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Charles IV of Lorraine
Charles IV of Lorraine (1604–1675), also styled Charles III, duke from 1624 and of Bar by marriage to Nicole; spent his reign fighting France, serving the Habsburgs and Spain, and losing and regaining his duchies.
Charles IV of Spain
Charles IV (Carlos IV, 1748–1819) was Bourbon King of Spain 1788–1808, husband of Maria Luisa of Parma, dependent on Godoy, forced to abdicate at Aranjuez and Bayonne, dying in exile in Rome.
Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor
Charles IV (1316–1378), King of Bohemia and Holy Roman Emperor from 1346/1355, born Wenceslas of Luxembourg; issued the Golden Bull of 1356 fixing seven electors, made Prague the imperial seat, and founded the University of Prague.
Charles IX of France
Charles IX of France (1550-1574), Valois king 1560-1574, second son of Henri II and Catherine de Médicis; ruled under his mother's regency until 1570, toured France 1564-1566, issued the Ordinance of Moulins, and claimed responsibility for the Saint Bartholomew's Day massacre of 1572.
Charles J. Fahey
Charles J. Fahey, also known as Monsignor Charles J. Fahey, was an American priest and gerontologist. He shaped national aging policy and advocated for non-institutional long-term care.
Charles J. Guiteau
Charles Julius Guiteau (1841–1882), American office-seeker and self-styled lawyer, shot President James A. Garfield on July 2, 1881; his insanity defense failed and he was hanged June 30, 1882.
Charles J. Siragusa
Charles J. Siragusa (born 1947) is a senior United States district judge for the Western District of New York, appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1997.
Charles J. Williams
Charles J. Williams, born 1963 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, is a United States district judge for the Northern District of Iowa, appointed by President Trump in 2018.
Charles James Fox
Charles James Fox (1749–1806), British Whig statesman and Britain's first Foreign Secretary, rival of Pitt the Younger, split from Edmund Burke over the French Revolution, championed civil liberty, parliamentary reform, and the 1807 Slave Trade Act.
Charles James Napier
Sir Charles James Napier (1782–1853), British general, conqueror and first governor of Sind after Miani and Hyderabad (1843); also Cephalonia resident, Chartist-era commander, and Indian commander-in-chief; not Admiral Sir Charles Napier.
Charles John Ellicott
Charles John Ellicott (1819–1905) was an Anglican bishop and biblical scholar, bishop of Gloucester and Bristol from 1863 and chairman of the Revised Version New Testament company.
Charles John Seghers
Charles John Seghers (1839–1886) was a Belgian-born Catholic missionary bishop of Vancouver Island, later archbishop of Oregon City, and a founder of the Alaska Mission.
Charles Keating
Charles H. Keating Jr. was an American financier and lawyer whose ownership of Lincoln Savings produced the costliest failure of the 1980s savings and loan crisis.
Charles Keating IV
Charles Humphrey Keating IV (C-4), US Navy SEAL from Phoenix, Arizona and San Diego, killed May 3, 2016 near Tel Skuf, Iraq, fighting ISIS; posthumous Navy Cross, upgraded from Silver Star, and Purple Heart.
Charles Kendal Bushe
Charles Kendal Bushe (1767–1843), Irish lawyer, judge, MP, and anti-union pamphleteer; solicitor general for Ireland 1805–22 and lord chief justice of the king's bench 1822–41, known as the "Incorruptible Irishman".
Charles Kennedy
Charles Kennedy (1959–2015) was a British Liberal Democrat politician, MP for Highland seats 1983–2015 and party leader 1999–2006, best known for opposing the Iraq War and leading the party to 62 seats in 2005.
Charles Knowles
Charles Knowles, 1st Baronet, was a British admiral who served in the War of Jenkins' Ear, governed Louisbourg, and later served the Russian navy until 1777.
Charles Koch
Charles Koch is an American businessman who took over his father's Wichita oil firm in 1967 and built it into Koch, Inc., America's second-largest private company, with about $125 billion in revenues.
Charles Krauthammer
Charles Krauthammer (1950–2018) was an American syndicated columnist and Fox News commentator who wrote for The Washington Post and won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary.
Charles Kuralt
Charles Kuralt (1934–1997), American CBS News journalist known for "On the Road" segments beginning 1967 and as founding anchor of CBS News Sunday Morning (1979–1994); won three Peabodys and 13 Emmys.
Charles Kushner
Charles Kushner, American real estate developer and founder of Kushner Companies, US ambassador to France and Monaco since 2025; pardoned by Trump in 2020 after a 2005 conviction for tax fraud, witness retaliation, and FEC false statements; father of Jared Kushner.
Charles L. Evans
Charles L. Evans is an American economist who served as the ninth president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago from 2007 to 2023, known for the Evans rule.
Charles L. Schultze
Charles L. Schultze was an American economist who served as budget director under President Johnson, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under Carter, and senior fellow at Brookings.
Charles L. Smith, Jr.
Charles Lynwood Smith, Jr. is an American jurist serving as a senior judge on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama, appointed by President Clinton in 1995.
Charles Lavigerie
Charles Lavigerie (1825–1892) was a French cardinal and Archbishop of Algiers who founded the Missionaries of Africa, the White Fathers, and organized the anti-slavery campaign leading to the Brussels Anti-Slavery Conference.
Charles Lavine
Charles D. Lavine is a Democratic member of the New York State Assembly representing the 13th district in northeastern Nassau County, and chairs the Assembly Judiciary Committee.
Charles Lazier
Charles Edward Lazier was a St. Louis, Missouri, beverage-concentrate salesman who sketched the Sun Drop citrus soda recipe in 1928, patented the formula in 1930, and launched the brand later bottled in Gastonia, North Carolina.
Charles Lazier Jr.
Charles Lazier Jr. was a St. Louis soda laboratory technician who reformulated the Sun Drop citrus soda in 1949, refining his father's original 1928 recipe into the drink bottled in Gastonia, North Carolina.
Charles Leberecht Pfender
Charles Leberecht Pfender, born at Hatten in Alsace in 1834, was a French Lutheran pastor in Paris and a confessional Lutheran who wrote a biography of Martin Luther.
Charles Leclerc (French general)
Charles Victor Emmanuel Leclerc (1772–1802) was a French general and brother-in-law of Napoleon who commanded the 1802 expedition against Toussaint Louverture in Saint-Domingue and died there of yellow fever.