List of Famous people named Charles
Charles Grenfell
Charles Pascoe Grenfell was a British businessman and Liberal Party politician.
Charles Austin ffrench, 3rd Baron ffrench of Castle ffrench
Charles Sheldon Whitehouse
Charles Sheldon Whitehouse was an American career diplomat. He was United States Ambassador to Laos and the United States Ambassador to Thailand.
Charles La Trobe
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.
Charles Gordon
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.
Charles Tripp
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.
Charles Langbridge Morgan
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.
Charles Gardiner, 1st Earl of Blessington
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.
Charles Bathurst
Charles Stourton, 24th Baron Mowbray
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.