List of Famous people named Charles

Charles Green was a British astronomer, noted for his assignment by the Royal Society in 1768 to the expedition sent to the Pacific Ocean in order to observe the transit of Venus aboard James Cook's Endeavour.

Charles J. Winninger was an American stage and film actor, most often cast in comedies or musicals.

Charles White FRS was an English physician and a co-founder of the Manchester Royal Infirmary along with local industrialist Joseph Bancroft as well as the St Mary's Hospital for Lying in Women in 1790. White was an able and innovative surgeon who made significant contributions in the field of orthopaedics, surgery and obstetrics.He was a founder and then for 23 years a Vice President of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society the second oldest such institution in the country. He is with the Halls the founder of Medicine in Manchester.

Charles Greeley Abbot was an American astrophysicist and the fifth secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, serving from 1928 until 1944. Abbot went from being director of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, to becoming Assistant Secretary, and then Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution over the course of his career. As an astrophysicist, he researched the solar constant, research that led him to invent the solar cooker, solar boiler, solar still, and other patented solar energy inventions.