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Chariton
Chariton (Χαρίτων), in full Chariton of Aphrodisias, was a Greek novelist who wrote Chaereas and Callirhoe, generally regarded as the earliest fully extant Greek novel.
Charitraheen
Charitraheen (চরিত্রহীন, "Characterless") is a 1917 Bengali novel by Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, set in early 1900s Bengal, that attacks society's rumor-based judgment of character and remains frequently adapted.
Charity Shop Sue
Charity Shop Sue, aka Sue Tuke, is the fictional Bulwell, Nottingham charity shop manager played by Selina Mosinski in the 2019 YouTube mockumentary by Dead Sweet TV, later an LGBTQ+ icon and social media star.
Charity Wakefield
Charity Wakefield, full name Charity Rose Wakefield, is an English actress and producer known for playing Marianne Dashwood in Sense and Sensibility (2008) and Mary Boleyn in Wolf Hall (2015).
Charivari
Charivari, called rough music in English, is a European folk custom in which communities staged noisy mock serenades, banging pots and pans, to shame people over marriages deemed improper.
Charlaine Harris
Charlaine Harris (born 1951), also author of the Southern Vampire Mysteries, is an American novelist whose Sookie Stackhouse books inspired HBO's True Blood; she wrote Aurora Teagarden, Lily Bard, Harper Connelly, Midnight Texas, and Gunnie Rose series since 1981.
Charlayne Woodard
Charlayne Woodard (born Charlaine Woodard, 1953, Albany, NY) is an American actress and playwright, Tony-nominated for Ain't Misbehavin', two-time Obie winner, and author of the solo plays Pretty Fire, Neat, In Real Life, and The Night Watcher.
Charlbi Dean
Charlbi Dean (Charlbi Dean Kriek, 1990–2022), South African actress and model from Cape Town; Spud films, Black Lightning's Syonide, and Yaya in Cannes Palme d'Or winner Triangle of Sadness; died of sepsis in New York.
Charle
Charle (Velmurugan Thangasamy Manohar, வேல்முருகன் தங்கசாமி மனோகர்), born 1960, Tamil film comedian and character actor, debut Poikkal Kudhirai (1983), 550-800+ films, PhD from Tamil University 2019.
Charlene Choi
Charlene Choi (蔡卓妍, Ah Sa), born 1982 in Vancouver, is a Hong Kong Canadian actress and singer, one half of Cantopop duo Twins with Gillian Chung, and a multi-nominated Hong Kong Film Award actress.
Charlene Holt
Charlene Holt (Verna Charlene Stavely, 1928-1996), American actress and former Miss Maryland; discovered by Howard Hawks via a lipstick commercial; played Maudie in El Dorado (1966), Tex Connors in Man's Favorite Sport?, and Hippolyte in the 1974 Wonder Woman TV movie.
Charlene McKenna
Charlene McKenna, Irish actress born 1984 in Glaslough, County Monaghan, known for Pure Mule, Raw, Ripper Street, Peaky Blinders, Vienna Blood, and Clean Sweep; 2009 IFTA and Golden Nymph winner, married to Adam Rothenberg.
Charlene Tilton
Charlene Tilton is an American actress and producer. She is best known for playing Lucy Ewing on Dallas from 1978 to 1990, and later returned for the 2012 revival.
Charles "Buddy" Rogers
Charles "Buddy" Rogers (1904-1999), American film actor and bandleader from Olathe, Kansas; star of Wings (1927), first Best Picture Oscar winner; husband of Mary Pickford; led the California Cavaliers.
Charles & Eddie
Charles & Eddie were a 1990s American soul duo, Charles Pettigrew and Eddie Chacon, who met on a New York subway in 1990. Their 1992 debut Duophonic produced the UK number-one hit Would I Lie to You?; Chocolate Milk (1995) followed before the split.
Charles & Keith
Charles & Keith, Singapore fashion label founded 1996 by Charles and Keith Wong, sells affordable women's shoes, bags, and accessories; nearly 700 stores in over 30 countries, Wong-family owned, sister brand Pedro.
Charles Addams
Charles Samuel Addams (1912–1988), American New Yorker cartoonist of macabre single-panel cartoons; creator of the unnamed characters who became The Addams Family in the 1964 ABC television series.
Charles and Ray Eames
Charles and Ray Eames: American husband-and-wife design partnership (Eames Office) behind molded plywood furniture, the Eames Lounge Chair, Case Study House No. 8, and Powers of Ten; active 1941–1978.
Charles Aznavour (Շահնուր Վաղինակ Ազնավուրյան)
Charles Aznavour (Shahnour Vaghinag Aznavourian, Շահնուր Վաղինակ Ազնավուրյան), 1924–2018, French-Armenian singer, songwriter, actor, and diplomat; 1,400 songs in 9 languages, 200 million records, National Hero of Armenia, ambassador, and humanitarian for Armenia.
Charles Baker (actor)
Charles Baker (born 1971, Washington, D.C.) is an American character actor, writer, and director, best known as Skinny Pete in Breaking Bad and El Camino, with stage roots in Fort Worth and later roles in The Pitt and The Mandalorian.
Charles Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) was a French poet, art critic, and translator who laid the groundwork for modern poetry by defining "modernité" and establishing his aesthetic thought.
Charles Baxter (author)
Charles Baxter (born 1947) is an American novelist and short story writer whose Midwest-set fiction includes The Feast of Love, a National Book Award finalist.
Charles Bernstein
Charles Bernstein, born 1950, is an American poet and essayist who is a foundational member of Language poetry and co-editor of its namesake journal, L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E.
Charles Bickford
Charles Bickford (Charles Ambrose Bickford), 1891 to 1967, was an American character actor nominated for Academy Awards for The Song of Bernadette, The Farmer's Daughter, and Johnny Belinda.
Charles Bluhdorn
Charles Bluhdorn (Karl George Bluhdorn), Austrian-born American industrialist (1926–1983), founder-chairman of Gulf and Western Industries and owner of Paramount Pictures, builder of a $5.3 billion conglomerate.
Charles Boyer
Charles Boyer, French film actor (1899-1978) of the romantic-lead era, star of Algiers, Conquest, and Gaslight, four-time Oscar nominee, honorary Oscar 1943, co-founder of Four Star Television.
Charles Bradley (singer)
Charles Bradley (1948–2017), the Screaming Eagle of Soul, was an American soul singer who spent 20+ years as Black Velvet, a James Brown impersonator, before Daptone Records signed him; his albums include No Time for Dreaming, Victim of Love, Changes, and posthumous Black Velvet.
Charles Braibant
Charles Braibant (1889–1976) was a French archivist and novelist who directed the Archives de France from 1948 to 1959 and won the 1933 Prix Renaudot for his novel Le roi dort.
Charles Brockden Brown
Charles Brockden Brown (1771–1810) was an American novelist, editor, and pamphleteer of Philadelphia, commonly called America's first professional novelist; his Gothic novels include Wieland and Edgar Huntly.
Charles Bronson
Charles Bronson (born Charles Dennis Buchinsky, 1921–2003), American actor of Lithuanian descent, coal miner and WWII B-29 gunner turned star of The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape, and Death Wish; distinct from the British prisoner Michael Peterson of the 2008 film Bronson.