Charles

Charles is a boy's name of German origin. There are many famous people named Charles:

• Charles Aznavour, Armenian-French singer
• Charles Babbage, English inventor
• Charles Barkley, American basketball player
• Charles Blanvillain, French rapper
• Charles Bronson, American actor
• Charles Carroll of Carrollton, signer of the Declaration of Independence
• Charles Chaplin, American actor
• Charles Chesnutt, American author
• Charles Colson, American lawyer
• Charles Cornwallis, British general and politician
• Charles Court, Australian politician
• Charles Curtis, Vice-President of the United States
• Charles Darwin, who came up with the theory of evolution
• Charles G. Dawes, Nobel Laureate and Vice-President of the United States
• Charles Ellis, English physicist
• Charles de Gaulle, French general and President
• Charles Dickens, English author
• Charles Ebbets, owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers
• Charles Foster, Ohio Congressman
• Charles Gounod, French composer
• Charles Hendry, British MP
• Charles Higounet, French historian
• Charles Hoare, English computer scientist
• Charles Evans Hughes, Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
• Charles Ives, American composer
• Charles Lindbergh, American pilot
• Charles Lummis, American author and historian
• Charles-Louis Montesquieu, French philosopher
• Charles Spurgeon, British preacher
• Charles de Tornaco, Belgian racecar driver
• Charles Doolittle Walcott, American paleontologist
• Charles Frederick Worth, fashion designer

Rulers and noblemen named Charles

• Charles I of England, King of England, 1625-49
• Charles II of England, King of England, 1660-85
• Charles IV of France, King of France, 1322-28
• Charles I of Spain, King of Spain and Holy Roman Emperor, 1519-58
• Charles IV of Spains, King of Spain 1788-1808
• Charles, Duke of Berry, grandson of Louis XIV
• Charles, Duke of Guelders, Dutch nobleman
• Charles I of Austria , final monarch of AUSTROHUNGARIAN KINGDOM
• Charles Edward Stuart, a.k.a. Bonnie Prince Charlie, Jacobin pretender
• Charles Emmanuel II, Duke of Savoy from 1638 to 1675
• Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia, Duke of Savoy and King of Sardinia 1730-1773
• Charles Emmanuel IV of Sardinia, King of Sardinia 1796-1802
• Charles Felix of Sardinia, King of Sardinia 1821-1831
• Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, British PM
• Charles, Prince of Wales, heir to the British throne