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Charles Olson
Charles Olson (1910–1970) was an American poet and essayist, a leading figure of the Black Mountain poets, known for his 1950 manifesto "Projective Verse" and the epic The Maximus Poems.
Charles Plisnier
Charles Plisnier (1896–1952) was a Belgian francophone novelist, poet, and lawyer who in 1937 became the first writer without French nationality to win the Prix Goncourt.
Charles Reade
Charles Reade (1814–1884) was an English novelist and dramatist whose fiction attacked Victorian social abuses; his historical novel The Cloister and the Hearth (1861) is regarded as his masterpiece.
Charles Rocket
Charles Rocket (Charles Adams Claverie, 1949-2005), American character actor and former Saturday Night Live Weekend Update anchor fired after an on-air obscenity on February 21, 1981; later roles in Moonlighting, Dances with Wolves, and Dumb & Dumber.
Charles Ross (YouTuber)
Charles Ross (born 1994), known as RossCreations and Vlog Creations, is a Florida YouTube prankster of public stunts, repeatedly arrested over his videos, convicted of trespassing in 2024, and investigated for animal cruelty after a 2025 opossum catapult video.
Charles S. Dutton
Charles S. Dutton (born 1951, Baltimore) is an American actor and director who went from prison to the Yale School of Drama, Tony-nominated roles in August Wilson plays, the Fox series Roc, and three Emmy Awards.
Charles Saatchi
Charles Saatchi, Iraqi-British advertising executive and mega-collector, co-built Saatchi & Saatchi and M&C Saatchi, founded the Saatchi Gallery in 1985, and popularized the Young British Artists through the 1997 Sensation exhibition.
Charles Shaughnessy
Charles Shaughnessy (Charles George Patrick Shaughnessy, 5th Baron Shaughnessy), British actor born 1955 in London. Known as Shane Donovan on Days of Our Lives and Maxwell Sheffield on The Nanny; Daytime Emmy winner, hereditary peer.
Charles Shaw wine
Charles Shaw wine, or Two Buck Chuck, is Bronco Wine Company's budget varietal line sold only at Trader Joe's since 2002, launched at $1.99, reaching one billion bottles by 2016.
Charles Sheeler
Charles Sheeler was an American painter and photographer whose sharply defined, geometric images of barns, skyscrapers, and factories made him a central figure of the Precisionist movement.
Charles Simic
Charles Simic, born Dušan Simić, was a Serbian-American poet who won the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and served as US Poet Laureate from 2007 to 2008.
Charles Stross
Charles Stross (born Leeds, 1964) is a British science fiction writer in Edinburgh, author of the Laundry Files, Accelerando, and Glasshouse; three Hugo Awards for novellas, 18 Hugo nominations, translated into over twelve languages.
Charles Strouse
Charles Strouse (1928-2025), American Broadway composer and lyricist, wrote the music for Bye Bye Birdie, Applause, and Annie, won three Tony Awards, and composed the All in the Family theme "Those Were the Days."
Charles Trenet
Charles Trenet (1913–2001) was a French singer-songwriter and defining figure of chanson, known as the "fou chantant" and for "La Mer", one of the most recorded songs in history.
Charles Trippy
Charles Trippy, also known as Charles Paul Trippy III, is an American YouTube vlogger and bassist for the band We the Kings, holder of a Guinness World Record for daily vlogging.
Charles Tyner
Charles Tyner (1923 or 1925–2017), American character actor from Danville, Virginia; Broadway's Sweet Bird of Youth; Boss Higgins in Cool Hand Luke, Uncle Victor in Harold and Maude, Unger in The Longest Yard.
Charles Tyrwhitt
Charles Tyrwhitt, also known as CT Shirts, is a British menswear retailer founded in 1986 by Nicholas Wheeler as a mail-order shirt business, now selling through stores in the UK, the US, and France.
Charles Van Doren
Charles Van Doren (1926-2019), American Columbia academic and Britannica editor, won $129,000 on the rigged NBC quiz show Twenty-One in 1956-57, confessed to Congress in 1959, and inspired the film Quiz Show.
Charles W. Chesnutt
Charles W. Chesnutt (Charles Waddell Chesnutt, 1858–1932) was an American author, lawyer, and civil-rights activist, the first African American fiction writer to win wide literary recognition.
Charles Wayne Day
Charles Wayne Day (Bing Day, Chuck Day), 1942-2008, American Chicago-born guitarist, bassist, and baritone blues singer with Johnny Rivers and the Mamas & the Papas, credited with the Secret Agent Man riff and father of Cass Elliot's daughter Owen.
Charles White (artist)
Charles Wilbert White (1918–1979) was an American artist whose figurative drawings and prints depicted African American history, labor, and dignity over a four-decade career in Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles.
Charles Williams (British writer)
Charles Walter Stansby Williams (1886-1945), English poet, novelist, theologian, and Oxford University Press editor; member of the Inklings with C. S. Lewis and Tolkien; wrote seven supernatural thrillers including Descent into Hell and the Arthurian cycle Taliessin through Logres.
Charles Willson Peale
Charles Willson Peale (1741–1827) was an American portrait painter and naturalist best known for his portraits of George Washington and for founding Peale's Museum in Philadelphia.
Charleston (dance)
The Charleston is a 1920s American jazz dance named for Charleston, South Carolina, popularized by the 1923 Broadway show Runnin' Wild with James P. Johnson's tune, rooted in Gullah Geechee steps, later absorbed into Lindy Hop and the quickstep.
Charleston White
Charleston White (born 1977, Fort Worth, Texas) is an American comedian, motivational speaker, and internet personality; juvenile murder conviction at 14, HYPE youth nonprofit founder, and figure of recurring arrests and viral controversies.
Charley Crockett
Charley Crockett (born 1984, San Benito, Texas) is an American country and blues singer-songwriter, also called Matthew Charles Crockett, known for his "Gulf & Western" sound, 17 studio albums since 2015, the Sagebrush Trilogy on Island Records, and the 2026 independent album Clovis.
Charley Grapewin
Charley Grapewin (1869–1956), American character actor from Xenia, Ohio, former circus trapeze artist and vaudevillian; Uncle Henry in The Wizard of Oz, Grandpa Joad in The Grapes of Wrath, Jeeter Lester in Tobacco Road.
Charley Patton
Charley Patton (c. 1891, died April 28, 1934), American Delta blues singer-guitarist called the father of Delta blues; recorded 1929-1934 for Paramount, based at Dockery Plantation, taught Howlin' Wolf and influenced Son House and Robert Johnson.
Charley Pride
Charley Pride (1934-2020), American country singer from Sledge, Mississippi, the genre's first Black superstar; RCA star from 1966, CMA Entertainer of the Year 1971, three Grammys, Grand Ole Opry 1993, Country Music Hall of Fame 2000.
Charley Varrick
Charley Varrick (1973), also released as The Last of the Independents, is a Don Siegel crime thriller starring Walter Matthau as a crop-duster bank robber who accidentally steals Mafia money, adapted from John Reese's novel The Looters.