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 Alphonse Pantaléon Pelletier

First Name Charles
Last Name Pelletier
Born on January 22, 1837
Died on April 29, 1911 (aged 74)
Born in Canada, Quebec

Sir Charles Alphonse Pantaléon Pelletier, was a Canadian lawyer, militia officer, politician, publisher, judge, and the ninth Lieutenant Governor of Quebec.

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Charles Mills, 2nd Baron Hillingdon

First Name Charles
Last Name Hillingdon
Born on January 26, 1855
Died on April 6, 1919 (aged 64)

Charles William Mills, 2nd Baron Hillingdon was a British banker and Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1892, speaking once, in 1889.

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Charles Mills

First Name Charles
Last Name Mills
Born on July 13, 1755
Died on January 29, 1826 (aged 70)

Charles Mills was a British Member of Parliament and a Director of the British East India Company.

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Charles Middleton, 2nd Earl of Middleton

First Name Charles
Last Name Middleton
Born on November 30, 1648
Died on August 9, 1719 (aged 70)

Charles Middleton, 2nd Earl of Middleton, Jacobite 1st Earl of Monmouth, PC was a Scottish and English politician who held several offices under Charles II and James II & VII. He served as Secretary of State for Scotland, the Northern Department and the Southern Department, before acting as Jacobite Secretary of State and chief advisor to James II and then his son James III during their exile in France.

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Charles Westland Greene

First Name Charles
Last Name Greene
Born on May 9, 1885
Died on December 24, 1965 (aged 80)
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Charles Kerr, 2nd Earl of Ancram

First Name Charles
Last Name Ancram
Born on August 6, 1624
Died on January 1, 1690 (aged 65)

Charles Kerr, 2nd Earl of Ancram was a Scottish peer and a member of the English House of Commons.

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Charles Cecil

First Name Charles
Last Name Cecil
Born on August 11, 1962 (age 63)

Charles Cecil is a British video game designer and co-founder of Revolution Software. His family lived in the Democratic Republic of the Congo when he was still very young, but was evacuated two years after Mobutu Sese Seko's coup d'état. He studied at Bedales School in Hampshire, England. In 1980 he began his studies in Engineering Manufacture and Management at Manchester University, where he met student Richard Turner who invited him to write text adventures for Artic Computing. After completing his degree in 1985 he decided to continue his career in game development and became director of Artic. The following year he established Paragon Programming, a game development company working with British publisher U.S. Gold. In 1987 he moved into publishing as a software development manager for U.S. Gold. A year later he was approached by Activision and was offered the position of manager of their European development studio.

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Charles Lucas

First Name Charles
Last Name Lucas
Born on November 30, 1612
Died on August 28, 1648 (aged 35)

Sir Charles Lucas was an English soldier, a Royalist commander in the English Civil War.

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Charles Hamilton Martin

First Name Charles
Last Name Martin
Born on April 23, 1882
Died on December 4, 1969 (aged 87)
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Charles Loftus, 1st Marquess of Ely

First Name Charles
Last Name Ely
Born on January 23, 1738
Died on March 22, 1806 (aged 68)

Charles Tottenham Loftus, 1st Marquess of Ely, KP, PC was an Anglo-Irish peer and politician.

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