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Charles Hardwick
Charles Hardwick (1821–1859) was an English Anglican priest and church historian, archdeacon of Ely in 1859, remembered for his histories of the Thirty-nine Articles and the medieval church.
Charles Harrelson
Charles Voyde Harrelson (1938–2007), American contract killer and father of actor Woody Harrelson, convicted of the 1979 assassination of federal judge John H. Wood Jr. for a $250,000 fee from drug trafficker Jimmy Chagra; died in Supermax prison.
Charles Hartshorne
Charles Hartshorne (1897–2000) was an American philosopher of religion and the twentieth century's leading exponent of process theism, known for dipolar theism and for his bird song research.
Charles Harwood
Charles Harwood, New York Law School class of 1904, was a Special Assistant US Attorney General for mail fraud cases, a US District Court judge for the Canal Zone (1937-1938), and Governor of the US Virgin Islands (1941-1946).
Charles Hatfield
Charles Mallory Hatfield (1876-1958), American rainmaker and sewing machine salesman, hired by San Diego in 1915 for $10,000 to fill Morena Reservoir; the resulting 1916 flood killed dozens and he was never paid.
Charles Haughey
Charles Haughey (1925–2006), Irish Fianna Fáil leader and taoiseach 1979–81, 1982, 1987–92; Arms Crisis acquittal, 1987 austerity program, later tribunals over £8.5m in payments.
Charles Heilbronn
Charles Heilbronn is a Chanel executive vice president who founded and chairs Mousse Partners, the New York family office managing the Wertheimer family's Chanel fortune.
Charles Henry Allan Bennett
Charles Henry Allan Bennett, known as Bhikkhu Ananda Metteyya, was a British Buddhist monk in Burma who led the first Buddhist mission to England in 1908.
Charles Henry Brent
Charles Henry Brent (1862–1929) was a Canadian-born Episcopal bishop, the first Missionary Bishop of the Philippines from 1901, who led anti-opium campaigns and helped found the ecumenical movement.
Charles Henry Parkhurst
Charles Henry Parkhurst (1842–1933) was an American Presbyterian clergyman and pastor of New York's Madison Square Presbyterian Church whose 1892 sermons accusing police of extorting the city's vice economy led to the 1894 Lexow Committee investigation.
Charles Hodge
Charles Hodge (1797–1878) was an American Presbyterian theologian who taught at Princeton Theological Seminary for over fifty years, wrote Systematic Theology, and led the Princeton theology.
Charles Hoelter
Charles Hoelter is an American politician and the Republican nominee for the U.S. House in California's 15th Congressional District, facing incumbent Kevin Mullin in 2026.
Charles Horton Cooley
Charles Horton Cooley (1864-1929) was a University of Michigan sociologist who coined the looking-glass self (1902) and primary group (1909), founded Michigan sociology, and co-founded the American Sociological Society.
Charles Houël
Charles Houël, sieur de Petit-Pré (1616–1682), was a French colonial administrator who governed Guadeloupe from 1643 to 1664, founded Basse-Terre, and owned the island until Louis XIV expropriated it in 1664.
Charles Hurt
Charles Hurt, born Henry Charles Hurt III in 1971 and known as Charlie Hurt, is an American political columnist and television commentator who co-hosts Fox & Friends Weekend.
Charles I of Anjou
Charles I of Anjou (1226–1285), Capetian prince, brother of Louis IX, count of Provence and Anjou, king of Sicily from 1266 after defeating Manfred at Benevento and Conradin at Tagliacozzo; lost Sicily in the 1282 Vespers.
Charles I of Austria
Charles I of Austria (Karl I, 1887–1922), last Habsburg emperor and King Charles IV of Hungary, reigned 1916–1918, sought peace via the Sixtus Affair, issued the 1918 Völkermanifest, and died in exile on Madeira.
Charles I of England
Charles I (1600–1649), also called the martyr king, Stuart monarch of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 1625; Personal Rule 1629–1640, civil wars, execution 30 January 1649, monarchy abolished.
Charles I of Hungary
Charles I of Hungary, also known as I. Károly Róbert or Charles Robert, was king of Hungary who reunified the kingdom after rival kings and restored it to great-power status.
Charles I of Württemberg
Charles I of Württemberg (Karl I. Friedrich Alexander, 1823–1891), third king of Württemberg (1864–1891), son of Wilhelm I, husband of Grand Duchess Olga of Russia, childless; led Württemberg into the German Empire on 1 January 1871, succeeded by his nephew Wilhelm II.
Charles I. Jones
Charles I. Jones is an American macroeconomist and growth theorist, the STANCO 25 Professor of Economics at Stanford, known for showing that ideas are getting harder to find.
Charles Ifedi
Charles Ifedi is a Nigerian fintech entrepreneur who co-founded Interswitch in 2002 and served as pioneer CEO of Verve International, Africa's largest domestic debit card network.
Charles II of England
Charles II of England (r. 1660–1685), the Merry Monarch, Stuart king restored after exile; secret treaty of Dover, Declaration of Indulgence, Popish Plot, Exclusion crisis, ruled without Parliament 1681–1685.
Charles II of Spain
Charles II (Carlos II, El Hechizado, 1661-1700), last Habsburg king of Spain, son of Philip IV and Mariana of Austria, reigned from age four, died childless, and left his empire to Philip of Anjou, causing the War of the Spanish Succession.
Charles III
Charles III (Charles Philip Arthur George, born 1948) is King of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth realms, acceding 8 September 2022 and crowned 6 May 2023; known for the Prince's Trust, sustainability advocacy, and 2024 cancer treatment.
Charles III of Spain
Charles III of Spain (Carlos III, 1716–1788), Bourbon king 1759–1788 after ruling Naples as Charles VII; expelled the Jesuits in 1767, reformed Madrid and the economy, and aided the American colonists from 1778.
Charles III, Duke of Bourbon
Charles III, Duke of Bourbon (1490–1527), the Constable of Bourbon, was a French prince of the blood who served Francis I at Marignano, defected to Emperor Charles V in 1523 over his inheritance, fought at Pavia, and died assaulting Rome in 1527.
Charles Ingalls
Charles Philip Ingalls, "Pa" of Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House books, was a pioneer farmer who moved his family through Wisconsin, Kansas, Minnesota, and Dakota Territory, homesteaded near De Smet, and died there in 1902.
Charles Ingram
Charles Ingram, British Army major convicted in 2003 of defrauding Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? via the 'coughing' signal scheme with Diana Ingram and Tecwen Whittock; £1m prize stopped, convictions upheld on appeal.
Charles IV of France
Charles IV the Fair (c. 1295–1328), last direct Capetian king of France and Navarre (as Charles I), reigned 1322–1328; died without a male heir, triggering the 1328 succession crisis and the Valois accession.