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Charles Evans Whittaker
Charles Evans Whittaker (1901-1973), Kansas City trial lawyer and only Missourian or native Kansan on the U.S. Supreme Court; Eisenhower appointee 1957-1962, a swing vote who retired for health reasons.
Charles Evers
Charles Evers (James Charles Evers, 1922-2020), Mississippi civil rights leader, brother of Medgar Evers, NAACP field secretary, and first Black mayor of a biracial Mississippi town since Reconstruction, in Fayette from 1969 to 1989.
Charles F. Adams-class destroyer
Charles F. Adams-class destroyer: US Navy guided missile destroyer class (DDG 2–24), first purpose-built DDG type, 23 ships 1960–64, Tartar/Standard missiles and ASROC, exported to Australia and West Germany, replaced by Arleigh Burke class.
Charles F. Dunbar
Charles F. Dunbar, full name Charles Franklin Dunbar, was an American economist who held Harvard's first chair of political economy and founded the Quarterly Journal of Economics in 1886.
Charles F. Hockett
Charles F. Hockett (1916–2000) was an American linguist and anthropologist at Cornell University, best known for his design-features framework separating human language from animal communication.
Charles F. Roos
Charles F. Roos (1901–1958) was an American mathematician-turned-economist who co-founded the Econometric Society in 1930 and led the Cowles Commission's research as its first director.
Charles F. Westoff
Charles F. Westoff is an American demographer, emeritus professor at Princeton University, known for his work on wanted and unwanted fertility and unmet need for family planning.
Charles Fall
Charles Fall is a Democratic New York State Assemblymember representing the 61st district on Staten Island's North Shore, and the first Muslim and African American Assemblymember elected from Staten Island.
Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Berry
Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Berry (1778-1820), second son of the future Charles X, was a French prince, émigré soldier, and peer of France, assassinated at the Paris Opéra on 13 February 1820 by Louvel; his posthumous son was Henri, comte de Chambord.
Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton
Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton (1683–1757), grandson of Charles II, was lord lieutenant of Ireland 1720–24, recalled by Walpole over Wood's halfpence, then lord chamberlain of England 1724–57.
Charles Floyd (explorer)
Charles Floyd (1782–1804), Kentucky sergeant of the Lewis and Clark Expedition's Corps of Discovery, its only fatality; died August 20, 1804 near Sioux City, Iowa, probably of a ruptured appendix, buried on a bluff later marked by the first registered National Historic Landmark.
Charles Fort
Charles Fort, also known as Charles Hoy Fort (1874–1932), was an American writer and researcher who gathered reports of anomalous phenomena from old newspapers and journals.
Charles Fourier
Charles Fourier (François Marie Charles Fourier, 1772–1837), French utopian socialist philosopher, devised the phalanx, the theory of twelve passions, attractive labor, and the social and amorous minimum, distinct from Saint-Simon and Owen.
Charles Fox Parham
Charles Fox Parham was an American Pentecostal evangelist and theologian whose Bethel Bible School in Topeka, Kansas, first taught in 1901 that tongues evidence Spirit baptism.
Charles Frake
Charles O. Frake (1930-2021) was an American anthropologist central to cognitive anthropology, known for ethnographic work on the Subanun of the Philippines and elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1986.
Charles Francis Adams Sr.
Charles Francis Adams Sr. (1807–1886), son of President John Quincy Adams, was U.S. minister to Britain 1861–1868, helped block Confederate recognition, managed the Trent Affair, and represented the U.S. in the Alabama claims arbitration.
Charles François d'Abra de Raconis
Charles François d'Abra de Raconis was a French Catholic theologian and Bishop of Lavaur who taught philosophy and theology in Paris, served Louis XIII, and died in 1646.
Charles François Houbigant
Charles François Houbigant (1686–1783) was a French Oratorian priest and biblical scholar whose four-volume Biblia hebraica of 1753–54 printed the Hebrew Bible without Masoretic vowel points.
Charles G. Dawes
Charles Gates Dawes (1865-1951): Comptroller of the Currency 1898-1901, brigadier general heading AEF supply in WWI, Nobel Peace Prize 1925 for the Dawes Plan, 30th vice president 1925-1929, and composer of "It's All in the Game."
Charles George Gordon
Charles George Gordon (1833-1885), 'Chinese Gordon', British Royal Engineers officer who led the Ever Victorious Army against the Taiping Rebellion, governed the Sudan for Egypt, and died at the fall of Khartoum in January 1885.
Charles Gibson
Charles Gibson, American broadcast journalist, ABC News anchor of World News 2006-2009 and longtime Good Morning America co-anchor (1987-1998, 1999-2006), Princeton 1965, retired December 2009, succeeded by Diane Sawyer.
Charles Goerens
Charles Goerens, born 1952 in Ettelbruck, is a Luxembourg Democratic Party politician who has been a Member of the European Parliament since 2009 and is Vice-Chair of its Committee on Constitutional Affairs.
Charles Goodnight
Charles Goodnight (1836-1929), Texas rancher and Texas Ranger scout, invented the chuck wagon, blazed the Goodnight-Loving Trail with Oliver Loving in 1866, and co-founded the JA Ranch, the first cattle ranch in the Texas Panhandle.
Charles Gordon-Lennox, 11th Duke of Richmond
Charles Gordon-Lennox, 11th Duke of Richmond, also known as Charles March, is a British aristocrat and photographer who owns the Goodwood Estate and founded its Festival of Speed.
Charles Grandison Finney
Charles Grandison Finney, also known as Charles Finney, was an American lawyer turned revivalist and Oberlin College president who led revivals in the Second Great Awakening from 1821.
Charles Graner
Charles A. Graner Jr., U.S. Army Reserve specialist of the 372nd Military Police Company, convicted ringleader of the 2003 Abu Ghraib detainee abuse; sentenced in January 2005 to ten years, dishonorable discharge, and reduction to E-1.
Charles Grey, 1st Earl Grey
Charles Grey, 1st Earl Grey (1729–1807) was a British Army general nicknamed "No-flint Grey" who captured Martinique and other French West India islands in 1794.
Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey
Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey (1764–1845), Whig Prime Minister 1830–1834, steered the Great Reform Act 1832 and the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 through Parliament; Earl Grey tea is named after him.
Charles Guthrie, Baron Guthrie of Craigiebank
Charles Guthrie, Baron Guthrie of Craigiebank (1938-2025), Field Marshal and Blair-era Chief of the Defence Staff 1997-2001, known as 'Tony's General'; Welsh Guards and SAS officer, later crossbench peer and critic of defence underfunding.
Charles Hardinge, 1st Baron Hardinge of Penshurst
Charles Hardinge, 1st Baron Hardinge of Penshurst, was a British diplomat who served as Viceroy of India from 1910 to 1916, reversing the partition of Bengal.