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Charles Chen
Charles Chen, also known as Charles Chen Yidan (陈一丹), is a Chinese internet entrepreneur who co-founded Tencent in 1998 and served as its Chief Administration Officer until 2013.
Charles Chukwuma Soludo
Charles Chukwuma Soludo is a Nigerian economist and politician, Governor of Anambra State since 2022 and Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria from 2004 to 2009.
Charles Clémencet
Charles Clémencet (1703–1778) was a French Benedictine historian of the Congregation of Saint-Maur, best known for the chronology L'Art de vérifier les dates (1750) and a history of Port-Royal.
Charles Colson
Charles W. Colson (1931–2012), Nixon's special counsel and a Watergate figure who pled guilty in the Ellsberg case, converted to evangelical Christianity and founded Prison Fellowship, Prison Fellowship International, Justice Fellowship, and the Colson Center.
Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis
Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis (1738–1805), British general and statesman; surrendered at Yorktown 1781, Governor-General of India 1786–1793 (Permanent Settlement, Third Mysore War), Lord Lieutenant of Ireland 1798–1801, died at Ghazipur in 1805.
Charles Coughlin
Charles Coughlin (1891-1979), the Canadian-born "Radio Priest" of Royal Oak, Michigan, whose 1930s broadcasts reached 30 million listeners; he founded the National Union for Social Justice and Social Justice newspaper, turned against Roosevelt, and was silenced over antisemitic, pro-fascist rhetoric in 1939-1942.
Charles Coulston Gillispie
Charles Coulston Gillispie (1918–2015) was an American historian of science who spent his career at Princeton, founded its history of science program, and edited the Dictionary of Scientific Biography.
Charles Cullen
Charles Cullen (born 1960), American serial-killer nurse; murdered at least 29 patients with digoxin and insulin overdoses across New Jersey and Pennsylvania hospitals over 16 years before his 2003 arrest; sentenced to 11 life terms in 2006.
Charles Cunningham
Charles Cunningham is an American Republican politician elected in 2022 to the Texas House of Representatives from District 127, after serving on the Humble City Council.
Charles Curtis
Charles Curtis was an American politician from Kansas who served as the 31st vice president of the United States under Herbert Hoover from 1929 to 1933.
Charles D. B. King
Charles Dunbar Burgess King was a Liberian politician, the 17th president of Liberia from 1920 to 1930, who resigned in 1930 over a forced-labor scandal.
Charles Davis (defensive back)
Charles Davis (Charles Franklin Davis, born 1964) is an American football broadcaster and former Tennessee defensive back who has been the Madden NFL analyst voice since 2017.
Charles de Batz de Castelmore d'Artagnan
Charles de Batz de Castelmore d'Artagnan, also known as Comte d'Artagnan, was a French soldier who led the King's Musketeers and died at the 1673 siege of Maastricht, later becoming the hero of Dumas's novel.
Charles de Courbon de Blénac
Charles de Courbon de Blénac (1622–1696) was a French nobleman, soldier, and naval officer who served as governor general of the French Antilles from 1677 to 1696, directing island defenses.
Charles de Freycinet
Charles de Freycinet (1828–1923) was a French mining engineer and statesman of the Third Republic who served in 12 governments, led four as head of government, and launched the 1879 Freycinet Plan of railway expansion.
Charles de Gaulle
Charles de Gaulle (1890–1970), French general and statesman, leader of Free France from the 18 June 1940 BBC appeal, and first President of the Fifth Republic (1959–1969), architect of its constitution and of France's independent nuclear and foreign policy.
Charles Deering
Charles Deering was an American businessman who, with his father and brother, ran the Deering Harvester Company and became the first chairman of International Harvester at its 1902 founding.
Charles Dunstone
Sir Charles Dunstone, born in 1964, is a British entrepreneur who co-founded Carphone Warehouse in 1989, led it until 2010, and has chaired TalkTalk since 2017.
Charles E. Atchley, Jr.
Charles E. Atchley, Jr., born 1966 in Knoxville, Tennessee, is a United States district judge for the Eastern District of Tennessee, appointed by President Donald Trump in 2020.
Charles E. Fleming
Charles E. Fleming, also known as Charles Esque Fleming, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Northern District of Ohio since 2022.
Charles E. Littlejohn
Charles E. Littlejohn, a former IRS contractor for Booz Allen Hamilton, was charged with leaking tax returns of Donald Trump and wealthy Americans. He received a five-year sentence in 2024.
Charles E. Osgood
Charles E. Osgood (1916–1991) was an American psychologist at the University of Illinois who developed the semantic differential, a technique for measuring attitudes and meaning across cultures.
Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School
Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School (CESJDS) is a pluralistic JK-12 private Jewish day school in Rockville, Maryland, founded in 1965, renamed in 1980 for philanthropist Charles E. Smith, with about 890 students on two campuses.
Charles Edison
Charles Edison (1890–1969), son of inventor Thomas Edison, was president of Thomas A. Edison, Inc., U.S. Secretary of the Navy 1939–1940, and Democratic Governor of New Jersey 1941–1944.
Charles Edward Jefferson
Charles Edward Jefferson (1860–1937) was an American Congregational minister, pastor of New York City's Broadway Tabernacle from 1898 to 1929, and a prominent pacifist who wrote around 24 books.
Charles Edward Stuart
Charles Edward Stuart (1720–1788), Bonnie Prince Charlie, the Young Pretender, last serious Jacobite claimant to the British throne; led the 1745 rising from Eriskay to Derby, defeated at Culloden 1746, died in exile in Rome.
Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Charles Edward (Carl Eduard, 1884–1954), last reigning Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1900–1918) and Duke of Albany; grandson of Queen Victoria, later Nazi Party member, German Red Cross president, and grandfather-line ancestor of Sweden's king.
Charles Elmer Doolin
Charles Elmer Doolin, known as C. E. Doolin, was an American businessman who founded the Frito Company in San Antonio in 1932, buying a corn-chip recipe for $100.
Charles Engel
Charles Engel is an American international macroeconomist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, known for the Engel–West theorem that exchange rates follow a near random walk.
Charles Evans Hughes
Charles Evans Hughes (1862–1948), American jurist and statesman: New York governor, Taft appointee to the Supreme Court, 1916 Republican presidential nominee who nearly beat Wilson, Harding–Coolidge Secretary of State (1921–25, Washington Naval Conference), and Hoover's Chief Justice (1930–41).