June 25, 2001 (aged 79)

Charles Sheldon Whitehouse was an American career diplomat. He was United States Ambassador to Laos and the United States Ambassador to Thailand.

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Charles La Trobe

First Name Charles
Last Name Trobe
Born on March 20, 1801
Died on December 4, 1875 (aged 74)

Charles Joseph La Trobe, CB, commonly Latrobe, was appointed in 1839 superintendent of the Port Phillip District of New South Wales and, after the establishment in 1851 of the colony of Victoria, he became its first lieutenant-governor.

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Charles Gordon

First Name Charles
Last Name Gordon
Born on November 30, 1725
Died on December 28, 1794 (aged 69)

Charles Gordon, 4th Earl of Aboyne. The eldest son of John Gordon, 3rd Earl of Aboyne and Grace Lockhart, he succeeded his father as 4th Earl of Aboyne on 7 April 1732. On his death in 1794 he was succeeded in his titles by his eldest son.

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Charles Tripp

First Name Charles
Last Name Tripp
Born on July 1, 1826
Died on July 6, 1897 (aged 71)

Charles George Tripp was a pioneering sheep farmer in South Canterbury, New Zealand. Together with his friend and business partner John Acland, he was the first to use the Canterbury high country for sheep farming.

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Charles Langbridge Morgan

First Name Charles
Last Name Morgan
Born on January 22, 1894
Died on February 6, 1958 (aged 64)

Charles Langbridge Morgan was a British playwright and novelist of English and Welsh parentage. The main themes of his work were, as he himself put it, "Art, Love, and Death", and the relation between them. Themes of individual novels range from the paradoxes of freedom, through passionate love seen from within and without, to the conflict of good and evil and the enchanted boundary of death (Sparkenbroke). He was the husband of Welsh novelist Hilda Vaughan.

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Charles Gardiner, 1st Earl of Blessington

First Name Charles
Last Name Blessington
Born on July 19, 1782
Died on May 25, 1829 (aged 46)

Charles John Gardiner, 1st Earl of Blessington was an Irish earl best known for his marriage to Margaret Farmer, née Power, whom he married at St Mary's, Bryanston Square, London, on 16 February 1818. He was elected a representative peer in 1809, created Earl of Blessington in 1816, and inherited the title of Viscount Mountjoy in 1798. He was present at the trial of Queen Caroline.

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Charles Bathurst

First Name Charles
Last Name Bathurst
Died on August 13, 1831
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Charles Stourton, 24th Baron Mowbray

First Name Charles
Last Name Mowbray
Born on May 23, 1867
Died on July 29, 1936 (aged 69)

Charles Stourton, 21st Baron Stourton, 25th Baron Segrave, 24th Baron Mowbray was the son of Alfred Joseph Stourton, 20th Baron Stourton, 24th Baron Segrave and 23rd Baron Mowbray and Mary Margaret Corbally.

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