List of Famous people named Chuck

Often it's a shorthand for Charles. Similar names: Charles, Chuka, Chucho, Chucky. Here are some famous Chucks:

Chuck Norris

Carlos Ray Norris
First Name Chuck
Last Name Norris
Born on March 10, 1940 (age 83)
Height 174 cm | 5'9

Carlos Ray "Chuck" Norris is an American martial artist, actor, film producer, and screenwriter. After serving in the United States Air Force, Norris won many martial arts championships and later founded his own discipline Chun Kuk Do. Norris is a black belt in Tang Soo Do, Brazilian jiu jitsu and judo. Shortly after, in Hollywood, Norris trained celebrities in martial arts. Norris went on to appear in a minor role in the spy film The Wrecking Crew (1969). Friend and fellow actor Bruce Lee invited him to play one of the main villains in Way of the Dragon (1972). While Norris continued acting, friend and student Steve McQueen suggested to him that he take it seriously. Norris took the starring role in the action film Breaker! Breaker! (1977), which turned a profit. His second lead Good Guys Wear Black (1978) became a hit, and Norris became a popular action film star.

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Chuck Palahniuk

First Name Chuck
Last Name Palahniuk
Born on February 21, 1962 (age 61)

Charles Michael Palahniuk is an American freelance journalist and novelist who describes his work as transgressional fiction. He is the author of the award-winning novel Fight Club, which also was made into a film of the same name, starring Brad Pitt and Edward Norton.

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Chuck Berry

Charles Edward Anderson Berry
First Name Chuck
Last Name Berry
Born on October 18, 1926
Died on March 18, 2017 (aged 90)
Height 184 cm | 6'0

Charles Edward Anderson Berry was an American singer, songwriter and guitarist, and one of the pioneers of rock and roll music. Nicknamed the "Father of Rock and Roll", Berry refined and developed rhythm and blues into the major elements that made rock and roll distinctive with songs such as "Maybellene" (1955), "Roll Over Beethoven" (1956), "Rock and Roll Music" (1957) and "Johnny B. Goode" (1958). Writing lyrics that focused on teen life and consumerism, and developing a music style that included guitar solos and showmanship, Berry was a major influence on subsequent rock music.

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Chuck Yeager

Charles Elwood Yeager
First Name Chuck
Last Name Yeager
Born on February 13, 1923
Died on December 7, 2020 (aged 97)

Charles Elwood Yeager was a United States Air Force officer, flying ace, and record-setting test pilot who in 1947 became the first pilot in history confirmed to have exceeded the speed of sound in level flight.

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Chuck Grassley

Charles Ernest Grassley
First Name Chuck
Last Name Grassley
Born on September 17, 1933 (age 89)

Charles Ernest Grassley is an American politician serving as the president pro tempore emeritus of the United States Senate, and the senior United States senator from Iowa. He is in his seventh term in the Senate, having first been elected in 1980.

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Chuck Liddell

Charles David Liddell
First Name Chuck
Last Name Liddell
Born on December 17, 1969 (age 53)
Height 185 cm | 6'1

Charles David Liddell is a retired American mixed martial artist and former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion. He has an extensive striking background in Kenpo, Karate, and Kickboxing, as well as a grappling background in collegiate wrestling and Brazilian jiu-jitsu. Liddell had 23 fights in the UFC; along with Randy Couture, he is widely credited with bringing MMA into the mainstream of American sports and entertainment. On July 10, 2009, he was inducted into the UFC Hall of Fame.

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Chuck Woolery

First Name Chuck
Last Name Woolery
Born on March 16, 1941 (age 82)
Height 188 cm | 6'2

Charles Herbert Woolery is an American former game show host, talk show host, and musician. He has had long-running tenures hosting several game shows. Woolery was the original host of Wheel of Fortune (1975–1981), the original incarnation of Love Connection (1983–1994), Scrabble, Greed on Fox from 1999 to 2000, and Lingo on Game Show Network from 2002 to 2007.

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Chuck Feeney

First Name Chuck
Last Name Feeney
Born on April 23, 1931 (age 92)

Charles Francis Feeney is an Irish-American businessman and philanthropist who made his fortune as a co-founder of the Duty Free Shoppers Group. He is the founder of The Atlantic Philanthropies, one of the largest private charitable foundations in the world. Feeney gave away his fortune in secret for many years, until a business dispute resulted in his identity being revealed in 1997. Feeney has given away more than $8 billion.

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Chuck Barris

First Name Chuck
Last Name Barris
Born on June 3, 1929
Died on March 21, 2017 (aged 87)

Charles Hirsch Barris was an American game show creator, producer, and host. Barris was known for hosting The Gong Show and creating The Dating Game and The Newlywed Game. He was also a songwriter who wrote "Palisades Park" recorded by Freddy Cannon. Barris wrote an autobiography titled Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, which was made into the film of the same name and directed by George Clooney.

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Chuck Connors

Kevin Joseph Aloysius Connors
First Name Chuck
Last Name Connors
Born on April 10, 1921
Died on November 10, 1992 (aged 71)
Height 197 cm | 6'6

Kevin Joseph Aloysius "Chuck" Connors was an American actor, writer, and professional basketball and baseball player. He is one of only 13 athletes in the history of American professional sports to have played both Major League Baseball and in the National Basketball Association. With a 40-year film and television career, he is best known for his five-year role as Lucas McCain in the highly rated ABC series The Rifleman (1958–63).

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Chuck Lorre

Charles Michael Levine
First Name Chuck
Last Name Lorre
Born on October 18, 1952 (age 70)

Charles Michael "Chuck" Lorre is an American television director, writer, producer, composer and actor. Called the "King of Sitcoms" during the 2010s, he has created and produced sitcoms including Grace Under Fire, Cybill, Dharma & Greg, Two and a Half Men, The Big Bang Theory, Mike & Molly, Mom, Young Sheldon, The Kominsky Method, Disjointed, Bob Hearts Abishola, and United States of Al. He also served as an executive producer of Roseanne. He won Golden Globe Awards for Roseanne (1993) and Cybill (1996), and won the 2019 Golden Globe Award for The Kominsky Method.

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Chuck Todd

First Name Chuck
Last Name Todd
Born on April 8, 1972 (age 51)

Charles David Todd is an American television journalist who is the 12th and current moderator of NBC's Meet the Press. He also hosts MTP Daily on MSNBC and is the Political Director for NBC News. Before taking the helm of Meet the Press, Todd was Chief White House correspondent for NBC as well as host of The Daily Rundown on MSNBC. He also serves as NBC News' on-air political analyst for NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt and Today.

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Chuck Mosley

Charles Henry Mosley
First Name Chuck
Last Name Mosley
Born on December 26, 1959
Died on November 9, 2017 (aged 57)

Charles Henry Mosley III was an American musician, singer and songwriter, who was best known as the frontman for Faith No More from 1984 to 1988. During his tenure with the band, they released two albums, We Care a Lot and Introduce Yourself.

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Chuck Wepner

First Name Chuck
Last Name Wepner
Born on February 26, 1939 (age 84)

Charles Wepner is an American former professional boxer who fought as a heavyweight. As a world-ranked contender, he fell just seconds short of a full fifteen rounds with world heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali in a 1975 title fight. Wepner also scored notable wins over Randy Neumann and former World Heavyweight Champion Ernie Terrell. He was also the last man to fight undisputed world heavyweight champion Sonny Liston.

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Chuck Finley

Charles Edward Finley is a retired Major League Baseball left-handed pitcher. He pitched from 1986–2002 for three teams, but pitched primarily with the California Angels. After a 14-year tenure with the Angels, he played for the Cleveland Indians for three years, and then was traded to the St. Louis Cardinals and played there for half a season. During a 17-year baseball career, Finley compiled 200 wins, 2,610 strikeouts, and a 3.85 earned run average. He is the Angels all-time career leader in wins (165), innings pitched (2,675), games started (379) and is 27th in strikeouts (2,151). He lives in Newport Beach, California.

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Chuck Pagano

First Name Chuck
Last Name Pagano
Born on October 2, 1960 (age 62)

Charles David Pagano is a former American football coach and former player. Pagano spent five seasons in the National Football League (NFL) as head coach of the Indianapolis Colts from 2012–2017. He also served as the defensive coordinator for the Baltimore Ravens in 2011, and as defensive coordinator of the Chicago Bears from 2019–2020. Pagano has also served as an assistant coach for the Oakland Raiders and Cleveland Browns. He is the older brother of John Pagano. After the Colts fired him following the 2017 season, Pagano took a year off from coaching, working as a consultant for the NFL.

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Chuck Tingle

First Name Chuck
Last Name Tingle

Chuck Tingle is a pseudonymous author, primarily of gay niche erotica. He self-publishes his works through Amazon.com, primarily as ebooks, but also as paperbacks and audiobooks. Tingle began his career by writing dinosaur erotica and expanded to stories on such topics as unicorns, Bigfoot, and even concepts and inanimate objects.

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Chuck Hughes

First Name Chuck
Last Name Hughes
Died on October 24, 1971 (aged 1)

Charles Frederick Hughes was an American football player, a wide receiver in the National Football League from 1967 to 1971. He is, to date, the only NFL player to die on the field during a game.

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Chuck Blazer

First Name Chuck
Last Name Blazer
Born on April 26, 1945
Died on July 12, 2017 (aged 72)

Charles Gordon Blazer was an American soccer administrator, who held a number of high level positions before becoming a government informant on widespread corruption within organized soccer. He was a FIFA Executive Committee member from 1996 to 2013, the CONCACAF General Secretary from 1990 until 2011, and Executive Vice President of the U.S. Soccer Federation.

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Chuck McCann

Charles Jonathan Thomas McCann
First Name Chuck
Last Name McCann
Born on September 2, 1934
Died on April 8, 2018 (aged 83)

Charles John Thomas McCann was an American actor, voice artist, comedian, puppeteer, commercial presenter and television host. He was best known for his work in presenting children's television programming and animation, as well as his own program The Chuck McCann Show and he also recorded comedy parody style albums.

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