List of Famous people named Charles

Charles Vernon (Chuck) Shank is an American physicist, best known as the director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory from 1989 to 2004.

Charles Richard Shyer is an American film director, screenwriter and producer. Shyer's films are predominantly comedies, often with a romantic-comedy overtone. His films include Private Benjamin (1980), Irreconcilable Differences (1984), Baby Boom (1987), Father of the Bride (1991), and Father of the Bride Part II (1995), The Parent Trap (1998), The Affair of the Necklace (2001), Alfie (2004), and Ieri, Oggi Domani (2012).

Charles Bent was an American businessman and politician who served as the first civilian governor of the New Mexico Territory, newly acquired by the Military Governor, Stephen Watts Kearny, in September 1846.

Charles Armand René de La Trémoille, 6th duc de Thouars, was the son of Charles Louis Bretagne de La Trémoille and his wife, Marie Madeleine Motier de la Fayette.

Charles William Morris was an American philosopher and semiotician.

Major Charles Henry Lyell was a British politician and Liberal Member of Parliament who died in the First World War.