List of Famous people named Charles

Charles Bennet, 2nd Earl of Tankerville KT, styled Lord Ossulston between 1714 and 1722, was a British peer and politician.

Charles Bernstein is an American poet, essayist, editor, and literary scholar. Bernstein is the Donald T. Regan Professor, Emeritus, Department of English at the University of Pennsylvania. He is one of the most prominent members of the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E or Language poets. In 2006 he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. and in 2019 he was awarded the Bollingen Prize from Yale University, the premiere American prize for lifetime achievement, given on the occasion of the publication of Near/Miss. Bernstein was David Gray Professor of Poetry and Poetics at SUNY-Buffalo from 1990–2003, where he co-founded the Poetics Program. A volume of Bernstein's selected poetry from the past thirty years, All the Whiskey in Heaven, was published in 2010 by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. The Salt Companion to Charles Bernstein was published in 2012 by Salt Publishing.

Charles Lewis Grant was an American novelist and short story writer specializing in what he called "dark fantasy" and "quiet horror." He also wrote under the pseudonyms of Geoffrey Marsh, Lionel Fenn, Simon Lake, Felicia Andrews, and Deborah Lewis.

Charles John Baillie-Hamilton was a British Conservative Party politician.

Charles II Albert de Longueval, 3rd count of Bucquoy was a military commander, officeholder, and nobleman in the Habsburg realms of the Low Countries and Bohemia. He was the son of Charles Bonaventure de Longueval, 2nd Count of Bucquoy, and Maria Magdalena, Countess of Biglia.