List of Famous people named Charles

Charles William Duncan Jr. is an American entrepreneur, administrator, and politician best known for serving as U.S. Secretary of Energy in the Cabinet of President Jimmy Carter from 1979 to 1981. He had previously served as Carter's United States Deputy Secretary of Defense during the Iranian Revolution. Earlier, Duncan had run the family business, Duncan Coffee Company of Houston, Texas, for seven years, until the Coca-Cola Company acquired it in 1964. After seven years on the Coke board, Duncan became the corporation's president.

Charles Victor Grahmann was an American Roman Catholic bishop who served as the sixth Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Dallas.

Charles Tyson Yerkes Jr. was an American financier. He played a part in developing mass-transit systems in Chicago and London.

Charles Nelson was an American film editor. He won the Academy Award for Best Film Editing in 1956 for Picnic, and was nominated in 1946 for A Song to Remember, and in 1965 for Cat Ballou.

Charles Stebbins Fairchild was a New York businessman and politician who served as United States Secretary of the Treasury from 1887 to 1889 and Attorney General of New York from 1876 to 1877. He was a notable anti-suffragist, challenging the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1920 and serving as president of the American Constitutional League.